Cowboy character?

[Annoyer13]

Hello,

I just figured out that cowboy characker is not available to play, but I saw a player with that skin yesterday. Why is he blocked and will be possible to play as him in future?

Regards,

https://www.pro11.net/

 

[timur]

You mean our little Indiana Jones?
He was only available at a special event of sorts, aka via Pre-order of the Ball.
TWI said specifically that they would only allow you to get him then, and they keep their word.

 

[Stephen]

That's fine, but it seems odd The Ball players can't select him normally, like the Pyro guys.

 

[kablooie!]

The Cowboy!

 

[dogbadger]

yeah well it was something of an incentive to pre-ordering, and i guess opening it to all ball owners now is a bit unfair.
However in light of it being forever unavailable, it would be good if the character was removed from the selection screen of anyone who will never get to use it.

 

[starxpilot]

http://kf-wiki.com/wiki/Promotional_characters

Harchier Spebbington *AKA, TWI's Indiana Jones* = Those who Pre-ordered "The Ball". Character is no longer avaliable (Evil TWI...)

Pyro = For those that own TF2 before a certain date, I forgot it at this point...

Bad Santa = For those that unlocked 10 of the 13 Christmas Achievements along with any Christmas Map achievement

I hope they add more although it should be noted that its quite hard to do so.

 

[Zoridium JackL]

if you ask me, they should release an RO2 character, but instead of making it pre-order only, they should make it available to anybody that owns RO2, so as to avoid people feeling left out, because some people do feel like they are missing something, this would also result in a couple more RO2 sales for TWI.

 

[jd641]

Harchier Spebbington? I always thought his name was Bunglebuck Archfeld.

I just call him Indiana Jones anyway, so his real name doesn't matter to me one bit.

 

[Annoyer13]

Thanks for the info. Damn, I haven't got even KF when The Ball was in pre-order. Anyway, I hope that he could be released in any promo again, coz I really like that skin.

 

[C_Gibby]

if you ask me, they should release an RO2 character, but instead of making it pre-order only, they should make it available to anybody that owns RO2, so as to avoid people feeling left out, because some people do feel like they are missing something, this would also result in a couple more RO2 sales for TWI.

This so hard ^

Never mind an incentive to pre-order, how about an incentive to just buy the game?

 

[HuNteR-]

In all fairness, they should give you more chance to get the characters, its poor marketing at this point.

This should be the pitch: If you want the jonesy character, you can unlock it by buying "the ball".

Not, its no longer available, but buy the ball anyway and get nothing for KF, its poor marketing, specially after this duration of time has passed, same with the TF2 guys.

Santa on the other hand, we wait until next xmas, not a problem with that, but make him available again next xmas, dont disable him all together.

I would be more interested in buying "The Ball" if this character was still available, right now I don't really care to be blunt.

I know theres this TWI stick by their word thing, but come on, the customers getting nothing now and neither is TWI, where do you draw the line.

 

[starxpilot]

Harchier Spebbington? I always thought his name was Bunglebuck Archfeld.

I just call him Indiana Jones anyway, so his real name doesn't matter to me one bit.

Its a strange one for me, I just call him Dr. Jones. XD

Thanks for the info. Damn, I haven't got even KF when The Ball was in pre-order. Anyway, I hope that he could be released in any promo again, coz I really like that skin.

Heh, I missed an update, got KF late...can't remember which one it is..

This so hard ^

Never mind an incentive to pre-order, how about an incentive to just buy the game?

Well, if you look at the feedback on KF, I think the majority here will buy the game and the game itself. (Assuming Dwarfs?! sold well...)

In all fairness, they should give you more chance to get the characters, its poor marketing at this point.

This should be the pitch: If you want the jonesy character, you can unlock it by buying "the ball".

Not, its no longer available, but buy the ball anyway and get nothing for KF, its poor marketing, specially after this duration of time has passed, same with the TF2 guys.

Santa on the other hand, we wait until next xmas, not a problem with that, but make him available again next xmas, dont disable him all together.

I would be more interested in buying "The Ball" if this character was still available, right now I don't really care to be blunt.

I know theres this TWI stick by their word thing, but come on, the customers getting nothing now and neither is TWI, where do you draw the line.

Hrm...I wish to set someone at TWI on fire.

 

[Zoridium JackL]

i would rather them leave the ball character unavailable forever now, because integrity is so rare on industry now a days, although as hunter stated, it's a very short term strategy, so in future you would probably be better of just letting it be available forever, or even just at intervals, i know it results in less immediate sales, but look at games like amnesia, they got relatively poor sales in the first few weeks, but then it sky rocketed and picked up and put them back on their feet and you guys also have the benefit of it being a sequel to a great game (RO2 i mean).

 

[HuNteR-]

i would rather them leave the ball character unavailable forever now, because integrity is so rare on industry now a days,

Well thats a choice TWI have to make or have already made, its the choice of:

Stay firm in the eyes of the 100 people that have the character and retain their honor

or

Give 1000's of other people the chance to get the character and possibly increase sales of another one of their titles


Its business 101, money or honor, 99% will go money, are TWI the rare 1%...

 

[JEmmaB]

Yup, I believe TWI is the rare 1 percent!

 

[Zoridium JackL]

judging by their past performances, i would say they are that one percent, although one percent sounds too high.

 

[starxpilot]

.5 then.

I still wish to set the guy in charge of 'surprises' on fire.

We defiantly need an RO character, never-mind the game being modern, a classic WWII soldier would fit in nicely I think eh?

 

[Freshmeat]

Well thats a choice TWI have to make or have already made, its the choice of:

Stay firm in the eyes of the 100 people that have the character and retain their honor

or

Give 1000's of other people the chance to get the character and possibly increase sales of another one of their titles


Its business 101, money or honor, 99% will go money, are TWI the rare 1%...

Actually, Tripwire make a lot of their money from their honor. I would not have brouht The Ball if it wasn't backed by Tripwire. Another publisher telling us they loved the game themselves so they went to publish it, I would have called them liars. When Tripwire said it, I looked further into the game. (Allthough the dealbreaker for a preorder in all fairness was the Spebbington char. I use it almost exclusively)

 

[jd641]

I use it almost exclusively)

Same here. I always used Mr. Foster but once I was able to get Bunglebuck, well, I haven't bothered looking for anyone else.

 

[mamoo]

Same here. I always used Mr. Foster but once I was able to get Bunglebuck, well, I haven't bothered looking for anyone else.

I have Dr Bunglebuck, and Bad Satan, but I use Mr. Foster anyhow because he looks so ****ing awesome!