I mean, some people spawning the ship in PTU while the owners couldn't wasn't anything new, it was just that before it was the developers spawning the ships to go show it off to the streamers, so the analogy would be like
"Before it used to be Henry Ford beeping the horn and spinning the wheels out there in my ford lawn, now it's the guys from Top Gear"
Yeah I see your angle... But there
is undeniably quite a gulf of difference between the devs spawning an Idris and going for a joy-ride through a streamers session or a 'Tubers video, and fifteen of the 50 people on the server getting access to
use an asset in the game. For all the donuts the Devs did in Youtubers videos and Twitchers streams, they didn't hand the ship keys over to the guys and gals to go off and play in.
It goes back to putting yourself in the space helmet of an owner, in the PTU having logged in in Wave 1 or 2 which is not the testing Evo stage, they are invited to come in and play...seeing the thing spawn 3 or 4 times, seeing it there on the pads and at the box pickup locations being flown by other players with names they may recognize as being other players who make videos/stream,
and making the reasonable assumption that it was available for them to play with. As far as I am aware there was no advance warning saying "MSR is limited access only", so they
would immediately go to the terminal to claim their prize... then it would not show... no big deal, I have to open and close the terminal 3 times before my Connie shows on the list, that's an old bug... still not there is this another bug...? And finally after some fact finding you discover no it's not a bug, it's intentional. You're not invited to the party pal, get to the back of the queue.
It's the first expiriance of a ship the player gets:
1) is where you get a virgin expiriance, you step over the threshold and bam it's all new to you.
2) is getting a fleeting glimpse of what is coming through someone else's eyes also seeing exactly what you're seeing - a fleeting glimpse.
3) is your first full expiriance of that new asset is someone else getting theirs, getting in it and buggering off to do whatever and then seeing a video of it later and how much fun they had in that ship you saw fly away.
It's a bad user expiriance. If CIG had advertised there would be a preferred content generator access period, perhaps there would have been be a shield to stand behind, but as far as I can tell there was no message to the masses as to what was going on. Although the iterations response wasn't very satisfying, at least it seems honest - they tried something, it didn't land, they'll not do it again and will try something else next time.
As I said in my other reply, I don't condone uninvited MSR owners pissyness - It's PTU, it's the test bed, all bets are off in that wilderness, it's not a playground it's a workspace and things happen in there for reasons beyond out comprehension. Don't like it, don't PTU, is my opinion... So I don't PTU and I don't have an MSR... but I understand why they are annoyed and I don't condemn them for feeling that way either.
In my original post before this one, I did also ponder that a press event on a private server with invited content makers, and an embargo on publishing videos/streaming a reaction event to what they saw to their viewers until the ship is available may be a reasonable solution - it may not - but I'd like to see it as an iteration on these attempts, I'd like to see it tried... Heck, host the Press Event with a live Jax McCleary. People would be falling over themselves to fly the ship
and watch the videos. It would cost some resources, some staff time to hold the event, but if you are going to court the media - of any type - you are going to have to expend some resources to make the magic happen without stomping down everyone else by resorting to simple simple preferential treatment - an invited event may exclude 99.99% of backers but it is not as preferential as full early access for the 0.01%.
I watched the video.
I went to bed.
I had a dream where I was doing a coloring book which featured a Brontosaurus saving Big Bird from falling to to his death off a cliff by offering him a branch to grab hold to and pull him up with.
Here's what the coloring book in my dream looked like, but imagine it was by someone who could actually draw Big Bird, a Brontosaurus and a branch. And a cliff.
