Spent the last three weeks on a barge, salvaging used-up oil platforms out of the Gulf of Mexico. Okay, I wasn't doing that, I filing paperwork for the guys who do it, but what did you expect?
Anyway, I come back and it turns out that Catalyst didn't credit me back for my TacOps/StratOps purchase/preorder. They said they did before I headed out and I thought everything was going to be cool, but they fucked up and now I have to get with them again and make a ruckus.
I really don't think I'm ever dealing with these people again. They've been incredibly polite and quick on response time, but helplessly opaque, slow to actually do anything, forgetful, and, of course, wrong about having given me my money back(I'm not saying 'dishonest' because I'm still assuming that this is all a misunderstanding based on miscommunications or simple error instead to maliciously pocketing my $137). Let's not forget that pre-orders got dick-all consideration for pre-ordering and got to wait an extra week!
I'm just angry and stupefied because this is
still an issue and because I know that in a week, it will
still be an issue.
I'm even angrier because I can't even think of playing anything Battletech related right now. Nothing. Looking at the books, everything is trimmed in this bled-over hate. That the people who made this product (in a rather collective sense), aren't too great at running their company, that I gave them money for that product when they were possibly fucking up someone else's money, that I somehow (unreasonably) thought that just because there were a few good ideas and scenes kicked around that this whole setting/game was somehow interesting. It's like coming home from vacation and seeing your house as if for the first time--with a stranger's eyes.
Those strange eyes haven't been very kind to Battletech. I signed up for metaphorical knights on metaphorical steel horses. I signed up for alien cultures standing shoulder-to-shoulder (okay, muzzle-to-muzzle with very alien cultures). I signed up for customizable play with simple rules, not 'mech editors and shrugged shoulders over rules arcane, unclear, and unreasonable. It was this proud...thing in my life, with giant robots and cool stories, and now that this one string has been pulled-like a tapestry-it's just falling apart.
But hey, just picked up a fat-pack for Magic the Gathering's new set, so I'm pretty stoked.
Silly question though: does anyone know any reputable lawyers that deal with internet company cases, or if that is a law-enforcement issue?
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Fuck-up that it is, it could be worse. Could have lost the money to *pirates* on the barge after fans on the *forum* filled your vision with hate. Still, maybe I'll hold off on posting more TacOps stuff.
No idea on the law question.