NicholasPrime wrote:It's not even the delay that I find so insulting at this point (although that is pretty bad, either they should have gotten started sooner, or held off til next year.), it's the surcharge that they are going to charge for the online registration to "cover the cost of the system." (
http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/botcon-first-100-pins-and-registration-info-t65478.php)In any other business, things like this are figured into the cost of doing business, and all prices go up. Not a one time price gouge fee. When a retail store buys a new register, or point of sale system, they don't raise the prices on everything for a week.
Maybe I'm making too much of this because, admittedly, I don't know what this "one time surcharge that will be reduced to a maintenance fee next year" (wtf? seriously?) costs us, but it hardly seems fair to hold up registration for so long with a system that isn't working, and then gouge us unless we hold off for a week longer to use the fax registration and take the chance that packages will sell out (which they just might considering how rabid everyone seems for registration at this point).
Unless this was all intentional to get the fanboys to panic about HAVING to register ASAP and not notice / complain about the surcharge--"Sure, it will cost me more, but at least I'm finally registered."
Again, the surcharge could just be $5, and I could be making too much out of this. But I couldn't find how much the surcharge was anywhere...anybody got that info?
The simple answer to many of these questions is this: they do it because they can. They know they can. It's the same mentality behind repaints: people will buy them regardless of how much they complain and moan, so why would they stop doing something that'll bring them more money? In this case, they can afford to take their time on the system because they know that despite how many people are going to say "screw it" on the forums, they won't have to worry about the number changing in any but negligible amounts. Though I personally share the opinion of a few that I'd rather wait the extra time if they ARE actually fixing issues. I don't want my credit card information getting lost, or hacked into, or the page breaking and going through registration again only to find that the first one went through and now I've been charged twice, or registrations/packages/info/whatever getting lost or any of the other conceivable issues of rushing this. Bearing that in mind, I'm still pissed, but thankful they're giving us daily updates.
Also, I heard that the fee for the new system is $10 or around there.
