Bottomless snuggles and cookies instead please

Okay, quick story time: When I was a little kid, before there were MMOs and text messaging and innarwebz, I had to socialize with all my snot nosed buddies by being shuffled to playgrounds and parks and each others' houses; and every single birthday party I ever went to was at this arcade/pizza place called Chuck E Cheese. I remember I was at Chuck E Cheese at one of these parties, and for some unknown reason this stupid ass kid threw a skee ball the wrong way, and it ended up ricocheting out of his lane and hitting me in the fucking head. It was an accident and I wasn't seriously injured, but I remember it hurt like hell. And, naturally, at 6 years old this was the most horrific catastrophe on earth, all these employees and little kids were in shock and standing around me and I didn't know what to do, so I started bawling.

Eventually, I ran to my mom and tugged on her purse strap, and before I could even tell her what the fuck my problem was, holy shit, I looked over and Mr. Chuck E Cheese himself was walking over to me in all his furry glory. He said he was so sorry I got hurt, and gave me a gigantic gold token and said I could give it to the lady at the prize counter and pick any prize I wanted. So I did. Thinking about it now, Chuck E Cheese was a smart son of a bitch, and instead of him getting sued and me being miserable I went home happy with a slap bracelet or neon shoelaces or whatever the fuck it was that I ended up picking. And the moral of the story is I totally forgot about what happened for the rest of that day, instead of being hurt and never coming back. In fact even 20 years later, I still go there every weekend to hit little kids in the face with skee balls. For the sake of nostalgia.

Even though I haven't completely recovered from Mythic's invasion and purge of my bank account, I have to say I am really impressed with this gesture. This is on par with what I was really hoping for, and well beyond what I was actually expecting. Even though I still think getting to beat up developers was a great idea, as far as gestures of good faith and frugal business procedure goes I think in-game compensation was a really smart move and just about the best they could have done in this situation. People are even considering resubscribing, which is awesome.

My only reservation is the effects on the in game economy. Unless these items are on a timer, like the Live Event stuff, Chaos Black and Skull White Dye are two of the most valuable consumables in the game and depending on how many people were affected, the bottomless versions could pretty much kill the value of both. I also feel a twinge of sympathy for the people who paid off random strangers on the street recruited friends to help them get their manticore/griffon mounts. But in general, this is really fucking cool of Mythic. Though I wonder how my FPS will react to 30 or 40 gigantic winged fuckers prancing around on my screen at any given time.

Since we get to pick two things from the goodie bag, I am probably going to pick the Manticore mount and black dye on tap. The only problem is, the account that got hit was the one that paid for my stupid Rune Priest, who has been inactive for months and now only exists to fund terrorism. I guess now he will just be collecting dust in style. My zealot account didn't get touched and sadly, he could have used the new stuff much more. Anyone that isn't sure what to pick, I highly recommend Kossar's Helm/ Polar Bear Mode, even though it's no where near as fun anymore after they took away the bear /special dance T_T.

While everyone is getting a badass renown and experience buff for the next couple weeks, only the accounts affected will be getting the special tokens. But even if you gain nothing else from this whole incident: at the very least, all of you mommies and daddies can rest easy knowing that if your kid ever gets hit in the head with a 1 pound wooden ball... they will probably turn out like me.