We're relieved delighted to announce that a la carte userpics are back in the shop! We fixed some of the outstanding issues (more details below). We'll be making additional tweaks, but we know how long you've been waiting, so we wanted to get them back on the shelf ASAP. Back on dry land, we're still celebrating this big blue marble we call home!
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*<3s Pond*
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Imagine an analogous situation: say your purchased a lifetime membership at a local museum. You'd expect to be able to get in for the rest of your life (or the life of the museum, whichever was longer), and you'd expect to be allowed to see any new exhibits that showed up. That's what a lifetime membership is for, after all.
Let's say that then, after years of requests by patrons, the museum opens a small eatery for visitors. You wouldn't expect them to give you free food because of your museum membership, would you?
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By changing that, by not automatically giving permanent account holders the same number of userpics as are available if you buy all three add-ons packs, they are not just not giving us an optional extra, they are changing one of the fundamental bases of the permanent account.
It's not that I need the userpics now - I still have 20 or so slots available - it's that they are showing they can't be trusted not to change our accounts out from under us. It's worse because they don't even mention it in either of their announcements - they are trying to sneak it in under the radar and hope that people don't notice.
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Websites go down all the time, that's a risk you take, but if they are still running and decide to move the goalposts, that's much more blameworthy, IMO.
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(The first thing I ran across while poking around looking for it was this comment by marta here a year and a half ago, which basically says "A la carte userpics may be separate, but loyalty userpics will keep going up".)
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The point is that Perm members always got the extras, yes even the ones you paid for. I honestly am less angry than mildly annoyed. I want to know if the nature of a permanent account has changed or what.
While not expressly said, before this, every updgrade in usage included something like "and permanent account members will receive the maximum allowed."
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By changing that, by not automatically giving permanent account holders the same number of userpics as are available if you buy all three add-ons packs, they are not just not giving us an optional extra, they are changing one of the fundamental bases of the permanent account.
It's not that I need the userpics now - I still have 20 or so slots available - it's that they are showing they can't be trusted not to change our accounts out from under us. It's worse because they don't even mention it in either of their announcements - they are trying to sneak it in under the radar and hope that people don't notice.
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