I liked back in the day when things were actually announced.
Like new features being released.
Features being made temporarily available.
What's the point of keeping everyone in the dark? That defeats the whole purpose. The point here was to give those players opportunity to buy those NPCs since they missed out last time around. Well, none of them knew they were available, and therefore *still* missed out.
well,
I have missed out on both occasions mainly due to not knowing about it and thus not being online or being online and not knowing it was available.
Why Traders? Because the people in Traders are the only ones who want/need NPCs? And because everyone was online in Traders at that exact moment? That's still crap.
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"May the Grace of Ara go with you, and His Vengeance be wrought upon your enemies."
I would imagine the people in traders are the *least* likely to need them. ^_^ The people on IRC the most also check the Sim News the most and tend to have money, therefore in all likelihood already got them the last time around. Not exactly the ideal crowd to target.