Reply To: BattleTech: Mercenaries – CGL does a shipping booboo? Internet rages!

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It is clear that the ‘local’ shipping rates are wrong. When people actually get the parcels they can measure them and see how much extra they have paid, but by then it is too late.

Looking at things I suspect that Catalyst agreed to pay for the handling, got hit with higher than expected costs, and have just shifted it on to the backers. So the local rates are a lie, they won’t give any details of the local hubs or package size/weight, and the ‘fund’ they have set up to help out is just a smokescreen to cover up and make themselves look good.

Maybe people will forgive and forget. maybe they won’t. If they get away with ripping off 23,000+ backers then they will just keep doing it again and again.

The fact is that they are not the first nor will they be that last to pull a stunt like this. How a company like Mythic still staggers on grifting more and more money from backers (we have your game, give us more money) is a great example.

For those of us who got conned on this I hope that we all remember to warn our fellow gamers about Catalyst going forward. There are only so many times they can re-upload Youtube videos to scrub the comments 🙂