You won’t fare very well playing with words. What I said was “It doesn’t work properly” and since CE doesn’t work properly, the analogy stands. And now that you’ve bought the DLC and they used that cash to fix core gameplay bugs, we can be happy right? Except of course they didn’t fix core gameplay bugs. They kept ya money though.
Furthermore, a T-shirt is a standalone product that functions independently of anything else. Whereas cosmetic DLC requires the underlying game to at least be accessible because it’s a feature of that game. Many people on my server bought the DLC and then our server was down more than up pretty much ever since. So they couldn’t even enjoy the DLC because it required the game to be accessible and it often wasn’t. DLC that was justified on the basis that it would help pay for servers. Hilarious right?
Another player on my server just quit the game because after they joined my clan, they lost 50 odd thralls, thralls that block their base and that were still not allied with him after this patch which was supposed to fix the problems with joining clans. Broken. He asked for clarification about the nature of the supposed fix (retrospective retroactive or not) and got no response.
Also, see here: Please fix the PurgeConfigTable before you go on holiday
for an example of Funcom tacitly refusing to fix the contents of purges for no reason at all.
They only fixed Crimson lotus powder and the troll tent because I embarrassed them into it (by fixing them myself). But something like functional purges, which they apparently very much want to stay broken, even in the face of ridicule, they still didn’t take 10 minutes to correct those typos before going on holiday. Why?
It’s certainly not because they can’t. It’s not incompetence when your errors are pointed out to you, the solution is provided, and you still refuse to fix it. That’s intent.
As for “not everyone is having troubles” that’s hardly relevant. Broken mechanics don’t stop being broken mechanics just because someone doesn’t complain about them. Nor does the lack of a complaint signify the lack of a problem. The only thing we know about the silent majority is that they are silent.
I’d also point out that there are people who played the free DLC event on testlive who say that the food decay bug and the temp extremes were not in evidence on testlive, so where the hell did they come from?
That right there is very interesting.