Bevendre

Fleur de Lait’s already up to 73 followers, and I want to thank everyone for showing their support for the new blog.  I’m more than open to ideas for the 100 follower milestone when it comes about.

• The content of a creation does not have to directly reflect the views of its creator, and may be at odds with the creator’s opinions to spread awareness or make a point.
  
• One should not judge the practices of one culture based off of what one knows from their own.
  
• A creator’s actions should not be considered in judging the quality or content of a creation.  A creation should be held as its own thing to be judged, not an extension of its creator.

A few things about the Fleur de Lait blog, just to clear things up and encourage a variety of questions:

• Fleur de Lait is NOT CONNECTED to Raricow.  Both contain cowponies in an anthro style, but they are not in the same world.
  
• Cowponies are a natural breed in Fleur de Lait, not a mutation.
• Fleur de Lait may have ‘special’ flavors augmented with spells for special effects upon request including but not limited to temporary species and gender changes.  Permanent would cost extra and come with a disclaimer.
  
• The blog is already marked as NSFW and will contain nudity, as well as the potential for sexual acts, so such questions are allowed.
  
• Despite being a cowpony Fleur de Lait can still use magic.  Thank the cowbell collar.
  
• Because there are special flavors that allow for characters to be different than normal, more characters can show up as cowponies or with other differences than will ever happen in Raricow.
• It’s a playground blog, no major story is planned and I’d like to keep it to fun answers that can possibly be more 'mature’ in content.

(via silver-tongues-blog)

There’s something I don’t quite get about the modern video game industry.  Lately there has been a fair bit of rage and discontent directed towards pre-order incentives and I don’t quite get why.  I understand being upset with pre-orders as what is promised does not always live up to the delivered product (*cough*Destiny*cough*) but the disappointment with pre-order incentives still floors me.
It’s not disc-locked content as most digital incentives are largely aesthetic, and if not tend to require a decently sized download.  In the case of MKX the pre-order incentive is an exclusive character that has long been in the series but rarely been playable.  That’s a great incentive to pre-order if you ask me.  Free physical merchandise or content that is doubtlessly going to be released as paid content down the line seems like a great thing to incentivize early adoption, but it’s being hated upon.
“In no other generation did this happen!  I didn’t have to pay forward for extra stuff in Megaman!”
No, you didn’t.  Granted, when Megaman was first coming out and during the last few generations the videogame industry was smaller and competition was less.  Companies didn’t have to put out more to try and draw the eye of consumers because there were fewer competitors vying for the consumer’s money, and so there was no need.  Look at the market now and that’s not the case.  Games come out all the time and often with a decent amount of competitors in the same release window.  To ensure that the consumer spends their money on a certain game of course developers and publishers are going to have incentives to adopt early, especially as success in ENTERTAINMENT IN GENERAL is often determined within the first couple months of availability.
“But no other industry does this bullshit!”
Yeah, they kind of do.  Between limited editions, entry contests, reduced interest rates, added bonuses and special deals retailers and companies do stuff very similar to pre-order incentives ALL THE TIME.  The only real difference is that many of those added bonuses are positives outside of a single videogame, are in shorter supply, and tend to wind up saving more than a couple dollars 6 months later.
A pre-order incentive is intended to encourage buyers to commit to a game early, which can be risky at times.  They’re not evil though.  They very rarely give a player an advantage, and if they do then it’s only a timed advantage until others get ahold of the same months later.  If you don’t plan on getting a game in the first place, then there’s pretty much no purpose in complaining about the pre-order incentive for that game.  If you do plan on getting a game early on, then a pre-order incentive might be what pushes you from a maybe to a hell yeah, and that’s fine.  It’s a little extra on top and DOESN"T COST ANYTHING EXTRA save for an early investment that can generally be cancelled.  If you are interested in a game, but don’t want to or can’t get it early on, good on you.  You might miss a minor thing, or may have to pay an extra $5 for bonus content months down the line when the game is 20% off.  

34 followers within 12 hours on Fleur de Lait!  Thanks everyone, and feel free to ask her anything.  Anything.