MaestroMavius

I vote for this, since I still haven't seen one ingame...

Indeed. Right before they stop at the jam, lori and Rick are waxing nostalgic about a failed trip to the Grand Canyon. Carl is in the back with Carol and Sophia and remarks that he doesn't remember going. Lori tells him he was to little and he got sick so they turned around but that it was still a good trip.

Then Carl says he'd like to go, which prompts a 'how the hell' look from the parents, followed shortly by Sophia asking, "Can we come too?" With obvious excitement in her voice.

I saw Sophia as starting to break out of the shellshock this season. Last season she was living thru hell with the ZA and most likely being molested by her father in tents before his demise. With the ZA starting to be the normal day to day, and her father being long gone, I saw her starting to smile and be more interactive with the group. That is until...

Personally, I was hoping they'd actually off both the kids right off the bat this season. Watching Carl try to get the tools from the corpse, I was just shaking my head wondering how long it'd take before one of the kids gets the group slaughtered.

Still... By the mid-season finale, due to the glacial ppacing of the show, I'd all but forgotten about her. I was right there with Darryl thinking we'd find her. That or we'd have to abandon the search to leave, a fate much worse than knowing what happened to her.

The moment with Shane demonstrating how 'dead' the walkers are by unloading 3 center mass into Hershels neighbor, while he was walking her to the barn no less, Hershel falling to his knees. That was poignant. The look on his face, as the denial he's built up gets blasted away.
It's relentless at that point for the poor old fool.
He then has to watch as the barn is opened and his lifetime of family and friends (small towns like this are tight nit) pour out into the firing squad.

I caught the grimace from him when the woman's cheek was blasted off. I assumed it was his wife. The man is being killed watching this.
Then it ends. The music, the mood. All of it was just so perfect.

The small shoe appears and I think, Oh great! Poor guy has to go through all this and just when he thinks it's over... now he has to watch his young step son get mowed....

OH...





I think if it hadn't been for the drawn out search, if I hadn't been expecting them to find her. Her being found like that wouldn't have had as much impact on me.
As it stands, it was the perfect finale in my opinion. Leaving us hanging before the smoke clears, I can only imagine the ramifications shortly after!
Can't wait til Feb now.

You want the truth, right?

Sadly not a bug. This is the result of having a set made so dependant on the other pieces involved in said set that they aren't all that useful with the other 99.9% of the previous 7 years effort. See also: Pre-Tinting.

Results in a really nifty looking outfit, when everything is worn together...

Hopefully the recent hoopla will translate in to more interchangability for future sets.

Sadly, this.

This 'problem' didn't exist before the market began demanding new goods weekly. I'm starting to get a bit miffed at the lip-service and hand waving being done by the Dev's lately as well.

I still think Freedom is the best thing to happen to our game ever, with great potential for the future. That excitement has been tempered somewhat lately though, with the lackluster quality and commitment being delivered.

Pumping something new into the store's inventory weekly amounts to a lot of wasted time and money if everyone stops buying them. Burn us once, we'll trust you again... Burn us repeatedly and we'll stop shopping.

I implore you to be careful, we are still in the 'newlywed' phase. Once that wears off though, the reality of having a store full of poorly thought out packs and unpolished clunky looking pieces will sink in. Please don't doom us to that fate by some suits requirment to have weekly releases.

Above all else though.... Stop blaming us.
Acting like this is some brand-new vitriol from the playerbase isn't wise. It's one thing to make changes based on feedback and ask for clarification. It's a whole other beast to allude to the new restrictions being 'our fault' for complaining in the 1st place.

I wouldn't even bother posting this sort of thing, if I didn't have faith that our Dev/OCR team is still the best in the industry. I just don't want the new business model to change that opinion.