Valentine's Mini-Marathon

Ph3lan: Hey guys!   I have been reading this thread from home and, just like Kandly, I am a bit surprised by the negativity this has caused, so let me add some explanation about this “mini-marathon”. In hindsight I think calling it a marathon was not exactly the best idea (captain obvious reporting for duty!)   Usually at around this time we sell the Valentine II at a discount and give some kind of missions to celebrate Valentine’s day. This time we wanted to spice things up a little bit, especially because this period is a bit of a lull between the Holiday ops/Bonds Marathon and the rest of the cool stuff we have lined up tied to Update 1.0 coming in March.   So we thought let’s come up with a series of super easy missions, something that you can complete by simply playing without any extra effort, tie it to Valentines, and stick to tradition by using the Valentine II. Which, while a lot of "old" players have it, is still something cool for people who are new or don’t have premiums.     For the hardcore players (basically everyone on the forums), it is still a bit of credits and a garage slot, but we also added some, quite good, personal reserves, a premium day,  and some consumables (chocolate since it is Valentines) on top to make it a little bit more interesting. This was never meant to be a true marathon, it was simply designed to be a bit of engagement between bigger and cooler things ( yes, we also have much cooler things planned!) so the rewards are not really that special either. (We can't make every event super special, at some point the special becomes the new default and nothing is special anymore.)   It was also a small thing that only the EU region has. As far as I know the other regions don’t have any “marathons” or similar specials tied to valentines, so I think that saying that EU gets the short end of the stick in this situation is a bit unfair   I am truly sorry if we raised the expectations too high and then let you down with the actual thing, but I hope you guys can take a step back and believe that we simply wanted to give you something small and a little bit more interesting than the standard Valentine II discount for Valentine’s day. It seems that we didn’t exactly hit the target with this one. This was an honest mistake, please don't ammo rack us for it!   Ph3lan