[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by omega145

This goes back to finances...if someone is upset that some figures are shipping early then they probably don't have the funds to be spending on them and they are buying way too many items that are stretching their finances thin.

Except that there's a difference between "releasing a bit earlier than expected" and "releasing MONTHS earlier than expected" especially when it comes to items you're preordering. In these particular examples, the Rogue/Pyro pack was slated for a nebulous "Q4 2020", and the Psylocke/Fantomex/Nimrod pack was scheduled for November. For both of them to suddenly drop months ahead of schedule, within a week of each other... that's about a hundred bucks that hit very suddenly. Saying that people "probably don't have the funds to be spending on them" is a very narrow viewpoint to have in that scenario, because regardless of if you're setting aside money for when they drop in the future, or if you have the money readily on-hand, it's still a hundred upside the head when you weren't expecting it.

Don't assume that, just because someone is venting frustration, you know their financial situation enough to judge it. It's one thing if someone is constantly putting themselves near the red just to satisfy their collecting hobby - it's another when they have a standard budget and plan for particular purchases, only for it to go pear-shaped because things are just ignoring their "scheduled release" entirely.

Also, just like real life, any kind of a sudden downpour after a bit of a drought is gonna have ramifications. That's how it works in nature, how should anything else be different?