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Elite Forces Pass?

CantatusCantatus
edited July 2010 in General Chat
Prior to Season 3 of Sam & Max launching, there were some preorder bonuses. According to the email I still have, these bonuses included:
• Free game episode: any prior Sam & Max, Strong Bad, Wallace & Gromit, Bone or Texas Hold'em game!
• Access to the private Elite Forces forum, including chats with the team (Steve Purcell and more).
• The Elite Force Pass to the Telltale Store: special offers just for you.
• Exclusive downloads: avatars, wallpapers and more!

And this is in my order confirmation email:
3.) You'll get additional goodies and discounts as the third Sam & Max season gets underway. We'll talk about those a bit later; stay tuned!

Since I love giving Telltale my money (and I assume they love taking it), the Elite Forces Pass was one of the things that got me to preorder. I'm wondering what ever happened to it. I'm fully willing to admit I might've missed something, but I don't recall every receiving any special offers for the store. The fourth episode is due this month, so shouldn't those of us who preorder have gotten a special offer by now?

(I don't recall any exclusive downloads either, but I admit I didn't pay as close of attention to the Elite Forces forum as I should've.)

Comments

  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited July 2010
    I noticed the distinct lack of this as well. Considering this bullet point was something meant to add an incentive to early purchase, it's extremely poor form to let other projects derail this and many other aspects of the Tales of Monkey Island and Sam and Max releases.
  • RemolayRemolay
    edited July 2010
    I thought that was whatever discount we got after preorder.

    I still kinda want the exclusive downloads though
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited July 2010
    Remolay wrote: »
    I thought that was whatever discount we got after preorder.
    Since it was a pre-ordering incentive, and they said they'd "get back to that later" after "the season was underway", it couldn't apply to any discount that:

    1) Was available to everyone, or
    2) Was already part of the pre-order, such as the free episode coupon.
    I still kinda want the exclusive downloads though
    Hell, they haven't even gotten around to dropping Episode 1's NON-exclusive download! Nutri-Specs, anyone? I wonder if episodes two and three were intended to have such things too, and those were dropped in favor of Universal?
  • WapcapletWapcaplet
    edited July 2010
    I thought the $9.95 Strong Bad deal might be tied to this offer. Did anyone get that e-mail without pre-ordering TDP?
  • BoneFreakBoneFreak
    edited July 2010
    Wapcaplet wrote: »
    I thought the $9.95 Strong Bad deal might be tied to this offer. Did anyone get that e-mail without pre-ordering TDP?

    That's from getting a single episode of SBCG4AP. I got episode 104 of Strong Bad as my free pre-order episode, BUT it says in the email that I got the offer from buying an episode of it.

    As for the topic, I am pretty mad we haven't got anything besides the free episode and the forum access. Hopefully they'll have a big bunch of discounts/downloads at the very end? It would be at least something.
  • guitarsareboringguitarsareboring
    edited July 2010
    Didn't wait long to bump it did you? ;) I'm sure Telltale will offer us something nice eventually and I'm fairly sure no one bought the game solely based on these unspecified offers.

    I do want those Nutri-Specs though.
  • adventureaddictadventureaddict
    edited July 2010
    Yeah, I'll be honest, this is the first time I'm hearing of such an offer :p
    Would be nice to see though, I have plenty I could still buy from TT.
  • BoneFreakBoneFreak
    edited July 2010
    adventureaddict wrote: »
    I have plenty I could still buy from TT.

    Same here. I wanted to win the $200 gift card trivia contest they had on Facebook a while back, and I've only bought Puzzle Agent and TDP of of the site (S&M 1 and 2 I got from Steam, it was a sale, same with Wallace & Gromit), and I got the last 2 episodes of SBCG4AP and Launch of the Screaming Narwhal, and they were all free.

    I don't have any physical items from Telltale, which is why I'm excited to get the TDP DVD, but a good sale would be enough to buy me in to get something.
  • roberttitusroberttitus
    edited July 2010
    Maybe you should post something in the support thread.... they are pretty much forced to reply that way.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited July 2010
    Elite Forces members got their offer(20% off your next order) in the email telling us that 104 had been released.
  • This guyThis guy
    edited July 2010
    Well, I didn't get one, despite preordering The Devil's Playhouse. I imagine it's probably because I hadn't bothered to get the Elite Forces subforum access (or, in fact, a username) until today?

    If that's the case then that seems a bit unfair. Both the emails quoted by Cantatus in the first post were pretty explicit about private forum access and future discounts being separate perks. There was no indication registering for the former would be required to qualify for the latter. So, as far as I am concerned, I am still waiting for the bonus we were promised.
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