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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 7678248" data-attributes="member: 5143">Not that I entirely disagree with you, but the real problem is that for the last couple of years the All-Access Pass was a big mystery prize.  Baldman have said "You'll get your own DM for the whole weekend who is personally chosen by Dave Christ for their DMing skill, you'll get an area dedicated to the All-Access Players that is separate from the rest of the games and you may get a cool gift of some sort depending on what is available and given to us by WOTC.  We want to keep what you get as a surprise so you'll only find out on site."Dave admits in his recently post that attempting to surprise people was likely the major problem.  People have been telling him this for 2 years.  I signed up for All-Access last year and I was nervous about my decision for months.  I paid $150 dollars and I had no idea what I was getting out of it.  Sure, the DM and gaming space is nice, but I would probably only pay $10 more dollars for those benefits.  That still meant I was over paying by $100.00 and HOPING that it was worth it.  Even last year people were asking a month before GenCon if they could please be told what the surprise was so we could put our fears to rest and we were told by Dave that it would ruin the surprise and he wasn't 100% sure the prizes would show up properly at GenCon and he didn't want to disappoint anyone by getting their hopes up.It was kind of a harrowing experience since I convinced my girlfriend as well as 2 people I was travelling with to sign up with me for All-Access and near the end they were getting a little concerned that I'd steered them wrong.  Luckily, when we got early copies of the MM, everyone was happy with our choice.But I understand where the people this year are coming from.  However, I still think that signing up for the All-Access Pass is kind of a lottery to begin with.  You understand when you sign up for it that you are throwing your money in and HOPING for the best since there's no real responsibility for Baldman to provide you with a prize of any kind since the description only promises that there MIGHT be.Now that Baldman has responded by giving out prizes that are legitimately worth about $100, I don't believe that asking for your money back is a realistic thing to do any longer.  Take the prizes, even if you don't want them and realize that you lost the "lottery".And hopefully Baldman Games learns from this(which, by their post, they have) and next year no longer relies on a "lottery" to get people to sign up for the All-Access Pass.</blockquote>

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