Or, you know ... you could the really good arguments brought forward for a no.
Something I haven't seen brought up: CGL might simply not be able to keep it open any longer. The other manufacturers have them lined up for production and reserved a production window. Extending the Pledge Manager might mean they would lose those windows and have to fall back into line, causing massive delays for all the stuff that is not delayed.
I don’t dispute that the stated reasons for voting “no” are good ones.
Whether they
could keep it open has been loosely discussed in the KS Update comments, with Talon saying he didn’t see why not, after going over the status of all the product types, with the caveat that it wasn’t a change they could make lightly. That was a first impressions sort of reaction, not based on complete information and not something I’d hold them to. But it was good news to a lot of us.
One decent argument against giving a crap about people who haven’t gotten their character surveys yet is that, at Star Colonel and above, you’re probably getting Wave 2 items so it doesn’t matter if you opt for credits now or later. An update specifically about re-opening the PM during Wave 2 and what happens to money you leave on the table now would be helpful; a lot of useful information is scattered in update comments or the general KS comments thread.
Anyway, I did get my survey this past weekend (I upgraded to Star Colonel in mid-November), so my situation is settled. If they can get through everybody who didn’t upgrade at the last minute, great, we’ll stop whining.