From a technical, marketing, and brand-name standpoint, if I was in charge of a big corpo, and my corpo was making tech, and I lived in an environment where acid rain was a well known hazard, my product would be pretty crap if I couldn't sell something that could stand up to a little rain, acid rain or no, better than meat.
Metal is suppose to be better than meat, no? It's part of the advertising propaganda and marketing.
In that sense, I could see rain, any kind of rain causing problems with off-brand, generic, imitation, bottom of the market, second-hand, last generation cyberware and gear.
Name brand, just fell off the truck, right out of the box? Ehhh, no, regardless of whether you buy the product legit or not, that's just bad business for the corpo to have any rumors about their gear floating around that it's prone to such shoddy sub standard performance to be effected by or compromised by a little rain.
It's even worse business for corpos that advertise military grade, warzone tough quality. I'm sure there's worse things than civilian grade acid rain to worry about in war zones and battlefields.
With that, it might be fun and interesting to have those off-brand budget knock-off versions of cyberware and gear available as a choice; advertising more and better features than the name brand stuff, for 10% less the cost than Kiroshi, Miltech, or some other big corpo name brand too ... but, you walk away thinking you've got a good deal, only to find glitchy, unreliable, you bought cheap so you got cheap quality performance.
It fritzes out in the rain, it might spark on occasion, it makes weird noises, and other little annoyances that you might think are normal, because you don't really know any better ... until you eventually get something genuine top self name brand.
Of course, that wellspring of shame and disappointment could be double poisoned where there might actually be a diamond in the rough; some jangley-looking prototype nonsense that somehow wound up in the shop from no-one knows where, but, it does ALL the things better, for half the humanity cost, but, it's ugly as all get out, and, even trying to install it might, maybe have permanent risks associated with a failure to install it ... or something like that where there's something really unbalanced and stupid where you will least expect it, and will probably overlook it, and even if you don't overlook it, it might be something you want to think two or three times about taking a risk on.
eh.
Metal is suppose to be better than meat, no? It's part of the advertising propaganda and marketing.
In that sense, I could see rain, any kind of rain causing problems with off-brand, generic, imitation, bottom of the market, second-hand, last generation cyberware and gear.
Name brand, just fell off the truck, right out of the box? Ehhh, no, regardless of whether you buy the product legit or not, that's just bad business for the corpo to have any rumors about their gear floating around that it's prone to such shoddy sub standard performance to be effected by or compromised by a little rain.
It's even worse business for corpos that advertise military grade, warzone tough quality. I'm sure there's worse things than civilian grade acid rain to worry about in war zones and battlefields.
With that, it might be fun and interesting to have those off-brand budget knock-off versions of cyberware and gear available as a choice; advertising more and better features than the name brand stuff, for 10% less the cost than Kiroshi, Miltech, or some other big corpo name brand too ... but, you walk away thinking you've got a good deal, only to find glitchy, unreliable, you bought cheap so you got cheap quality performance.
It fritzes out in the rain, it might spark on occasion, it makes weird noises, and other little annoyances that you might think are normal, because you don't really know any better ... until you eventually get something genuine top self name brand.
Of course, that wellspring of shame and disappointment could be double poisoned where there might actually be a diamond in the rough; some jangley-looking prototype nonsense that somehow wound up in the shop from no-one knows where, but, it does ALL the things better, for half the humanity cost, but, it's ugly as all get out, and, even trying to install it might, maybe have permanent risks associated with a failure to install it ... or something like that where there's something really unbalanced and stupid where you will least expect it, and will probably overlook it, and even if you don't overlook it, it might be something you want to think two or three times about taking a risk on.
eh.
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