I agree with him. It's a game at the end of the day and there is no obligation for them to release content to your schedule. If you're unhappy with the pace you're within you rights to cancel your sub and play something else until it does release. It's not your right to treat people as human trash because you're bored.
Well he's not wrong. If someone's takeaway from all of this is "these fuckers are delaying 9.2 I want my money back rabble rabble rabble", then they need to get the hell away from their PCs and do something else. Or, better yet, go play something else.
If people are bitching about paying a sub, here's a big spoiler for them: you are paying to play 9.1, not for them to develop 9.2. If you don't like it, feel free to unsub.
Yeah I care more for a product and the community/friends I have on there for 12+ years that this may well negatively impact more than I do for nameless faceless people on another continent that may or may not have contributed somehow to that product."If your reaction to everything going on right now is to complain that the next patch is going to take longer to release, then you need to take a step back and realize that you are part of the problem. You value video game content more than human decency and respect."
Pretty cringe, Alex.
So, while the company sort things out we don't have to pay a sub? Right?
In my humble opinion, the responses in this topic explain perfectly how these people can get away with anything.. it seems people will eat like ice-scream any “empathetic” statement from someone “Senior”
So you guys/girls have no idea of scale?
In real life.. complex investigations.. into murders, drug cartels etc.. cost a tiny-tiny fraction of the resources a multi-billion dollar giant corporation like Acti/Bliz possesses...
So these multi-billion dollar resources are taken away from game development and are being put into the “investigations” and “uprooting harassment”...
literally 100x the resources any IRL investigation about cartels , drug lords, murders etc...
And all they have to show for it is 1000 word PR essays saying that “harassment is bad but I didn’t see anything” ?
And if you complain about game development.. YOU CONDONE HARASSMENT... but literally all the senior guys didn’t see anything... only YOU are the issue...
No wonder they always get away with stuff.. like the Hong Kong incident etc... seems it’s very easy to manipulate the masses by “empathetic statements”
in that case they should reduce the cost a subscription to compensate for the extra time it takes, in no other industry would it be acceptable to gouge consumers while still being negligent and failing to produce the product that is being paid for, yet in the gaming industry we hail mediocrity and praise negligence, you need to step back here, 95% of the playerbase doesn't check fansites, doesn't engage with 'the company' on social media, so why should they care about a 'big issue' when they are paying full price for a sub par product?
So with his logic you could also say: We the subscribers are part of problem because we are paying $15 per month to play WoW and this money goes directly into the pockets of sexual predators and a company that enables those people.
I think its a bullshit statement that he made.
Weird thing to say. They are so controlling and precise in the development and marketing of their games, so it's weird to see a producer lash out at customers in general like this.
The amount of mental gymnastics trying to re-interpret his statement is just as embarrassing as expected.
"My narrative is: Everyone at blizzard is bad and they don't like us. That statement clearly reflects that."
Soloing Wotlk/Cataclysm/MoP/WoD
http://www.youtube.com/user/thststth/videos
http://eu.battle.net/wow/de/characte...alker/advanced
http://de.twitch.tv/nightst314 >>Stream<<
This thread has already been closed due to derailment, and this one appears to be on the same trajectory (in addition to being off-topic). This topic can be discussed here. Closing this.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead