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Originally Posted by Ngruk  Ya we're grinding away to earn the respect and loyalty of people like you, making it all worth it.
Maybe it's just one of those mornings, but my oh my when I read a post written with internet machismo and we all know would never come out of the mouth of said person in a ftf conversation, I laugh in that non-humorous way we all do at times. |
I'm suprised you even bothered to comment on my post but since you did...
Curt you are a big boy. A very big boy. You are CEO of a company that is building an MMO. MMO players are notoriously hot-headed, drunk, irritable, introverted, spastic, occasionally high, and generally some of the meanest people on the net. And we're also mostly guys (well barring players of those cake and horse themed MMOs) which means that throughout our life we have both given and received a lot of shit.
You must have seen the threads with VG and EQ and EQ2 and even WoW. You must have read some of the venom spewed at Smed or Brad or pick-your-dev or GM or Blizzard CS rep or etc.
You have got to have a thicker skin if you're going to read these or any boards with regularity.
So I'm certainly not going to apologize for writing what I felt about that presentation. It was completely non-substantive and frankly a little self-congratulatory. Y'all have ever right to sit around and congratulate yourselves on whatever milestones you've reached but using that as marketing is frankly a turn off. I would have said the same thing if Bioware had made that kind of presentation. It's perfectly understandable that you don't want to release information but it's better to just follow the rules of fight club and not talk about it until you guys are ready to deliver something substantive.
Finally, as too internet machismo: something we _all_ do now and then right? Aka Pot meet Kettle and etc.