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Originally Posted by Asmadai When I picture WoW and EQ, I see two people sitting at a desk.
One claims he'll have his stuff ready by the project due date, but come due date, only parts of the project are complete. If you ask him about the incompleteness, he'll tell you 'oh it's complete; i'm serious.'
The other acknowledges the fact that there is a due date, but flat out tells you he won't have the project complete by then. Slowly, after the project was already due, he brings the completed numbers and pie graphs that were missing to the table.
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I really can't tell which one i'd hate more. I guess it all comes down to how bad you hate being lied to. I don't mind it all that much; not near as much as some. Blizzard was upfront sure, but I wouldn't say that 'truth' outweighed 'incompleteness' here. |
The problem w/ being lied to and being told that "hey, it's finished" is that you have no reasonable expectations of what the outcome will be. When Blizzard said, "hey, BWL isn't going to be in release", sure it pissed people off, but they also didn't waste time trying to unlock a secret raid zone (which may have happened if Blizzard
did tell them it was in-game) or some other nonsense. They could farm lower level instances, take a break from WoW or do whatever they pleased, because they knew they weren't missing out on anything.
Compare this to the Rathe where guilds were beating their heads non-stop against the wall only to find out later on down the road that the reason the encounter was so hard was to give SOE a chance to complete Plane of Time. In essence, those guilds did nothing but waste time trying to beat a broken encounter. Time spent trying to beat a cockblock would've been better time spent gearing up in actually completeable raid zones -- IF the playerbase had known.
It's like this, if I take my car to get it's oil changed and the guy tells me, "hey, it's going to take longer than we expected -- hold tight and we'll get it done as soon as we can" it's a hell of a lot better than them saying, "sure, we'll get your oil changed in 15 minutes" and then, not even change my oil, but also lie about having changed it.
