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Originally Posted by Gallenite I was tangentially involved with the first and definitely around for the second.
I'm the last guy who's going to dive headlong into "SOE is the devil!"
However, I will say this much.
In both of the above cases, you have a single person making a single definitive statment saying what they believe to be true, simply trying to be helpful and that statement getting latched onto and turning out in the worst of ways.
Unfortunately, neither person who made the statements in the above examples was aware that they weren't right because they weren't directly involved in the subject matter they were discussing.
Don't underestimate people's desire to be nice and overestimate people's desire to be sinister. In both of these cases, the poster was genuinely trying to be helpful and encouraging. |
I'll believe it. That is exactly one of the speculated reasons some have come up with for all of the incompleteness of the EQ expansions. The people who told the 'lies' to the public were really just PR people and didn't have first hand knowledge of the completeness or lack thereof, and were just telling the people exactly what they wanted to hear.
I currently work for a corporation, and tho it may not be as big as SoE (Washington Mutual Bank if you want to get specific) i've still seen MANY many things of this nature happen around here all the time. Thousands upon thousands of dollars wasted, all because someone told someone something that they didn't have 100% knowledge on. It happens, and it's very understandable for me. I can only imagine the kind of confusion that can breed when you have to deal with a public release date, and having to try to satisfy customers 24 hours a day.
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Originally Posted by keflex 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. |
No, it's more like if you took your car to get the oil changed, and the guy gives you either the SoE Response, "Sure, we'll get your oil changed in 15 minutes" as opposed to the Blizzard Response of "Hey, it's going to take longer than expected -- I'll need you to come back every Tuesday for the next 2 years while we slowly finish the work on your car. You might find yourself having nothing to do for a while, but, well, sorry - at least we didn't lie to you."
