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Originally Posted by FohMD Assuming Smed did actually say that (which I doubt - it's far too concrete for any CEO), the word "incomplete" is open to interpretation. |
As is the word "is", I suppose.
Anyway...
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He could have simply meant it in the sense that SoE has always released products which met all their (i.e.: not yours) requirements for "completeness". Before you go off yelling at me, yes I know it isn't exactly ideal that SoE's idea of complete isn't/wasn't the same as ours BUT if its reasonable to suppose that players won't reach a zone for 3 months, it seems reasonable to me to release the game "early" and finish the zone while players are busy in other parts of the expansion.
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You mistake my argument for a product's incompleteness to be tantamount to lying in my eyes; this is incorrect. An incomplete product doesn't bother me
as long as I know it's incomplete.
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There is certainly something to gain from releasing a product "early", that's obvious. Your underlying assumption, however, is that releasing a product with unitemized/unpopulated zones is the same thing as lying. It isn't unless you specifically state somewhere "Expansion contains fully itemized, fully populated zones x,y,z".
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Once again, my point isn't that releasing a product incomplete is lying, it's that releasing a product incomplete and lying about it being complete is lying.
