What grinds my gears...
So much this, no explanation, no justification, just utter silence…
Actually… yes. Individual takes a few hours to sum up their possibilities and reply in a meaningful manner. Company has to summon half their decision making staff to actually have something for PR people to rely to others. Everything else would lead to a clusterkitten of mess later on.
Editing marketing strategy is no small feat. Anet is not a company of three people, but three hundred.
Should have taken that precious time to think it up before the expansions pre-release announcement in that case…
Hey, let’s not be vindictive, could we? Mistakes happen, as do bad or unfortunate decisions. The only way to find out about them, sans precognition and time machines, is when they blow in your face. So let’s try not go all “hindsight’s 20/20” and give them at least one week. Week’s a fair offer, no? Not that long time for you and extremely short time PR-and-corporate-marketing-wise.
Yes I would agree 100% with what you said if history was not repeating it self, as I mentioned above, they ALWAYS go in hiding mode when they need to address something and wait for the tornado to pass before coming back like it never happened
More than 300. Still, if you’ve got nothing good to say, it’s better to remain silent. Especially when people have their pitchforks up.
Yes I would agree 100% with what you said if history was not repeating it self, as I mentioned above, they ALWAYS go in hiding mode when they need to address something and wait for the tornado to pass before coming back like it never happened
Maybe because they’re ALWAYS a multi-million dollar company that ALWAYS had to discuss stuff before reacting too quickly?
The same thing that makes them delay now, is the same thing that makes them delay the rest of the time, added to in this case by the fact that a lot of the top guys were at E3.
Time is money and in this case silence is not gold.
Time is money and in this case silence is not gold.
You know less about business than you think you do. Haste makes waste. See we can all quote proverbs.
The worst is seeing them act as if nothing is going on.
The only replies we got were some small notes on the forum. Twitter? Nothing. Main page? Nothing.
You wanna know what is even worse? PEople they tricked into buying the game prior to the announcement of the prepurchase didn’t even got an email they should seek refund.
Those guys got the worst part of the deal, got scammed into buying something they didnt need. And they got no contact from anet as well.
Time is money and in this case silence is not gold.
You know less about business than you think you do. Haste makes waste. See we can all quote proverbs.
Never have I mentioned I was a business guru, I am a simple human with no patience demanding answers. Defend Anet all you want, won’t change anything and won’t make me more patient.
And you demand them to do exactly what? Teleport the whole staff that’s there away from E3 (where it has its own obligations), use a summoning stone to bind them to chairs in one room and reach an executive decision? Even if you did that immediately, it DOES take time for a bunch of people to agree on something, doubly so if it’s this tricky. Even if they decided three days ago to edit what they are doing, editing policies that are tied to gathering money is a tricky thing (just for the legal issues alone) and requires moving on tips of your fiscal toes.
Would it really help had miss Gray popped up and said “We’re trying to work it out”? without being able to say “work it out how?” Normally, I would say yes, but with the current amount of vitriol in here, no. All it would do would be to sharpen pitchforks for some, call others for snidy insults and have the rest to start speculating, which always leads to unreasonable expectations.
And you demand them to do exactly what? Teleport the whole staff that’s there away from E3 (where it has its own obligations), use a summoning stone to bind them to chairs in one room and reach an executive decision? Even if you did that immediately, it DOES take time for a bunch of people to agree on something, doubly so if it’s this tricky. Even if they decided three days ago to edit what they are doing, editing policies that are tied to gathering money is a tricky thing (just for the legal issues alone) and requires moving on tips of your fiscal toes.
Would it really help had miss Gray popped up and said “We’re trying to work it out”? without being able to say “work it out how?” Normally, I would say yes, but with the current amount of vitriol in here, no. All it would do would be to sharpen pitchforks for some, call others for snidy insults and have the rest to start speculating, which always leads to unreasonable expectations.
Yes that is exactly what I am asking for, would you have read the rest of the thread you would have understood that what I want is not a solution. I don’t care if what they say won’t make me happy, just asking them to show they acknowledge all this and if yes or no they are looking into better perspective.
It’s possible they feel that saying something would just do more damage than being silent or would fall on deaf ears, anyway, given the outrage.
Actually ANets been quite active on the forums lately, just not on this issue…