Boycott Paradox interactive games!

[Wizzington]

I am not answering in any kind of outrage, i think it's obvious. Thing is, we have just recently come to "patchwork" an answer from you from your various responses. I am good with that, although i would have prefered not an answer but a preventive announcement on dlc release, which would, i believe, make everyone happy, and would have clarified this decision in terms that no one would doubt it.

So you want us to scry into the future and detect forum outrage, then pre-write an apology for it...?

 

[Wizzington]

Of course not. But i think those anticipations were expected.

You'd be surprised. People grumble about all sorts of things posted in dev diaries, but it's always a crapshoot which complaints actually take off on release day. In fact, the increased core costs spawned about 20 times more outrage than the development changes, so that's what we should have been pre-apologizing for if we're going to pre-apologize (we're not).

 

[Wizzington]

The forum is here because we want it here. There is no legal obligation for a game company to maintain a discussion forum, and you have no 1st amendment right to post here.

I'm sure posting a thread and not having people agree with you tramples on your Free Speech somehow though.

 

[Wizzington]

I am not talking about game changes, i rarely complain about them, i go along because i think developers may know better, and will change what they found out is wrong.
You know exactly why phoenix and me are complaining, and it's not due to gameplay issues. There is no reason to continue this, i think both you and me understand what was discussed, and we both have our answers and can consider things in various ways in order not to repeat the same mistakes (both sides).

I know why you are complaining, but I don't agree that it's such a special situation that it requires a big apology or official explanation. As far as I'm concerned we gave everyone a better building system, and the people who bought Common Sense got a new feature that also happened to be linked into the building system as a secondary effect. You're free to disagree with it as much as you want but your disagreement is not special and does not need to be treated differently from any other disagreement our fans have with us.

 

[Wizzington]

Indeed and well said.

For these who look for these nice pictures, maybe you guys should also go through my posts and see if I am in generall a troll and if in the 800+ posts I have ranted against paradox. Or have gotten a warning from them before today?
Maybe then you would understand that I am not a troll, nor a cry baby who has nothng better to do. But that this is a major thing that paradox has done that I think most here have missed. And I am sure that they will keep doing this, since as one can see from this post the great majority of users have accepted it and will even ridicule everyone who speaks out against it and misunderstand them to the point of calling black white and white black.

They're not ridiculing you for your opinions regarding development. They're ridiculing you for pretending that your posted opinions regarding the business model for a computer game is some grand battle in the war on free speech and for trying to act like an expert on consumer law while clearing having no knowledge of the topic. Try being less pretentious next time.