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This is a continuation thread, the old thread is [split]386891[/split]
To be honest, I've never liked how much BW tries to be friends with their community and interact with them.
Its fine when everything is all well and good but when there's a problem the barriers that imo should be there between player and developer or even to a certain extent members of PR aren't there, leading to **** getting messy and personal.
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There were only 3 statements needed imo:
We are collecting your feedback and preparing an announcement/ We are making the extended cut/ Extended cut will be available on the following date.
Keep it straight forward and simple.
Which is why like I said in the first place, I'm not a fan of being buddy buddy with your fanbase because it limits the ability to easily bottle up when one needs to.
I think there should be a respectable distance between fans and the devs, personally.
Agreed, but as a point of accuracy Walters and Hudson never went on the attack - they were probably the only one's to do the smart thing as you suggested and go totally mum when the situation began to erupt into something larger.
But yes, certainly most of the aggravating factors as you said erupted from a confused and frankly useless PR response that failed to circle their wagons properly and poor forum moderation.
@ Matt
Couldn't agree more. The whole thing was really a PR nightmare. The whole situation could have been diffuse, in my opinion, with a proper PR handling.
As far as jessica, i don't think i can really blame her for her twitter comments and whatnot prior to the EC. I don't think that she knew 100% how the EC would have turned out. BW just fed her scripts to say to the fans.
To clarify, when I say Hudson and Walters, I more mean their defenders and surrogates. Ray Muzyka, for example, the founder of Bioware. He was one of the big "It is their artistic vision so quit whining," types. Hudson and Walters did not say anything themselves, but they certainly had proponents from Bioware and the production team speaking on their behalf. I just can't remember their names.![]()
But you're right. Things there has slowly return to 'normal'
well any that there will be a goty for atleast this final in stallment can forget it now. not that it was ever really gonna happen. but it would have been cool if it did.
When does Red Dead even finish? I stopped playing the game after you meet up with your son and do a bunch of boring side quests with your family.