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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
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Originally posted by GP
I think it was dishonest for the following reasoning.
Imagine you promise to do something (advertisiments and articles). then you discover you can't make it. Fine. As long as you tell people. But if you don't tell people (and even refuse to answer questions), that is a lie by ommission. You are allowing your earlier statements to stand when you known better. |
FWIW, I'm not sure how easy it is to change the adds on all of the websites selling the game. I may be foolish, but I would say, like everything else, that Infogrames screwed this up as well. Since they are the publishers, they would take care of all the selling details, and I could see how something like this woudl get caught up in the bureacracy and not get changed as quickly as we would have liked. Like the memo saying no MP ended up on some cubicle jockey's desk, who didn't pay attention to it for weeks.
this theory is only with regards to the online advertisements. As to the other stuff, I don't have any ideas.
you can slap me for being a fanboy.
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asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
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I don't understand this problem at all.
When I bought the game, I looked at the box. Didn't say anything about MP, I didn't care, I purchased it. If the only thing i wanted was MP, I wouldn't have purchased it.
I think some people are taking this was too personally. Don't take this as a flame, but I think some people are jealous that others are happy with just the SP game. They feel like the SP players got the game they wanted, but the Mp's didn't get what they wanted. Firaxis ripped them off.
What I think: If you require MP in a game-then don't buy civ3 when it comes out, knowing that you will be pissed off. It is clear from the box, that it is SP, so I don't understand the gripe. Wait the 9 months till the XP with MP comes out (which will probably be bundled for around the original sales price!) If you feel ripped off because others are enjoying the game, well, that's your prerogative.
Oh, one other thing. I've seen a lot of posts saying that they wished that firaxis had delayed release for 9 months or a year to get the kinks out, MP and editor in. Well, the XP will come out around that time, so treat that as the true release date if you want.
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asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
time: 00:13
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Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
We're not taking it personally - the game sucks - I couldn't give a flying f*ck what Firaxis does from here on in. |
Ouch. Sounds like a jilted lover. And, perhaps you aren't taking it personally, but it appears that some are. Why else would someone post ad nauseum attacks on a game they didn't like. I have better things with my life than hang around and spam a board of a game I don't even like.
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asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
time: 00:13
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Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Troll the troll? LOL.
2.5 |
I would have rated your troll a little lower, perhaps a 1.5.
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TCO
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Richmond, VA
Jan 1970
time: 00:13
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Originally posted by asleepathewheel
FWIW, I'm not sure how easy it is to change the adds on all of the websites selling the game. I may be foolish, but I would say, like everything else, that Infogrames screwed this up as well. Since they are the publishers, they would take care of all the selling details, and I could see how something like this woudl get caught up in the bureacracy and not get changed as quickly as we would have liked. Like the memo saying no MP ended up on some cubicle jockey's desk, who didn't pay attention to it for weeks.
this theory is only with regards to the online advertisements. As to the other stuff, I don't have any ideas.
you can slap me for being a fanboy. |
1. LOL. I'm not gonna slap you. I slap the whiners more often than the fanboys, anyway. Just feel a little differently on this one issue.
2. The Amazon ad could have been easily changed. Not sure if it was oversight or lack of caring or deliberate. But it was certainly easy to change. Just some HTML text...
3. Yes IG is ultimately responsible. Firaxis is their subcontractor. But that doesn't mean Firaxis is blameless. Surely you can imagine scenarios where the subcontractor screws up a project. It is right to hold the prime contractor responsible...but that doesn't get the sub off the hook either. Also whenever you have these subcotractor relationships it is easy for both sides to point fingers at each other and neither to ever take responsability. (Not that they are doing this...but in effect we are arguing it that way...)
4. Remember the LE designer's notes. They also seem to have been a "screwup"...
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05-05-2002 08:41
Besides, negative threads are well-known to be popular for the community of BBS's.
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