I'm as cynical as the next person, really, but not every Big Corporation is out to fuck with you, at all times, out of some sense of greed.
The only thing Blizzard got out of it was a lot of fan backlash and bad publicity, and the idea is that they knew that would happen and did it on purpose just to get in the news? I doubt it.
It's like me calling up the newspaper and telling them I just raped and killed someone, then denied it after the story hit, all so I could get people to know my name.
This isn't about the news as much as its probably about the reaction and line of thought of the majority of their fans. They just straightened quite a few of time.
And I believed that before: not every big corporation is out to fuck with you. I don't agree with this anymore. At least, not in gaming (which is the only place I know enough to comment on). There is now no company I know of that would not backstab their fans out of greed in a good deal.
Or they made a bad call, listened to the fans, and decided that having real names on a forum wasn't all that important in their plans. Which is a much more plausible explanation for what happened rather than grasping at every straw for a conspiracy behind the scenes.
How can a company so big, with so many people and certainly more than a few people making that kind of decisions, could not foresee the impact of such a decision? This isn't a simple mistake or a simple "oops" thing that doesn't matter. This "mistake" is too big for me to simply call it that.
And I'd rather believe in a conspiracy where there is none, than believe there is no conspiracy when there is one. Its not like I'll do (or can do) anything about it.
Oh, shit, you boycotting them over the whole Real ID thing?
Personally, I was close to it, then they announced they were scrapping Real ID, and all my faith was restored.
Now, I've really realized that I shouldn't be so quick to trust them right after that, they scrapped a plan which never should have been considered in the first place, let alone put into action.
You know thats called getting played, right?
Even the topic in the main D3 forum here was closed. Wow, talk about working as intended. They just throw a stupid idea about forum names, one so ridiculously stupid that everyone whined about it, and obviously remind us of RealID in the process. Oh, and then after all the outrage, "hey, we're not doing the forum name part after all".
Nothing changed. Some people even disliked RealID before and liked it after, I'm sure. Maybe thats not really what happened, but it bloody looks like it to me. At least, I've never seen something that makes me doubt them so much.
But hey, apparently I'm some paranoiac guy who thinks every fishy move is some sort of attempt at controversy. But big company with power fool people. And big company don't pull off that kind of stuff for nothing.
This isn't about the news as much as its probably about the reaction and line of thought of the majority of their fans. They just straightened quite a few of time.
And I believed that before: not every big corporation is out to fuck with you. I don't agree with this anymore. At least, not in gaming (which is the only place I know enough to comment on). There is now no company I know of that would not backstab their fans out of greed in a good deal.
How can a company so big, with so many people and certainly more than a few people making that kind of decisions, could not foresee the impact of such a decision? This isn't a simple mistake or a simple "oops" thing that doesn't matter. This "mistake" is too big for me to simply call it that.
And I'd rather believe in a conspiracy where there is none, than believe there is no conspiracy when there is one. Its not like I'll do (or can do) anything about it.
You know thats called getting played, right?
Even the topic in the main D3 forum here was closed. Wow, talk about working as intended. They just throw a stupid idea about forum names, one so ridiculously stupid that everyone whined about it, and obviously remind us of RealID in the process. Oh, and then after all the outrage, "hey, we're not doing the forum name part after all".
Nothing changed. Some people even disliked RealID before and liked it after, I'm sure. Maybe thats not really what happened, but it bloody looks like it to me. At least, I've never seen something that makes me doubt them so much.
But hey, apparently I'm some paranoiac guy who thinks every fishy move is some sort of attempt at controversy. But big company with power fool people. And big company don't pull off that kind of stuff for nothing.