When Brad returned from his vacation, he made strong (and well received!) promises to the audience. One particular phrase caught my attention (and approval!). He said something like (I'm sure many of you will be able to find the exact quote): we will need to provide patches of an extent that's normally expected from expansions. Again the wording was different but the meaning is preserved. Later, he promised 2 free expansions to those who "sticked". All customers legitimately assumed that such "expansions" would come after the patches.
Well yesterday we discovered that this noble intent was cleverly turned around, since the exact opposite is happening. The development plan revealed that they'll be using the first "expansion", at least, to provide no more than a patch (oh, they can even add a couple of FedEx quests to preserve the "legitimacy" of the label, but I know what I read). Not much of a patch either, since it'll just be a month of development, and the Map Generator will of course still be missing, just to name one issue.
I posted a couple of fairly critical comments there, and since others were agreeing with me... one day later the whole thread is conveniently gone. Not even the first time something like this happens. The point here is that I don't even care about the money, I would have paid for REAL expansions if they were never promised, but I hate to be lied to and treated this way. Brad went even as far as suggesting one user to wait for a demo, next time. Well of course if one was released before the game, we could've tried that, instead of trusting the advertising, the screenshots, the feature list and the MoM hype.
I know the company used to have a good reputation but I guess it's easier when things go fine. It's in time of crisis that people reveal their true faces. As for me, I've seen enough. And I'm not talking about the disaster of the release, which I was well prepared to forgive had the customers been treated with just a tiny bit of respect. At least for our (average) intelligence.
A customer from Italy
P.S.: I'm perfectly aware this topic will be deleted as well. Don't worry I won't post again. No point really. I'll just be checking the mods section.
