VD wrote:So far you guys have been taking it like a bitch, buying every official word and celebrating rare developers' posts, trying hard not ask yourself the obvious questions.
The obvious questions: I think we've both asked them and answered them, without the need for inside contacts or mangs with inside contacts. And when I say we, I leave the administration out of it; their cynicism shouldn't be in too plain of a view. And when I say administration I have to exclude Mr. Teatime, who, of course, has been on Beth payroll for probably more than a year now.
And, whenever there's some official F3 news, we get these drop-ins that go "OH MAN MY HOPE FOR THE GAME HAS TOTALLY COME BACK", ( I'm thinking these are beth-bots. ) and their input in the thread does spread some amount of ass-kissing around, so there's a need for detailed examination of the community response before you can draw such a conclusion.
Celebrating rare dev-posts: Celebrating as in, what, giving it attention? You're pretty much bound to do that when the devs are stone-walling you, and the last good newsbit you had was about a two-headed mutant trout discovered in Alaska. You get a bunch of beth-bots, and the counter assault, and once a beth-dev came by and said "Lol, neva seen 1 of these be4 huh?" which is a bit like hard candy on an empty stomach.
As for this detailed covert-op info: whoop-de-fucking doo. If one could harm the development by some direct quotes, I guess it'd be quite the resource, wether or not anyone gets fired. If not, which I assume is the case, the actual info is just a confirmation of the expectations we've had, as a community, since the time that Beth acquired the license; you don't really need to hear it, and actual proof won't really satisfy anyone. But, if a less vague summary of all known
facts could surface, it could, even as unconfirmed speculation, be useful in drawing more votes to our side of the struggle, or at least drawing a line between the canoneers and the tictackers.
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