Quoting Rune_74, reply 17
Quoting glucero0, reply 13It's easy to be a fanboy. Try being critical for a change instead of just giving Brad and his crew a free ticket. You have no problem criticizing me...
You are whinning because you had to wait and people who rightfully call you out you call fanboys? The time of ADD is alive and well, stop bein ajerk and just enjoy what you have in your me first world.
Look, it may not look like it, but I wasn't trying to start a flame war. I should have known people here would forgive Stardock all their sins even though it is their business to produce games, they chose to work their asses off to make this date, etc.
My whole point was this:
As a consumer, someone who spent not only $50 on the game, but then an additional $30 for the LE version, and have spent about an additional $100 on Stardock products this month alone (having never spent a penny on any of their products before!) I would have appreciated a developer with a little more transparency. I appreciate the early release, but I wished they'd not promised it even earlier than tonight.
I have been developing software for 20 years and I know it's a thankless, awful job sometimes. And I am glad when someone appreciates my work. But I also don't promise something I can't deliver. But we all make mistakes. Absolutely.
The official release date is 24th of August 2010. My temporal coordinates are currently 4:07pm 23rd of August - and I'm at GMT+12. Considering this I can not possibly see where your criticism is justified.
There is nothing to prevent you as the customer from sitting down and waiting for the official release date - and if it isn't available then, then you might have a point. The turbulent chaos of the live release is not an event you are required to participate in. I get a clear feeling that the Stardock team have been applying copious amounts of elbow grease in trying to provide the ravenous horde of beta-testers and pre-order customers with the product and associated services that they crave. How you can see it fit to criticise them for going the extra mile I can not possibly comprehend. It's not like they are making any money from this, so I think we can rule out greed as an ulterior motive.
p.s. For the record, I'm not a Stardock fanboy. I am very critical and will not be surprised if I am disappointed with the game once I get to play it - however, I do dare to hope that I will love it. Fair is fair - but criticising people for going above and beyond the line of duty isn't.
