This is amazing. Mindboggling, even.
I am sure that no-one missed the recent debacle that was the big countdown timer and the Bioware Bazaar. Where Bioware basicly hyped something to kingdom come, creating a so-called "Epic Community Event". That, when revealed, excluded the vast majority of the community in favour of what is widely referred to as the underbelly of civilization, the United States of Amerika. Even the homeland of the original Bioware, Canada, was excluded from the 15th-year anniversary fanfare.
Needless to say, people were't pleased. They were then continously ignored and, at times, silenced. I honestly don't expect this log to stick around too long before they decide to do some 21st century book burning.
That said, the realization that the original Bioware is dead and gone wasn't entirely easy, but is now impossible to get away from. Sub-par DLC, a shocking amount of bugs (some gamebreaking even 5 months after release), arrogance, and a complete lack of product support have all become standard in the new Bioware.
It felt like a wind of fresh air, when it seemed that people were slowly realizing this, as I had, following my attempts to resolve a recent issue, which happened to coincide with this "no u"-event on Bioware's part. People demanded an apology, and rightfully so. They were outraged.
But what really grinds my gears isn't, in the end, even this. It's that it seems that the vast majority of the forum are completely pants-on-head retarded. An apology did come. It blamed the whole thing on "last minute legal issues", which I and others had joked about even as this thing started, because it's a traditional cop-out. A "get out of jail free"-card that multinational corporations pull whenever the issue of inclusiveness come up.
But the fact that lies run rampants in the upper echolons of Bioware and EA doesn't come as any great surprise. What's worse is that people are actually going
"Well, at least we got an apology" and
accepts this flagrant display of insincerity.
Here's a hot tip for the lot of you: Just because someone says "I sincerely..." doesn't mean that they are sincere. A incinsere person have no problem at all feigning sincerity.
Consider this. Last minute legal issues. Let's say that the apologies as sincere. By that virtue, the statement that the problems were due to legal issues must also be true. For that to be true, we must also accept that:
- Bioware had no knowledge of these possible legal issues, despite these legal issues being well-known throughout an industry to which they have been a part of for 15 years. There are many corporations that hold many contests that are exclusive to certain regions, exactly due to legal issues. They are unwilling or unable to spend the resources necessary to make an event or contest inclusive.
- Electronic Arts, a multinational corporate giant with vast resources and a legal department the size of Pluto was also unaware of the fact that different regions had different laws.
- These legal issues were so prevalent so that they affected every single nation on this planet, except 48 states in the USA.
- These legal issues cropped up when there were less than 6 days left on an event that has taken, at the very least, several months to plan.
Starting to sound far-fetched? That's because it is. The organizers are either Spongebob Squarepants and Patrick Star, or - more likely since starfishes and sponges have a limited capability to organize real-world and web events - lying. Or just all-out malicious, but I prefer to think that there's still good in the world.
So how are these "apologies" in any way acceptable, if the very foundation for them; the explanation that this was all due to legal issues, are insincere?
Anyone that believes the explanation givens is an idiot, and anyone that accepts the apology is a moron. Anyone that does both is pants-on-head-retarded.
What a load of bull.
Modifié par Varenus Luckmann, 01 avril 2010 - 04:56 .
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