I can agree with you only up to a point. Your "trust" scenario works very well in large-scale, but has less effect when dealing with our online community, and very little effect at all when you're talking about me and you exchanging messages like this. You are at a distinct advantage when talking about fanbase trust in this context.
Yes and no, I guess I was meaning to say that if you show you care for the individual or smaller groups, it automaticly helps in the larger picture as "people like to talk", if you catch my drift.
When dealing with thousands of different gamers from around the world, each with highly exacting and sometimes conflicting preferences, tolerances, suggestions, and demands? And you have to please all of them with a single product? Yes, it would be difficult to adopt a "the customer is always right" attitude for any large-scale developer. but I can't answer your question, as it's leading, arbitrary, and I am not at liberty to respond to that type of hypothetical choice. Again, you are at a distinct advantage in this context.
I can understand where you're coming from yes, but I also believe steam has proven enough that it is a "certainty" to provide income. And that more than enough people have voiced their concerns about Origin, thus making it a sound business move to provide it there. Plus it makes at least a portion of people happy having a game they look forward to be made available on their favourite service. But like you said, speculation and not much we can do about that (currently).
I am not here to be a shill. I am here to moderate the thread and try to engage in discussion when I can. I do not have the answers you seek, nor do I have the power to influence the kind of change you are asking for. But I can encourage people to exercise their consumer power, if this subject is indeed the breaking point for them.
If I showed any indication of caring about sales, the community would jump all over me and call me a marketing shill or a corporate yes-man. That may be what you want--a villain you can feel good about railing against--but it'll have to be someone other than me or Chris. We love our community and we know the feeling is reciprocated, but there will be times when we have to disagree on things.
Trust me I'm not here to paint you off as a villain or a shill. Like I said in a previous post we're all in this together and talking and making compromises is always the way forward. As goes for mutual respect. I just wish it had more of an influence and I guess it's just the feel of powerlessness which is inciting such a strong reaction as the higher ups are pushing for something what seemingly the majority of people do not want.
i don't take it as a personal attack, and i appreciate the chance to get to a less rocky ground with you. As long as we have fans like you, I think BioWare will turn out just fine. Just keep telling us where we're going wrong, in your opinion (and let's make it less shouty and more talky, for both our sakes), and we will do what we can to keep making the kinds of game experiences that you and our community want to support.
Again, thank you for your comments.
I'm sorry if I came across aggressively, this was certainly not my intent, but like I said I guess it's mostly just frustration and being a BW representative I guess you pose an easy "target". I guess all there is to find out then is if sandboxing would be considered circumventing the DRM and is a bannable offense.
Thank you for your time and replies however.
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