It's taken me a few hours, but I've finally caught up to this thread. It moves so damned quickly
I'd like to quote something from the PR thread that I think is relevent to our struggle. Think of it as a sitrep with sage advice.
KeldorKatarn wrote...
The same holds true here as in every
negotiation. There are trained PR people at work here. They are experts
in double talk, delaying action and deception here. I cannot speak in
PR stuff here, but as a former military I can say you this (and the PR
guy from the first post will most likely agree):
The only viable
strategy for you guys is doing exactly what the other side cannot
handle: Keep the pressure up! DON'T fall in line, don't respond to false
offers of peace.
The strategic position is this. On your side
you have a vast military but still rather disorganized. On the other
hand you have a very well trained and organized but outnumbered army.
The other side is currently in the following position: They are attacked on all fronts but still mostly disorganized so
they,
being better trained, have been able to mostly hold the line for
now. They are also most likely experiencing the first signs of sales
losses, of dropping multiplayer counts and they have predictions on
their tables of dropping DLC sales. In military terms: They are
experiencing attrition effects, they have supply problems. The only
viable strategy in that situation is: Keep your forces together, make
only very thought through moves, do as many delaying and distracting
moves as possible, because that's the only thing where you still have
the advantage: The enemy is unorganized and cannot yet strike as
an organized whole. If that were the case... bye, bye.
So what
you guys have to do now is use YOUR advantages and exploit their
weaknesses. That means: Keep the pressure up and increase it. Organize,
do organized large scale strikes. They have NO way to defend against
those. The more organized you become, the more they will be able to feel
your numbers. They cannot defend against a full-blown strike. They
can only delay you and try to disrupt you. If you don't let them do
that, you'll
win outright.
So the best way to achieve this is
to organize loud protests, organized, and well thought through. Also
don't ever respond positively to ANYTHING but your initial demands.
Don't even think about responding to "maybe"s or "let's talk"s. What you
want is a full surrender; NOTHING else. DON'T stop before they bow down
and literally talk to you on YOUR terms. YOU are the customers. Use
that. This also means:
DON'T play the game, DON'T buy and DLCs
unless they are EXACTLY what you want. They will feel the dropping
numbers, they have Origin. Many people didn't like Origin, but now it is
YOUR weapon. Don't play and the WILL see that. They do have the
statistics. The fewer people order anything, the fewer people use origin
the heavier you are threatening their supply lines.
Kill their
supply lines while holding up the pressure and you WILL win this. But
DON'T ever give in. YOU have the upper hand, DON'T let them take that
away from you.
Also never become angry or uncivil, because
that is another one of their strategies. If you become an angry mob,
they will be able to sell you as such, gathering allies. You don't want
them to be able to do that. Think of this as a war between a rebel force
with huge numbers and the loyalist army of the head of state. If the
head of state manages to picture you in public opinion as an angry mob,
as terrorists or whatever, they might be getting help by powerful allies
(read: the press). If however you remain civil, fight a gallant war and
voice your concerns in a reasonable way, then YOU might be getting help
and in the end the UN might intervene on your behalf (read again: the
press will force them to give in or lose a ****load of money).
Keep this up people. Don't take the pressure of.
The minute you do, they have won.
Edit: To Bioware:
Don't
take this the wrong way. I truly love you guys and I'm a huge fan. But
this thing just won't fly. What you did here was just bad judgment and I
think the best way for you to handle this is to fix this ASAP and maybe
make some money with it (although if I were you, I'd be real careful
with that one).
You have achieved something here that is
really incredible. You should actually be proud of yourselves to some
degree. If you hadn't done a whole lot of things right, people wouldn't
be here complaining. They would sit at home and say "Who gives a
sh*t!?"You have created a franchise that is so wonderful and so loved
that people actually DO care. All you have to do now is make you that
stays that way. And that will not be achieved by PR bullsh*t by the
books. It will be achieved by showing them that this industry is not
just about money and about sales counts and quarterly reports but that
it is still about wanting to give people a great time and about making
people happy with your creations.
Sorry I have to be against you
guys this time. But see it like this... this entire army that is kicking
your nuts right now... if you play things right you'll have all of them
behind you, whenever you need them, in the next war.
I'm really hoping this war will end in a way that benefits both sides in the end.
So long...
So, the take home story from this all? Keep up the pressure. No matter what, and though it may seem insurmountable right now, we can do this.
This is the Australian fleet signing off.
Hold the line!
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