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Promoting less than maximally accurate beliefs is an act of sabotage. Don’t do it to anyone unless you’d also slash their tires. – Black Belt Bayesian
If you are willing to lie to me about something trivial and easy to verify, like a video game, why would I trust you with my credit card information?
: Zubon
Hat tip: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mark Jacobs may not think the game is doing well, but that is a very respectable success. I hope that WoW has permanently expanded the industry to allow more games to exist with those kinds of subscriber numbers. If 100,000 becomes the mark of a “niche game,” then MMOs will have hit the big time.
: Zubon
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work. ~Author Unknown

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. ~Author Unknown

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan

– Ethic
“If you accept buggy games and shady PR, you get the games you deserve.”
I could probably replace a quarter of my posts with that. The message seems not to get through. Then again, it has not gotten through on non-game fronts for a few thousand years, so my hope is misplaced.
: Zubon
A lot of people could be the player’s advocate to the developers in MMOs. Forumites say a lot of things, but the focus is about as good as a room full of overtired, over-caffeinated toddlers. Bloggers write with better focus, but we are full of ourselves. Playtime and sales statistics have extreme focus, but they don’t tell the developers anything human. The best player advocates, I believe, are the often overlooked, often assaulted community managers.
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