Watch Angry Rant about Tomb Raider 2

[vivster]

Hiku said:

vivster said:

Hiku said:

I'm not expecting total honesty or nothing. And I doubt Joe was either. He's read through too many of these PR letters to be that naive. But there are many degrees in between total honesty and the slap-in-the-face insulting-your-inteligence kind of lies. And this one had a few of the latter. More vague and less insulting lies are usually a much better approach.

Tell me what they could've said without lying and without earning even more hate.

You must have misread my post, because I specifically said "more vague or less insulting lies", so I don't know why you're asking me for a no lies example.
I highlighted them above now though. Can't miss it.

People are going to get upset over the deal regardless of course if they dont like it. But it can be done without insulting the fans inteligence, and treating them like idiots to boot. A more vague and less insulting lie is for example the usual corpporate BS  "we think this is the best cource of action for us and the franchise" as it's not exactly clear on how, and it requires assumptions on your part. But when they tell you that they're reaching out to a wider audience by cutting their instal base into a much smaller fraction of what it was, they're seemingly assuming that you don't understand the basic principles of mathematics. That's how highly they think of the fans they wrote that letter to.

If the gamer knows the truth there is no such thing as a "less insulting lie". Every lie will be met with the same level of criticism because the game knows it is a blatant lie. It's obviously not the best course of action. Because the best course of action for any franchise is getting it into more gamer hands. Even the most dense people will catch onto this and regard it as an insulting lie.