potato_hamster said:
JWeinCom said:
Have you seen the secret box episode of Spongebob? If you haven't I'll give you a brief synopsis. Patrick shows Spongebob his secret box and tells him they're something super secret inside. Spongebob is naturally curious and asks what's in the box. Patrick refuses because Spongebob is just not privy to the box's secret. And he just goes on and on and on about how special his box is, and how valuable its contents are and how Spongebob must wish he was special enough to see the box.
If you don't get it, you're Patrick. Instead of just dropping the subject like a rational person would, you keep going on and on about it and how special it is. Talking about NDAs, then talking about how it cost thousands of dollars to do the studies, and then later upping it to hundreds of thousands so it's that much more special (don't know why game development companies are doing hundreds of thousands of dollars of market research anyway instead of a market research firm, but hey what do I know? ) The data keeps becoming more and more special. And you keep getting more and more special for being "privy" to this special secret data. And I just laugh more and more.
If this is how you normally act, then the problem isn't with Nintendo fans. The problem is that you're acting like a pink starfish character in an episode meant to highlight how annoying he is. If you can't talk about your secret box, then just put it away. I promise I'm not demanding that you give it to me. I'm not going to grab it from you. I'm not going to break into your house to get it.
It's really simple... don't talk about things you're not supposed to talk about. If you can't do that, then the problem isn't everyone else. It's you.
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I never mentioned the box. You asked me if the box exists and I told you it does. Then you asked to look inside the box and got pissed that I can't let you. In fact, I don't even have access to the box any more.
My bad for answering you honestly. Next time I'll just tell you look it up yourself like some asshole would.
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No... I didn't ask for any market research. You brought it up all by yourself.
"All I can say is that it's amazing what kind of market analysis game development companies do."
I don't know how I could possibly have asked you to see research that I had no reason to believe existed.
