| JEMC said: I'm sorry for those that spend money on the game, but it's a free to play game and whatever money they did spend on it, it was for microtransactions or things like that. Also, he is the head of the studio that made the game, not from WB. I very much doubt he or anyone from the studio had any saying about the decision to close the game. So no, I don't think he's "tone deaf", he's sympathetic with the players because he's also frustrated but can't say what he really wants to say because they still depend on who is actually responsible, WB, to keep the studio alive. And on another note, if the game lost WB $100 last year, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they want to close it before it costs them even more. It sucks for those who liked, played and spent money on the game, but it's a business and they need to make money. |
That's fine, but at the end of the day, he's calling what every other Twitter user focuses on more than the main issue at hand, and that comes off as not focusing on said issue that caused people to get so rattled in the first place.
Just imagine for a second that some incident happened and the person in charge was to be held accountable, people are beyond livid for good reason, and just as they are ragging on the one who allowed the accident to happen, 1-3 people in a crowd of thousands hurls a threat at them. Now rather than addressing the threat, the person who allowed the incident to happen then decides to shift focus for blame onto the random few that hurled said threat at them, do you think that is going to honestly settle that angry crowd, in any realistic sense?.
You can absolutely say "That sucks man, but y'know money" all you want, but it will not quell the ire, and will only signal to ppl that you just don't care, because you had no real stake in it. It's great that you see virtually everything as a business to piss money on and it's of no concern to you, but that doesn't mean it should be for everyone else.
Just because you don't agree does not invalidate people's own monetary value, that's not even how this begins to work, just to nip that in the bud. What you spend money on is your own choice, what others do is theirs, saying "dat sucks, tis money, whatevs" isn't an answer, it's not even a compliment or a reassurance, it's a "dems the breaks kid" comment, and that really does nothing (I'm sorry but it doesn't, it just...doesn't, because it's not an answer to anything at all, but more of a phrase).
If you see and think everyone being sympathetic on social media as being 100% real and not a mixture, I've got some narcissistic sociopaths to sell you (not everyone is genuine, otherwise Bobby is as genuine as they get, let's just throw him out there as an example).
WB has a history of just writing shit off for tax purposes or looking only for that one hit wonder. That's not a good outlook, that's garbage, I don't really care if you use the "dat's just business" excuse, that's stifling to creativity as a whole, and I know you know it is, but I really don't care, nor do I like you playing a little devil's advocate when these companies pull shit like this, it's not funny, nor is it relatable.
Again, he can report those people directly, which is what he should have done, instead of trying to draw away attention from the issue at hand. Trying to sweep it up as "just business" isn't a good excuse, it's a garbage out of touch shithole excuse.
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