Just read this thread from launch day up to current and...wow. Astonishing. Easily Hall of Fame material, hands-down Fail of the Year, if not the decade.
I don't know what's worse, a CEO on GAF expecting us to sit at his feet and show proper deference...I mean, is that how things are in the office, man? Maybe that's your problem. "Positive feedback ONLY" isn't the best policy for the man upstairs. Small wonder you're so clueless.
Anyway, I was making a point. I don't know what's worse, this asshat snake-oil salesman's behavior, or the handful of gaffers who were all too eager to leap to his defense. How embarrassing. Did you guys read the thread before the "OMG GAF SO RUDE" bullshit you posted? Nobody was even that rude, meanwhile if this guy had said some of those things in many of the other threads on this forum, he would have been banned for it. I suspect he
still would be banned if there wasn't some small chance that he might return for another glorious display of spectacular failure (or...you know. To apologize for his patronizing and demeaning behavior). FWIW, if that's what we should expect from direct communication from developers and publishers, they wouldn't have a place in this community to begin with. At all. Fortunately, it's not. Plenty of people in the industry have shown they can be "adult" in their conversations with gamers (OMG I just wanted to have an ADULT conversation was perhaps the most insulting line from this guy's diatribe).
Brief aside: I cannot
wait for the inevitable "So Here's What Happened With the Oddboxx" blog post from one of the folks in the trenches. JAW devs: We want this story, from beginning to end, particularly the meltdown which is occurring as we speak. TAKE NOTES.
Ultimately, the losers here aren't those who were swindled into plopping down cash for this. I feel for you guys but it happens. We're PC gamers and we will never fully escape this; if JAW had said "we're working on it" and put their collective nose to the grindstone this thread would not be 18 pages. No, it's Lorne Lanning and any and all Oddworld fans, everywhere. This series has been on life support for years, since even before Stranger's Wrath was released to be perfectly honest. This bullshit does nothing to help advance the case for more Oddworld games in the future. So, that's why
I'm pissed...for my part, anyway. Can I get a show of hands from people who have played these games to death and told their friends to buy this? Yeah, that's me. Somehow I doubt many potential converts will be brought into the fold by this stinking smear of shit on their HDs.
I wouldn't hold my breath for that HD patch, were I you. Or for the game to ever run close to what you were expecting, for that matter. This CEO's behavior smacks of someone not surprised by how buggy his port turned out to be, but rather by our "behavior." He was expecting you to swallow, you ungrateful whores.
Just disgusting. Bleh. If I were Lorne Lanning I would be doing my damnedest to get SW out of JAW's...well...jaws, and into the hands of a capable developer. I seriously doubt JAW can fix this...even if they have the talent, they are going to run out of money before they do. I hope they prove me wrong. It is utterly depressing to see one of the most underappreciated series in gaming, a series which
bleeds the pure passion of Oddworld Inhabitants, laid low by shovelware scrap and a cynical grab at our holiday gaming dollars.
