They should not be getting praise for walking this back. It was ridiculous from the start, and if not for the justifiably overwhelming negative response, they would have just done it. The absolute most that should happen is people stop giving them shit for it
There is something to be said about the devs going to bat for the players, though. They stood up to the big bosses and won. Ain’t nobody praising Sony.
Spitz conveniently ignoring that they told people there’s nothing wrong with the PSN connectivity and that the players are all a bunch of big whiners. They may have done a heel face turn, but they still have to deal with the consequences of their actions as a heel.
If reviews don’t flip back to positive in response (seeing as they only went negative in anticipation of this policy being enforced), then we have no way of indicating our dissatisfaction next time Sony do something undesirable.
Yeah I’m going to disagree. The community manager got fired for standing up on behalf of the players.
I don’t know what else people expect Arrowhead to do realistically to “make this right,” but that community manager guy had always dreamed of working for Arrowhead and lost his dream job by NOT acting like a corporate shill when it came to choosing the players or his bosses.
SONY was in the wrong here. Please let’s stop being so harsh to the guys killing their careers by saying to the people like the community manager who lost his job (by doing the right thing no less) that they “should’ve done more.”
Direct your ire to whatever Sony executive was pushing for this. Please just let Arrowhead devs continue to polish this game that most of us are really enjoying otherwise.
The community manager (that you somehow failed to name?) was known to be combative and derisive toward users in forum posts and was already leaving a bad taste prior to this recent event. His “24hr redemption arc” had nothing to do with SONY or Arrowhead’s actions on the issues at hand. Don’t conflate the events.
Stay vigilant. Sony’s still looking to profit at all times.
Not to mention Sony probably got a lot of new accounts registered and linked in these few days, so they already got what they wanted and walking back doesn’t change much…
They should not be getting praise for walking this back. It was ridiculous from the start, and if not for the justifiably overwhelming negative response, they would have just done it. The absolute most that should happen is people stop giving them shit for it
There is something to be said about the devs going to bat for the players, though. They stood up to the big bosses and won. Ain’t nobody praising Sony.
The community manager got fired apparently
Source?
The former community manager
Spitz conveniently ignoring that they told people there’s nothing wrong with the PSN connectivity and that the players are all a bunch of big whiners. They may have done a heel face turn, but they still have to deal with the consequences of their actions as a heel.
He took one for democracy
If reviews don’t flip back to positive in response (seeing as they only went negative in anticipation of this policy being enforced), then we have no way of indicating our dissatisfaction next time Sony do something undesirable.
Oh for fuck sake, let people be happy. I’m happy with the decision, very happy in fact.
Yeah I’m going to disagree. The community manager got fired for standing up on behalf of the players.
I don’t know what else people expect Arrowhead to do realistically to “make this right,” but that community manager guy had always dreamed of working for Arrowhead and lost his dream job by NOT acting like a corporate shill when it came to choosing the players or his bosses.
SONY was in the wrong here. Please let’s stop being so harsh to the guys killing their careers by saying to the people like the community manager who lost his job (by doing the right thing no less) that they “should’ve done more.”
Direct your ire to whatever Sony executive was pushing for this. Please just let Arrowhead devs continue to polish this game that most of us are really enjoying otherwise.
The community manager (that you somehow failed to name?) was known to be combative and derisive toward users in forum posts and was already leaving a bad taste prior to this recent event. His “24hr redemption arc” had nothing to do with SONY or Arrowhead’s actions on the issues at hand. Don’t conflate the events.
Stay vigilant. Sony’s still looking to profit at all times.
Not to mention Sony probably got a lot of new accounts registered and linked in these few days, so they already got what they wanted and walking back doesn’t change much…