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Not so much a bug, just a bone head idea: MAJOR POWER CHANGES RELEASED WITHOUT THE PROMISED RESPEC ON TIME.
As mentioned before, that ALONE was reason to delay a week. No one would have noticed if you had delayed a week. Sure, people were chomping at the bit for i3, but when you said "sometime after Jan. 1st," you gave yourself a lot of leeway. Then you rushed it out without TWO major features you and your team had said would be in there... seriously, one week? Why NOT wait and have those features IN as well as some bug fixes?!?!
You guys said before the HOlidays "balance and bug issues make i3 not ready before jan 1." Then nothing. You guys come back, say nothing, change nothing... then BAM release it. SO if nothing changed, nothing was said... why didn't you release it BEFORE the holidays. You released the same version on the Live servers, that 10 days before "wasn't ready" on the Test server.
If you had released it then, we'd still be in the same situation now; save BY NOW many things would have been fixed.
The process for i3 boggles me almost as much as you guys' release of i2. Maybe by i7 we can expect smooth, disciplined, and thought out releases.
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When I read posts like this, I can't help but think about some of the articles I've read in Newsweek and such about the so-called "Age of Entitlement" kids are being raised in today ("The Power of No," Newsweek, Sept. 13, 2004, for example). Basically it seems that many parents, guilty because they neglected their children during the Tech Boom, or to make up for the neglect of their own narcissitic baby boomer parents, are spoiling their children rotten. Whether they can afford it or not, they lavish their kids with the latest cell phones, video game systems, computers, fashion accessories... anything the little darlings demand, scream for, or throw a fit over.
As I recall, the articles warn that these kids are being raised with a false sense of entitlement, and are going to be in for a big shock, and a lot of unhappiness, when they hit the real world and find that not everything is handed to them on a silver platter.
I have to wonder about the players throwing temper tantrums like this one on the boards: how old are they? My guess is pretty young, around 16 or so. Is this post, and the many others like it, the product of self-centered, spoiled children, overindulged by Dr. Phil generation parents who want to be their kids' "buddies" instead of authority figures? After all, anyone with a realistic perspective on life, or even just about commerce, would be happy to receive updates of this caliber for free, and wouldn't begrudge the developers the occasional bug or schedule change.
Interesting to think about. Legitimately irate consumers, or spoiled products of an ultra-privledged society, falsely being raised to believe the world "owes" them, and heading on a mach-10 collision course with years of adult disappointment, frustration and therapy bills?
Me, I'm 32, almost 33, and I remember the days before Pong. CoH, and it's free updates, seems pretty nifty to me.
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Reading an 10 page article 60% covered in pictures doesn't make you a psychologist.
Do I feel "entitled"? Of course I do, the expantion may be free but the game sure isn't. I paid for the game, and I paid the monthly fee even when I was studying abroad. I am the consumer, I play an invunerable tanker, I am unhappy. You're not so old that you don't remember how capitalism works, are you?
