You know, ultimately we probably have Minecraft to blame for the whole pay-for-advance-access-to-buggy-alpha/beta versions that's so prevalent today.
And this policy of theirs basically confirms (to me) that what I suspected they did was actually what they did. The weeks and months they claimed spending on how to feasibly add the offline mode they had promised was actually weeks or months trying to figure out how to avoid losing as much money as possible when they eventually came clean about their true intentions.
ie: "So we have X players that preordered the game in total. X-Y of them have already paid SHITLOADS to play the buggy unfinished, feature incomplete version of the game. If we set our refund policy to those left over, we'll still have shitloads of cash so long as the clowns don't realize they can legally take us to court in a class action. Ok, let's go with that!"
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Date: 2014-11-20 08:16 pm (UTC)From:And this policy of theirs basically confirms (to me) that what I suspected they did was actually what they did. The weeks and months they claimed spending on how to feasibly add the offline mode they had promised was actually weeks or months trying to figure out how to avoid losing as much money as possible when they eventually came clean about their true intentions.
ie: "So we have X players that preordered the game in total. X-Y of them have already paid SHITLOADS to play the buggy unfinished, feature incomplete version of the game. If we set our refund policy to those left over, we'll still have shitloads of cash so long as the clowns don't realize they can legally take us to court in a class action. Ok, let's go with that!"