Also, reading over the comments a bit more, because I like torturing myself, I noticed that some of the FD defenders were going on how FD was "blackmailed" into adding the offline mode mid-kickstarter because they were going to withdrawl their pledges otherwise.
I'm like.. WTF. How's that blackmail. That's showing people actually wanted offline. FD added it because they knew even without the potential pledge removals (one was a high level bidder - probably the 5000 dollar pledger that was pissed off on last friday's announcement.) they were not going to meet their goal in time.
One commenter debunked the blackmail claims by showing it for what it is with this:
"If I was selling you a cake and you said to me "Yes, I'll buy your cake but only if it has cherry filling." is that blackmail?
If we we made the transaction on the agreement only for you to realise that the filling was blueberry filling instead of cherry like we agreed, is it you who is in the wrong because you forced me to sell you cake with the wrong filling? Or did I sell you a cake under false pretences?"
That's the situation right there. That's -exactly- what happened here.
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Date: 2014-11-21 08:13 am (UTC)From:I'm like.. WTF. How's that blackmail. That's showing people actually wanted offline. FD added it because they knew even without the potential pledge removals (one was a high level bidder - probably the 5000 dollar pledger that was pissed off on last friday's announcement.) they were not going to meet their goal in time.
One commenter debunked the blackmail claims by showing it for what it is with this:
"If I was selling you a cake and you said to me "Yes, I'll buy your cake but only if it has cherry filling." is that blackmail?
If we we made the transaction on the agreement only for you to realise that the filling was blueberry filling instead of cherry like we agreed, is it you who is in the wrong because you forced me to sell you cake with the wrong filling? Or did I sell you a cake under false pretences?"
That's the situation right there. That's -exactly- what happened here.