Some people need to get that sometimes "less is more" and that we got the point the first time around.
Amen. Letters Of Ross; 101 verse 1503
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what I do know is what I can see with my own eyes and that is, whatever is going on it is clearly not sitting well with the people that have followed the game for months (years?) who have provided bug feedback on every CA, who have been responsible for a lot of online media chatter, and perhas most importantly have donated their time and skill to the "More than 4000 Community created Players and teams ready to download and use in game." which is definitely something the game is trading on in lieu of having an official license.
Drama O'Clock much? Worst case scenario the game is the 11th, that's hardly worth the 101 pages of nonsense and vitriol that has been spewed in this thread, mostly directly AT Ross who has little input into this release information. It's a giant storm in a teacup whipped up by an over-passionate minority.
It's certainly not representative of the majority of the forum and furthermore I take offense to being included in the people you describe in the paragraph above because if the NZ release of the game was coming a few days after an Australian release you'd have 99.4% less hullabaloo because it's such a stupid thing to get wound up about, and I believe I speak for all the NZ members here in saying it would absolutely not be the drama it's become in the UK release thread. We deal with these kinda delays and stuff in Movies, Games, Music and Television all the time, is it frustrating, of course? Am I going to sign up to an Ellie Goulding-visited message board and vent my spleen at her directly for not releasing her album on time in NZ? No. Because Ellie is awesome and I'm not a nutbar.
There's some valid arguments to had regarding the promotion of the game in social media and in the press, and there's been some great case points made and I would almost certainly imagine, they've been noted. There's zero call for the Jurassic Park level of shit that's been piled in, on and directed towards Ross in this thread. Those same people that want to continue to read tea-leaves and invent conspiracies or frustrations of their own creations and fling it at Ross deserve all that and more, to poignantly quote Mr Fegan.
To suggest that Ross defending TruBlu means he's not frustrated is asinine and shows the complete disregard for the complex realities of the situation. If you honestly expect Ross to start throwing TruBlu under the bus for any perceived frustrations from a particular corner shows how little you and/or others understand how business works. Ross has the right to defend any strategy or situation he's in, because he's the one with the hand to play, we're spectators or customers and we get the game, when we get the game. Simple as that, really. But there's absolutely no way a guy who is in the business of paying salaries, supporting a company that relies on business connections and companies like TruBlu,for him to start throwing them under the bus in a public third party forum is totally ridiculous. He's going to defend them, end of line.
We're owed nothing.
Once we have money invested in the game, we're owed a great experience, one that regardless of the date you play the game, we can pretty safely assume we're going to get.
*drops mic*
), as i have said before. I ordered IC2010 from the uk so a week later is not that big a deal, i was not waiting 6 months. Let's hope by monday the focus will be on a great cricket game not the release.
PS Back on topic, no news about UK release yet.
