The Like/Hate Thread

[Kaden]

edit: No matter the immaturity of the fans here, I think calling it high-school is wrong. The passion and vitriol maybe immature in their execution but growing jaded and apathetic is not a sign of maturity either. The validity of the source of the emotion is not stained by the childish tantrums.

I say that not out of being jaded or apathetic (I recently went through a VERY similar ordeal with NCSoft and am very sympathetic to what has happened to this guy), but simply because this entire thing reeks of drama and people are WAY to quick to jump on the "burn the witch" bandwagon based on second-hand information.

A handful of people know what was ACTUALLY said and who knows what of that they chose to share with the rest of the public. Instead of acknowledging that fact and responding reasonably, people in this thread just want to express their outrage at what they imagined happened.

You say the problem is big companies are treating their consumers like sheep. I'm not denying that MAY be the case. However, I'm also not closing off my mind to the possibility that the problem may be that the consumers are being too quick to blame "the man."

My posts here shouldn't be misconstrued as defending BioWare. I'm not. I'm defending rational reactions. If someone came in here saying "wtf this douchebag got what he deserved and i hope his computer explodes and he dies because of it because i <3 bioware" I'd saying the exact opposite: that there's likely an overreaction on the company's part. No one's posted that, though, so there hasn't been a need for such a post.