Enthusiasm duly tempered. Thanks for the lucid and realistic update, Tony. If we happen to get knocked down again on Monday I may delay popping another Awaken for a little while, since I've probably let myself get a bit too optimistic about the possibilities despite knowing better.
To put it differently, I'll be bummed if Monday is a "Sorry, no go" message, but there are people that the past few days' discussion could have set up to kind of be crushed by anything other than the return of the game. There's still one of my CoH friends I haven't talked with about this at all, just because I didn't want to raise her hopes. And I'm a bit worried that she may be on the "Survivors" groups.
This. +1.
I feel everyone is acting like TonyV and IronWolf are the bad guys for being level headed and telling it like it is.
No matter what people
think Robert is not a member of the team and I am positive he was not picked as the official spokesperson because they would just let Ironwolf do that. No I am guessing that these new developers have been backed into a corner by Robert and other people who just
HAVE to have information even though that information makes no difference at this point if the game will or wont be bought.
The game
IS NOT back yet.
The game
MAY NOT come back.
And like TonyV has said countless times this is second hand information, people are putting their hope into Robert because he got overly excited and claimed he knew for sure the game was coming back. But he doesn't. And neither does anyone else. Not even the new devs or NCSoft
So really this negative attitude towards TonyV and IronWolf I have been seeing is absurd. People are so quick to forgot the people who have been fighting for them this whole because they truth the speak goes against what people want to hear. They would rather hear the
false assumptions of a man who clearly overstepped his boundary which is "YA FOR SURE DUDE THE GAME IS COMING BACK LIKE 3 DAYS FROM NOW, QUICK EVERYONE CELEBRATE AND ACT LIKE ITS A DONE DEAL" instead of the leveled headed truth that TonyV and IW have been speaking.
Sorry if it sounds snappy, but why on earth would people be getting mad at the people who are saying "Hey cool you're horses this isn't a done deal yet" especially when one of those people is the reason we are all here and have a place to come together.
Also the post I quoted. People are going to be so hurt if the game doesn't go through. Because some people who couldn't keep their pants on just had to get everyone's hopes up in an unreasonable fashion. Beyond just the "There are talks about the game." Which should be more then enough hope for people considering just 7 months ago the game was as dead as a doorknob.
To quote Futurama. "Look do you want false hope or not?" Fry responds "Only if you don't have real hope!"
And this isn't directed any one in particular in this post or even these forums. Just a response to many things I have been seeing around some of the CoH social media sites.