As a poster, paying customer and multiple account holder ...
C'mon folks ... lighten up. If you are grousing because no FoF, how many times has that very message been poo-poo'd due to lack of good intel or whatever.
That's a failing of EA/Mythic, not its customer base. While you may be perfectly happy with lacking communication from EA,
as a poster, paying customer and multiple account holder, I do not find it acceptable.
If you're wanting news on EA 11th Anny stuff, how can you find that out if the ability to post FoF is missing? Might that same "critical piece" be the same thing used for posting here?
Would questions about the inability to post an FoF have anything to do with the fact that there was actually a post made to indicate that there would, in fact, be no post? If it's the information that's missing, unless everyone at Mythic took the day off, I'm going to bet that someone there could have resent an email to her, faxed a copy of it to her, or whatnot.
What this basically comes down to is a decision NOT to take the efforts to make the communications that should be made, particularly in light of the Japanese announcements. And they are poor and inappropriate decisions.
Which leads me to the other half of things... if key components of something or another failed to make it to Chicago with her, just what kind of quality can be expected at the Town Hall? Clearly she's not going to be able to talk about anything that would have been put into the Five on Friday, because she doesn't have any of that information with her. If that information is going to magically arrive tomorrow for her, then why can't it magically arrive today? Email is a beautiful thing. Even if it meant signing up with a temporary GMail account, she could get the information to her.
So the question ultimately becomes, just what kind of communication is she going to be doing tomorrow if she can only communicate today that she's incapable of communicating anything to us?
If you're wanting P56 intel, see above.
But then, really, is tomorrow going to be all about SA? I somehow doubt they've got much to share on a product that's very much still in development.
Doo-doo happens ... goodness knows I've left cell phone chargers, laptops and other needed items behind on a roadrun. Let's cut jeremy (at least) some slack on this one. Town Hall might make up for it ... <shrug>
I've left laptops behind, I've left cell phones behind, but not on company trips. Ever. And if I were, you better believe I'd go buy myself a prepaid cellphone and find an internet cafe somewhere and get stuff taken care of if I was expected to have stuff taken care of.
I think people forget that this is a CUSTOMER SERVICE. That Ultima Online, while a game, is a CUSTOMER SERVICE. If you got an ad for a DVD player going on sale at Best Buy on Sunday, you get there Sunday, and they say to you, "Sorry, we aren't going to have those this week, but here's a completely different DVD player you can buy, but not until Friday," you might be a bit miffed if you were expecting it. *shrugs* The FoF is the only reliable staple of communication -- when it isn't delivered, while already usually mediocre, it delivers a message (whether intended or not) as to how "important" the customer base is to EA/Mythic.
Thank you, too!
