Susan Arendt said:
HobbesMkii said:
I think you misunderstood what I was saying, but I appreciate the insight from someone who actually lives there.
You said the lesson was not to take money from a state who could "yoink" (you'll have to correct me on how to spell that word) it away. But as I said above, RI didn't "yoink" any money. So that would be an unrelated (though possibly still valid) lesson to learn. If that's a misunderstanding I apologize.
I think the big lesson (and, to your credit, this was certainly touched upon) would be "Hey, don't invest in companies that are trying to make MMOs while there's still a game called
World of Warcraft, especially if you're a small northeastern state who can't afford to pay its teachers, cops, and firefighters."
I do apologize for my tone. It's just completely weird for me to see this issue in all my favorite gaming sites, especially with a lot of hate for Chafee, like he's rubbing salt in 38's wounds. He's not, really. He's scoring points off the Democratic state legislature that's against him since day one, and whose baby this deal was. And he's not wrong to do so. They polled Rhode Islanders when the deal was being proposed, and over half of us were against doing it, even us stalwart Democratic voters. But they went ahead and lured Curt down from Boston anyhow.