lacktheknack said:
Would it kill you guys to, instead of immediately entering uber-cynical-<color=red>edgy-teenager-mode, to maybe have just a bit of quiet hope? It would do wonders for my blood pressure, and Ubisoft was a great publisher not too far back.
...No? Ugh.
If there's one word that needs to be wiped from the lexicon entirely it's
edgy, since few people seem to be able to use it correctly. If the majority of people in this thread hold the same view then how can conforming to that view be considered edgy? I didn't realise it was edgy to be part of the status-quo.
OT: Why exactly should we give them the benefit of the doubt? Pretty much
every company who has ever fucked up something so badly that it can't be defended has declared something similar.
"We've acknowledged our mistakes and have decided to learn from them."
"We realise now that we dropped the ball on and will endeavour to improve in the future."
"We at would like to formally apologise to the people we've disappointed and promise not to repeat these mistakes in the future."
See how easy that was?
I'm not saying they haven't learned
anything. I think they may have actually realised that bullshiting consumers can absolutely destroy a game's reputation, which can be a major problem for them since they have admitted their desire to churn out squeals, which would likely suffer if the mere name alone becomes PR poison to anything it's attached to. But I have a feeling this is just their way of removing some of the stigma attached to the Watch_Dogs name so the sequel won't bomb on bad reputation alone.
