I think Woodrows point from all of this was that EA/DICE haven't delivered on the promises that they made to their consumers. Not only is that bad business ethics/practice, it is also false advertising, otherwise known as LYING.
Have any of you ever looked at the cover art on the back of your BF2 box? What's that you see? Oh that's right, that would be the Blackhawk that wasn't EVER in the game. But it's on the BACK OF THE BOX!!! This may be a small point, but it is blatant and obvious proof that EA/DICE weren't being completely honest to us.
As for the vocal minority crap, in 2002 the voter turnout for USA federal elections was approximately 37.0%. So I ask you, what would happen if the US discounted the voters that showed up as a VOCAL MINORITY, and just assumed that they should run their own show because the MAJORITY of voters didn't vote (therefore assuming that the MAJORITY agreed with everything the gov was doing because they didn't care enough to try to change things)?
Think about it.
EA needs to seriously reconsider their business practices because lying to their consumers isn't a fair way of doing business. Promising us one product, but giving us a much crapier version that is missing most of the features is seriously f*cked.
Think about it this way. If you went to a car dealership and the dealer promised you a sunroof, AC, a CD player, and the ability to modify the engine to make it run the way you want, and then when the car was "ready" you realized the sunroof wouldn't open, the AC was leaking coolant, you could only get the radio on the CD player, and you couldn't tune the engine without breaking it. How would you feel? Okay, so you take it back and the dealer offers to fix it. He takes months to fix it, charges you a lot of money to make repairs and to add the features that you supposedly already purchased, and when you get it back it won't go over 55 mph because they took all of the engine power to make the CD player and the sunroof work, the AC coolant still leaks, and if you try to tune the engine....you just end up breaking it. How would THAT make you feel? AND THEN....when you take it back again to complain, the dealer tells you that most of the customers who bought the car just dealt with its fualts so he considers you as a VOCAL MINORITY, and promptly tells you that the dealership doesn't support your car model anymore because they are moving on to something "better", so he tells you to buy the new "better" car if you aren't satisfied with the old one that he lied to you about repeatedly.
whew...
How you like them apples?
Closed Alpha Test & Deth..
