Well I'm concerned what customers think if they are mine to a certain point. You don't allow their opinions and wants to change the goals of the company. The number one goal of any business is to turn profit and as much profit as possible. If you don't like that well America isn't the place for you because this may be the most capitalistic place in the world. My stance the whole time was when you are up against odds like that your best course of action isn't to alienate the owner but kill them with kindness. It's a lot harder to say no to a girl scout selling cookies then her mother demanding you buy them. Dayne wasn't on here calling you all evil or comparing you to the devil or Darth Vader or calling you a martyr...or going to your place of business (the IS forums) for a lack of a better example and purposely trying to smear you. He wasn't joining a chat under a nickname he specifically said he doesn't want to see just to get some kicks and giggles (I believe I read that was what was happening eventually but may be mistaken). Dayne may not have giving you everything you wanted but I don't think he was hateful and demeaning or necessarily disrespectful. If he was calling you names and trying to push your customers away, then I'll be more sympathetic to your personal feelings.

As far as Dayne not being here to answer every question, what owner is? Tell me how many companies owner gets online for chats or even makes a single post explaining what is happening? My situation is far less complicated then most around here but I've never once talked to the execs at Chrysler or Dodge or the people who run the company that owns the building I live in or the board at West Virginia University...I can go on and on and on. I've never spoke with the company executives that built my TV, computer or XBox. I'm eating some Doritos right now and they couldn't care less what I think for the most part and the CEO certainly isn't going to hit me up on AIM to hear about it. I think some of the community's expectations were far to high and I'm not sure there was anything Dayne could do to make you all happy. In a perfect, magical world I'm sure he could have but now here on Earth. Fact is you guys want the PC game to be the focus of the company, you want a V 10 regardless of the situation with the company, you want your CPS seasons regardless of who works on them or how much it costs, etc and unfortunately for you all that isn't how things work.

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