jfish26101 wrote:
Well I'm concerned what customers think if they are mine to a certain point. ...

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? ...

... 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.

Jfish,

Several weeks ago, when Imagine Sports announced its new subscription and pricing plan, there were many howls of displeasure on the IS forum. Some even accused Dayne of going all corporate on them. While no one (I think) called him the devil, there were some pointed comments about IS trying to squeeze money out of people. The response was not to shut down the forum and to adopt a policy of never again improving the online product because of the ungrateful curs who criticized Dayne, but to actually adjust the pricing plan in the customer's favor. That quieted the critics almost completely. No need to ban anyone. No decision to shut down operations out of pique. Now, if you believe the squeaky wheel never gets the grease, what happened there? The difference in treatment of the stand-alone game customer and the folks who play the online game is because the online game is much more lucrative to IS. Please don't buy the story that the stand-alone game is getting neglected because a few mean people "hurted" Dayne's feelings. I know why we didn't get everything (or anything) we wanted. Just don't insult our intelligence with your explanation of the reasons.


Last Edited By: TedRoethke 05/28/08 06:40 AM. Edited 1 times.