For them or for me? I have no connection to Firaxis, and beyond general goodwill and solidarity towards all workers, their success affects me little.
For me it is very important. Honesty buys a lot of goodwill from me, and patience, and even playtime that can be assessed as part of their business metrics. Whether I wait to play, due to being irritated, or play more, is related to what they say.
For them, as a business decision? I honestly don't think either choice is a bad business decision. In marketing, as with all public dishonesty, it's all about how you present yourself, how you sell the message, whether of contrition or hope. The way you talk matters most.
More important to me than any of this is that people lift themselves out of consumerism and parasocial relationships to companies.
I play Civ. I have played every version of Civ that I know of, since the original. And I like Civ 7 a lot, just not the bugs and lack of QA. But I'm a consumer/customer, not part of their team. It's easy to get mixed up about this, with all the messaging to the contrary.
For me it is very important. Honesty buys a lot of goodwill from me, and patience, and even playtime that can be assessed as part of their business metrics. Whether I wait to play, due to being irritated, or play more, is related to what they say.
For them, as a business decision? I honestly don't think either choice is a bad business decision. In marketing, as with all public dishonesty, it's all about how you present yourself, how you sell the message, whether of contrition or hope. The way you talk matters most.
More important to me than any of this is that people lift themselves out of consumerism and parasocial relationships to companies.
I play Civ. I have played every version of Civ that I know of, since the original. And I like Civ 7 a lot, just not the bugs and lack of QA. But I'm a consumer/customer, not part of their team. It's easy to get mixed up about this, with all the messaging to the contrary.
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