biscuit said:
All roads lead to the cemetary, but look on the bright side of life, wontcha? No need to be quite so pessimistic. I don't care about the me in this. I care about the why and frankly, it's been going on way too long for us to lay back and take it. Perhaps "we" need to cast a wider net. This is a much bigger issue. Although a lofty suggestion, we may even need to get tough and use words like "boycott." Words that get the attention of those looking at the bottom line.
There's a difference between pessimistic and realistic. Realistically, there's no point. The situation is as it is for logical, fundamental business reasons. The people you're directing this petition at would like to change things as much (or probably more) than you do. But it just isn't practical.
And that's above and beyond the twin factors that (a) you'll just be telling people things they already know and (b) they'd have to be crazy to make any business decisions based on petitions with even several hundred signatures anyway.
Also, threatening boycotts won't do you any good either unless you could somehow manage to get a very large fraction of the entire Mac gaming community to sign on. Which you won't. It also won't do any good if you DID manage that unless the underlying factors determining why things work they way they do change because, again, the Aspyrs, Macsofts, and so on of the world don't like the situation any better than you do. They'd already be doing things differently
if they could.
In order for things to change, mainly what's needed, as I understand it, is for (a) Winblows developers to design and code their projects from the ground up with Mac ports in mind and (b) Apple's market share to grow enough to make (a) profitable. Preaching to/threatening the choir will do not an iota to affect either of those things.
biscuit said:
And I really don't care if I get banned. Gettting a new account anywhere is almost as easy as breathing.
Not if the admins in question are willing to use a big enough stick. I seem to recall at least one occasion when Corey started banning entire ISPs when a previously-banned poster came back.
Vegasgustan said:
Some petitions do work. I am sure that the "petitions" sent to UPN about Enterprise did help and other TV shows have been renewed based upon major fan base action.
Sometimes, yes. It happens pretty much ONLY when the people making the decisions were wrong about what their customers thought (does not apply in this case, all Mac publishers/developers are perfectly well aware of how Mac gamers view the situation) AND the petition/equivalent action is on a sufficiently large scale to demonstrate that (as in, a large fraction of the customer base).
So even if you got every single Mac user alive to sign... it wouldn't do any good because the petition can't tell anybody anything they don't already know.