Tomn
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I do agree that the publishers have no need nor obligation to respond to anything anyone says, but I don't see why this should prevent anyone from having their say, nor indeed why it should necessarily prevent the publishers from responding if they so will it.
People have had their say. And the publishers have responded. But if you look at the other threads, they have answered all the concerns.
How many times are they to reply to the same things? Going in circles may work for some, but they do have better things to do.
Claims get made that if they do this, then this will happen. But those claims do not survive critical thinking as they have *nothing* to back those up with. You can't tell a company that they don't know what they're doing when they have years of market analysis, growth, and sales that show that they *do* know exactly what they are doing.
This is a pretty good example of what I'm talking about, really. The argument goes in circles because the insistence is that "You've already been answered, and answered in such a way that you can't argue back, so why don't you just shut up now?" Yet we do NOT feel that our points have been answered adequately, nor that the reasoning put forward is flawless, and any attempts to point out any such holes in reasoning that we see is generally met by a response such as the one above: "You've already been answered, shut up." Is it any surprise under such circumstances that the discussion goes in circles instead of advancing?
As for the claim that nobody expect Matrix has anything approaching proof, well, I do realize it's a bit of an imposition upon your time, but I would ask that you look over my posts in greater detail - I try to explain why there are really a great many reasons and much evidence suggesting my point of view. If you insist, I can summarize them again in a new post, but I warn you that you would only be perpetuating the cycle unless you're willing to engage with that summary as it is instead of blowing it off as "Answered already, shut up." And as for the argument that it is impossible to tell Matrix that they might be doing something wrong, well, consider this thought exercise: If Matrix decided next week that their new cheapest price for any of their games would be in the millions of dollars, and that their highest price would be in the billions, do you think it would be right to object, protest, and point out why this is a bad idea, or do you think that, as they have years of experience and so on, they should know very well what they are doing and that it is impossible that they should be wrong on the matter? I think it's difficult to claim that the community would simply allow them to walk away from such a move! Their years of experience does not make them immune to error (as indeed nobody is), and if we believe they are making a mistake, why should we not speak up, and argue our point as best we can?
You seem to be arguing, as well, that the fact of their survival is proof positive that they've made no mistakes. Granted, their current course is a very safe one, but it also seems highly restrictive and limiting - there is no contradiction in saying that "Matrix is doing well now" and saying "Matrix could be doing much better if they changed." Simple survival, as we can see, is no proof against the error of leaving money on the table.
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