Removing or countering critcism wont help the game, it just puts a veil of smoke over it. There is far more damage done inadvertantly by trying to protect it, than being honest about it. People can read the reviews if they want a view, then decide. Special pleading by itself wont fix it. And certainly no moral high ground or protecting-of-investment in misrepresenting it.

The state of the game slowly leaked out, with grudging by-the-by admissions. There was little decorum in this from the devs, more a case of half-hearted embedded apologies-on-the-fly and subsequent jibes and swide-swipes and threats to take away the football and play elsewhere. Silly and defensive IMO, and not the right way of going about things. More shooting yourself in the foot and not just closing the door after the horse has bolted...insert further mangled metaphor of your choice.

Perhaps it is just all getting too daft for words, the game and opinions alike.

As close to a half-way house as I'll go

And if I'm pushed, no great bother either....

Ben