since you play the devil's advocate role, let me take the prosecutor's one, please.. will you?!!
so.. let's see..
1) it isn't B6's fault that he's not good at english (and he really isn't). on the other hand, it's surely MG's fault.. how hard would it be to find out a decent english speaking employee in 2012? I guess, specially when that's a programmer, it's actually harder to try and find one who isn't at least an acceptable english speaker.
most of the game development/programming/WW2 and WW2 aviation documentation are in english.. don't tell me.. they have a translator.. well then, they could have using that translator to translate their forum posts too, you know..
it's like a summer beach hotel hiring a babylonian speaking only receptionist in the middle of the season.. or like shooting yourself in your leg!
this goes for a Darwin award class B
2) i'm 200% sure that's the case.. but yet.. why just not tell us so.. and tell us the shop is closed for another week, until they'll clean up all the bugs and they can open it again.. how sadistic a person one must be to keep the customers in line for a full week, while you're painting your bakery's walls with insecticide?!!
this again goes for a Darwin award, class B
3) and?!! people got ill all the time. people even die, you know? do you think MG will stop selling BoM for a week because one of us died while waiting for it?
also, we have a life too, and I don't like to spend it F5'ing MG's forum.. a minimum respect for my customer's status and time would have been to just put a "go away no patch new until 25th august 2020" 9 words announcement on the forum.. would that have been too much to ask for my 60 £ Collector's Edition IL2CoD?!!
the show must go on, as I'm sure you know it. B6 is ill, we all wish him well, but this doesn't meant there's no one else on this world which could write a few lines in a post on the forum..
for God's sake, even copy/pasting the build's download link would have been enough, we already got used to getting them without any kind of readme whatsoever!
there you go, you wouldn't even have to knew english to do this.
Darwin class D for this one.
3) hmm.. dunno what to say about that.. I would have thought that IL2CoD's launch reception and sales faster than light sale drops should have thought them until now that they really need to pull up their heads from their arses and actually do something to fix the mess they've created it by themselves!
but considering their behavior.. it seems not.. and in this case, a vocal punishing community expressing it's frustration might still wake them up and force them do the right thing, by showing the only dragon they fear: our wallet
Another D in here..
5) what are you trying to say in here.. that if some game on which we paid once was shitty and full of bugs, we must continue to accept and pay for shitty and full of bugs games?!!
aaa.. really?!!
This one's a clear winner for an A Darwin award
6) (I'm sure you meant this last one to actually by 6, and not 5 bis)
are you a programmer? have you ever worked in game development industry? have you ever coded a game for yourself? have you at least read some books about game development?
no?
then.. how can you pretend that IL2CoD's is the most complicated game to code in this part of the Universe?!!
the scenario you actually put in there is actually valid for all games, even for Solitaire.. this really shows your level of expertise in this one.
and just to let you know, IL2CoD it is NOT, and this by far, the most complicated game/software to be developed these days (and if you need arguments fo this, do a search for one of my posts about this).
stop being an ignorant pretending he knows the absolute truth, and start using your head to do the thinking.
And another A Darwin award winner
And in the end, just to make it crystal clear: we all know that development takes time, and nothing can be achieved over night. We're just asking for respect, to be treated like adults and not to be feeded with ridiculous lies even a blind man can see through!