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Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES
Note the lack of listing any specific effect in the video that was removed.. and the implied dishonesty but no actual proof of it.. These are the sort of vague accusation I was referring to in my post that in essence provide no real information and are intended to use people imaginations to fill in the blanks..
Alfred Hitchcock used this tactic in his movies.. Don't spell out the details (show the knife entering the body) it is much scarier to just 'hint' at the knife entering the body and allowing the persons imagination to fill in the rest!
Don't let them spook ya!
Demand the nay-sayers be specific!
They won't!
But demand it anyway in that it will just highlight how weak their arguments are and thus how short the list is!
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I think there's a few easy examples to give (I can't be bothered to trawl through the posts):
Recommended specs
I'll be back later to answer the questions
Developers diary
etc
Now of course in none of these declarations etc was the word "promise" mentioned, so you could probably say that no promises were broken at all. there is the legal definition of a promise though and as I couldn't be bothered to look through my reference books I found this:
A written or oral declaration given in exchange for something of value that binds the maker to do, or forbear from, a certain specific act and gives to the person to whom the declaration is made the right to expect and enforce performance or forbearance. An undertaking that something will or will not occur. It is a manifestation of intent to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain manner.
To me, taking money for a "working" game seems to be the biggest broken promise.
And as always, I kick myself because when you see the game in motion it can look stunningly beautiful and it has this amazing potential just out of reach. Sadly I cannot bring myself to believe there was any internal testing of this patch though.
Oh well.
Hood