Hmm.. Hello USA!

well lets see.

1. I predicted that the movies that were shown weren't actual in game footage and they had been carefully put together to give the illusion that the game ran very smoothly, which of course it didn't upon release.

2. I predicted that Luthier was telling porky pies when he said 'Of course SLI will work why wouldn't it'. (this one cost me a ban)

3. I predicted that we wouldn't see DX11 (got banned for dx11 debate)

4. I predicicated that the reason we weren't seeing any AA was because it didn't work.

5. I also said that the leaked video was a marketing ploy, it obviously was. (think i got banned for this as well)

6. I suggested that Oleg was gone after he was found to have another job, I was partially right on this because as it turns out he had gone over a year before.

7. I suggested that the explanation about how bad the game ran at the Russian show because it only had 2gb of ram was a nonsense and an excuse - i was right, the game ran just as bad on release with 12gb of ram. (got banned for this )

These are just off the top of my head, but there are many many more examples, but you will need to read through all my old posts, basically I was ahead of the game, and I know it hurts but the facts are the facts my friend.

Believe it or not but I even had a pm from a moderator on here saying how I had called it right, sad but true.

[JG52Krupi]

I smell BS hidden among one or two facts...

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

I smell BS hidden among one or two facts...

Read my posts my friend, and come back and apologise.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Read my posts my friend, and come back and apologise.

I have spent enough time reading your BS old friend.. Have a fun game.

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

I have spent enough time reading your BS old friend.. Have a fun game.

Well you cant say in future that I predicted nothing now can you my comedy chum, always do your research first, its worked for me.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Well you cant say in future that I predicted nothing now can you my comedy chum, always do your research first, its worked for me.

Alternatively, make every prediction under the sun as you're bound to get a few right

Originally Posted by Dano

Alternatively, make every prediction under the sun as you're bound to get a few right

Read my posts dano, and you will know this simply isn't true, no matter how much you want it to be.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by Dano

Alternatively, make every prediction under the sun as you're bound to get a few right

Glad to see I'm not the only one that saw that

[6S.Manu]

Nothing to say here about US customers but...

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Well you cant say in future that I predicted nothing now can you my comedy chum, always do your research first, its worked for me.

I'm always been atheist but now I'm worship the oak in front of my house because of you my friend.

Tree is always right.

I'm starting here a new cult, the "Treeology".

Tree, the Martyr of the Banana Board. He was banned for us. Pray for him.

[Walrus1]

With Ilya's post, particularly:

'4. We do not at this time have anyone doing community relations, which means we spend less time than we’d like to interacting with you, or rather, providing answers to your questions. We are up on these boards every day reading what you have to say, and it does often drive our design decisions and priorities.'

I think we see that he is officially signing off as public relations liasion.

No more weekly updates, probably just posts introducing new patches and other 'official communications.'

Whether this is wise or not who knows. As others have stated, there are a steady stream of complaints here when he posts and when he doesn't.

I do know from personal experience that dealing with 'customer service' issues takes a special kind of patience and it can be very distracting from other more essential tasks, which in his case are continuing to lead the efforts to fix and develop the game.