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Posted: Nov 17th 2008 8:16PM MrGutts said

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Yeah I was one of the ones that left because of the IB changes, I don't like putting that much time into something and having them just screw it within 6 weeks of release. I would expect something like 4 or 5 months. EA doesn't give two shiats when people leave anyway.

You cancel and that is it, no exit poll on why you left, nothing really. They don't collect any data on the reason.
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Posted: Nov 17th 2008 9:39PM Softserve said

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That's actually not true. I think they've simply been busy, but they are sending out exit polls. I got one a couple of weeks ago, but I never subbed beyond the first month.

I imagine they're more concerned about other things, but they are getting around to it.
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Posted: Nov 17th 2008 10:01PM Ripper McGee said

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You left the game over something that was on the test server? How about testing and giving feedback, since that's what the test server is for? If it had gone live, I could see being upset, but that's a bit extreme.

~Ripper
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Posted: Nov 18th 2008 3:20PM Arashikou said

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Seconded to Mr. McGee. And in this case, it's not even some hypothetical "your input might have made a difference" speech. We can see right here, in this very article, that people who chose to try out the changes and register their complaints about them got Mythic to hold off on the IB changes and continue tweaking them. (I don't know if you even bothered to follow the PTR, but they already relaxed the restrictions a few times before deciding to push them back entirely.)

Of course, perhaps one should blame developers who ignore disastrous PTRs for conditioning people to assume that the PTR is more of a "free preview" than a "beta test" and that any changes that make it on the test server are going live, regardless of whether they work. I can only hope Mr. Gutts comes to realize this is clearly not the case with WAR.
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