AnalFissure wrote on Jul 19
th, 2013 at 12:30pm:
People have secrets. It's not my place to tell other's secrets especially after I agreed not to. Fucking deal with it, asshole.
That's my point. Perhaps its philosophical. IMO, if someone, or an entity such as a corporation or government, is keeping secrets, then the people who know those secrets have 2 options:
1. Not tell other people, as they agreed to or were forced to agree to.
2. Tell other people anyway if you think people could benefit from knowing them and either cover your tracks (preferable)or suffer the consequences (noble but pointless).
Which option you choose probably depends on how you view the goodness or badness of the entity keeping the secret, the goodness or badness of that secret remaining secret, and how much you care to help or not help the people being kept in the dark.
I view turbine/wb as more or less bad, at least in the sense that they are trying to get money without offering a fair value for it, or even allowing people to know what they are getting.
IMO, the only value in that secret staying secret is their ability to minimize the information available to potential customers and therefore improve their ability to charge more for less (since a fair value for the money wouldn't be worth keeping secret).
I'd like to think the players of this game, and people in general would show some solidarity with one another in defiance of those who would try to rip us off.
Since it seems like you seem to believe either :
a. Turbine is inherently good and therefore worth keeping your word to. In which case I think you are a misguided fool.
b. its important they sell as many xpacs as possible without customers knowing what they are getting. In which case it suggests to me you have a financial stake in the issue, and are therefore part of the rip-off system I dislike to begin with.
or
c. You just don't like to or want to help other people. In which case I think you are an asshole.
feel free to clarify which of these it is, or if my logic is somehow flawed.