Well, it's better than saying you are lying, which is the only other possible alternative. (No mind reading necessary, just psych 101 and a bit of Shakespeare).
1. Never rated the game badly, just said I don't really care for this anymore. They said it was pretty much ready, honestly it's a side scroller where you use swipe movements to jump and run and roll, it doesn't take a big game dev company this long to iron out bugs in such a simple game. How long was the NFSU delay? I didn't have an iPhone back then. And the other possible alternative is that maybe I really don't care much for this game anymore. Psych 101? More like studying the behavioural pattern of 3rd graders.
For future reference: people who don't care about a game don't post on a thread about that game. Even to say that they don't care about it. They simply ignore it.
The theory is that they are able to charge more on the iPad, so they want to make sure they have every single possible iPad sale before they release it on the iPhone and have to sell it at a slightly lower price. They could have released it on the iPhone months ago according to most previews, and they could have released it on the iPhone and the iPad simaltaneously, but they didn't do either to encourage people to buy it on the iPad. They then said iPhone gamers would be playing it before the end of April, but that was before iPad's were delayed until May in many parts of the world. Hopefully they do still release it before the end of April, but April is pretty close to over, so I wouldn't be really surprised if they're holding it until the iPad comes out in more markets and they can (again) make the higher cost sales before releasing it on the iPhone. I do still want the game, but they shouldn't have previewed way back like last November as nearly done then proposed a January release (and now an April release) if they didn't intend to follow through. That is bad customer service.
Actually that not true. I see people on here all the time post in game threads saying the game sucks. But your way is the more intellegent way of doing it.
Shhhh. I think he hopes that if he says he isn't interested any more, they will release it just to get him back as a customer.
I cared about it once. I don't care about it anymore. You don't even have the facts right. There's a HUGE difference in posting about a game which you looked forward to for 3 months straight and it never came, and a game which you didn't care about, read previews about, look forward to. Do you understand? Anyway, that's my last post in this thread. Just to please these internet girls who can't be right in real life, I'll let them be right on the internet. Dweebs. Have fun with your side scrolling one finger slide game (yeah, I didn't care much for Canabalt either, Tilt To Live is MUCH more fun) -- oh but I haven't posted or read that thread yet, there goes your whole theory you wannabe Einstein.
Saying a game sucks is showing interest. As they say, the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Look, I would believe that DaftPunk (great band, by the way) is mad at EA because they haven't released the iPhone version of Mirror's Edge. I would even believe that he's planning on not buying it because of the long wait. What I don't buy is that someone who's keeping track of a thread and putting the effort to draft a comment doesn't care. Clearly he does. People who truly don't care simply stop paying attention.
LOL Thank you. It's amazing to me more people don't understand this? I won't even get into Fletch11's comment. ROFL
That's not really true, though. Once you've shown an interest in something, completely losing interest is not as easy as it sounds. It's pretty easy to be indifferent about something you have no interest in. It makes complete sense that if you are extremely interested in something and lose interest in it that you would still have some interest in it even if you were no longer interested in it... whew! Consider this... you go to a local burger joint and always get great burgers there. You go every single week and enjoy your delicious burger and you tell all your friends how great it is and that they should all go there. At some point, the burger joint starts making horrible burgers for some reason. Most people aren't going to just stop going there and say nothing. Now that they've reached a certain level of distaste, it doesn't necessarily mean they've lost any enthusiasm about it. They are likely to start telling all their friends how horrible it has gotten and to avoid going there at all costs and remember better days of eating at that burger joint. They probably won't simply become indifferent. You can have the same thing with anything. A person who is really enthusiastic about an upcoming game that ends up not coming out for ridiculous reasons may lose interest in the game, but not necessarily their enthusiasm about it. Losing the interest of people who are excited about your products is bad for a company because they are the ones that often tell other people about it. The indifferent people don't matter at all.
Your examples don't apply to the situation. If I lost interest in the game (NOT enthusiasm) then I wouldn't go back into that forum and then state that I had no interest. That shows I still do have interest. The fact it, he wasn't asked if his thoughts on the situation so coming in and stating you are not interested goes against the principle. It's Psychology. As was stated by someone else earlier, "Me thinks the lady doth protest too much". In your examples, the object or place came up in conversation and that person was sharing their thoughts. This situation would be like going down to that burger joint every day until I come across friends to tell them how much interest I lost in their burgers as this person came back into the thread to state this. It's all irrelevant. We could argue this both ways until we're blue in the face. I wish this game would be released already. They're probably waiting for 4.0 to come out.
Features blah blah blah, they probably just want to milk it for money, hence what they did earlier this year up until the iPad release. Not a bad thing for them. They are a business after all. This is like waiting for the next Kingdom Hearts. Final Fantasy 13 came out first, sheesh.
EA never specifically said it was iPad exclusive, but it sure seems like they're treating it as such.
