Quote from Ceja12341234
How can I trust what the developers say (like their philosophy with the game's direction) on the D3 forums is the truth, and not just some neutered version of their real thoughts? I thought they were professionals that indeed cared what other people said and integrated their criticism into their own thought process, but In reality, they are just as sarcastic, snarky and vulgar as the community that lambasts them.
This is the line of thought that I simply do not understand one bit.
Are you (and others who say similar things) truly that naive as to believe that EVERYONE doesn't have a "professional" hat and a "personal" hat and depending on where they are their personalities are different? Go hang out with your co-workers outside of work. You quickly find out that they're all very different people and that they let their hair down outside of the office. It's why they call it "acting professional" - it's an act. It's putting who you are temporarily on hold for a more polite, courteous, and respectable version of yourself that is more business-like.
You can't mean to tell me that you, or anyone else, believed that Jay Wilson, or even David Brevik, never went home and laughed at one of our stupid ideas, or said a few nasty things about people saying he should be fired. This isn't a Jay Wilson thing, this is a "hello, welcome to the real world" thing.
It's shocking the standards people hold others to which they don't even hold themselves to. What Jay Wilson said was unfortunate due to it not being a private conversation, but highly human. Trying to spin this as a "we can never trust the devs because now we have proof they are two-faced" is so ridiculously ignorant of human nature. I can guarantee Daemaro has seen one of my reports on these forums and said "fuck, another report from Shaggy!" Does that mean we can't trust the moderators here? Of course not. This *is* human nature.
You know the person at the customer service desk at, say, Wal-Mart? The person you returned the broken item to? She might have said something after you left because you were a bit too pushy with her. Probably shouldn't shop at Wal-Mart anymore because you can't trust them.
Customer service is all about smiling and nodding when you're talking to the customer, regardless of if you think the customer is a raging sack of shit or not. It's about surpressing your personal beliefs in favor of the company policy. So, yes, when you're dealing with customers you are pretending to be something you're not. That's how it's always been. That's how it always will be. Why this comes as a surprise is completely beyond me.
If you applied the same reasoning you're using to other companies you'd never be able to shop anywhere because they're ALL doing the exact same thing. Yet, somehow, it's only a big deal when one company does it. Double standard much?
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1. They are actual keys, so yes. You just need to create a new account and Blizz would have to have added a field for people to enter keys into.
2. They are not actual keys and Force has somehow managed to make a "contract" with Blizzard so that he informs them who won the keys and they flag his account for Beta access.
The first option sounds a lot more reasonable. But in the end the people that can answer this are the Diablofans' staff, since they say they have keys as well, so they are already aware of how the system will work.
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Gah. Don't mind me, delete this post.
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edit: and here they are. For some reason the, uh, guy that made them had his Monks constantly crash.
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Get out of my community.