I agree about some of your points but not all of them.
1)Release date is really important, and changing it is NOT the best idea for sure. But if they were able to release game on March 22nd, they’d probably did it. I don’t think that moving release date would help too much regarding the reviews. The real problem is that information about game start is hard to NOTICE. It should be like HUGE letters at the top of the description that servers will start at March 29th.
The promice about no changes in release date were not about March 22nd but about March 29th. So even if the C would’ve win(tip: it wouldn’t ever), then the date would be set to 29th. Because 3 months wasn’t the only problem addressed by the community, so probably IMC had to fix some other issues.
2)I disagree that community poll was a fail. Original 3 month plan was. I assume that half of those people who bought 50$ packs wouldn’t have bought it on previous conditions for several reasons. Also steam regional prices mattered a lot. In my country it’s like 70% cheaper.
Overall, it was obvious that variant B was presented like the best variant, because IMC told us this way, that it’s the best variant for them, and they can’t afford variant A. Variant C was the old one, that’s why it only scored 10%(tip: it’s bad).
4)I agree that western people tend to complain a lot when they are unsatisfied. You are doing the same thing right now.
But if they majority is unsatisfied, then it IS a problem. If the old plan was that bad, I’m sure there would be much more then 10% unsatisfied with a new plan. Because as you said, people COMPLAIN when they are unsatisfied. Interesting thing is, there were much less rage posts AFTER the poll then before. And not all of them were about the release date(which IS the problem) but lots of them were about 1 month early access instead of 3(which actually is NOT the problem at all).
Talking about acting “immaturely”, your post is just as “immature” as lots of post before the poll. Because it’s not. Sure there were lots of immature posts against the 3 months but there were LOTS of posts with constructive criticism, great suggestions and advices for IMC as well.
They changed theit decision because at least half of the community was unsatisfied, not because some gues made tons of shitposts, like many of you think.
Before 40% were OK with 3 months plan, now almost 75% are HAPPY about 1 month NON staggered plan with 1 CHEAP option of EA and MORE goodies. It’s overall better for almost everyone.
The only real problems left are:
1)Pushed release date.
2)Uncertainty about EU/SEA/West coast/etc. located servers.
3)UNCLEAR information about DLC’s in Steam, that confuses lots of people and is the cause of negative reviews.
If IMC solves these problems they will satisfy ABSOLUTE MAJORITY of players and it should be their goal.
I know Koreans (and asians in common) are usually calm people. They won’t complain. They will just quit the game and never return, THAT happened with Korean ToS.
So I assume IMC are afraid to lose their playerbase for iToS. That’s why they try to satisfy us. It seems they weren’t truly ready for such massive response and underestimated the number of people who will buy EA. That’s probably the reason why they pushed back the release date (I see no other explanation for such a move).
They now discussing possibility of international servers as well, so I hope this problem will also be solves soon.
And finally, changing the DLCs descriptions in steam should be the easiest problem to fix in order to avoid even more negative reviews.
