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Originally Posted by MadBlaster
The U.S. release is psychologically important because it creates a mental barrier between the hope that this game will be fixed and devastation that it never will. Of course, we all know that July will be here soon...too soon really to get the game fixed. Hence, I suggest that 1C will consider my re-deployment strategy described above to extend everyone's hope for this game. It's very simple strategy. We all just say ourselves in your quiet voice, "the game hasn't come out yet, it's coming out next year". Then the webmasters around the world delete everything on CLoD. Then next year 1C delivers the change, a fixed game. It will work. I know it.
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I would be fine with a re-release but why the media blanket campaign instead of being honest? Something like "our game has some serious issues, we will release in the west when they are fixed" and that's it.
I mean, what you describe won't ever work for one simple reason: you can't actually hope to control what's being posted all around the internet
Even if the main flight sim community forums go on with what you propose, they don't have 24/7 moderation and posts will slip through, it's easy as pie to get a personal blog up and running and link it on my forum sig, not to mention the avenues of things like facebook, youtube, etc...good luck bribing those to take down CoD related content and discussions, as they will either refuse outright or ask for way too much that 1c can't afford.
Long story short, what you describe is a non-enforceable censorship
On another note, don't count on me to retype every single FAQ/tutorial/guide i've posted on this forum if someone goes ahead and deletes the lot, i assume this goes for others too.
In other words, this will destroy whatever pool of community knowledge base we managed to built up to now, so i definitely disagree with this strategy.
On to the poll results, as of the time i'm making this post we have "both" in the lead with MP and SP sharing 2nd place with an equal amount of votes. If that doesn't place equal importance on both aspects i don't know what does