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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9255453" data-attributes="member: 18">Sure, and some people were like that, saying &quot;I'll reserve judgement until I get the books&quot; and then having varied responses. But the general tone on ENworld was extremely negative long before then.And not without reason, sadly!Even at the time, I remember being completely mind-boggled by the marketing campaign. That's why I remember it so well, because it was like &quot;Are you genuinely trying to stir controversy or something?&quot; because insulting your own audience with a generic &quot;Snooty European&quot; accent is just bizarre behaviour. And the CEO coming out with the WoW statement, I remember cringing when I read it, because I knew what he meant, but I also knew how people - especially people who didn't play MMORPGs but did have &quot;OPINIONS&quot; about them would take it! And MMORPGs were widely blamed for damaging TT RPGs, especially WoW, in 2008. It was frequent to see posters here complain that X members of their regular group had become &quot;WoW addicts&quot; or the like. So it was such an ill-advised thing to say. It's like he thought only business people would read it or something, not the general public.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9255453, member: 18"] Sure, and some people were like that, saying "I'll reserve judgement until I get the books" and then having varied responses. But the general tone on ENworld was extremely negative long before then. And not without reason, sadly! Even at the time, I remember being completely mind-boggled by the marketing campaign. That's why I remember it so well, because it was like "Are you genuinely trying to stir controversy or something?" because insulting your own audience with a generic "Snooty European" accent is just bizarre behaviour. And the CEO coming out with the WoW statement, I remember cringing when I read it, because I knew what he meant, but I also knew how people - especially people who didn't play MMORPGs but did have "OPINIONS" about them would take it! And MMORPGs were widely blamed for damaging TT RPGs, especially WoW, in 2008. It was frequent to see posters here complain that X members of their regular group had become "WoW addicts" or the like. So it was such an ill-advised thing to say. It's like he thought only business people would read it or something, not the general public. [/QUOTE]

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