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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9577919" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Sure, but it's <em>intentional ambiguity</em>, which is literally the dictionary definition of "weasel words", right next to the alternative of "misleading".</p><p></p><p>If they wanted precision, they could easily say how many copies they'd sold by X date.</p><p></p><p>But they didn't do that. And we're not babes in the woods here, are we? We've all seen companies do this before - when companies make vague claims like "fastest selling", rather than proudly boasting "YO WE SOLD 10 MILLION COPIES HOW ABOUT THAT??!?!?!? HOW YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?!?!?", questions are naturally raised. Because the natural suspicion, based on the history usage of this behaviour, this method of speech, is that they're covering up lower-than-expected sales - though the "expected" might on our end or theirs.</p><p></p><p>To be clear, I feel certain WotC are being technically truthful when they say "fastest selling", but I've followed media (including games) for too long to not have my interest piqued by the decision to go vague and relative instead of saying "X copies sold by Y date!", which is the normal and often quite powerful way of doing things (we've seen video games really get a boost just by saying that, for example, as people go "Wow, I guess it is good!").</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9577919, member: 18"] Sure, but it's [I]intentional ambiguity[/I], which is literally the dictionary definition of "weasel words", right next to the alternative of "misleading". If they wanted precision, they could easily say how many copies they'd sold by X date. But they didn't do that. And we're not babes in the woods here, are we? We've all seen companies do this before - when companies make vague claims like "fastest selling", rather than proudly boasting "YO WE SOLD 10 MILLION COPIES HOW ABOUT THAT??!?!?!? HOW YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?!?!?", questions are naturally raised. Because the natural suspicion, based on the history usage of this behaviour, this method of speech, is that they're covering up lower-than-expected sales - though the "expected" might on our end or theirs. To be clear, I feel certain WotC are being technically truthful when they say "fastest selling", but I've followed media (including games) for too long to not have my interest piqued by the decision to go vague and relative instead of saying "X copies sold by Y date!", which is the normal and often quite powerful way of doing things (we've seen video games really get a boost just by saying that, for example, as people go "Wow, I guess it is good!"). [/QUOTE]
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