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Message: <blockquote data-quote="13garth13" data-source="post: 4433524" data-attributes="member: 16979">I can't believe I'm actually responding to this thread.....*sigh*For all those posters getting righteously indignant about the use of the phrase "broken promises" when statements are made about features to be included which then are not......would calling them broken commitments be okay?  How about mispoken avowals?   I mean, c'mon....Let's say that id software says in an interview that "Doom 4 will feature destructible environments", and then in another interview a spokesman gets highly excited talking about how much they're looking forward to finally getting more interactive environments, and so on and so forth.   And then when the game is released there's nothing more than bullet hole decals, and not even glass windows can be broken.Did they "promise" as in actually use the phrase, "We promise on a stack of holy tomes, swear on our mother's graves, and vow by all that is righteous and good with the universe that this game will feature destructible environments"?   Heck no.Should people purchasing the game let them off the hook and not complain about broken promises and failed commitments?Heck no!  They stated (in this hypothetical example) that they were working on a feature, and hyped that feature in (presumably) a genre publication and that means that unless they have come forth and stated that the feature is no longer to be available and give a decent explanation as to why the public have every reason to expect that feature to be present and should be indignant and as loud as they want to be (well, within reason) about "broken promises" I can't believe that some people expect a pinkie swear before we are permitted to complain about unmet "promises".If you talk about a feature (say, a monthly Dungeon and Dragon, which will be compiled into a downloadable PDF) and then you don't follow through (switch to bi-monthly with barely a whisper made about the change in plans, and then still don't bother compiling any of the older Dungeon and Dragons that you released over the spring) I think it's safe to say that a corporation deserves a great deal of criticism for such a failure to deliver on a "stated" commitment.  Sure, NOW they're following through, but I guess all those previous months didn't count?   Give me a break... ....If you want to get your knickers in a twist because they didn't actually use the word promise, then hey, whatever floats your boat, but let's not act as if people and businesses shouldn't be taken to task for saying something would be done/present and then it's no where to be found.Cheers,Colin</blockquote>

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