When did that EVER happen though? Where is this coming from? They told people for weeks they were taking time off, and they have never been hostile about suggestions. Look at their getatisfaction page for instance.
Maybe you are misreading fanboi rage as dev stupidity?
I'm mostly facetiously misrepresenting their response - I thought that was obvious!
I received several boilerplate responses about them not responding to improvement ideas as they did during beta; having no plans to make updates to the game at this time; and the surprising popularity of the game meaning the two of them don't have time to respond to ideas.
Which is all very reasonable, except that they obviously adopted a policy of using that response in all cases in the Ideas section of the getsatisfaction. Even if the reason a thread had been updated (by me and/or others) was just to say, "This idea you developer chaps have said you'd quite like to see in the game, if you get round to it - I reckon that would be awesome."
I maintained from the outset that my actual, genuine interpretation was that they'd been a little swamped and were dealing with it best they could, and have every intention of further enhancing the game once they've had a chance to take some time out to take stock!
But I can certainly understand how some folks have been led astray by their PR. If your first experience of the company is being 'fobbed off' with a 'stock response' when all you did was agree with something from the beta period, then I'm not surprised that
on the internet, where people react all kinds of crazy to all kinds of treatment, it rubbed a few people up the wrong way.
(Although not me, mind you. I'm just trollin'.
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