Kayden wrote:It isn't taken out of context. Unless you can tell me what he was thinking, which I doubt you can,
And you can? Guilt till proven innocent I see, assume the worst because it fits your narrative better rather then consider the situation from what his side would be?
The context, on the day of release thousands of peoples was up in arms because prior to the game coming out there was no FoV slider, and rather then checking the facts that said the day one patch would have it. Of that large mass of misinformed anger that was attacking Ubisoft, less then 1% would of legitimate complainants, a group so small it's would of been easily missed among the anger.
than I take what he wrote as point of fact. There is no ambiguity, it is black and white, and he is saying only those who are having problems with it are pirates.
There are more shades of gray then their are black and white, twitter by its very nature is ambiguous hell, why? Because it only allows for 140 characters, ohh what you expected someone to respond barrage of unfounded attacked in a detailed and well written manor while using twitter?
As to your point about him not verifying information, he's the creative director for crying out loud he isn't a customer of ubisoft!
Well done, you just proved you have no credibility by taking my post out of context when it's context is clearly displayed in the first line: "My problem is with that specific post you linked to, nothing else" meaning that comment was directed at YOUR opinion piece. IE you cited that Ubisoft acknowledged the issue on Eyefinity, and you are using that again it. However you didn't provide proof where that was said or more importantly when, and even more importantly you didn't provide the proof that Alex was aware of the issue when he posted his tweet. As you put it, he's the Creative Director, he's not expected to know every detail about a game made by hundreds of people, hell it's not even his responsibility to know about bug and issues with the game.
He is in a position of authority and management,
Not really, his responsibility lie in guiding how the game looks, feels, and plays, not what the games options are.
if he wanted to know the facts he would but he didn't and yes I think it is important to hold him to a higher standard
What so he's expected to be able to know the things he doesn't know about? Or that he should be asking questions about very detail of a game? You do know why development houses of games this size have hundreds of people in them right?
when he's making false accusations.
I refer you to my first point, perspective is important.
I hold those in positions like that to a higher standard and you should to.
Coming from someone claiming to have written a post and basing it on their own opinion rather then researching facts, getting opinions and ASKING THE GUY, if he knew about the multi-monitor issue when he posted or if the post was even aimed at us.
As fare as your problem to my link to, it was not misleading.
My opinion does not agree with yours.
I provided it to highlight the problem with his statement that because I have the problem so in his mind I must be a pirate, that goes for you and anyone else who has this problem.
Based on your interpretation, with no regard for consideration of the event at the time he posted it, or what his intent might be, everything is black or white, his 140 character post must be taking 100% literally because you say so.
I do not take kindly to being accused of a crime when there the basis of his facts are omitted from scrutiny or admittance to incompetence. This man is a doing the same thing CliffyB did by accusing PC gamers as nothing but pirates and look where we are! Shoddy ports from consoles, lack of support and more and more intrusive DRM than ever before.
No issue here.
This isn't a conspiracy,
No one said it was.
it is fact that these things have happened because of people saying this garbage with no repercussions when they're ignorant or at worst arrogant.
So he's not allowed to express annoyance on his personal twitter account when a large number of people who have been misinformed or mislead lay into him or his work or the company that he works for? Because a minority of people might not be smart enough to know his 140 character post isn't meant to be directed at them?
I do not want to see things get worse for us as a gaming community so yes I will speak up to this sort of harassment and profiling because it is wrong, even if you don't think so.
Taking my post out of context again, technically no issue with the first part however, your "post" will generate direct harassment at Alex, whether you want it to or not, people will read it as an excuse to lay into him because you misrepresented what he said. And that is FAR worse then big corporations making sweeping generalizations.
Here is a fair and balanced way to write that post:
On the day of Far Cry 4's release there was a large number of people deciding to take Ubisoft to task over the lack of an FoV slider, however a day one patch for the game that anyone who bought the game and had an internet connection to update it with would of had installed, added the FoV. This lead Creative Director Alex Hutchinson to post the following tweet [citation here].
The problem is this tweet didn't take into account the fact that on multi-monitor systems, the FoV option is actually still disabled, this was later confirmed by Ubisoft [citation here].
While it's unlikely Alex was directing his tweet at the multi-monitor community, or even knew the issue existed at the time he posted it, it's still a shame to see a developer make a sweeping statement that could be seen to paint people who have legitimate complains with people who are ether ignorant, misinformed, or just looking for a reason to be angry.
hope this works for you guys.
