Why is Yoshi P turning his back on the playerbase that loves this game the most?

[Shai]

If I may be allowed to paraphrase Fizzle...

I think the real gripe here isn't that SE owes us more. It's that they never delivered what was promised. The promises have been outlined in this thread. Various people have mentioned the general sentiment of the paying Legacy members of 1.0. We were led to believe that ARR would be the end result of the work done on 1.23B. Yes. We voted to scrap Tanaka's XIV and rebuild the game, but that's what we thought Yoshida was doing. We thought when the game came back online it would ... resemble the game he had been "rebuilding" that we were playing. News flash: It doesn't. I'm not weighing in on whether that was good or bad, but I will tell you it felt like he was practically begging us to hang in there and wait for what we were all waiting for - then surprised us with what ARR is today.

He pleaded with us to hang in there and to trust him for a better future. We liked the game and wanted it to succeed so we listened. He rewarded us with ... this.

Do I think I'm owed something beside a discount? No, not really. Do I feel like I was tricked? Yes, I certainly do.

To be quite honest with you, I don't even believe the results of the 1.0 polls. Maybe that's just the conspiracy theorist in me, but there's no accountability. We could have "voted" for whatever they say we voted for. I could ask you all to vote on whether ARR is a good game, you email me your votes, and come back without any evidence saying you hate ARR in a landslide! That's basically what they did with 1.0 polls. It was all hidden, but people still toss the polls around as if they were real community agendas.