Quote Originally Posted by MonsieurVerde View Post
Did any of you actually learn how to read? >_> The Letter from the Producer clearly states that he will release the information soon.


Seriously, this is a pointless discussion until he does.
The point I tried to drive home in my original post was that the new dev. team was apparently slashing one of the central promises of their predecessors without much of the oft-promised transparency of procedures and motives. I had no intention on opening a thread of groundless speculation. Neither do I believe, mind you, that this is what this thread has become.

I would like to respectuflly point that Mr. Yoshida specifically mentioned that the first obvious step for him was to make sure the promises of his predecessors were fulfilled. And rightly so. We, the members of this game's player community, have by now joined the group of its many stake holders. We are the base, and the testing ground, on which all hopes for the resurgence of the title are based. We have made an investment of our time--not to mention the individually small, but collectively significant monetary pledge--in the future of this game. This has been so because of promises and specific prospects. By now, we deserve to know if those change, and the reasons for it.

If the intention has been, as some have indicated, to have two types of companies and one of the two just got postponed; or if the player-run companies were indeed slashed because its planning was defective, or because they are to be replaced by an even better mechanism, then I apologize to the undoubtedly overwhelmed Mr. Yoshida for seeming to jump the gun. That wasn't my intention either, I just want to state my conviction that the player base deserves the transparency and communicative clarity that could very well end all the "pointless speculation" you seem to be complaining about.

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