Quote Originally Posted by Astronis View Post
You recognize that a lot of the player base is ridiculous and will hold a grudge for years over a misunderstanding, and yet you wonder why they would communicate vaguely to us but have a working relationship with their business partners that is concrete? I'm going to go ahead and assume because their business partners aren't, as a whole and in general, ridiculous people who would hold a grudge for years over a misunderstanding.

SE can control who they partner with to do business. They can't control the people who buy their product--and a lot of us, no one in their right mind would ever, ever, do business with.
You have a dimmer view of players than I do, but even if you're right, the solution is not to create grey areas that lead to misunderstandings and thus grudges. Quite the reverse.

Treating customers as annoying miscreants who are messing up an otherwise well-oiled machine is how we got in this mess.