(Gamescom) Inequality on "Battle Challenge" Runs

[SturmChurro]

I suspect, as you started early, they were interested in keeping to (or ahead of) schedule. Get to the end, and they want to fill in time. But yes, if they can change rules as they go along to better fill their schedule they should say so, and they certainly shouldn't be pretending none of it happened.

This quote is particularly unforgivable:

Briefly another SE employee came by and told us that "if something like that happened" (again pretty much implying it didn't) then they were "very lucky" and we should "be grateful we got to play at all".

I guess it's like community, like devs. To me it is extremely passive-aggressive, and unprofessional.

Devs and consumers are not a one-sided relationship, and consumers shouldn't be "grateful" for everything. We pay for a product, in that case I assume people may have paid for tickets, hotel, etc... Devs nowadays seem to have forgotten WE, as consumers, are the reason they have a job. If we decided to stop buying their products, they would learn very quickly.

I wasn't even originally talking about community reps. I was replying to someone saying the devs had an antagonistic outlook towards their players recently. Someone took my response and turned it into an argument over community reps.

Then you are assuming that professional behavior doesn't apply to the average dev? It does. They represent the company whether they like it or not, whether they have a blue checkmark or not.