After reading rogue’s response and thinking about it… i’m just not buying it man…
Don’t get me wrong, but this entire letter from Rogue seems like self-pity.
i mean, sure, they made a valid point by saying that they were getting tugged into a financial sinkhole due to the cost of the servers.
They did also at least try to do SOMETHING and they did fix the global chat. People out here saying Rogue did nothing for VG, but being a small, not so well-known company and taking up one of the former biggest mobile games into your own hands… Yes, it’s HARD.
The coronavirus argument… ehh, you know, seems like something to say as an extra backup to use the situation in your favor, but i’m no Rogue CEO and nor am i an expert, so i’ll take their word for it.
Now comes the part that made me go 180 degrees on this bad boy. Vainglory all stars… They say one of the reasons is because VGAS appears to be a competitor, which might endanger vainglory’s future as in revenue and etc?
Did you even see that thing?
I don’t want to come off as a mean guy, and i know it’s a very early alpha, but that thing looks awful. Why, Why would it even come closer to competing to a seemingly monster game, of entirely different genre, which is vainglory?
and they have highlighted this information in RED TEXT. Don’t know if that’s because they wanna intentionally emphasize on that BS, as if telling us: " Oh no guys, look, a new vainglory related game, well guess we ded now, abandon ship, blame that thing ", or maybe it’s just because i’m delusional and ramping things up a notch.
and of course, the last part…:
“With the project now in the hands of SEMC once again, we trust that their decisions, like the [recent announcement of “Community Edition”] and Vainglory All Stars, will take the franchise to the next level. We’ll be watching from the sidelines and hoping for the best.”
taking the franchise to another level? my man, you literally put a bullet in its head, this empathetic text comes off as nothing more than corporate cringe in attempt for PR to save their face.
Man, that was long but i had to write this.
As i said in the beginning, i just don’t buy this… i really don’t.