May I see your employees' badge, please?
Dear certain overzealous fans of a certain videogame franchise:

Speculation about new details is one of our favorite hobbies right now. The company is stringing us along and having WAY too much fun doing it, so we're having a great time guessing who and what is coming next. Here's the thing, though.

It's guessing.

Yes. Guessing. That means you don't know what will or won't happen any more than I do. The only entity who actually knows what's fact and what's speculation is the company itself, and until I see you fork out photo proof of employment at that company -- which I know damn well you don't have -- then I'm going to be forced to conclude you're talking out of your ass.

We're all guessing. All of us. That means everyone else's guesses are just as valid as yours. So could you please shut the fuck up about what WILL or WON'T happen? You don't know any more than any of the rest of us, so stop presenting yourselves as almighty authorities.

Christ. Can't we all have fun guessing without anyone trying to be more right than everyone else?

No love whatsoever,
Tez

Not to mention that one of your pieces of 'evidence' as to why X item won't happen was never officially announced anyway so even THAT is speculation...

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	shinysandals 2011-01-12 03:10 pm UTC (link)
	This game franchise wouldn't happen to involve ancient prophetic scrolls and a humongous dragon, would it? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tez 2011-01-12 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, actually, but that isn't the first thing people think of when they consider it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jira 2011-01-12 09:09 pm UTC (link)
	Does it involve yellow and blue holes? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iczer6 2011-01-12 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	What about cities in the sky? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tez 2011-01-13 12:14 am UTC (link)
	No yellow and blue holes, no cities in the sky. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iczer6 2011-01-13 09:21 am UTC (link)
	Awwwww. (Reply to this)(Parent)

sockpuppeteer
2011-01-12 06:47 pm UTC (link)

Here is the thing. If one of the actual game makers showed up and spilled the beans, they would not even be given time to clear out their desk. Their ass would be fired and sued at the same time.

The NDA (Non-disclosure Agreement) that they sign before they can start the game (which EVERYONE who sees the material has to sign) has very little wiggle room in it for a reason.

Now they may drop a hint or two but everyone on the inside is in on what is being released.

signed-
Someone who has worked entirely too many electronic conventions over the years

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tez
2011-01-12 06:53 pm UTC (link)

Oh I know -- that's actually already happened once. One of the voice actors spilled the beans about his involvement several weeks before the character he was voicing was even revealed; next thing we knew, he'd been rather abruptly replaced.

It's more that I'm annoyed as fuck that people are presenting themselves as total experts when they don't actually KNOW a damn thing. I'm not egotistical enough to think all my guesses are dead right, but I have an issue with being told I'm totally wrong by people with no more information than I have. I could well be totally wrong, but so could they, and no one guess is any more valid than another.

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	sockpuppeteer 2011-01-12 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	I understand your annoyance. Know it Alls who know nothing are the bane of the InterWeb (Reply to this)(Parent)

beejium
2011-01-14 03:50 am UTC (link)

Ahh, I'm well aware of this particular beast. There's always at least one who decides that for some arbitrary reason (they've been on the forum longer, they feel they're smarter, they are a ~true fan~) that their wild ass guesses are more legitimate than anyone else's wild ass guesses.

I remember once, people were getting so serious about their own baseless guesses about an upcoming episode of a certain British scifi show that they were actually telling people their theories didn't make sense because they didn't mesh with the poster's wild ass guesses. There's a reason I don't go to certain message base- er, I mean- boards anymore...

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tez
2011-01-14 04:12 am UTC (link)

Wow, that sounds REALLY FAMILIAR. There are four people in particular that I can think of that have made a habit out of telling everyone else their guesses are wrong because they're not the same guesses. I actually had one of them tell me omg you are setting your hopes too high and you are going to be disappointed when all I was saying was 'dude, there is no guarantee that what you are saying will happen'. Because clearly, if anyone is guessing anything other than what this dear person was guessing, they're wrong and their sights are set too high. Or...something.

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