New Rule: Having It Both Ways

New Rule: If it is unfair for me as a writer to discuss your game because it is mid-beta and is therefore an unfinished product, you are not allowed as a developer to add that beta time to your final score when you are defending your company’s will to support their products. I don’t care if your game was in beta for eighteen months, if the game shuts down six months after launch then it will be considered having run for six months, not two years. The statement is bad PR all around because what you are essentially saying is that there was a period of time where you consider the game ripe for compliments but completely immune from criticism. It is like claiming you were in the lead for the first three hours in the Tour De France when really you just showed up early and the race hadn’t even started yet.

Now if you don’t mind, I have to head over to explain to my boss why the fact that not being scheduled or working shouldn’t stop those hours from being added to my payroll.