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(08-10-2013, 03:50 PM)Reppu Wrote: Snipety snip~Well, you may have missed my point as well. At no point did I state I was expecting them to change it or announce it right away, the chance for that has already passed, and now it's stuck in a situation that can't be rectified until at least after launch. I was just genuinely curious about if there was actually a case of it happening to a MMO because of the core differences between it being a service that happens to have it available and a single player title.
Really my opinion on the whole matter is that the best way to handle it would have been to just not bring it up in the first place. Just mention the marriage system and leave it at that saying more information would be given closer to it actually being released, a stalling answer, sure, but there is a reason we have those in the first place, and that is to avoid the situation it is currently in.
I'm frankly far too cynical a person to actually see them changing this for a while after it has actually been announced. It is now in a situation where it will create bad PR either way. When it comes down to it, I think the developers might be open to it, but this still leaves that major shareholders need to see it as profitable. If it was handled discreetly it wouldn't be too hard to manage, but once there is a PR storm about it, knowing there is bad PR for either choice, they have to be convinced that the profits from so-called "Pink money" is larger than the losses from people who have problems with it being allowed. In a western market I most certainly would very much say that I believe that to be the case currently, but I assume that it might be quite a bit harder to convince them of that in a country as conservative as Japan is. I'm honestly not even going to pretend I know nearly enough about Japanese culture to make an educated call on how that would fare over there.