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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
.......I am tired of the delays and the excuses. It is one big game and I am sick of how JKR is treating her fans. I am reaching an irrational level of anger and starting to question why I should bother to buy the books.
I would argue that it is ethically and morally correct but then I tend to feel that paying for crappy service is a bad idea. The regular leaks that the books were going to be released then they wouldn't be. Then they will be but on her terms on October. Now they will be on her terms sometime in 2012.
If her team was so out of it to not realize how many people were going to want to access Pottermore that it cannot handle the number of Beta testers then they should be fired for plain incompotence (sp). All you have to do is look at the ticket sales, game sales, and book sales to know that the number of folks wanting to participate was going to be insanely high and prepare for that. They could control the number of beta testers and have still managed to screw it up.
I am sorry, but this type of gross incompentence pisses me off. Open the store on a different server and let people buy the books or sell them through regular channels but stop jerking people around.
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Hear we go again.... bloody Rowling stabbing her devotees, who she secretly despises, in the back again, I don't know......
The problems are, almost sadly, not the result of the author and a computer/marketing coven gathering in a dark room and plotting how they can mess you up by spitefully tossing your toys out of your pram, unbelievable as that may sound.
It seems a result of trying to get a very complicated digital enterprise running smoothly - and we all know how brilliantly easy it is to get any sort of a digital
anything operating with 100% success first time, don't we.....
Everyone really knew they should have got you in at the start, so it could be done right, but, hey, you experts are so hard to track down just when you're needed.
However...
"I am reaching an irrational level of anger and starting to question why I should bother to buy the books.I would argue that it is ethically and morally correct but then I tend to feel that paying for crappy service is a bad idea. "
I'm sorry, but I don't
quite get what you getting irrationally angry, has to do with anything being ethically and morally correct - you're on a different philosophical planet there, I'm afraid....
However, I am sure the wicked, scheming lady has been shaken by your theat not to buy the books.
Still, won't be a disaster though, will it, 'cos people - apart from your good self, of course - will buy the books anyway.
Still, you'll have shown her what's what, eh ?
