Shogun's response to patch campaign

[Quietus]

Perhaps you should try reading that dictionary some time because your vocabulary doesn't match the definitions. Sabotage is not used as an implement of improving something...it is used to destroy or otherwise hamper an organization. It's specific root is the use of the worker's wooden shoe, "sabot," to destroy manufacturing equipment in the early industrial age.

Blackmail also carries the connotation of extracting something undeserved from someone else with no benefit to the victim. A campaign to get a patch would hardly fit that criteria, since proper patching and support is of benefit to both parties. However, there is also the defined aspect of exposing some serious embarrassment or improper behaviour or criminal act of the victim--something unflattering that the victim wants to be kept secret. So you can take half credit and a very Pyrrhic victory since you and CA don't want CA's questionable support or the actual state of the game exposed to the general public.

Dictionary: Blackmail - "To coerce (into doing something) as by threats". The campaigners are trying to coerce CA into releasing a patch under threats of sabotaging the Amazon.com rating.
Dictionary: Sabotage - "The deliberate obstruction of or damage to any cause, movement, activity, effort, etc." Campaigners unfairly damaged the Amazon.com rating which function as the will of the collective reviewers NOT the will of the few (who gave RTW unreasonably low ratings for the purpose of blackmail).

Funny that you are trying to quantify the scale to suit your own needs. If you want to use a relative scale, then anything better than it would drop it from 5 star, making all the 5 star ratings bogus. As I said, I would have given it a 3, but I saw enouth BS 5 star ratings, that I added "weighting" to my score, much as many of the 5 stars seem to have done in the other direction. It is called "fighting fire with fire." There is nothing to prevent others from going in and putting in 5 star rankings... And many of the ratings on Amazon are 2 or 3 star, rather than 1. Your perspective is porked.

POWER TO THE CONSUMER!

I do not believe it deserves one star. However to offset the skew created by less informed posters that rate something 5 stars mainly because it looks good and they themselves lack a technical insights into the game or just basic understanding of things work it is a reasonable course of action. The end result should be 2.5 - all things being equal.

It is not for anyone to attenuate other people's reviews. Here's why:

• Point#1: Reviewer X1 gives RTW 5 stars. Reviewer X1 will review other games, cds, books or products accordingly to the same standard. Why?
  Reviewer X1's impetus/intention is pure = fair assessment = rating system works.
• Point#2: Reviewer X2 gives RTW 4 stars. Reviewer X2 will review other games, cds, books or products accordingly to the same standard. Why?
  Reviewer X2's impetus/intention is pure = fair assessment = rating system works.
• Point#3: Reviewer Y gives RTW 1 star. Reviewer Y will NOT review other games cds, books or products accordingly to the same standard. Why?
  Reviewer Y's impetus/intention is impure = unfair assessment = rating system tampered.
• Point#4: Reviewer Z gives RTW 2 stars. Reviewer Z's reasoning is to attenuate the impact of Reviewer X1's rating. Is Reviewer Z going to TRACK DOWN all the reviews of Reviewer X1 and attenuate all of them?? NO. NO. NO.
  Result = rating system for RTW is tampered.

When you do a review, you DON'T do it to attenuate other people's review. You DON'T do it to sabotage the rating as well. You do a fair assessment for potential buyers.

If you FEEL that RTW is rightfully 3-star not 5-star, then give it a 3-star rating, but not 1-star. The same people who give RTW 5-stars have pure intentions, thus their review for OTHER games will be in-line their review for RTW.

Lastly, again, nobody can justify this amazing scale:
* = RTW
** = ???
*** = ???
**** = ???
***** = ???