Silence on the 22Cans forum

It sounds like you think we should feel bad for them for getting upset over them screwing us over. They got their cash by lying and so they made this bed and now they have to lie in it. It is really immature that they have to HIDE from their backers, because we are so scary to them. In the business world if you don't provide what you promise investors there are consequences. I respect EA for at last facing it's problems with it's players and owning up to it's shortcomings. I don't respect Godus for pulling up the drawbridge and hiding in their castle of silence. They are not children and there is no excuse for not handling this situation as adults do. I don't like what my patrons tell me sometimes in business, but you have to take the calls and answer them accordingly or soon won't have anymore patrons.

The internet is a tool, almost like a sword. It can be double edged. If you are going to use it as 22cans did to obtain their funds, then you should also be prepared for the downside to it. You should hire someone adept at managing people and you should know that anything you ever post on the internet stays there forever. If you promise X, you better provide it, or be prepared to account for why. You should know that people are more likely to not hold back via the internet and you should have contingency plans in plans for when things go awry. They have never provided a person like that.

It is not just the backers forum. They handled it so poorly that now they have people screaming at them at Steam and Facebook as well. They have repeatedly said they would provide something and then provided something different. They did not want to hear the input many many Alpha backers tried to give them, that had nothing to do with negativity. They yanked the Alpha away after only a few updates and very short period of time. They opened up for more backers conveniently just in time for Beta to now be available. Another brief period of time and they opened up Steam early access. Each time they did so, they ticked off the backer tier they screwed over by doing so.

As far as the delay and timing for game. I don't really have an issue with an actual delay. Stuff happens and you have to take the time you need to take. I never would have donated the amount I did I had known they were going to act this way. I also think that the game as it stands is nothing like any game most backers wanted. I think if they wanted backers for a F2P game, they should have been honest with the presentation of what the game was going to be.

Their next biggest mistake was trying to quiet the masses. The more you try to put out that fire, the hotter it will burn.

And here we have a woman making a good speech about responsibility to a more than a dozen grown men who should have responsibility in their instincts.
Bravo, Gray. Seriously, that's outstanding.

I am going to go off on a limb and say that this forum might help that stop that in both other places. We have promoted it enough on both other places and let all know that it exists. We did not sign any NDA, unlike the higher backers like the Mod at Steam (did you know that?) and so we can tell anyone anything we know. 

They are going to have a hard time hiding things when a place like this exists and so now there best PR move is to equal the playing field and tell everyone everything. If they don't more and more people will find other ways to spread the news. They cannot censor twitter, facebook, or youtube either. I said it on Steam and I will say it on here. Anything any none backer wants to know about our experience, please feel free to ask. Many of us will be happy to tell you.