Arlo,
1.5 - 2 years in this game is getting a bit old. 3 years is about the shelf life, and your wish list posts tend to be based on boredom or revenge for getting gamed. Past that, we are anomalies, and HiTech is not targeting us for anything. None of this audience listens to him anymore, and constantly create posts to validate their personal opinions about everything he is failing at in their august opinions. Like Italian relatives over Christmas dinner who tell you exactly why you should serve their ages old recipes in your Sushi bar to bring in more customers. A restaurant is a restaurant after all.
And why would you change your product for old customers who are only occasional or none purchasers, or customers who have been around so long they do not represent a "target demographic"? And many of them are convinced they should be in your company management's strategy meetings because only they have the years of experience to save the product.
If HiTech were talking to any of these gentlemen behind the scenes about his company's future, they would have dropped out of this post by now. The only thing they are accomplishing is scaring away the odd random viewer who happened to find these forums.
If anything, their constant posting about this at any opportunity is helping to scare away new customers. Either they are shills for the competition or, they want revenge on HiTech for not listening to them over the years. Publicly airing these things if any of them have been turned down after privately communicating with HTC, is revenge however you slice it.
Will any of this negativity end with the release of AH3? I doubt it. They will find something new to not like. This is why we anomalies are not worth listening to as seriously past our "shelf life".
