MobileGamer tells the truth

Carrie wasn't bad at all. The one thing she got hammered over was her telling the truth. To paraphrase:

Q: Do you expect that people will spend $4000 on this game?

A: Well, yes. People have done that in the past, so we expect that people will do that in the future.

She also went on to say that they don't want anyone to spend at a level that is uncomfortable for them. A bunch of people got bent out of shape because she said the equivalent of "We do expect that the sun will rise tomorrow," but they twisted her words to be something like, "We demand people get out their own chariots and drag the sun across the sky!"

She never said that you have to spend that much money, or that anyone has to spend that much money. Someone asked her if she expects that people would do that and, surprise! She spoke the truth according to the data.

I always thought that explosion was the weirdest thing ever. Her meaning was plain as day, but people insisted she meant something completely different.

And DOUBLE SECRET SURPRISE: She was right! people have admitted on these forums to spending hundreds on GA$. It is what it is. People spend money on this game. CG knows that, and they count on that. That's how they can afford to invest money to pay the salaries of the coders who got the game off the ground in the first place. Of course they expected people would spend money. If they didn't expect that, the game would never have existed in the first place.

But people decided to destroy her for saying only what was completely obvious, and now we as a community are surprised that no one at CG wants to wade into the shark pit and actually communicate with us.

(And don't get me wrong, they get paid a salary, so they should communicate with us even if we are a shark pit. But we sure as heck don't make it easy when we pillory people for stating verifiable facts.)