Rom's Rants

Free-Roaming Hostility From A QA/Developer Perspective.

March 24, 2005

How to Lose Friends and Influence

In no particular order:

Be a district attorney and call the jurors that didn't see your way stupid.

Stop doing the main reason that people visit your site.

Suspend a student for showing the Internet that you broke a state law.

Target the weakest platform as your only platform after doing a strong multi-platform release of the previous game in the series.

Cancel a patch for a product after promising the patch for several months.

Show your students about "this one time, at band camp..."

Price-gouge your customers.

Alienate every single non-Mormon Internet user in your state while at the same time reducing the ability of hosting companies in your state borders to accept business. Of course, he could have just been trying to shut down Maddox...who knows?
Posted at 3/24/2005 08:30:00 AM
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