My two crowns?
can something be demeaning if it's true?
That's probably a bit more philosophical then intended, but I'm going to say... yes, if Three Rings aren't/weren't aware of the reasons people are demeaning them for, or they are/were and they don't/didn't want to acknowledge it. It's not as bad for the former, but the latter...
I mean, you cannot tell me that that thread is not solely about spoilers, test server content, and getting reactions from people that have not been on the server and cannot give any feedback. But it's not ok when other people do it with things OOO knows the whole community will be against?
The threads getting locked were created before that particular thread... including Nick's thread about all the stuff in the test sever that was posted in GD, which seemed to snowball from there.
I'm not entirely sure why Three Rings have created this new thread, although it's probably an attempt to lessen the impact of their recent actions, although that's just speculation and probably very wrong, considering my track record.
Just gonna ignore some people from now on.
@Orangeo
I see your point, generally. In this case I would say their actions are rather cowardly, so can something be demeaning if it's true? Perhaps the thing that confuses me most, and set me off in the first place, is their recent actions. No, any game worth it's salt knows how to shrug off unwarranted criticism. Crappy games will shrug off warranted as well. But OOO has never before reacted the way they did recently. They didn't even lock and GY threads back in the binding patch days when literally half the forum community went through the ceiling and was all but cussing them out.
These particular reasons they use don't make that much sense either given that this thread exists in GenDisc and was started by OOO staff:
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/83954
I mean, you cannot tell me that that thread is not solely about spoilers, test server content, and getting reactions from people that have not been on the server and cannot give any feedback. But it's not ok when other people do it with things OOO knows the whole community will be against?