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Not really. The time was cut down to about half outside as well.

He didn't lose his right for freedom of speech. He said what he said and it was his opinion. All good with that.
Now the problem arose when the decision makers in the company found that what this CEO said is bad for the company's reputation.

I don't know the exact details of all of this and how 'private' this conversation was, but I agree with someone who said that something that a public figure says is almost always public (usually unless spoken to a friend or family member). Therefore the public statement made the company look bad (at least in the eyes of the other people working there), which lead to him stepping back (or getting fired, whichever it was).

He was still allowed to express and have his own opinion. But being a public figure, he will still represent the company whether it's an official press conference of said company or something else. People who don't know him still recognize him as the CEO of that company before anything else.

While some people might want the 'authentic 2.5 experiene', it is probably not the majority. There have been numerous polls asking whether people want a change (such as shorter flash times for example) and the devs here have gone with the majority. Therefore the majority has wanted a change towards 2.8.5 style gameplay instead of the "authentic 2.5 experience".

Homey woke up. Here's what he wrote on Battletracker as an answer to your question, ELiZ:

Yes it will. We are still using a lot of their services, for example all our "master serverlists" are synced with gamespy ... also games like AAO still use GameSpy Query that we need to track the stats. I am not sure what will happen when they shut down their services, we have to see ...

Unsure if it will cause any bad problems that we can not solve, too early to say that. With some luck we can find solutions for everything

(here)

Yes, it is highly dependent on culture and the society you one lives in.

However, it's not as straight forward as that.

For example, where I live (Estonia), the age of consent is 14, but the average age of people going to college is actually 19. So the same principles do not always work.
Don't get me wrong, you're probably right to some extent, DarkShooter, but it's not such a simple subject.

The age of consent will always be a difficult subject though. There's a difference between a 15 y/o having intercourse with a 17 y/o, and a 13 y/o having sex with a 22 y/o.

Of course there's a difference there, there's a far greater gap in years in those.

What I would argue is that there's a difference between a 16 y/o and a 14 y/o having intercourse vs a 25 (or more) y/o and 16 (or less) y/o having intercourse, which is (apparently) perfectly legal here in Estonia.


I don't really know where I'm trying to go with this, but I guess I'm trying to say that it's more complicated than any of us could probably think of and different countries have gone different ways in addressing the same problem. The reasons are probably often historical (for example, for Estonia getting out of Soviet occupation meant we wanted to change a lot of the laws just because we wanted them to differ from our former oppressor).


And DarkShooter, don't say your opinion doesn't matter. It always matters, be it part of the majority or minority.

Hello,Before I answer your post, please let me know where you live, Country and or State, here or via PM. I want to take a look at something first.

Steve

This should answer it (provided his country is correct there and looking at his IP it probably is):
http://battletracker.com/playerstats/aao/158735/mortiferus.ares/

I just activated your account.

Hope you enjoy the game