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Les Toreadors
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@burpie – Yeah I guess the ‘corporate policy’ in place @ Community doesn’t allow them to engage with people more directly, or to take a more proactive stance in massed communications. There are just about two styles of MC I notice throughout my working life.

One is about engaging people up front and controlling expectations by quality active initiatives. (aka, for instance by saying thank you to avoid a “dead and silent” ending)

The other involves saying as little as possible to reduce liability.

To be fair Option Two is far easier to manage and doesn’t create issues of occasional drama. But it’s less “professional”, so to speak.

And Option One generally requires a mature playerbase/community to work right. If 99% of comments on Rovio Facebook pages involve asking for updates 2 hours after one has just been released, then that might be the reason why the less risky strategy was chosen. Rovio knows what they’re doing, that much is obvious, and they’re usually months or years ahead of what we know from rumors and filtered down information. I’m just trying to point out it’s not necessary to impose an information embargo when there are people and communities out there (like the good folk at ABN) who manage consumer expectations within their own following. More news is better than no news and then a cover-up semi-automated copy/paste reply.