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| RickPowers:
The Truth about Internet Petitions |
| Termin8Anakin:
Well, I wasn't surprised at all about this. I knew they wouldn't have made a difference, but who would have known that people make money outta this? Hmm, that's why I guess forums like this are more effective, since some industry insiders actually use them, like good 'ole Denis Dyack, and the DivX chick. If only Miyamoto-san was here. Imagine the screams of joy if people at a forum found out Miyamoto-san was talking to them. I do agree though how they say the petitions are a way of letting off steam. So many people signed the petition to bring the Zelda bonus discs to Australia. Did it work? Maybe. Perhaps NAL were going to bring it here anyway, perhaps they read the petition and said yeah they will, we'll never know. |
| mouse_clicker:
We didn't need to read a 1,800 word essay on why internet petitions won't change the world- we already knew that. People sign petitions because it's quick and easy and the people it's aimed at just MIGHT take notice- unlikely, but it's happened before with internet petitions. |
| Grey Ninja:
Yeah, I think we all know that e-petitions are a waste of time for all concerned, but it does help us a little bit in venting our anxiety, such as signing that blasted Mother 3 petition. We all knew that Nintendo would eventually make the game, we all knew that it didn't matter whether we signed the petition once, twice, or not at all. Yet we still felt better putting our name down on the list. |
| mouse_clicker:
Actually, you couldn't sign the Mother 3 petition twice. Well, you could try, but they had people who individually went through each and every single one of the 3,338 signatures and got rid of any one they thought was unnacceptable. It's possible that a few repeat signatures slipped by StarMen.net, but there were many more signatures that didn't even get through that would have made up for it. Internet petitions don't get credence because it's so easy to tip the balance- StarmMen.net's Mother 3 petition was an example of how a real petition should be handled via the internet. They shipped the petition off to Nintendo the day the Mother 1+2 commercials started airing in Japan, though, so I guess they didn't really need it. |
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