@PresidentCamacho
"would you not take accusations against business A from business B (when B is a heated rival facing increasing encroachments on what they see as “their” market) and its buddies with a pretty large chunk of salt? "
Before I make that presumption, what could be other factors that play into this? What are factors that do not play into this?
If it’s just PAS facilitating these skirmishes, why particularly against FA? Why not AS or Aki? I don’t know if this was part in doing by PAS claims on the KOWAL matter, but if I recall from Vin from Arcade Shock, a good buyer base shifted from Focus Attack to Arcade Shock after the KOWAL incident. (Now on my end, it’s my responsibility to check that claim/source and increase the level of certainty on that piece of information, right now it’s weak.) For the sake of argument, let’s presume that really was the case and part of the buyer base shifted from FA, but the buyer base “randomly” dispersed among the other vendors. PAS attacking FA doesn’t mean that the market lost to FA completely shifts to PAS, if anything both companies involved could lose face and the market shifts to uninvolved vendors.
The question from me is, why attack FA when it doesn’t guarantee one’s own increase in sales or financial success, and at the large risk of losing face and losing current patterns in sales? Why not instigate “slime chucking” (which is pretty loaded language; and loaded language in this instance not only defined as having an added emotional pretense, but loaded language defined as in using a word or claim that hasn’t been proven as true yet but used as if it was proven) against other companies to bring them all down? Is this too risky for PAS? Why even “slime chuck” at all? Was there a calculated and measured risk in “slime chucking” against a single or particular amount of companies? Were PAS willing to take that risk against an individual company? Did PAS even go through this thought process? Is this even relevant?
Also I find it pretty ironic, but I’m still thankful, for you to tell me to ignore the chatter and actually think things through. In doing so, I also have to be extremely mindful of you because you’re already coming off as unfairly biased for Focus Attack as well. Even with this post: “Ask yourself this: who has made slime chucking (both in pm and in public) and community peer pressure the cornerstones of their business, and who has made customer service the cornerstone of theirs? Which shows more integrity to you? In this specific attempt at stirring up a shitstorm, who exactly was making the dubious or misleading claim?”
You’re already framing the conversation and narrative, rather than how I tried to break it down to the fundamentals: What does it really mean to have vendor integrity? What are those standards? Do these companies/people fulfill these standards of vendor integrity?
So I am being careful. I really like the word “historia,” the idea of investigation via inquiry. Rather than making careless arguments, and arguments being claims backed by evidence and reasoning (regardless if the evidence/reasoning is solid), all I could really acknowledge is that I know nothing and all I can do is ask questions. There is no such thing as 100% certainty.
So besides “integrity.” All I know is that FA has GamerFinger PCB. PAS has black anodized aluminum parts. AS has the Kuro VLX. I buy them. I like honesty, but I do not know what are the perceived, clearly defined standards to have integrity as a vendor. That’s it.
Also watch out, I play KOF98. B)
