Scooter, on 15 Jan 2014 - 1:10 PM, said:
No. This is a situation in which the "majority opinion" does not get to dictate whether another group of people are offended or not. When our fans come to us and tell us they are offended by some of the decisions we made, we take a look, and we see what we can do to fix it (with the limited resources we have available to us). You don't get to say "Well I'm not offended, so how dare you change this," and you don't get to say "Most people liked it the way it was so you should change it back." A not-insignificant number of people got in touch with us and let us know their disappointment in us, and we reacted to it.
I'm honestly disgusted by the majority of the conversation in this thread, and I am disappointed in those of you who have chosen to engage in an extremely inappropriate manner. A lot of that is admittedly our fault in not monitoring the thread more closely, but I refuse to take full credit for the tone and content of the posts here.
I'm going to be watching this thread very closely over the coming days, so everyone should think very strongly before choosing to post in this thread again. I will not hesitate to ban those of you who choose to speak flippantly about the topic, or about those people who choose to voice their feedback constructively.