The Pessimist Shoots His Mouth Off
First, let's get one thing straight: online petitions are worthless. When Milhouse suggested "Let's post this on the internet!" Bart Simpson responded, "No, we need to reach someone whose opinions matter!" That's just how any big corporation feels. Sites like PetitionOnline.com have made it so easy that any idiot can create a petition. A flood of petitions has been created, with demands ranging from "show only subtitled anime on tv! toonami sux!!!!!1" to "dear nintendo make mario for dreamcast". Assuming anyone ever bothers to send these to their intended recipients, companies are bombarded with petitions, most of which are stupid and not worth reading. In addition, online petitions are easy to fake. Having a few people make a bunch of fake signatures is hardly a challenge. Whether your petition is stupid or if you cheated on it does not matter, any company not interested in wasting its time will automatically assume you're guilty of both.
But that's enough reality, let's move on to the good stuff: hypothetical situations. Say Nintendo Company Ltd. (NCL) actually did acknowledge our existence. They send reidman a letter saying that they would love to make Mother 3, and that a North American release is a definite possibility when it's done. That's all well and good, but it doesn't do jack if the big man, Shigesato Itoi won't be doing it. He said in an interview, before the Mother 3 cancellation, "At this point a Mother 4 is completely out of the question, the development team would hang themselves." If they have no interest in making a Mother 4 after Mother 3, the chances of making a Mother 3 after Mother 2 aren't too good either.
I apologize to reidman, and all of those working so hard on this for my pessimism. I understand that, as reidman said, this is "a buttload of work." But I do not measure an effort by the "buttloads" that go into it, but by those that come out of it.
First, let's get one thing straight: online petitions are worthless. When Milhouse suggested "Let's post this on the internet!" Bart Simpson responded, "No, we need to reach someone whose opinions matter!" That's just how any big corporation feels. Sites like PetitionOnline.com have made it so easy that any idiot can create a petition. A flood of petitions has been created, with demands ranging from "show only subtitled anime on tv! toonami sux!!!!!1" to "dear nintendo make mario for dreamcast". Assuming anyone ever bothers to send these to their intended recipients, companies are bombarded with petitions, most of which are stupid and not worth reading. In addition, online petitions are easy to fake. Having a few people make a bunch of fake signatures is hardly a challenge. Whether your petition is stupid or if you cheated on it does not matter, any company not interested in wasting its time will automatically assume you're guilty of both.
But that's enough reality, let's move on to the good stuff: hypothetical situations. Say Nintendo Company Ltd. (NCL) actually did acknowledge our existence. They send reidman a letter saying that they would love to make Mother 3, and that a North American release is a definite possibility when it's done. That's all well and good, but it doesn't do jack if the big man, Shigesato Itoi won't be doing it. He said in an interview, before the Mother 3 cancellation, "At this point a Mother 4 is completely out of the question, the development team would hang themselves." If they have no interest in making a Mother 4 after Mother 3, the chances of making a Mother 3 after Mother 2 aren't too good either.
I apologize to reidman, and all of those working so hard on this for my pessimism. I understand that, as reidman said, this is "a buttload of work." But I do not measure an effort by the "buttloads" that go into it, but by those that come out of it.
