Honestly my speculations, but I'm going to assume that it's just a ruse to get people to buy the ninja.

Like you said, Makeout Paradise Shikamaru becomes a sign-in ninja and I believe I heard that Playboy Sasuke becomes a chase ninja, whenever that gets updated.

The wording is super ambiguous on purpose. Sasuke and Shikamaru won't be coming back for events soon, but there'll be alternative ways to get them.

"So basically what this comes down to is that Gravity's friend needs to be removed from his position for thinking of the playerbase and being transparent instead of being manipulative."

Exactly.

Not particularly. But it would be preferable to the eventual backlash and outrage when people realized that PB Sasuke and Shikamaru would be unavailable after the fact.

Gravity's friend messed up, sure. But honestly, this would have all *n over if the dev just said: "PB Sasuke and MO Shikamaru will be unavailable after this week, until further notice. We're making some changes. More information to come." in the Events notice.

Sure, people would have still been upset, but not nearly as much as now.

The devs don't need to give any information as to why this change is happening. That's not what their job entails. The playerbase doesn't need to know about the inner workings of a company.

The devs should, however, tell us that a change is happening in the first place, especially when it directly affects us.

If this information had been known, say, during the Events notice, there would have been grumbles and complaints (there always are), but people would have been able to plan ahead and get adjusted to the news.
Having his information brought to us like this, through a whistle*er, catches the playerbase off guard. There's the initial question of whether this is legit, or not. And after that, questioning whether the devs would've ever released this information if it wasn't for the whistle*er. Some people start attacking the devs. Others defend them. The whole thing gets complicated and antagonistic.

Like, right now.
This post was last edited by DraconusNex at 2016-12-14 11:33