Yeah that wasn't exceptionally clear in your first post where you talk about being made to pre-order a set. As well as continual talking about how it breaks the trend of sets being legal upon release.
From the way I read your post the screw up was just disallowing this set. It wasn't the conveying the message along with a "Why" that I read your post as taking issue with.
As I mentioned at some point in my post that yes I agree leaving the announcement solely to an unofficial forum is a bad idea. I did also however say I'd be forgiving if by end of day they made the announcement on their own site. For all the general population knows this is one of those things set to auto-update at X:00 o'clock. Much like the CP structure being announced after business hours of TPCi. The difference being this time is PTOs/TOs may have been given the "Look this is being said on our site at 9:00 EST/6:00 PST tonight, but if you want to pass this along to your players go ahead." Again I do agree that if it NEVER makes it onto the main site it is a poor decision.
It is less than ideal that this mini-set isn't legal as it goes against their rule of street date legal (again this being the exception not the rule.) However as has been said time and again competitive player base isn't the target market. Why would I bring this up? The announcement they haven't made on their site isn't going to affect the target audience's choice to purchase this product. Now I do understand as I'm guilty of doing this, you (the general) would order a product with the full intent of being able to play it right away and of course should be fully disappointed if you couldn't.
I feel in your initial post you looked at the things that went wrong more than the way these things came about being known. It very well could just be me there.
I think most people will agree that it was poorly executed how announcements are timed. I think it's a dead horse topic however. I feel there are other threads you could have bumped to say "Here is another example of a lack of announcing things in an inappropriate manner." That's not to say you don't have a right to post your opinion, but for me when you start a new thread to complain about a new announcement I'm going to guess the complaint is the new topic not the old topic that has been beaten to death time on end.
In my opinion the decision of legality for regionals is safe to be unsaid until Oct 5th when the set is released. Now I do think it is odd that there is no official DV page on pokemon.com where this news can be said. I will also say it will be strange that it's not until Oct 12th that they say DV is not legal on the official site. Letting it be said on an unofficial forum early? It's clear that TPCi and the Gym are good buddies, so they could very easily just be rewarding loyalty to a site they are behind.
While I can't say this is the reason for this, but I always took the disclaimer at the bottom of the site to mean that if any bit of PokeGym staff posted something controversial it is not directly reflective of TPCi's thoughts and ideology. It is convenient yes that they tend to see eye to eye on most things.
From the way I read your post the screw up was just disallowing this set. It wasn't the conveying the message along with a "Why" that I read your post as taking issue with.
As I mentioned at some point in my post that yes I agree leaving the announcement solely to an unofficial forum is a bad idea. I did also however say I'd be forgiving if by end of day they made the announcement on their own site. For all the general population knows this is one of those things set to auto-update at X:00 o'clock. Much like the CP structure being announced after business hours of TPCi. The difference being this time is PTOs/TOs may have been given the "Look this is being said on our site at 9:00 EST/6:00 PST tonight, but if you want to pass this along to your players go ahead." Again I do agree that if it NEVER makes it onto the main site it is a poor decision.
It is less than ideal that this mini-set isn't legal as it goes against their rule of street date legal (again this being the exception not the rule.) However as has been said time and again competitive player base isn't the target market. Why would I bring this up? The announcement they haven't made on their site isn't going to affect the target audience's choice to purchase this product. Now I do understand as I'm guilty of doing this, you (the general) would order a product with the full intent of being able to play it right away and of course should be fully disappointed if you couldn't.
I feel in your initial post you looked at the things that went wrong more than the way these things came about being known. It very well could just be me there.
I think most people will agree that it was poorly executed how announcements are timed. I think it's a dead horse topic however. I feel there are other threads you could have bumped to say "Here is another example of a lack of announcing things in an inappropriate manner." That's not to say you don't have a right to post your opinion, but for me when you start a new thread to complain about a new announcement I'm going to guess the complaint is the new topic not the old topic that has been beaten to death time on end.
In my opinion the decision of legality for regionals is safe to be unsaid until Oct 5th when the set is released. Now I do think it is odd that there is no official DV page on pokemon.com where this news can be said. I will also say it will be strange that it's not until Oct 12th that they say DV is not legal on the official site. Letting it be said on an unofficial forum early? It's clear that TPCi and the Gym are good buddies, so they could very easily just be rewarding loyalty to a site they are behind.
While I can't say this is the reason for this, but I always took the disclaimer at the bottom of the site to mean that if any bit of PokeGym staff posted something controversial it is not directly reflective of TPCi's thoughts and ideology. It is convenient yes that they tend to see eye to eye on most things.
Anyone know where the Careers section of the website can be found?
