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Originally Posted by Sweed
"When it's tested and ready" actually years ago was the standard response from Steve Kuffrey, OOTP employee, when asked about release of either full version of newest OOTP or any subsequent patches. Not saying someone wasn't being nasty while using the phrase but you will want to take it in the context of their post and the thread. It is an old inside joke so if followed with a smile or if not starting or ending a nasty post it was probably meant in jest. So, the company did use the tested and ready line itself, sometimes in fun and sometimes to someone that badgered the board when the question had already been answered with as much accuracy as possible, ie "spring 20XX".
This is a good topic though started by Chris and is much overdue. There are certainly some folks here that need to be reigned in, no different than most boards I visit on the net. Good to see OOTP try to get a handle on the problem.
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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
Rowf! Bow wow wow! Grrrrr. (No wait, that last one is mgom's.) 
Yes, technically correct. The trouble is, noobs don't know that history and standard practice and are liable to take it as curt dismissal. I'm not saying to bend over backwards for them, but unless they are acting ornery, we should go out of our way to welcome them for the sake of OOTP (their game, not necessarily their profits, but they are correlated!). |
Which is why I took the time to explain it should be taken in context. The poster said himself that ,paraphrasing now, nobody from OOTP would have ever answered a question that way and so IMO was taking it as an insult. I hoped the original poster that brought it up might come back and read my post and find out the history of the phrase. Perhaps in doing so he may find there was no intent to insult in whatever post he happened to see the remark.