So the whole reason my annoyance at this whole mess began was because of this post from February 2011:
http://boardgamegeek.com/article/6286314#6286314
Hey, here's what I take away from this! Don't tell people stuff, because there may be stuff you don't know that means you're wrong, and that will piss people off more than no information at all will.
Actually... as much as people keep telling you to not to take things the way they don't want you to take it, I think this actually might be exactly the right take-away message. If the first we'd heard about this was, say, a few weeks before a beta, followed by a couple of months of beta, I don't think the resentment would have had time to build. Major software companies don't announce a product 18 months in advance without something to actually show--and those that do usually do not end well (See: Daikatana; Duke Nukem Forever). Hindsight's 20/20 I suppose, but I was apparently complaining about lack of screenshots/feature list when in fact there were no programmers at all, and no contract! That's how bad the communication was!
Cue someone to say how ungrateful of me this is!
Lol, yeah.
Recently though I haven't even been bothered enough about Dominion to even think of going to Isotropic to play the game. I think the reason for that is because I'm spending my time here reading the forums and there's no interesting Dominion discussion. There's just whining and moaning about Isotropic closing and being replaced by an official product, which, as Kirian quite handily pointed out, WE'VE KNOWN ABOUT FOR THE LAST 18 MONTHS.
Man, whining about people whining is pretty meta. Maybe you should starrt a discussion? That said, about 80% of the posts recently were in the preview threads, which went to like 10 pages
each!
One of the places I'm coming from here: I run an entire subforum here, and I
can't do anything with it due to the current unknowns. That particular subforum produces a lot of discussion about some interesting games if you're willing to read it! But for now it produces nothing. And the new place isn't tournament ready yet.