Not to be a smartass, but I admit I'm smirking that one or two who suggested to me that we must "keep the faith" are now the quickest to lose hope and discourage the rest. Maybe we all ought to post our personal timelines on which length and degree of hope is acceptable in all situations
More charitably/seriously... to my mind, the probability of an S4 by means of 110 is hardly different from what we were thinking two weeks ago, despite the excitement/disappointment for each of us individually. They continue to ebb and flow with their Shenmue likes on twitter, and they've teased more pointedly some possibilities of
something (key word) with Suzuki. I admit: if
that's a lie, their move is probably a bridge too far for maintaining professionalism.
Two points I keep in mind here:
a. The Dojo built much of this grand timeline for itself. (Not to rehash it, but even the "couple of weeks" literalism-- as a language teacher myself, I think it quite possible the 110 tweet manager doesn't speak English as a native language, and maybe the idiom could be lost for those desiring absolute prescriptive linguistics.)
b. The market, and likely 110 included, frankly doesn't care about our personal timelines of satisfaction. If anything, they profit from the built anticipation of us dogs biting our own (often self-inflicted) wounds. I don't respect that mentality at all, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist (or work).
TL;DR, I maintain what I've said all along: we've little to no confirmation, but the "copium vibes" of the thread don't change what 110 may or may not have been doing before the "hopium" was handed out in these parts. We may get S4, we may not; 110 may be assholes, they may not. That doesn't change simply because you ran out of hope three hours or ago or because you developed it 3 days ago.
