24th September 2003, 9:10 PM
Why wouldn't they have understood? If they were casual, they would just think it's the 4th in the series and they just couldn't ever find the first two (no confusion there, that's the truth). If they called to ask about the two they couldn't find, Square could just tell them they haven't been released in America yet. There's NOTHING to be confused about! No one would have ever viewed it as Square going "straight to 4", just like no one viewed Square as going "straight to 7". They would just think they somehow missed out on the previous ones, or (more likely) weren't really paying attention anyway and just would assume they exist since it's fairly obvious. No one was ever hanging on to every single action Square America did.
Don't be one of those people who say "I don't understand" where no understanding is even needed! I HATE that! "I tried finding it but the store was out" "But, I don't understand..." "WHAT'S TO UNDERSTAND??! FOR THE LOVE OF HINA, THE STORE WAS OUT! THAT'S IT! IT'S NOT A HARD CONCEPT!"
Really though, the only thing that would happen if they had called it 4 to start with is they would have found out just how many people were willing to get the previous two games so they'd know whether or not they should go ahead and release them. That's a bad thing... how?
Don't be one of those people who say "I don't understand" where no understanding is even needed! I HATE that! "I tried finding it but the store was out" "But, I don't understand..." "WHAT'S TO UNDERSTAND??! FOR THE LOVE OF HINA, THE STORE WAS OUT! THAT'S IT! IT'S NOT A HARD CONCEPT!"
Really though, the only thing that would happen if they had called it 4 to start with is they would have found out just how many people were willing to get the previous two games so they'd know whether or not they should go ahead and release them. That's a bad thing... how?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)