DB: Things are too quiet. We really need something to get the media excited about just before our launch next weekend.
MB: Well, we still have a few hundred mugs we can send out to them.
DB: No .. No .. We need to try something explosive .. something dangerous.
MB: Theres no way I am getting in that g-string again!
DB: In Fridays newsletter, I want you to slip in something quietly that will ruffle a few feathers.
MB: Ahhhhhh .. the Thargoids awaken .. I like it.
DB: No, Sweenys still struggling with their HOTAS grip.
DB: We need to break them down, before we can build them up.
MB: Huh?
DB: You sir, may be a imaginative writer, but your blind to your dark side. We tell them that something has been pulled ... umm, like that offline version.
DB: Then we sit back and wait.
MB: But we finished implementing that offline module even before the Beta started. Thats why we never tested it.
DB: Yes, but they don't know that. Then we sit back and enjoy the show.
MB: But that will be a disaster which will cause irreparable damage.
DB: Normally it would, but I have recently aquired a rather unique shinny artifact which can work PR miracles.
DB: Once a fews days have passed, the BBC will get aboard, and whip them into a frenzy, ready for us to strike!
DB: I can even get Drew to prepare a story on the disaster.
DB: <evil laugh> Our own private War of the Worlds!
DB: With the world's media attention focussed on us, at the official launch we announce a sincere apology and ask our loyal backers for forgiveness.
DB: We then inform them that we, through our own personal funds, will work night and day to ressurect the offline version before Christmas.
DB: We will be lauded beyond belief, and will be seen as Legends. You might also be knighted yourself, or at the very least be delivered a truckload of pizza.
MB: Thats so crazy, it might work.
DB: It is destined to work my dear fellow. Now get to work ... we have history to make.
Excellent fiction !