Our spate of follow-ups this morning continues, the next comes from the folks who posted that Final Unreal Patch Petition yesterday (story), who point out that Epic's Tim Sweeney himself has made a post to the PlanetCrap messageboards praising the petition, and giving good news for those eager for the patch it is asking for:

Some of these petitions are really good ideas.

A bunch of gamers saying "we are your customers, and we believe you should do the following to support your product..." is way more effective than randomly slamming companies and products on message boards. When looking at flames, it can be hard to distinguish good ideas from maniacal rants. But a petition shows well-thought-out, widespread public support for a cause.

Game developers who ignore this kind of thing do so at great risk.

The Unreal patch petition is certainly the #1 issue on our radar screen at Epic right now.

No, we're not issuing a response to the petition...after all, the petition wasn't asking us to put out a press release talking about what we're going to do, it's asking us to FINISH AND RELEASE THE DAMN PATCH, so...

-Tim