Those guys are national treasures where i come from. Canadians use the word sorry, then feel bad about having to do so.
In Canada sorry means; I understand what you feel caused by what i did/said and i will try to not repeat my behavior.
Other places use it more like; Shut up about it untill i do it again then repeat that behaviour when i do it again. Forever. Thanks!
Which one do you feel FC represents?
Thereâs also the âsorry, eh?â you get from your athletic sister, after she skis right over the back of your snowboard, causing you to tumble down the slope like a cartwheel. The tone of voice and the crease in her brow say âthatâs what you get for cutting in front of me.â
I think Funcom uses it, depending on the personnel, with varying degrees of empathy and/or sympathy. For instance, I just saw one from Andy in the PC section. I know for sure Andy means it. 
Ya, Iâm fairly sure there aware of there game state⊠they could ânotâ say Sorry, but they do.
Iâm angry in moment⊠then its goes away.
Like alot of above, My counter point to some of it⊠I hate wasting my time. Losing 1000-2000hour saves, for multi games has happen to me few times.
Maybe few Iâd never go back. Losing Ogre Battle save killed me⊠Dragon Warrior III(GB which had shiny medals added on)
That broke me⊠never played my gameboy again after that.
Lost my Main Base to to few of major updates, Not even do to no build zones. Just start up game, and listening to everything break and crumble during load screen.
UghâŠ
I keep my Main Character save from day 1 around⊠in hopes of her finishing last 3 Steps.
I use another PSN to restart almost every week⊠I havnt loaded main save in long time. I know full well, My base around Oasis is gonna go poofâŠ
Waiting for that Update for SP, kinda knowing itâll never come.
Oh, shŃt, I had no idea that only Canadians knew how to apologize 
All jokes aside, those âother placesâ arenât nearly as homogeneous as you imply here 
Iâve lived in Serbia, Chile, and United States. One of the things that I found very weird in the US was how they use âsorryâ. Someone would ask me how I was, I would tell them I couldnât sleep last night because your neighborâs dog wouldnât stop barking at squirrels, and they would reply âIâm so sorry!â And my first thought used to be âwhy is this person sorry, theyâre not my neighborâ, but then I realized my mistake.
I donât know what itâs like in the rest of the world, but here in the US itâs common for people to say âIâm sorryâ because they empathize with you, not because theyâre apologizing. It seemed weird to me, because my brain was incorrectly translating every occurrence of âIâm sorryâ to âI apologizeâ.
Neither. First, itâs a false dichotomy â thereâs more than the two answers you present there.
But more importantly, Funcom is a corporation. People anthropomorphize corporations all the time and then get outraged when a corporation doesnât behave like a person.
When a company says âwe are sorryâ or âwe apologizeâ, the only thing it means is that they acknowledge that whatever happened is their fault. No matter how the people inside a company actually feel, no matter whether itâs the companyâs fault or not, a company will not apologize for something if it could legally harm them. Theyâll use weasel words like âwe are sorry you feel that wayâ.
An apology, even coming from a person, doesnât necessarily mean anything more than the acknowledgment of something they did wrong. Different cultures have different standards for what else it might imply, but the minimum is just an acknowledgment. And a company is not a person, itâs a legal entity, so their apologies are always just that minimum.
Thatâs just the way things work in our society. Complaining about it is kinda like being outraged that the customer service specialist ended your call with âhave a nice dayâ even though you know they donât give a shŃt about you.
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