I was going to give this thread a hundred points, but then I saw The Great One mentioned, so I have to give it a thousand . . . nay, a million points.
This thread marks the dawn of a great new day for the world we know.
Oh my, two of my favorite alliances in the world makin' it legal!
Congrats, guys. Hope your announcement doesn't get buried too deep in the pile considering everything else that's going on.
Look at it from their point of view. I wouldn't say "good job" to someone if they finally untied me and let me out of their basement.
Anyhow, I don't really care at this point why these practices are changing. I'm just glad they are. It transcends in-game politics, and maybe people can start treating this game like it's a game again.
I accepted the wording as being written in an in-character way. If I'm wrong and they were using those words to try to lawyer their way out of this later, then certainly someone will call them out on that.