I think one of the biggest problems, objectively, is that gamers will take any comment relating to a game in-development as a promise. Often developers will share with gamers these exciting things they’re working on because they think it’s cool and interesting and they hope it will pan out and become part of the final…

That’s a gross exaggeration. For one there’s Google Compute as an alternative to AWS.

How do you figure? He asked if it would roll out globally at 00:01 GMT or if it would roll out at 00:01 in the respective time zones of the countries listed.

The appropriate term would really be ‘rebalanced’. But ‘downgrade’ or ‘nerf’ (with its heavily negative connotation) are more sensational so they’d probably use one of those.