Fucking RTM scumbags. I used to kick dozens of them off the Madden boards 7 days a week. It’s bad enough they scam for essentially useless crap, but there’s plenty of them that act as launderers for actual crooks.

The only thing lower, really, is a damned gold farmer.

Speaking as someone working on a lot of the RPG material...we’re aware of the tropes of the time and how problematic they can be. But we’re also writing enormous sections in every book out there to accommodate the women who tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth beneath their sandaled feet...and there’s a mini-book…

Yep, that’s exactly it. RMTs - real-money transactors - are a fucking plague in gaming. They screw up the games for everyone, suck up a massive amount of resources to crush, and are usually hooked up with some form of crime. It’s not uncommon for RMTs to be laundering money for other operations.

Aw, poor baby. Getting paid, and paid well, to crush bugs like you was entirely worth it, little fake dev. Sure, you worked in half a dozen companies, know hundreds of devs. Sure you do. Because, y’know, if you did...you’d know exactly, precisely how banning works, given how small the industry truly is.

You cheated and…

Speaking as someone that was an EA admin, you’re entirely full of shit. You’re trying to pass off the consequences from a well-vetted, appeals-heavy process as some sort of arbitrary thing. You got caught, you got banned - quite possibly by me or one of my team - and you’re crying about it.

Suck it up, Buttercup. You…

Clearly, you’ve never actually worked in the industry. Nor are you someone that creates for a living. I’m both.

Art costs, sonny. Good art costs more. Burning your creatives and devs and engineers out produces shitty results.

So, I wonder what Ed Greenwod, who created the Realms, has to say on the topic:

“I am saddened by what I hear of the current kerfluffle raging about Siege of Dragonspear and the trans character Amber Scott designed and included in it.

Which you’re apparently ok with because it’s male-female...but heaven forfend you look away for cis-normative bumping uglies and have a guy mention he’s gay. Because that’s just icky.

Great, art showing a bunch of pre-teen girls in stay-up stockings. *barf*

Not true. Maxis was the studio responsible for turning Spore into what it ended up as. - says the guy that was SME for Maxis IP at EA.

No great shock here - that move's been planned for 5 years or more, and was only waiting on Maxis' exclusivity agreement to run out. That studio's been horribly managed since before The Sims 3 came out, and they were given the ultimatum back when Riccatello was in charge - stop pumping out shovelware or else.

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You mean TotalBiscuit who's been consistently a complete twit during the entire affair? The guy that supports adding Stormfront to the GamerGate, who pals around with a white supremacist, who claimed that threats weren't 'credible' unless someone got killed? Yeah, no.

Did you actually *read* the accounts of the guys reporting Sousa? They're scummy little manchildren upset because a woman's dared to apply academic criticism to video games. They even hit the GGer talking points - wah, Anita's not letting us 'comment' (harass), she doesn't know what she's talking about, 'ethics in…

So, GooberGaters are finally eating their own in a storm of misogyny and backbiting?

Older homes have insects, pests. Even a dropped and forgotten bit of food attracts the little bastards. It's double disgusting when they get into drawers. The answer?

That looks f'n horrible.

Speaking as a former EA employee - that's an excellent summary. JR was always at odds with guys like Gibreau, whose internal political BS finally forced Riccatello out.

This chucklefuck is an embarrassment to the state. For my fellow Texans, let's get out and vote so he doesn't become Perry 2.0, ok?

Wait, isn't that...Ernie Hudson? And the generic diner from XxX?