I don’t mean this as an attack... But you should consider seeking a mental health professional. I haven’t read through your post that apparently brought on the swatting, but have read your replies here.

Okay, so are you going to stop using your identifiable details in your online presence now? This all sounds dangerous.

What the fuck this is a wild ride. If I see a name on the internet I just presume it’s an alias or a fake - real-sounding or not, because some people are like that - so the fact they had to hope you used your real name to do this shit... Wild.

If you can get a subpoena or equivalent to send to G/O Media they’ll have to give up any info they have. Other than that they’re not going to wade into any legal action between commenters on the off chance that they will somehow be liable for something and get sued. They’ve got the same disclaimer as social media…

This sure as hell isn’t what I expected when I finally forced myself to scroll down and check the Kotaku comment section.

“But they don’t get it for now.”

You want this person to dox themselves further after maybe getting swatted?

I’m so sorry all of this is happening to you as a result of something so benign as commenting on a video game blog.

Well, regardless, I hope you can get some sort of resolution out of all of it.

Jeeze dude. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of someone on here actually getting SWATed, but shit, congrats on being the first?

“They don’t want it, but we’ll make them need it”

It was a great concept and story. 

Yeah, I mean, I understand where they’re coming from. “I won a unique skin for my guy in CSGO? Cool!” having a block chain code attached to that skin makes it easier for me to monetize that skin, because instead of it being locked to my account after I entered the code, I can release and transfer that item using the…

No no, you don’t understand. We gamers are completely incapable of seeing the value in anything, that’s why we need business executives to tell us how it is so we know where to send our money. Look how well it worked in 2016!

Except, that’s exactly what these gaming execs are pretending to pitch and it’s been around for years, also doesn’t require any blockchain/crypto/hype nonsense.

This stood out to me as well. Why would you need NFTs just to have a RMT market for in-game items? Do they just expect people to be dumb enough to fall for it (granted, this thought is not without merit) or is this “VP of innovations” not understanding the concept himself?

Are we really going to go through this rodeo again? They are cagey with the words they choose because they are under a mountain of NDAs. The deals aren’t fully finalised and until they are we won’t hear anything clear. But we have precedence to go on.

Any ongoing live game that is multiplatform will stay that way,…

I have little to contribute to the discussion, because I do not play Genshin Impact, but I really do like Beijing opera. I wish I knew where I could start with getting more into it.