We’re talking about Nathan Grayson here. Professionalism isn’t part of his toolset, neither is journalism.

Especially since SDC didn’t do anything useful, in the end. When they announced that “operation” (which is mostly another of their many excuses to randomly kill people with smaller defenseless ships), Frontier told them immediately that it was already being worked on anyway. The heat weapon nerf was already coming and…

The SDC are very grateful, you made them bigger as they are. And you took the propaganda of a group of griefers and spreaded it. Good Job!

Honestly? The actions of that group probably contributed next to zero influence over the changes coming in 2.2.

Dude they didn’t do anything and they certainly didn’t raise awareness about the heat weapon issue. SDC players have *always* been ganging up on inexperienced or defenseless players and killing them. That’s all they ever do. So I don’t know if you can even call this a terrorist action given that they would have killed…

Frontier has the best feedback discussions I’ve ever seen. Particularly now, with an open beta for the next expansion going on, they’re very open about what they’re working on, and explicitly encourage feedback. They even had the player base vote recently on how we wanted a new ship-transfer feature implemented. You…

With all the awesome player-driven stuff that happens in the game (Fuel Rats, Cannon Research, Distant Worlds, the Colonia project, etc) this stupidity is what finally gets the game some exposure?