Social movements tend to be pretty amorphous, and this one is no different. I think the movement has since pivoted to other issues. The “ethics” thing was a rallying cry very early on, but their focus has always been on the left-leaning feminists in the gaming community (even if that’s not their official stance, their…

Hooray! Everyone is terrible!

That’s not even the one he worked on, ass. And HR, while far from perfect, still did some things quite well.

I...didn’t think Pikachu smoked. Maybe during breaks? After sex?!

But will every game developer use its newfound permabanning powers responsibly?

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Of course, because making a mod and an entire game with script, music, actors, capture and marketing is exactly the same right? Dont be childish. You are just a cheap ♥♥♥ who dont want to pay for someone elses work.

Aside from Half Life, what’s wrong with episodic?

The financial incentives reason alone is a good enough reason to do it. Encouraging better mod makers in with money is a good way to attract talent.

Eh, I’m kind of glad he didn’t bring up the boss fights. They’ve been discussed to death at this point - everyone knows they’re terrible and ill-fitting, there’s not really a whole lot more to say about it.

REMINDER: paid mods aren’t going away, Valve is just going to go back and try it somewhere smaller.

As someone who wasn’t overreacting to the mods thing, I find I’m agreeing with 100% of what’s being said.

It’s actually more like if the police sewed your lips shut because you called your neighbor an asshole, used a bunch of racist epithets, and then printed fliers stating the same thing and posted them all over the neighborhood as well as other neighborhoods. There’s a very important paragraph in the article above that…

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The things people will do to avoid traffic in Los Angeles...