No idea what the PS forums were like, as I’ve never owned a Sony device (or xbox) so I’ve never had to use them; but I’d be interested to know what the internal logic for closing them is... and whether there are wider consequences, because when I worked on Ultima Online, the vast majority of the historical information…

“(it isn’t; in fact, people in the BDSM scene tend to have better emotional and mental health than folks outside it)“

“I can barely recognize the person I was in 2010. Man, she thought she’d seen some shit. But she had no idea.”

uBlock Origin Plus in Firefox means I never see the adverts at all. I didn’t realise so many people were suffering with them.

No “Ys” games in either of your lists? Boo. BOOOOOO I SAY.

Just had to do all of this because of what turned out to be a motherboard failure; The thing to remember, and calm those nerves, is that all the modern parts going back a fair few generations have unique asymetrical slots cut in them, so you can’t get the parts into the wrong place or the wrong way round.

“b) there’s a practical sense of at some point people have to have the God-given sense not to stand in the rain, either.”

How do you know a job is hateful before you take it? And once you’ve taken it, you’re now doing the job, so people like you can automatically say “why did any of them stay?” to them, because there will always be a period between taking a job and leaving one again. Maybe it takes time to realise what a job really…

If you go into the comments over at Eurogamer, I’m the former EA contractor giving an inside perspective there. And I agree with everything you’re saying.

For me, it wasn’t just my first Zelda game but my first ever Nintendo system, previously having been a Commodore then Sega family. I think what was so astounding about the combination of Gameboy and Link’s Awakening was that it went beyond being the first truly portable, viable gaming system but that LA would have…

The gaming industry has known for years that they are targeting the vulnerable; Google Gamasutra’s article “Chasing the Whale” from 2013 which gives more horrible details.

Others have already commentated on this in general, but here’s my own experience of stalking and harassment connected to working in the games industry for Electronic Arts on Ultima Online, and then criticising the supposed “spiritual successor” to it, “Shroud of the Avatar”...

After reading your posting history, it’s unsurprising you were unable to understand the point and went straight into the toxic commentary. So I’m not going to bother expanding on it for you, let alone answering the question which clearly has more to do with your own obsessions rather than relates to anything I had to…

As always, this whole thing is an incredibly tangled, unedifying mess where the truth isn’t entirely to be found on one side, or another.

They’ve screwed the event up even further since this was published; not only is the “maximum” you got on the first day the absolute total of points you’ll get, not one daily refreshed, the 100 extra points per day promised has for many, including myself, been applied as a negative, thus reducing my maximum points and…

I worked for EA too, on Ultima Online. And it’s outrageous that we don’t get the credit or respect we deserve in the industry. Further more we should stop allowing them to get away with treating us like crap just because we (sometimes) love the products they produce... It certainly is a big deal, big enough that you…

To expand upon what the article says; if Brittany Avery is who I think she is, she not only translated most of xSeed’s games in the past, she did the Steam achievements and much of the Steam forum communication... xSeed translated all the prior Ys games (except for 8, which someone else holds the western license…

Just a somewhat insider’s perspective on this, remember that Rockstar came out of DMA Design (of Lemmings fame) and the 8/16 bit era, where bedroom coders were still sometimes the norm: This matters because the industry still has a Randian/Objectivist mindset of the single genius who makes everything, and that human…

Incorrect; how do you hold someone accountable when there’s no way to identify who they are?

Where as in the United States you’re passing laws to send women to jail if they attempt to abort a child conceived by rape, or even losing the child via miscarriage.