More detailed translation: We’re not just upset, but if you look at your employment agreement, or just remember the culture of omerta and fear that internal communication enforces, we’re about to absolutely ream any of the staff that just spoke out, with the sanctions and penalties that exist within said employees…

I was never put off by the Militarist appearence of early Jimquisitions, because by the time I discovered their videos, the want-to-be-Dictator’s podium was full of He-man action figures and sexy, sexy dinosaurs so it was obvious that it wasn’t supposed to be taken as a genuine ethos.

Team 17 were never the Good Guys; remember how back in the day they were such whining childish hatemongers towards critics that they not only blacklisted them but called them up to abuse them and even put critical reviewers into their games as particularly bad NPC opponents?

I love ignorant posters like this; they make your point for you, whilst blinded by their own edge.

A personal aside here; I’ve been jumping up and down and screaming at the gaming media trying to get them to cover my previous experience of harassment and scamming in a prior Kickstarter/Crypto con, and this dirty trick is just another example of why; it’s yet another of the tools the criminals use to try and avoid…

The mistake many in this conversation are making is trying to see NFTs applied in the mechanism of “Drops” and “Lootboxes”. This isn’t how the industry is going to sell NFTs. Take it from someone who worked on random drops for Electronic Arts on Ultima Online here.

You tried to put a URL link highlighting text into it, I suspect? It removes the link and shifts the text it was attached too elsewhere into the comment, sadly. Does it to me all the time, and has for months.

First job I ever applied too after changing cities back in the day was the Kirby Hoovers MLM; advertised as Management/Sales/Driver Delivery/Office Work though. It was an interesting example of how Cults and Scams work though, sitting there watching the presentation for £1200 hoovers (in year 2000 prices!) and trying…

Well I can’t speak for ALL gamers, unlike these wonderfully enlightened Ubisoft NFT pushers, but I can tell you what I personally got when a kickstarter for a beloved franchise that I’d backed, and actually professionally worked on for EA , and then switched to being built around pushing Macrotransactions;
7…

That’s where a lot of his support is coming from, certainly; people love him because he’s exactly as immature as they would be if they had his kind of money and reach too. They want to be worshipped for striking poses instead of doing actual good, because that requires self improvement first.

Copy and paste of my response to this story elsewhere...

Note the “continuing... maintain... Once the deal closes which then doesn’t mention Kotick”. It’s corporate speak for saying he’s not going anywhere yet, but Phil Spencer will be above him. At which point, the final decision on whether to try and leverage him out will not be Koticks.

Aaaand... it turns out behind the scenes, they were trying to sell the entire company. Let’s hope it’s true spring cleaning time once Microsoft own them, and out goes Kotick.

Just to say, well done for this author for disproving the age-old lie that everyone would just take the money and run. It’s a small but good deed in a large and selfish world, but it shines all the brighter for being done all the same.

Figures that Kotick is alleged to have suggested “could make the company’s workplace problems seem bigger than is already known,” according to those who spoke to the paper.

Transphobia is bigotted hatred and shouldn’t be encouraged. Trans rights are human rights, and trans identity is as valid as CIS identity.

Thanks; it doesn’t help that this commenting system screws up hyperlinks; it’ll not show the link but move the sentence it’s tied too elsewhere in the reply, and when you try and edit it to fix it, show the text as originally written, not as published. So there should be proof of my claims there, instead the text…

Time to take the relatively unpopular position again, but before I do, I’ll remind everyone that an MMO subreddit was nearly shut down because the pro-game community had become obsessed with stalking and harassing me personally, to the point of making SWAT threats, when the full Reddit admins had to step in.

It’s exceptionally common in the gaming industry because back in the 8bit days there wasn’t really an industry to speak of, just people coding at home and corporate structure that held them to contracts. The big successes then got to build teams around them, but never actually learned any social or business skills...…

Some over here at Kotaku too; the amount of passes Halo Infinite is getting for lack of content and toxic development is astounding.