Very interesting, but this article completely forgot to mention where you can get this, or even what format its in. And people talking about “Steelbooks” in comments only further confuses matters...

Don’t forget, sell your own flesh and blood to the backers, encourage them to become investors in meat markets that immediately collapse, encourage them to tear chunks in the most animalistic ways out of anyone who dares to question the civility of the entire project, then abandon them all to the wolves whilst idly…

Contractor for Electronic Arts/Mythic/Broadsword here, worked on Ultima Online, and this all rings absolutely true; the industry is absolutely riddled with sociopathic people who think abusiveness is the same as motivation, who change their minds constantly because they chafe at the idea of conforming to any kind…

Don’t worry; the general public are no longer the target for this kind of grift. As the article notes, the bottom dropped out of the NFT market months ago... but you can always sucker out of touch, former industry stars who haven’t had a hit in decades but still want to believe they’re the cutting edge of NOW.

More importantly... How easy is it to play with Gnome Chompski in VR? Did you manage to manhandle your little man all the way to the end and send him to space?!

One major difference not mentioned by all the replies to your false equivalence here; Jason Schreier writes under his own name, and for a public company; if he breaks any ethical or legal boundary anyone has an issue with, they know who he is and where to find him.

There’s a lot of interesting questions in the comments, so I wanted to put up my own experience in why this particular model is so different, and insidiously evil.

Yup; the “connections” is usually PR speak for “financial transactions between us and the players”, and “shape the world” always means “buy land and houses in it from us”... that they’re looking at blockchain hires in the background means they’re at the very least also considering using NFTs to push the perceived…

Yup. Although it’s not enough to have the safeguards and the laws on the books, you have to be able to enforce and practice them; the local police made the situation worse by stealing all her hardware, despite talking to her mother directly, so she could hardly have been dead as claimed ... There was already enough…

There’s a typo in my post which should say “I live in the UK where the police ARENT armed”... but you should know that we don’t arm our police here, and I go on to state I have the security of knowing I’m almost certainly not going to be harmed in any interaction with them; where do you think I’m defending the…

Just some information to put context behind this story; I was never actually SWATed, but I did go through a 7 year campaign of stalking and harassment over criticism of a Kickstarter scam game, Shroud of the Avatar, which included SWAT threats, 3 days before the fatal SWATing in Wichita, which lead to Reddit having to…

Unlike so many here, I’m not going to get a wry chuckle out of people investing in Crypto losing it all; not because those users should have known better, but because I’m tired of seeing con merchants and shit heads get away with the money. I don’t want to get into debates as to whether the victims deserved it or not,…

Kickstarter is a scammers paradise because KS makes absolutely no effort to protect their backers; even where in the Terms and Services it makes clear that certain things are not aspirational, rather they are expected to be provided.

That too, yes; fortunately the police here aren’t armed, and even in dangerous situations they can usually de-escalate, because they’re trained not to just resort to killing willy nilly... US police really do suck.

Yeah... no. Having been through this myself, and having to try and locate someone making SWAT threats and stalking and harassing me for over 7 years because of criticism of a computer game... in the UK at least, if it’s an “international incident”, the law is that unless the crime is above the level at which the UK…

Unfortunately, proving who actually did it is insanely hard, as I’ve detailed here so very often after my SWAT threats against myself from the Shroud of the Avatar community nearly led to the entire subreddit being shut down; that only happened because 3 days after yet another threat to myself on it, the fatal…

Very, VERY short bursts.

But Johnny Depp does have to be a perfect victim, otherwise the default position has to be we support the woman, no matter how “imperfect”?

Yeah, it might be. I worry about all this. I might be really wrong about this. Or I might be—and this is where things get radical—a bit wrong.

It’s a mixture of motivations, especially within the Ultima community, which is why this particular scam targetted them directly.