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@wolfgame said:

I just hate seeing so many topics locked, its the reason I would make a terrible mod. Because a part of me would hope that we could find a way to communicate on tough issues without putting mods in a tough position on keeping certain topics open. Maybe we can work on building more confidence with the mods that our community can be reasonable and respectful on tough issues.

Ideally, sure. But eventually you reach a point where you just know something is beyond civil discourse, which makes locking things down the easier solution. You're fighting a never ending losing battle by keep them open, unfortunately, wasting the mods' time in the process.

I think the community is definitely capable of discussing anything in a civil manner, but we can only do that by weeding out the troublemakers. Things will never change otherwise.

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#2  Edited By c_rakestraw

Not really. The console itself never interested me to begin with, but all the crazy and dumb publicity stunts and other poor PR moves have pretty much cemented my position on never buying one.

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@white said:

I call bullshit on this guy.

I'm sorry. I kinda did a trybeforeyoubuy thing. I already bought it on PS3 and I'm planning on buying it for Steam, soon.

Why do you need to "trybeforeyoubuy" when you already bought it on PS3? You already know what the game looks like. You already know what it plays like.

I would assume it was a case of seeing whether his computer could run it or not. Only reason I can think of.

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Finally, something to look forward to in July. Can't wait!

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#5  Edited By c_rakestraw
@theht said:

His phone is basically a sonic screwdriver with sick range bro.

Now that you mention it... yeah -- it kind of is.

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Given how much they've covered it already, I don't think a review is really necessary. Besides, it's pretty late for one now.

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@dixavd said:

If a game were to go come out and someone were to go through the credits and add people, unless the game specified between normal "special thanks" and "kickstarter backers", how would that person know whether a given person was eligible to add or not? Would people have to try and find the original crowd-sourcing page and compare lists to remove backers from the list? What if someone who worked on the game in other ways also happened to donate to it, does that now remove them from the list?

On some level, I feel maybe the whole "Special Thanks" section should be ignored (especially once you get into the murky water of people who help crowd-fund a game but then their reward is to add art or an idea to it - does that move them over to the normal list?).

This stuff is confusing. Good to know you're looking into it and have made a stance. This one looks like it will stop those that simply go down the list at the end of a Kickstarter list and simply add names, but I wonder if it will actually make a difference to the nice folks who go through the credits of a released game and simply don't know how to differentiate between those only listed via crowd-finding and those of higher importance.

Typically -- at least from the games I've seen -- they reference their backers in a separate "special thanks to our Kickstarter backers" list instead of consolidating them with the standard "special thanks" list. I don't know if every Kickstarter game does this, but it should at least in theory make it easier to differentiate the two.

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I have to imagine this was done with Giant Bomb's approval, because I don't see them just siphoning content off their partners without express permission. Still weird, though.

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I never had either of those happen to me while playing it. Then again, I did play with the TV volume up pretty high, so I might have just not heard the fans.