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Yeah, I was looking at nominating Trails in the Sky (PC) as well since it never got a real quick look.

@fcdrandy: No I wouldn't, but at this point I think it is inevitable that we are entering a world where everyone knows everything about everybody else.

I don't get what the big deal about Felicia Day's address being posted was. It's not like she is hiding behind an alias, and back in the old days you could look up everybody's addresses in the phone book. The ability to look up someone's address on google using a few bits of information about them is just an extension of the old yellow-book, and it is a fact of life in our internet connected age.

If anything it is only going to get worse. Privacy is dying on the internet, especially with the push for real names. Plus, everything someone does online is pretty much tracked and archived. It's all a big business at this point.

The Advance Wars series sold far better in the west than it did in Japan.

@billyok said:

Reporting on it just drives more people to make threats. It encourages copycats because they realize they can see stories about themselves and their actions in the media. Constant reporting on this isn't going to make the problem better, it will make it worse.

I've seen articles about this on multiple sites and if anything they are just going to make the situation worse by drawing attention to it. She shouldn't have announced she left her home. If anything that only encourages this kind of harassment more by showing it works.

The best course of action would have been to have publicly ignored the threats and quietly contacted the police. If she did really feel the harasser was going to follow through with the threats then it is a good idea for her to leave her home and live with a friend for a few days, but don't publicize that fact.

They should have gone with a more rockin' Miku song. I feel like Miku is at her best when they go all in with the live band and super fast vocals.

From what I understand this Shinra initiative is the main reason Square is porting the FFXIII trilogy to PC. They need to have the games running on PCs so they can stream them out to mobile users running the Shinra client. I am all for Shinra if it means more PC ports of Square's newer titles end up on Steam.

Although, in the long run I find the whole cloud gaming concept rather troubling since it likely means we will be unable to replay games 10 years down the road when the servers for these ostensibly single player games are dead.

@theveej said:

I agree that a lot of people are really naive about marketing/pr. Still, I'd always kinda hoped that the indie scene was different. But I don't know, the longer this goes on, the more I feel there is a real cliquishness to the indie scene. There seems to be a hierarchy and without knowing certain people in the scene you will never get covered.

Just watch this video and see how conflicted this small indie dev is over the whole thing. He twitted the IGF conspiracy video that has been going around saying if it was true it confirmed a lot of what he though was happening at the IGF (favouritism/non-impartial judging), and then BAM he lost the majority of his indie dev followers in a matter of minutes. He didn't even say he totally agreed with the video (I also think the evidence in it is rather flimsy). He was more annoyed at how he was snubbed at IGF every time he has entered.

There are probably a bunch of devs just like him and they are never going to talk because they don't want to get blackballed the way he has. I mean to these devs they aren't just video games, they are their life's work. If they fall out of favour with the people who are thought leaders in the scene they are ruined.

I know a lot of this problem has to do with discovery on mobile stores and steam. I mean, if you aren't on the front page of steam you might as well not exist. However, the fact that the only other real way to get coverage is to befriend certain influential indie devs, or certain members of the press strikes me as real sad. There are probably tons of good games that get completely ignored because the devs that created them weren't good at marketing, networking, and pr. I know you can't exactly tell people to stop being friends with each other, but I just wish the scene was based more on the games you created than who you know.