Beb

Seeing Dead Snow 2 tonight at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. Not sure if I should make giant bomb blog like Patrick's about the movies or not. Saw two pretty great ones last night.

The more stuff like this comes up, the more it feels like I should just stop reading articles about "games."

These threats are disgusting, but bringing attention to them isn't going to stop them. The more the gaming media and community cry foul about threats, the more fun they become for the teen trolls that make them. The number one rule of the internet is "Do not feed the trolls" but people seem to have lost sight of that.

"The exaggerated, hyperbolic, and violent responses to their work has only emboldened them."

We're in a vicious cycle, where people like Anita gain relevance and support when they are harassed, and so the harassment is brought out in to the spotlight, which serves to feed the trolls. Each side emboldening the other, again and again. It feels good to point fingers at the other side and sneer at how terrible they are, but it only makes them stronger. It's masturbatory and self-defeating.

For the harassers to be defeated, people just need to stop reacting. For the harassers to win, they need to stop providing ammo to their enemies. Basically, if everyone would just talk about games instead of each other, then everyone would win.

But that won't happen on our current course, because it requires people to stand up against their own sides, instead of against the 'enemy.'

Installing!

They are codes that are 'hidden' on things in the limited edition of the game - but they aren't the LE exclusive items like Ghost skins. They are just emblems.

@zirilius: I can understand PS4 owners wanting to get it on PS4 "even though they own an XBox." Don't understand boycotting the game though, since why get both platforms unless you wanted to be able to play XBox exclusives? Are these same people going to boycott No Man's Sky?

Still doesn't make sense to me that an XBox only person would be mad. I don't remember people saying they would get an XBone but skip Dead Rising 3 because it was exclusive. It just doesn't track with my life experience as a real response a real person would have.

Would it be better for gamers in general if the game was multiplatform? For sure. But I have never seen gamers (in this case, XBox gamers) 'selflessly' threaten to boycott like this. Maybe I am just out of touch?

I don't understand the people saying they own an XBox / both consoles, but that they won't get this game now on principle. I've never seen a reaction like this to exclusivity. What is going on here?

There isn't any clan stuff in-game, is there? I wasn't in a clan in the beta, but I don't think there is any clan screen or clan chat of any kind. You'll still have to arrange the raids via GB message boards or through XBL/PSN messages, I think....It's pretty baffling.

I don't see how that is equivalent to being able to insta-queue for a game.

[Duder] Hey, you want to do the raid? We need 4 more.

[RandoA] Yeah. Me and my friend can play.

[Duder] Ok, two more then...

[RandoA] My buddy will get his brother on...he just needs to take out the garbage...

[30 mins later]

[Duder] Ok, we just need one more...

All of this through the PSN friends list too.

I would rather try and fail with a match-made team of randoms than have to go looking on internet forums to make play dates with randoms. Maybe if I was a teen or in college that would make sense, but the older I get, the less I can tolerate the overhead of getting people together at the same time. If I "have" to play on tuesday at 6pm the game becomes a job.

I just want to push a button and start. There is no reason to withhold this from me. Even DOTA allows solo queuing.

I had a blast with the beta, and I am pretty much guaranteed to be getting this game at launch.

That said, I think that the more pessimistic people are likely right, about there being 4 locations with one map each (Earth, Moon, Mars, Venus) playable.

Now, there could be a bunch more that has been added since they branched the Beta build we all played, but if so I would hope they would just come out and plainly say so. It would be an easy thing to do without going in to specific spoilers. Saying we just "scratched the surface" is not the same as saying "the beta was not all the Earth story content."

On the other hand, Earth might be a "tutorial planet" and Mars and Venus could be huge and really involved.

I think the real problem is that we have heard a lot of marketing buzz for this game but not a lot of concrete details, and that has allowed people to build up expectations that might be out of whack. If Bungie had been less vague, I think there would be no fuss right now.