Even before EA supported online leagues, we played. Back then we had to enter stats manually to web sites and the web site would track the league for us.
Yup, I did this as well starting with Madden 07, and fell off a few years later. A sim league of course, no cheese allowed. I forget what the website we used was called, league-something.com. It was an insane thing to do, but it was also a great time, we had our own forums and everything
1. Censorship is basically the same as irony at this point. It will rarely ever be used correctly in an argument, and even when it is, someone will say "That's not censorship/irony! You're using it incorrectly!" I saw a number of people defending Australia's decision to disallow the sale of Hotline Miami 2 in their country. Notice I didn't use the word censorship in that previous sentence, because you can't use it correctly anymore.
2. You can not have a good conversation about this topic over the internet with someone who disagrees with you 99% of the time. Everything is so muddied and terrible and full of anime avatars, that it's nigh impossible. I think that's the main thing that happened with DOAX3. It's nothing to do with the lack of a NA release or the community manager's facebook post. People tried to have conversations about this topic over the internet and failed miserably.
When I try to see the issue from Bethesda's or Ubisoft's perspective, I have a hard time determining that this is a "petulant" move to not respond to comment from Kotaku. Which e-mails should Bethesda or Ubisoft respond to? Like, if I post this list right here, is it an easy determination as to which they should ignore and which they should respond to?
Kotaku
Giant Bomb
IGN
Gamebomb.ru
The Mary Sue
USGamer
Elvicerator's Funtime Game Blog
Destructoid
Totalbiscuit
NorthernLion
SuperBunnyhop
Wired
Gamasutra
Offworld
Niche Gamer
Rock Paper Shotgun
It doesn't make sense to respond to every e-mail from every single person. So how do we determine who gets responses and advance copies and who doesn't? Pageviews? Number of years on the internet? Which one is owned by a larger media company, like CBS or Gawker?
Deciding to respond to e-mails of certain outlets vs. others is a more complex issue than it's being framed as. An outlet leaking information about AC and Fallout 4 likely factors into that decision-making process. I just don't think we can say with certainty that it's the only factor.
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