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I really hope Microsoft paid them a lot for this exclusivity window, after the game being out for a year I don't really anticipate wanting to buy it at full price for PC or PS4 when it'll likely be on sale for Xbox One. I can see this easily halving sales overall and hopefully that doesn't destroy them or the franchise, I actually kinda liked this reboot of the character.

But who's gonna bring all the hot scoops to GB now?!?!? :( GLHB Patrick

Just got the game installed, I'm looking forward to my HOTAS getting here finally and playing this thing for real with people.

Well duders looks like I now have my clones in your station and my Corp has an office in there as well. I'm a member of Explicit Alliance which just joined HERO so I guess I'll be seeing some of you guys on fleets and such.

Fly Safe Duders

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Great write up guys, this is exactly where I figured you stood and I fully support it. The only sad thing is though that there will never be a real "solution" to the issue people are getting riled up about. The solution is to simply remember that the other side of the message you're sending it going to a human being, not unlike yourself, but at this point the internet isn't viewed that way as we've seen in MANY other cases involving bullying, harassment, hatred, and the worst of the worst: terrorism.

My deep down hope is that this doesn't escalate to anything beyond twitter/email threats (where it's at now), as that would be the point where we go from being viewed as a group of people to everyone calling themselves a gamer being a suspected terrorist. I know people on both sides, and while I have faith they wouldn't even go to the point of threats, I wouldn't want either of them to tarnish the community fostered so far by creating that stigma.

That's my view, it's good to see that there are plenty of us who want to see harassment stop and allow both sides to have passionate debate over the topics they hold dear. I was afraid that everyone was beginning to leave me in the middle alone to shout "STOP BEING HORRIBLE TO EACH OTHER!"

I once dreamed of getting into the games industry, but at this point I know I'd be targeted because I'm more than willing to be outspoken about this topic. Maybe one day soon there will be a time where we can just see everyone equally...

This could lead to some interesting opportunities not available before, I'll be interested to see how this turns out for sure! Good luck duders!

BTW we had better get a weekly Alex Rant segment now, I'd love to see that happen.

Awesome write up Patrick! Being in that battle was pretty dope, but reading all the articles that have been written about it and yours especially shows me I play a truly crazy and ridiculous game. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

@mrchup0n: Only in the same way that a ghost is. It's still technically a company with 0 employees that do anything other than work on this case. I assume it will no longer be around at all now with all the employees in different places at this point.

@rorie: Well, kinda sucks, but hopefully someone can figure out what the issue is and spread the fix so it doesn't crop up more in the future.