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They all have them. It's a press account. I think Owen is the only one who has his own account and his own games. I have Fahey as a steam friend and he plays the odd game or so every now n then.

I'm with P4, that's not really something to slam anyone for. You may have had multiple twitter accounts beffy, but not at the same time: Rockpapershotgun had same issue yesterday https://twitter.com/...641589131489280 And it's really easy for us lot to do it too: http://dl.dropbox.co...witter_PXOD.PNG I don't get the cornfield because it's the most blatant and public signs of how they moderate the comments. You're fine to discuss the topic in the article, but don't discuss the article itself, don't disagree with the opinion of the article, don't point out factual errors. They're very thin skinned which doesn't help. Then on with a heaping of snark in responses. I'm going to say in my year or so away from kotaku and dipping my toes in other online communities and such, especially reddit in the past few months, it's obvious that kotaku is not liked at all. And I think it has been that way for a while, so while they can't control what external forces have to say about their site, they can tidy it up when it is on kotaku. Heck how many other gaming sites get called out by others as in the case of PCG with this "pro gaming" stuff. (And I'm sure it's not the only time another site has called out Kotaku, probably a few other examples in this thread) Joel was/is a Gizmodo writer so he's aware of gawker policy on dealing with commenters. Though his response to Tiller was pretty surprising compared to the normal reaction. And it would be egotistical, but I do agree with your assessment. Even being banned from the site for a year I still get recognised around and about the web. And I did provide a fair few tips and such for them. This is the funny thing, I used to be quite a fan. The steam group, a forum, a guide for the site etc. Yet here I am 2 years later posting in the "Fucking Kotaku" thread. They do say you make your own enemies. And I don't think anyone has ever mastered Crecente in that art. Dude really needs some lessons in something. I dunno, could start with "being nice" before moving on to more advanced topics of "Snark isn't smart". I posted in Talk Amongst Yourselves. http://kotaku.com/55...847675#comments . Which is funny cos later on in my banning when being quizzed on it Crecente said about not posting stuff like that in regular articles but to post in : Speakup, Kotaku off-topic or...Talk Amongst Yourselves.(though at the time Speakup didn't exist). Or to email them, but you guys are aware by now how that goes. At least Crecente the usual "don't tell us what to do, stop reading the site" stuff. Though Bash is pretty good with emails. Most of my emails to him in the past were just "that story is a dupe" or minor corrections and his response were pretty good. I may disagree with his choice of content to post about but he's at least got good netiquette. Thursday I think my tl;dr might be better (if not funnier): http://dl.dropbox.co...nbmmvdotwar.JPG Basically Kotaku has a huge issue with community. They want one cos it helps provide hits. But they don't want to, nor know how to, deal with it. We're not in 1984, the hivemind will not always agree. And how you deal with it is what is important. If you cornfield, delete, ban any disagreement no matter how well put then it's just not going to end up well. If they were to just take Crecente aside for a bit, heck maybe Put Totilo in his position instead, then it might help matters a fair amount. edit: I maybe should email Joel tonight. No idea why or what for mind. As I've said already it's far too little far too late. Most of it's active members have moved on given the pretty shit reaction for Kotaku writers to the group over the years it's not really surprising. All it has spent the past year doing is dwindling in members. About only reason we still have a bunch is because people can't be arsed to leave groups though a fair amount are: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2066351/Screenshots/Kotaku/netloss.PNG That small burst the other day is when Tiller posted about it. Pretty mcuh the past few months has been a constat "person x left group". Also http://steamcommunity.com/groups/kotakuites/announcements/detail/1027014441691256545 now note the current amount we have. We actually got close to 3,400 at one point. So yeah I don't know much what's to discuss. The people who used to buy and run servers for it, post up events etc have pretty much moved on. Apart from the standard E3 there hasn't been an event for ages. The group is for all intents and purposes dead.

ARMA II. RPS love it, and what better way to give it a spin than for free! Thanks WTF

The BS 1363 is a landmark of British engineering. One of the safest electrical plugs in the world.

I'm not actually sure if the PC version plays pretty with a gamepad. It's why things like Darnified exist, cos it's meant to be controlled with kb/m but much of the UI is built like it's meant to be on a 720p console in 10-foot style.

It has a bit in it that sounds like the Orange Cinema "turn off phone" advert Other than that it's a neat remix

Mason you would be wanting http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2097 and http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5296 Making a Nexus account is well worth it (you'll need it for some of the mods, there's a download limit for guests)

Hot Heart recommended it.

I think the fact I never dipped below that line is what pissed them off.

No idea. You can see all most posts on my account from before I was banned, to when I was banned, to when I was banned a couple days later on Gizmodo: http://kotaku.com/people/deanbmmv/ Crecente nor any of the other staff have given any sign to what comment got me banned. Just that I was "trolling" or something like that.

Just wathced "Peter" (the 1985 episode) Opening theme was cool. I liked when he pulled out a Moto razr to show the military. Also I see Nina has known way more than she's letting on. And cancer my arse

It may just be from a bodged up photoshopping job, but it looks a tad VGI to me which isn't too good.

Well it was day after independence day so most of the writers were off. The site just running automated posts and ran by interns. "This is Kotaku" popped up. I posted a few comments n replies. Nothing out of the ordinary and imo nothing ban worthy. Anyway I popped on and I was banned by Crecente. People started questioning why I was banned, there was nothing that was notably out of the ordinary or ban worthy. That's when the Interns were let off their leash for damage control. Pretty much any post mentioning me being banned or the bans now flooding in was either deleted (no cornfield then) or led to a ban. People started to openly go in with the aim of getting banned just to make a point. It was enough that a few other sites even started reporting on it. In speakup several hours alter a few threads were made, Crecente responded to one and it got quite long. He stupidly referenced something that I'd posted on my Facebook wall which is never a smart thing to do cos snooping around on your users walls isn't a good idea (I have acces to most of your emails and could invite you all to Google+, or search for you on FB. I make a point of finding people the usual way or getting people to add me. Of note is that I had never subscribed to or "liked" the kotaku page on facebook, so it's not like it was through that) Later that day/the next day Owen popped into kotakuties chat. Along with 80 or so users. We locked thee chat down and just passed questions to him from various users. I have the log of it somewhere (If not I know someone else who has a log if you want a read). iirc there was a comment from Owen on how I was dictating editorial direction, which I pointed out I was just passing along suggestions, it was crecente that dictated stuff. And it didn't make sense for the ban since my unstarring a few months before after posting the semi-essay of suggestions had meant I'd stopped on that front since it was clear Crecente was sticking to his stance of "our way or the highway") I was still hanging around on the other Gawker sites: io9, Gizmodo, Lifehacker. Later that week I popped on Gizmodo to see a double whammy of a system wide ban from both Crecente and Owen. So two kotaku writers had banned me from all the other sites. I still read, but over the months it dwindled a fair amount. I did hop back early this year mind, mainly to point out about TAY having the revamp in December. Didn't last long Oh yeah they did do that "Kotaku Editorial Board" as a kind of reaction to "kotakucalypse", which was initially promised to be a once monthly thing. They only ever made one then turned it into a hashtag to be ignored: http://kotaku.com/kotakueditorialboard/forum?comment=39613796 - this is the only editor reply on there for the past 2 months and it's to inject a bit of snark. And a fair few posts are just labelled as "writer x moved this form article Y" so they can just ignore it. As for the kotakuties group that was started over 2 years ago, ran several servers. Had to pretty much push it in their TAY posts, and TF2 or steam post that cropped up. The odd mention in Speakup. Then most of it's active users were banned. Which means for the past year there's pretty much been no way to tell anyone about the group. Then on the anniversary of most of us getting banned one of the writers finally takes an interest in it as we're planning to just move on to PXOD totally? Too little too late. People put time and money into it, Kotaku shot it down. Fuck em.

Unofficial patches Natural Weather/Vegetation/Water Quest Award leveller Alternative Start by Boat Darnified UI I have all the DLC so that adds a fair bit of content. I don't care too much for adding other things in to the mix like extra quests. I once had Kvatch Rebuilt n Frostcrag reborn, but too much extra bother.

that directed at me?

Since most EA games require some kind of EA account (or a subsidiary) it's not like EA are totally cut off from their consumers. And given that Steam has been around for a fair while now and it's update system too (since that's what it was originally built for) it shouldn't really be a surprise to EA that when they go "hey we want to circumvent your patching system" that the answer is EA re just taking a hugely unnecessary gamble in what seems to be some alpha male bullshit with one of their Partner studios. Sure EA have BF3, and it's worth half a dozen aces up their sleeves, the problem is that Steam owns the pack of cards and the factory it was made in. Steam has 30million+ users, several dozen publishers and a few thousand games. If EA start making it so that buying an EA game through Steam becomes a pain with having to go through Origin to get your DLC and updates, they're not going to be the ones that come out looking good in this spat.

not yet. Waiting on Tiller for now. and tbh we have a contact email address on the steam group. Also if I'm to contact him, do I use my personal mail or my PXOD mail...

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6322428/ea-explains-steam-store-absences So if I'm reading this right Valve pulled Crysis 2 because EA wouldn't sell DLC or update Crysis 2 through Steam. Isn't part of the point of Steam to let you do that? At least on the update thing.

When not being a dick gets this kinda reaction it really says something

http://kotaku.com/5818545/take-pity-on-a-newbie-today?comment=40715729#comments Who Admins? Have him email me? Joel is kinda new there, I'd wager given the older writers refusal to acknowledge that groups existence he won't have ever been told of it or it's admin