Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO
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Mahes
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Its that ole 3rd person style of royalty jargon that queens like Queen Victoria say.
zzeris
King Turd of Shit Hill
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Rail on Brad (deservedly so), but create a narrative of apologetics for the gaming 'journalists'. Hilarious.
Him and the guys he's doing coke with at the time of course. I imagine its code for "we snorted about $45k and are really high," or, you know, blown away!
I posted this over at mmorpg.com for corroboration of the image already out there. It seems that some people were claiming the post from Pantheon might have been photoshopped or something.. Good thing I knew he'd delete it and I wanted the proof for posterities sake. Sorry for rehashing it, but I figure some more screen captures of the post would help verify the authenticity.
Another site has made an article on the debacle:
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallens financials under scrutiny from community | IncGamers.com
Also, yesterdays stuff with Salim, former lead for Pantheon, spelling out the whole of Brad's lies the docs he has proving such seems to have been donehere. Its just the Salim part so its shorter than the whole thing from yesterday.
And I just heard this skit onbradlol.
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallens financials under scrutiny from community | IncGamers.com
Also, yesterdays stuff with Salim, former lead for Pantheon, spelling out the whole of Brad's lies the docs he has proving such seems to have been donehere. Its just the Salim part so its shorter than the whole thing from yesterday.
And I just heard this skit onbradlol.
jooka
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No, there have been at least 2 instances of fucked up kickstarted games that have gotten coverage on multiple sites (neither of which were any bigger than Pantheon), and plenty of other scandals in the gaming industry have been covered as well. They're just lazy as shit, and unless something falls into their lap they don't do anything but regurgitate press releases.
Yeah, it's a joke. If you're going to constantly post links to these kickstarter projects you need to do some type of follow up. These people talk out of both sides of their mouths. Massively will post a fucking story about Brad needing volunteers but not that he stole 50k. You guys aren't making sense. If no one cares then why are there so many Pantheon press releases on all of these worthless sites?
And I guarantee you if you asked these sites to describe what they are they would say they are doing Gaming jouranlism. I mean, they obviously aren't for the most part, but they are definitely pretending to be. That's what they will put on their resume's, etc.
Im the one that tipped off Massively on the volunteer part but I've been sending them for 2 weeks now on the financials situation and they've not bitten yet. Today Ive sent them the above with salim talking and as well the article with the incgamer site too. Im hoping that'll be enough to tip the scales to having them write a new one up.
I've sent them multiple tips with all the shit that's out there prior to the Salim thing, and they've ignored all of it. Same with Destructoid, Kotaku, Giant Bomb, etc. Although I think Massively is the one that really can't justify ignoring it.
Same same. I get on one hand various sites not wanting to come across like Inquirer type rags but at the same time none really try to base it in an op-ed manner either except those smaller guys. Its just kinda the nature of such and not limited to game industry news/discussions on the net either.
No, this isn't at all how normal news sites work. All they have to do is call/e-mail Brad and ask him for comment. Say they have a transcript from an interview and a screenshot from a deleted facebook post. Then go and interview Salim and some of the other developers, and post it all in an article and let the people decide for themselves. They don't have to take sides. If they did all that it would be obvious to everyone that Brad stole a bunch of money. That's journalism 101. But these guys aren't journalists, obviously.
Its from the things convo quoted snippets from yesterday: things like Salim saying more than 50% was taken by brad not the 38%/45k junk, if all of it is in there. Salim's intent/goal overall seemed to be that he wanted to warn off those volunteers more than anything and have them contact him, but his saying anything denouncing brad publically helps support the fact of the entirety of the team's exodus and brad's resorting to those vols.
My take on it is that the more and more than things come out the more the mountain piles up and eventually avalanches that much harder.
My take on it is that the more and more than things come out the more the mountain piles up and eventually avalanches that much harder.
Yes lines are blurred on most sites but anything getting out n about is better than nothing imo. "News" sites with commenting enabled too at least give some ability for others like ourselves to add to the info too.