[Hachima]

Originally Posted by Duppin

As awesome as it is to be able to chat with Curt Schilling on a message board, I wouldn't qualify any of what has happened in that thread, at least as far as discussion of his project goes, as being interesting back and forth. It's basically the same marketing fluff that people screamed at Brad about. I mean, we know what at this point? That he's churning out yet another fantasy game, and some of the people he's got working on the game. That's it.

And Furor and Tigole were largely muzzled here because of what this place had already turned into, a haven for people to try to "count coup" on developers who had to be accountable for what they said, while they themselves did not.

From a public relations/marketing standpoint, this place turned from a nice little backchannel to access hardcore gamers in the market, to an enormous fucking landmine.

Is Brad somewhat culpable for that, and very culpable for Vanguard's failures? Absolutely. He never should've given people like Utnayan, Neric, Hiram Key, etc, the benefit of the doubt and attempted to have discussions with them based on the assumption that productive discussion was what they were interested in.

But when the next dev uses this place to just spit out press releases ad nauseam, you can just check this thread for an easy reference of who you can thank.

You are wrong. The reason they stopped posting here is because people that don't have access to these boards would always throw a fit when a dev did post here instead of the official forums.