Decline Felipepepe is unpleasant and points fingers - I wrote yet another rant on Gamasutra

[felipepepe]

Name me one other website of this kind that accepts public submissions and has this reach within the industry.

I can understand Leigh Alexander-related criticism to Gamasutra, but she's gone now, and they have some nice content. Besides, not many gaming websites would promote an article that calls out on their advertisers & bash BioWare and IGN.

 

[DragoFireheart]

What's going on I thought our local huehue was batshit cock crazy for sjw cunt?

I took a quick look at your article and it looked pretty good, will have to read it in depth later.

 

[latexmonkeys]

Truly inspiring article my friend! Keep fighting the good fight!

 

[Gregz]

Good article, and a great example of why you should never, ever, use black text over a white background on the internet.

 

[sser]

Good article. I think what you speak of is something the community doesn't really pay much mind to - keeping the history in tact. Inevitably, a great deal of any vocation's progress and the names of its progenitors gets washed out in the tides of time, but we have much superior (read: digital) means of keeping this stuff on the books. I wouldn't take it too hard that such channels get little attention. What's important is that they're still there. Little tiny museums for people to peruse when they feel the urge. Pewdipie and Minecraft vids serve other functions.

 

[Kane]

In like 10 pages of text, I talk

The real heroes are out there, facing incredible odds, facing real risks, sacrificing part of their lives to safe-guard our history for future, more deserving generations.

They are the ones battling against giant, powerful foes to secure the legal right to protect games.

They are the ones spending their own money to backup our history into somewhere safe.

They are the ones searching for our elders and trying to learn from them.

They are the ones risking jail by preserving our abandoned games.

For decades they have been fighting, alone and unappreciated. We owe them more than we can imagine. We can't let all their effort come to the spotlight only when it aligns with our own interests.

We can't allow gaming history to only matter when we want to play P.T. again.

There's a lot more at stake, and a lot more that each of us could be doing.

Spoiler

(That's the kind of next level trolling I enjoy )

 

[ERYFKRAD]

felipepepe

 

[felipepepe]

I wonder why no one commented there yet... is it really too long for anyone to read? :/

What's going on I thought our local huehue was batshit cock crazy for sjw cunt?

I took a quick look at your article and it looked pretty good, will have to read it in depth later.

Oh, so you didn't read the part where I thank Feminist Frequency for classifying 99% of our games as "shit that should not exist" and thus making preservation a lot easier?

 

[ghostdog]

Great job man !


Can the article be edited for small corrections ?

Spoiler

First, Konami pulled P.T. – that famous playable teaser – the from the PS4 store.

 

[felipepepe]

Yeah, I can edit anything. So please warn me if there's anything really bad that I should fix.

 

[Crooked Bee]

I like it how there are still zero comments on this article over at Gamasutra.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

I like it how there are still zero comments on this article over at Gamasutra.

Lol, it's not related to representation of minorites, has no solutions for inclusivity and is about games. Why would anyone else read it.

 

[TheGreatOne]

I wonder why no one commented there yet... is it really too long for anyone to read? :/

L2GameJourno, read some Kotaku articles and take notes. Patricia Hernandez knows how to write articles that get the plebs commenting. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/23/gaming-made-me-fallout-2/

 

[Sub]

Keeping an eye on this thread.

 

[Infinitron]

I emailed a link to the article to RPS, telling them "Yeah it's long but take a look, you can even use it as PC gaming bragging rights ('the consoles have one demo, we have ten thousand NWN modules')". Although they don't seem to care much about that stuff these days?

 

[NotAGolfer]

What's a CRPG Addcit?

Valiant effort, and informative. Didn't even know that those hacks to keep older abandoned games playable are illegal.
European Copyright Directive is even more restrictive about that than DMCA.
Fuck all those assholes, seriously.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

What's a CRPG Addcit?

(Will give a proper response to the article once I've read it.)

 

[felipepepe]

I emailed a link to the article to RPS, telling them "Yeah it's long but take a look, you can even use it as PC gaming bragging rights ('the consoles have one demo, we have ten thousand NWN modules')". Although they don't seem to care much about that stuff these days?

Well, they are the only mainstream gaming website I didn't call out by name... they could at least do a post about the NWN Vault and just barely link my article, especially since this month marks 1 year of the Vault being dead.

 

[Don Peste]

Had to fucking register to comment something.

Don Peste
Since you are a first time poster, your comment will be queued for approval. Expect to see it appear in the next 24 hours. When your first comment is approved, you will be able to post comments going forward immediately. Please adhere to Gamasutra comment guidelines.

That's why you don't have any comments.

Anyway, thanks to you I discovered Return of Reckoning, plus some good NWN mods.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Gamasutra didn't tweet about this article as far as I can see, nor is it featured on the front page. The mystery of no comments solved: hardly anyone is aware of it, even on Gamasutra itself, not to mention outside it.

 

[felipepepe]

Gamasutra didn't tweet about this article as far as I can see, nor is it featured on the front page. The mystery of no comments solved: hardly anyone is aware of it, even on Gamasutra itself, not to mention outside it.

They usually tweet these articles only the following day or so. And apparently promote it depending on pageviews... my aspect ratio article slowly climbed their frontpage, but that was a way more popular article, full of cool pictures of Guybrush.

 

[NotAGolfer]

What's a CRPG Addcit?

(Will give a proper response to the article once I've read it.)

CRPG AddCIt

 

[felipepepe]

English is so overrated. "O Viciado em RPGs" sounds so much better.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

English is so overrated. "O Viciado em RPGs" sounds so much better.

Nope, it just sounds like Avocado 'em rpgs.

 

[Black]

Deader than my sex life.