OK, I don't give a flying fuck about DD. I started reading this thread because
drama is always fun to read.
HOWEVER...
Am I the only one who actually bothered to verify Celerity's claims? He IS right, you know? About the review thing, at least. And it's not just him:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/262060/discussions/0/541906348041071610/
So what...? Indie devs are the dindu nuffins of RPG Codex? These maneuvers that Red Hook pulled ARE shady as hell. No two ways about it. If it was Bioware or Bethesda all of you would be
right now.
Celerity: The comparison ppl made between Underrail and Fallout 2 was about core gameplay mechanics. Yes, I know Fallout 2 had a shiton of bugs, the unofficial patch (made by modders, sure) fixes almost a thousand of them. But that's not the point at all.
Underrail is a great game and I've yet to encounter any bugs after playing it for 100 hours.
Nobody is asking you to fix anything, man. Linking you to Underrail's website is simply a way of saying "Hey! If RPGs are your thing, you might like this game, dude". Nothing more, nothing less.
About Derpest: That specific thread actually was moved and not locked. That was because they use Feedback and Suggestions as a Trash Bin, where critical threads are not immediately in view of the public. There are plenty of others that WERE deleted or locked or censored around that timeframe, which is why people are so sensitive about it.
Edit: Many of the people responding were even people critical of the game calling the OP out on being wrong. I even did so myself. Rekt Hook didn't censor. THAT time. There was also resident veteran shill Pothocket who always appears and starts shitposting in threads right before they are locked or users are censored.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/JimSterling/discussions/0/613937943116321602/#c535152511345658426
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/JimSterling/discussions/0/535152511358150213/
And those are just the ones we could catch. During that timeframe posts would vanish in the time between seeing them and hitting respond. At all hours of the day and night contentious posts were just gone in under half an hour. This was the work of Cadogan, also known as community manager Ryan Rathegeber, a Rekt Hook employee. At one point I theorized the developers finally got a clue he was hurting their image and fired him, on the grounds that posts quit being soft or hard censored and then a few days later they hired community manager John Lindvay, who formerly conducted an interview with Chris Bourassa a few months before his hiring. I figured they wouldn't need a new community manager if the old one were still there. That was actually false and he censored me very shortly after for mentioning Jim Sterling again, this time permanently. They then carried on for a few days like PTSD victims. That might explain why they think they're living this scene now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h_v_our_Q
About Underail: All I was saying, even at first was that it was being presented and introduced in exactly the wrong way. Instead of people saying they didn't mean it like that and correcting themselves people started flipping tables. I still don't really know what Fallout 2's core game mechanics are, so that's still a meaningless correlation even if it is not a negative one. I can't exactly investigate now because I think it's obvious where my detective work is going. It's doing work - Reddit is full of people calling out that lying shill now who furiously backpedalled, and even the people who dismissed me think even less of this game's supporters and made the correct decision anyways.
Nah, I've read some of his claim about the dev and that they seemed true enough. His claim about mechanics are mostly valid too. In capacity of making me not buying this game (played free version before, like about June), he succeed and I am somewhat thankful for that.
Thing is, as people said before, either kindly or shitpostingly, I don't think he will be making much of a dent in the bigger picture and he will be a much happier person if he just forget about it.
I'm not so convinced about that. If I weren't hurting them they wouldn't care and certainly wouldn't spend so much time and energy on it. If I weren't
right no one else would care because they would just check my claims and laugh them off. Instead their entire motivation for the Reddit review bombing campaign is fighting imaginary demons of my creation. Their entire motivation for their swarming and shit posting was because I bad touched them months ago (also why I start trolling quickly when anyone else does the same thing, it's the most pathetically weak thing you can do). I honestly could forget about it and just let them kill themselves. Even the developers would rather be salty about me than actually fix their game in open interviews with the public. I smell
blood. I will strike the killing blow on corruption and I will stand triumphant over its corpse that will not block my path.
And then when I'm done with all that I will celebrate with Pizza, Pepsi, and Pornography. And then I will play games that don't suck and everything will become normal again.
There is more in this thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/262060/discussions/0/458604254449378917/
If this is somewhat true, a direct complaint to Steam would be in order.
I have already reported the store page, contacted Jim Sterling (who is aware of my concerns), and contacted at least one anti consumer report group (who has not responded yet). Nothing has happened yet. Chances are many people would need report this before Valve gave any fucks, as barring massive differences in scale (such as Jim Sterling coming down on Brutal Force, which was this tiny game with very obvious censorship and asset theft) Valve will not come down on a company or game.
There are rumors Valve is already aware of this game and grants refunds outside of the normal rules. That means it's worth a try, and it also means if people keep reporting it we can execute this with impunity.
