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Biggest Villains of the RPG Industry?

Started by RPGPundit, August 12, 2010, 03:28:01 AM

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J Arcane

#195
August 21, 2010, 06:13:43 PM
Hopefully with the three corebooks out the gate, they can focus their efforts on releasing a better, cross-game monster book, and more overall sourcebook support.  

Still, that review more or less gives me what I already knew:  Shortage of monsters or not, I want that book.  Oh yes.
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Cylonophile

#196
August 22, 2010, 05:21:38 AM
Speaking of the modstapo on the unnameable site, is it just me or are they getting to be more and more like eric cartman?

Now they're handing out suspensions for "rule 10" which demands that any disagreement with the mods be made in POLITE and RESPECTFUL terms.

So, darren maclennan calls you some name and snarkily hands you a suspension that wasn't warranted, and you're supposed to be polite and respectful in disagreeing with it?

"RESPECT MAH AH-THORITAAAH!"
Go an\' tell me I\'m ignored.
Kick my sad ass off the board,
I don\'t care, I\'m still free.
You can\'t take the net from me.

-The ballad of browncoatone, after his banning by the communist dictators of rpg.net for refusing to obey their arbitrary decrees.

Ghost Whistler

#197
August 22, 2010, 06:05:51 AM
Quote from: Cylonophile;400788Speaking of the modstapo on the unnameable site, is it just me or are they getting to be more and more like eric cartman?

Now they're handing out suspensions for "rule 10" which demands that any disagreement with the mods be made in POLITE and RESPECTFUL terms.

So, darren maclennan calls you some name and snarkily hands you a suspension that wasn't warranted, and you're supposed to be polite and respectful in disagreeing with it?

"RESPECT MAH AH-THORITAAAH!"

That was the biggest problem I had with that site: the way their stupid rules made you feel you were permanently walking on eggshells. Fragile egos make for pathetic moderation. It's so easy, especially online, to gang up on another using their 'criticism' of a mod decision to call them difficult, antagonistic or belligerent, etc. This is a form of bullying IMO and i've said as such (you can imagine the response). I find bullying a most odious behaviour, especially when it coems from people who claim to be smart.
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jcfiala

#198
August 22, 2010, 01:59:39 PM
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;400687Having read a review posted on rpg.net, i'm tempted to nominate ffg for villain status. Again they manage to fuck up 40k. I have a lot of time for them in most other areas; the books look stunning. But to not include - again - vital background information on antagonists is bloody ridiculous. Deathwatch gets chaos space marines, tyrannids and tau - but you can be sure they will get the same short shrift orks kroot and eldar get in RT. This is just ridiculous. They've had enough time now to get out a proper sourcebook for antagonists/xenos in lieu of anything else and still they fuck it up. I also don't think that book size is any excuse either. Their interpreation of the 40k universe has just been, well, chaotic. Badly organised.

I'm not sure that I accept that mishandling a property really makes you a Villain.  They're not publishing the books you'd like - that's annoying, but Villainous?  In another 3-5 years or so someone else will probably be publishing the game in a slightly different edition and publishing new books for it anyway.
 

Craig_in_ACT

#199
August 24, 2010, 06:19:16 AM
I would like to nominate Jonathan P. Nolan and Pisces All Media for what they did to the Australian portion of the RPG Industry.

Craig J. Brain

Ghost Whistler

#200
August 24, 2010, 07:13:13 AM
Quote from: jcfiala;400832I'm not sure that I accept that mishandling a property really makes you a Villain.  They're not publishing the books you'd like - that's annoying, but Villainous?  In another 3-5 years or so someone else will probably be publishing the game in a slightly different edition and publishing new books for it anyway.

It's all opinion. But I just fail to comprehend FFG's planning on this. It's not as if the IP and the subject matter are themselves down to personal interpretation and ill defined - we all know how eldar/tau/etc work. I can't understand why at this point there is next to nothing for the other races. One Eldar corsair? Seriously, wtf!
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DKChannelBoredom

#201
August 25, 2010, 02:56:56 AM Last Edit: August 25, 2010, 03:02:18 AM by DKChannelBoredom
Quote from: test0024565;401121How about the bastich who ripped off catalyst games, putting battletech and shadowrun in jeopardy, along with eclipse phase?
I think he's be mentioned a couple of times, but dude, why a total word-for-word echo of post 4 in this very same thread? is that you, Cylon?
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J Arcane

#202
August 25, 2010, 03:07:05 AM
Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;401141I think he's be mentioned a couple of times, but dude, why a total word-for-word echo of post 4 in this very same thread? is that you, Cylon?

It's a spambot.
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DKChannelBoredom

#203
August 25, 2010, 03:14:41 AM
Quote from: J Arcane;401143It's a spambot.

Aw, sorry - didn't see the signature of mr. numbers there.
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Cylonophile

#204
August 25, 2010, 03:34:52 AM
Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;401145Aw, sorry - didn't see the signature of mr. numbers there.
I reported it to a mod hours ago.
Go an\' tell me I\'m ignored.
Kick my sad ass off the board,
I don\'t care, I\'m still free.
You can\'t take the net from me.

-The ballad of browncoatone, after his banning by the communist dictators of rpg.net for refusing to obey their arbitrary decrees.

One Horse Town

#205
August 25, 2010, 06:19:52 AM
Quote from: Cylonophile;401147I reported it to a mod hours ago.

I have to sleep sometimes. Sorting a couple out now.

Cylonophile

#206
August 25, 2010, 06:04:41 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;401152I have to sleep sometimes. Sorting a couple out now.

I wasn't bitching at you, I was letting the guy who may or may not have implied I was responsible for quoting my own post that I'd seen it and reported it, so no it wasn't me.
Go an\' tell me I\'m ignored.
Kick my sad ass off the board,
I don\'t care, I\'m still free.
You can\'t take the net from me.

-The ballad of browncoatone, after his banning by the communist dictators of rpg.net for refusing to obey their arbitrary decrees.

PaladinCA

#207
August 26, 2010, 10:26:21 PM
I don't know what is worse at times.... the attitude of some  of the RPGnet moderators or the gleeful little suck ups that praise their every decision and gaggle like geese whenever someone gets the ban hammer.

But villains? No.

Cylonophile

#208
August 27, 2010, 12:11:16 AM
Quote from: PaladinCA;401431I don't know what is worse at times.... the attitude of some  of the RPGnet moderators or the gleeful little suck ups that praise their every decision and gaggle like geese whenever someone gets the ban hammer.

But villains? No.

The mods are like jabba the hutt, the suckups are like that obnoxious little bird like prick that sat on his shoulder and laughed at the victims jabba condemned.
Go an\' tell me I\'m ignored.
Kick my sad ass off the board,
I don\'t care, I\'m still free.
You can\'t take the net from me.

-The ballad of browncoatone, after his banning by the communist dictators of rpg.net for refusing to obey their arbitrary decrees.

DKChannelBoredom

#209
August 27, 2010, 01:15:16 AM
Quote from: Cylonophile;401435The mods are like jabba the hutt, the suckups are like that obnoxious little bird like prick that sat on his shoulder and laughed at the victims jabba condemned.

Yeah, but again, hardly the biggest villains of the industry, just like Jabba wasn't the worst baddie of the Galaxy? I mean, no one forcing you to go there and read the posts, and you can even read and post there without checking out TT, right? It's seems a bit masochistic the way some people can't stay away from a place that they really dislike, and compared to people who cheated a lotta gamers or ran rpg companies into the ground, it doesn't seem that villainous to me.
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Quote from: Cranewings;410955Cocain is more popular than rp so there is bound to be some crossover.
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