Recent content by Tzomg

"Leap ignorantly to the defense of wealthy game companies who don't know or care about you"

First, that wasn't solely towards The Escapist, and the commercial reasoning behind advertising audiences is obvious. Second, there is simply a fundamental risk of payola in a criticize-and-advertise scheme, which we consumers expect you to control institutionally. But then suggesting that...

Last time I looked, them banner ads ain't for fabric softener there Alex.

Let me get this straight. The ones that aren't paid by the people they're criticizing, they're the less legitimate ones?

I thought to myself, what odds am I taking on Custer's Revenge being on page 2? 99%? 99.9%?

I don't know about an exploit, but I'd be very wary of developer leaks if that kind of speculation paid off too often. I think SEC-like auditing of transactions to prevent "insider trading" would scatter a lot of roaches, as absurd as that would have sounded a few years ago. The latest EVE...

"Bugginess" is also a cipher to allow critics to pan a game that isn't a tightly integrated element of a hype battering ram.