damn link is down, anyone got a screen cap, the only thing I've heard is that Internet aristocrat called randy out for a comment about something around the lines of I don't care if my customer are duped by fake reviews and keeps talking about how he's on a plane and can't check the vocaroo IA made http://vocaroo.com/i/s0orzYZ9cQGaUltratwinkie said:http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/09/20/the-escapist-forums-brought-down-in-ddos-attack/Dante dynamite said:whoa where is this about Randy Pitchford and Ben Kuchera going against this source please?Ultratwinkie said:All we know is that Ben Kuchera was yelling at Greg Tito yesterday to censor his forums about that very thread.Doclector said:Wonder who did it. The escapist as a whole seems neither a bastion of gamergate nor fully against it. Unless there's some appearance we put across from the outside, that is. Seems like it'd be hard to believe that it'd be completely unrelated, but what side did it? Unless, of course, it's someone just doing it for fun, getting a kick out of the fallout.
Today this happens and the thread is attacked.
Take that as you will.
People on Forbes are sharpening their pitchforks against Ben Kuchera. Oh and Randy Pitchford too.
He went after Forbes for covering the DDOS.
Forbes points out the strange timing.
https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/513418825966968834
this almost got lost in the DDOS. lucky twitter remembers all. We got more context now.
There was an argument on twitter with Randy Pitchford denying any corruption after a developer that works at the company bragged on twitter about using friendships to get better scores for Borderlands.
And the best part: He was bragging to "disprove" gamergate by exposing corruption people didn't know about because he wasn't tied in the current web of friendships.
This is fucking hilarious. Its like a stoner smoking in front of a cop to "prove" cops are ineffective.
Then Randy Pitchford went off on forbes. Just because. He got schooled by a Forbes writer.
So Gearbox now has a PR disaster on its hands because a developer on twitter posting incriminating tweets.
This is the best thing to happen ever. All off the internet drama from all of my threads don't even scratch this. If I was the one to cover this, this would have been the crown jewel in my internet drama series.
EDIT: Now Randy is talking about some of his customers being worthless. Quality advertising there! Twitter screen capped it and its making the rounds.
"Buy our game, because you are worthless and we hate you." - gearbox.
and hasn't replied back