How to NOT PR:

Brilliant parallel.

Amy resells packaged cakes from her "bakery" while 22cans resells microtransaction models from their "video game development studio".

It's a windows based solution, Not sure if they offer it for other platforms (though its open source, so its possibly been ported to other platforms, you'd need to check their site out to find out about that), I just assumed you were using windows.

I'm sure android probably provides VPN solutions through the play store, though I've never used any of them so I can't advise on their efficacy.

muir caught deleting what he doesn't want to see through bully moderation:



steamcommunity.com/app/232810/discussions/0/620712999984612194/#c617336568082523095

The topic is "IS this game still being worked on? Worth a buy?"  You know, the one 22cans permabanned and libeled folks over.

So with that in mind, time to take a look at the actual post:





Is this game worth a buy...well, this clearly says that if you expect to really participate upon the forums and dare to point out the state of this gold brick, don't dare mention the questionable abuse of Steam users by 22cans' scorched earth policy else it will be turned upon you.  

Yet they complain about bullies when they have a couple of fine examples...

"Gold brick" is a shortened form of "gold-painted brick" - a swindle, a scam.

It also has applications in a work environment:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbricking

Out of curiosity, any ideas if the bans and extreme moderation actions are being green flagged by actual 22Cans Community staff (If there are actually any left?), or is it just the volunteer 'community reps' (Muir and co) just going on a bender and deciding their own policies because they're sick of spouting shit even they don't believe in at this point and have noticed 22Cans don't care either way so just ban/delete anything not up to new standards?

Dave was the one who came here to justify the bans against Mindless, Hardly and Mandrake so I expect it was him who dealt them out.

At this point, 22cans probably wrote the playbook the moderators are being jobsworths over, considering that the moderators supposedly had a meeting with the team in March:
www.22cans.com/daily-dev-activity-23rd-march-2015/

There is a likelihood that 22cans just let the moderators do whatever they feel like for Dave to offer what could be at most charitably called a lazy cover excuse, while this matter has been brought to Dave's attention for him to essentially shirk it off (which I am again offering the opportunity for him to give explanation).  22cans have also allowed the moderators to say whatever they care to about the game's development without correction, even when the supposed producer wanders into the topic seemingly by accident and then forgets the topic exists shortly thereafter.

Here is an interesting bit in context to this topic that shows this to be more like company policy as it has been going on for a long time.

Monkeythumbz - Since you posted in a similar topic on behalf of 22cans about a year ago, around the same time Muir made this claim, I thought I would give you an opportunity to answer this:
Who at 22cans decided these were "the Steam rules"?

www.reddit.com/r/GODUS/comments/260mz8/steam_moderators_are_on_a_rampage/chmjbga

This is the sort of rubbish that had muir misrepresenting poor moderation, forum whitewashing, customer abuse, bullying moderation, and 22cans' really crappy public policy as being Steam's policy and not 22cans trying to antagonise those they've lied to for money, pulled bait and switch upon Steam Early Access, etc.:

steamcommunity.com/app/232810/discussions/0/558756256502511973/

This was from over a year ago now, and it still appears still in effect given the delete+lie "moderation" they have been continuing to perform.

Of course - like with anything else muir and Aynen moderate and lie about - the cited moderation reasons have NOTHING to do with the REAL Steam rules:
support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4045-USHJ-3810

That 22cans is blaming their customer abuse upon Steam is something that I am making definite note of - I just need to know who established this policy to make it easier upon VALVe's own investigation into the matter.  Or it can look like 22cans' company policy and be handled appropriately in ways that may require Godus to find another digital distribution platform - libeling users is one thing, libeling the publisher over your own abuse of those users is a whole different matter.

mrdrpink - Do you have any input you can offer about what appears to be 22cans' company policy?  Your two company forum thugs are also invited to offer an explanation on why they are clearly moderating upon false rules to antagonise users over, along with an opportunity to offer their own explanation for libeling Steam and VALVe on behalf of your company.

Side Note:  22cans might need to have the hamster running on their server's wheel replaced, as the current one appears it can no longer handle daily server load.

Although I find the moderation practice overall to be repellent I do think it's a bit misleading to post that post from Muir as it's quite old and could give people the mistaken impression he made those comments recently.

I find Muir seems to go through bad periods. He is quite young and he probably just needs someone to mentor him.

Muir isn't a good pick unless you invest in mentoring him and they clearly haven't. It's been suggested Muir and Aynen were picked because of familial connections to 22cans but I have no idea of that is true or not.