Multiplayer announced

It is probably very helpful to ignore most of what Aynen and Muir say on the Steam forums, since it appears that they are using their position to troll and antagonise Godus customers to create an even bigger mess for 22cans.  They enfarce fake rules, they post fake information, they obviously hide disfavourable discussions, they completely lie directly to people, they're the features of the how to NOT PR thread, and so far they've been snide about how they've done the whole thing.

If they weren't trying to deep cover discredit 22cans then they should go have a think.

Which makes this post fecking hilarious:

steamcommunity.com/app/232810/discussions/0/558747922935187079/#c558747922958857150
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Here are some common sense forum moderation principles (READ:  How To Be A Good Moderator):
www.communityspark.com/the-real-purpose-of-forum-moderators-revealed/

To note, when they mention "free speech" it is a forum classification between the three major types, free/structured/policed - and free speech in a forum context has generally meant no forbidden topics in context to the forum itself.  In terms of PR policy - it means that there are no questions that will make PR entirely shut down, particularly in context to details of questions answered previously.

Even if that statement is "you are the fucking worst" [sic]:


(This exchange is a bit priceless, in that one of the Chucklefish moderators will try to claim that citing something posted from a business contact is "creepy".  Yes - I am the same fellow who advised the Code Avarice kids to separate their personal and business Twitters as they have done since, cited here and elsewhere - linking this one since it's someone I met through that whole thing - I also have to offer 22cans at least some of that advice.) 

Promoting discussion is usually best when you take the LEAST amount of action possible - when people can see you exercise any moderator action justly, they'll understand and it will be something that shouldn't be hidden away like taking someone off in the night.  Just making a member of the community "disappear" rather than put them in time-out, evidence for which not required to be known but just remove them with a proclamation when they inconvenience you enough...we're just waiting for the next of us to get our poster tacked up onto the wall.

This is why the Steam forum, which is routinely exposed to MILLIONS more concurrent users, is often deader than this one.

It has been moderated to near-death.

Was this what 22cans was looking for?  If not, then they need to have a good think.  Right now I'm not sure what they're supposed to be doing...except that to some of the Godus customers it's not amusing them at all.

Mmmmkay...so now with all of those customers pissed off, who are then going to be Peter Molyneux's customers?

What is it going to take to get discussion and involvement going on detailing how some of these PR blunders clearly are not working?

Why are some of the young'ins tho thenthitive that they would have been Usenet chow?  If the creators of Might & Magic 6 were as thin-skinned, there would have never been a 7 (still, that one dungeon...F*** THEM!)

What are customers to believe NOW?  Not currently in the plans or currently being worked upon but I can't say the details because an NDA covers something I'm already talking about?

Is 22cans TRYING to look even more horrible?

Is this part of the crying act?

I am seriously concerned now.  Should I get some popcorn or call for an intervention?