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[Erata]

Does this mean that Reddit is banned from the forums now? That wouldn't be too bad an outcome.

[Voyager I]

decman117, on 10 September 2014 - 01:14 PM, said:

It isn't really a stand though. Half the posts will disappear, some bans will be served, and half the founders will end up on the post approval thing.

Hopefully we'll get an admission of guilt and finally a move to using the games' forums before reddit or twitter, but that's it. Nothing we haven't seen before.

Yeah, we had our shot at making things better a long time ago and it was made quite clear that Paul's Great Ideas weren't going to be diluted by petty things like user feedback or simple math. Now we're just here to bask in the schadenfreude since we're incredibly bitter about waiting ten years for someone to pick up the BattleTech IP and then watching it get run into the ground, and making fools of themselves is the only thing PGI can do to entertain us anymore.

Edited by Voyager I, 10 September 2014 - 01:22 PM.

[IceGryphon]

Gwaihir, on 10 September 2014 - 01:17 PM, said:

HEFFAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RoadBeer actually got banned.
RoadBeer actually woke up.

Every time I think of Heffay I think about this video from December 2013.

[Dresner]

Kazvall, on 10 September 2014 - 01:18 PM, said:

I don't think they will ban us guys. Banning all their founders after this would surely KILL trannyverse. Probably create more news articles. Oh woops I had a typo there.

I agree with you, but I think we're on an island, buddy. I just hope the message gets across that this is ridiculous and we, the paying customers, are legitimately upset.

[Lonestar1771]

Look at this unadulterated ridiculousness

https://transversega...s-reason#latest

[Mystia Lorelei]

Ergath Macfirtree, on 10 September 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:

Another absentee founder (and Pheonix for that matter) here. This is fully deserved - not just because you, rather stupidly, broke Reddit's TOS, but also for your ongoing exploitation of the community. We should have been the most loyal and dedicated fan base you could have wished for, but you just wanted to string us along and keep milking us dry.

This.

[ThisMachineKillsFascists]

http://youtu.be/BXKkJU7JhkY?t=4m49s


Thats how a succesful Community manager sounds Like. Listen carefully from Min 4:50

[General Discussion Kerensky]

WanderingSoul, on 10 September 2014 - 01:09 PM, said:

Damn gooooooooons!

I'm outing myself for this, but I posted in the thread already so my head's on the chopping block alongside all the other brave founders who posted here.

Hi, my name is PoptartsNinja and I'm a goon!

I'm a goon who has had short stories published with Catalyst, who got so excited for MWO that I wrote lengthy fluff pieces for The Mittani in spite of having no connection at all with EVE online, and who has had an active "Let's Play: BattleTech" thread on the SA forums for nearly four years. Fanart created for my thread served as a springboard that allowed one other goon to become an artist for official BattleTech TROs. I love BattleTech, it's a fantastic universe. I don't have a Reddit account, so I take great pride in knowing that I am responsible for the "takeover" of r/mwo.

Goons may ruin everything but we didn't ruin this. I'm just kicking back on my island to watch.

[MechBunny]

Hop Hop Hop

Hi All! Love this reunion! Let us take a moment of silence to remember those that can not be with us today.

............

And a moment of silence for one of our fellow founders that dared to speak out and criticize PGI early in development only to get perma banned himself.

Protection

............


P.S.
Roadbeer, Sandpit, Inertiaman, Werewolf, ButtMonkey, Mister Blastman, Chronojam, JokerVictor (All Founders) Say "Hi" from their permaban exiles.

The "unseen" founders are still here and kicking!

Edited by MechBunny, 10 September 2014 - 04:24 PM.

[Tesfurdo]

Give a **** if they ban me... it's not like i'm ever going to be interested in playing this hollow shell of a game, devoid of any pleasure because I like many were ripped off by lies and promises.

[Illegal Username]

It is a known fact that goons wanted to ruin MWO from the beginning, that's why we had so many people paying upwards of 60 bucks to get on the action earlier.

I have to go sleep now. Can't wait to read the fallout.
Good night and in case of mass bannings thanks for the good times mwo players!

[ImplicitAssembler]

This is hilarious.
How come this guy still has a job?

Edited by ImplicitAssembler, 10 September 2014 - 01:26 PM.

[Lord Ikka]

Already having articles pop up about issues. Great job PGI!

http://www.incgamers...backlash-begins

http://www.incgamers...llout-continues

Edited by Lord Ikka, 10 September 2014 - 01:27 PM.

[Druidika]

ImplicitAssembler, on 10 September 2014 - 01:25 PM, said:

This is hilarious.
How come this guy still has a job?

Well you see he got fired from IGP for some reason but PGI thought he did a fantastic job over there and fired Garth to hire Niko.

Or something.

EDIT: Oh sweet my dumb Overlord badge is showing up now.

Edited by Druidika, 10 September 2014 - 01:28 PM.

[Star Captain Brofist]

ThisMachineKillsFascists, on 10 September 2014 - 01:23 PM, said:

http://youtu.be/BXKkJU7JhkY?t=4m49s


Thats how a succesful Community manager sounds Like. Listen carefully from Min 4:50

This but Ben isn't that good either

[Bolow]

ImplicitAssembler, on 10 September 2014 - 01:25 PM, said:

This is hilarious.
How come this guy still has a job?

Probably because there's no women that work at PGI for him to sexually harass

[Voyager I]

Illegal Username, on 10 September 2014 - 01:24 PM, said:

It is a known fact that goons wanted to ruin MWO from the beginning, that's why we had so many people paying upwards of 60 bucks to get on the action earlier.

Confirming I gave PGI $120 so I could begin ruining their game from the word go.


Buying Beta access turned out to be a pretty good idea since that was when the game was actually fun.

Edited by Voyager I, 10 September 2014 - 01:30 PM.

[Lonestar1771]

Star Captain Brofist, on 10 September 2014 - 01:27 PM, said:

This but Ben isn't that good either

Ben seems like a nice guy, but personally I think he is a terrible community manager.

[Salty Hotdog Fingers Kerensky]

Nikolai Lubkiewicz, on 10 September 2014 - 11:27 AM, said:

The issue in question stems from the fact that we had created a sub-reddit for r/Transverse in order to pre-empt any possible recreation of the events which occurred leading to the creation of r/OutreachHPG following the take-over of r/mwo.

I keep seeing them referencing a take over. Me and my friend from goonfleet registered the subreddit the DAY MWO was announced. There was no takeover, we appointed a mod staff because we didn't want to actually run it, and we removed the mod staff when they were stifling dissenting opinions. I was playing MWO with Word of Lowtax since day one, and I got bored when they stopped adding anything new to the game.

This is a simple case of reaping what you sow. A lot of us held out hope that MWO would do justice to Battletech and it almost did. The gameplay isn't bad, but announcing another game and trying to exercise draconian control on your message when all you've done is upset a large amount of your customers is not going to work for you. Unfortunately you broke the clearly stated rules of another site, you don't get to control what people say about your game or your company on the internet.

Yours truly,

ElectricShoe

Owner and Operator of http://www.reddit.com/r/mwo since July 2009

[EmCeeMendez]

It's impressive you got reddit admins to act that quickly to close down r/transverse, the complaint must have been very legitimate. Also, why are we discussing moderation actions? Isn't that grounds for a ban? Oh right, reddit already did that.