Silicon Knights big cheese Denis Dyack has, once again, caused a few feathers to get ruffled over at the NeoGAF gaming forum. This time it’s pointing out their ‘flaws’.
He claims the NeoGAF herd are ”hurting society and hurting the videogame industry.” If they don’t reform their ‘wicked’ ways then ”someone’s going to shut them down.”
This won’t be pretty.
This whole thing seems to be the product of Denis Dyack’s previous post that was ”calling out” the forum trolls who seemed to have it in for Silicon Knight’s upcoming Too Human game for Xbox360. Apparently that post was an experiment to highlight how silly assessing a game before you get to even play it is.
”I was basically calling out people who had no way of assessing the game,” Dyack told 1up. ”All I wanted to point out to people is that this is so ridiculous.”
A noble and valid argument but sadly your execution of said experiment wasn’t so valorous it would seem.
”I went through all of this for two reasons… If you’re going to look at the NeoGAF forum as a non-profit organization, if it does not reform itself, it’s eventually going to crumble,” he said.
”There’s going to be a point where they step over the line where someone’s going to shut them down. That would be a loss for everyone… The question I have to ask the moderators of GAF: Are you going to follow your own rules? With people making GIFs of myself that are, I would say, attacking me… Why haven’t 180 people been banned now? If I wanted to move in and shut that place down, do I have grounds under their own forum policy?”
He demands that the moderator team over at NeoGAF reform their community asap ”before people stop listening” to them, and how those types are ”hurting society and hurting the videogame industry.”
I think someone’s going to get roasted a little more over at NeoGAF - but does Denis Dyack, despite his methods, argue a solid point? Does Dyack place too much stock in the power of discussion forums over society?
To troll, or not to troll: that is the question.Source: videogaming247
