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Kneeb4r
Canada21 Posts
On December 06 2025 08:31 WombaT wrote: Subreddit regulars (I was active under a different username, so I recognise) making TL accounts to continue to moan, or argue with Spartak seems to me excessive. People are calling out bad behaviour for what it is. Maybe he should have behaved in a way that didn't alienate an entire fanbase. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27383 Posts
On December 06 2025 10:03 Kneeb4r wrote: People are calling out bad behaviour for what it is. Maybe he should have behaved in a way that didn't alienate an entire fanbase. Yes, and my point is it was called out. Forever ago. Indeed, probably longer still. There comes a point where it’s borderline unhinged. Migrating to TL solely to bitch about a game that’s been DoA for months and argue with Spartak is ridiculous. There’s nothing new under the sun here, there’s no new info like all of the stuff mentioned in the past few pages has been discussed thoroughly in this thread. Which people would know was the case if they’d actually been active TL participants for any amount of time. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17819 Posts
On December 06 2025 07:50 Miragee wrote: You measure importance solely in how much profit was made? publishers and developers who pay $0 for community engagement people get what they pay for. On December 06 2025 10:16 WombaT wrote: Migrating to TL solely to bitch about a game that’s been DoA for months and argue with Spartak is ridiculous. meh, lighten up and enjoy the white noise. | ||
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Jeremy Reimer
Canada1220 Posts
On December 06 2025 05:52 _Spartak_ wrote: As I said, subreddit moderators can't delete comments. Unless reddit changed things recently, you can still see comments/posts removed by a moderator by going through the post history of the user. And if we ever removed any of your posts/comments, you will get a DM with the explanation of why it was removed and a link to the post that was removed. So, as an active member of the subreddit, which of your posts/comments got removed for being critical of the game? That should be easy to get an example of since you are adamant that we are regularly removing negative comments and you have obviously been nothing but negative about the game for a long time. Well, the only post of mine that ever got removed was the most recent Tim Morten LinkedIn post, and the linked reasoning was just a copy/paste of the sub's rules, which didn't explain anything. But you did later explain in the thread of the next, similar post that it was because of "bad faith paraphrasing" in the title, which didn't even make any sense. Like, newspapers and websites paraphrase things in titles all the time. It's kind of the fun part of writing articles, which is why editors usually steal that part of the job.  But in any case, it's not that important. The change in our attitude towards moderation is also fictional. If anything, I have been slightly less lenient on some repeat offenders recently. Moderation was even more lax in the past. The subreddit always had plenty of negative posts and comments. It is just that recently 99% of comments are negative, instead of it swinging between 30-70% negative as in the past. The change is due to what happened with the game, not because we used to remove negative stuff and for some reason we stopped doing so in the last year. Well, look, you might be right about this. I haven't combed the history of the sub exhaustively to be able to prove it one way or another, and it makes sense that there would be many more negative posts after the game's spectacular failure (and, I'll point out one last time, the spectacularly bad faith actions of Frost Giant's management, particularly Tim Morten) Perhaps we are all just beating a dead horse here. Except for the fact that the horse itself stubbornly refuses to completely die, which is just confusing for everybody involved. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17819 Posts
On December 06 2025 10:16 WombaT wrote: Migrating to TL solely to bitch about a game that’s been DoA for months and argue with Spartak is ridiculous. also, these orgs constantly promote how their game will be some amazing life altering experience. when that doesn't happen people get angry. Even when it does happen and the game is great you get that one in a million Avilo type person who will do crazy things. if you want to avoid this possibility do not promote video games as some great life experience to 100s of millions of people. these companies are right there to collect the profit.. they also have to be there to accept the blow back from unhinged thrill seekers who were told their thrill seeking aspirations would be fulfilled by your entertainment product you charge $$$ for. Frost Giant and its agents made all kinds of lofty promises knowing full well Morten already fucked C&C into the ground 10 years earlier. | ||
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Fleetfeet
Canada2834 Posts
On December 06 2025 10:03 Kneeb4r wrote: People are calling out bad behaviour for what it is. Maybe he should have behaved in a way that didn't alienate an entire fanbase. Anything I've read from Spartak here seemed AT WORST like something from a normal dude and not a normal dude acting as a moderator. Do you have any evidence that Spartak singlehandedly alienated an entire fanbase BEFORE that fanbase turned to realizing Stormgate was never gonna get there? From my perspective, y'all just lumped Spartak on to the other side of the fence and then said "See? OBVIOUSLY he's evil, he's on the other side of the fence!" | ||
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Kneeb4r
Canada21 Posts
On December 06 2025 13:33 Fleetfeet wrote: Anything I've read from Spartak here seemed AT WORST like something from a normal dude and not a normal dude acting as a moderator. Do you have any evidence that Spartak singlehandedly alienated an entire fanbase BEFORE that fanbase turned to realizing Stormgate was never gonna get there? From my perspective, y'all just lumped Spartak on to the other side of the fence and then said "See? OBVIOUSLY he's evil, he's on the other side of the fence!" People were sick of him before the devs released 0.6 as their 1.0. That's why he is openly mocked on other platforms. If it was just about the game being bad people would just blame FGS and Tim "The Charlatan" Morten. | ||
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_Spartak_
Turkey459 Posts
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Miragee
8707 Posts
On December 06 2025 10:36 JimmyJRaynor wrote: publishers and developers who pay $0 for community engagement people get what they pay for. Ok, I can agree with that. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17819 Posts
so much hope! so much excitement! LOL. | ||
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Gargonus
41 Posts
However today is monday, I wonder if someone will post Tim's weekly rambling, and if that post will get deleted. | ||
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THIRD_DEGREE_
United States20 Posts
On December 06 2025 04:42 Jeremy Reimer wrote: The fact that you don't silence criticism now doesn't mean you didn't silence criticism in the past, back when it had more impact. Nobody cares about the game or about the sub now, so it doesn't really matter what you do. I remember you aggressively deleting any comments (and sometimes even banning entire accounts) that questioned whether or not voidlegacy was actually Tim Morten. That was a big deal, because voidlegacy often set the tone for the entire sub. Later, when it was 99.9999% proven that voidlegacy actually was Tim Morten, you still deleted some of the posts that brought it up. So there's that. DON-ILYA's account was banned, not just from /r/Stormgate, but from all of Reddit. Because of this, all his posts were mass-deleted, which seemed particularly draconian to me and not at all deserved. Anyone can look through Spartak’s comment history over the past few years and draw their own conclusions about how those interactions played out. You brought up a great point earlier. it’s difficult to “prove” the existence of something that was removed (removal is also effectively deletion); that’s just how Reddit works (I agree is a massive downside of the platform). The lack of a screenshot doesn’t mean the experience didn’t happen, especially when multiple users describe similar patterns. That's a shame about DON -- he had some pretty solid gameplay breakdowns from his early EA experience. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27383 Posts
On December 08 2025 22:34 Gargonus wrote: Another post removed by the mods. That's sad. However today is monday, I wonder if someone will post Tim's weekly rambling, and if that post will get deleted. What was deleted? Far as I can tell it’s modded pretty reasonably. I mean Tim’s LinkedIn adventures are all there for everyone to peruse, amongst many a negative thread. Amongst ‘hey let’s post the player count for the 1000th’ time What’s the issue here? | ||
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Jeremy Reimer
Canada1220 Posts
It was a post asking about the upcoming roadmap. It linked to the last roadmap that Frost Giant shared. Not everyone follows the whole saga closely, and the thread had some good information about all the known facts about the current development situation and planned patch. But I guess maybe it wasn't in "good faith" enough or something, so it got nuked from orbit, and now nobody can get this information. Far as I can tell it’s modded pretty reasonably. I mean Tim’s LinkedIn adventures are all there for everyone to peruse, amongst many a negative thread. Amongst ‘hey let’s post the player count for the 1000th’ time What’s the issue here? The issue is the randomness and the seemingly arbitrary nature of deletions. Tim Morten LinkedIn posts? Fine, allowed. Tim Morten LinkedIn posts but the post title isn't deferential enough? Deleted. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17819 Posts
On December 09 2025 00:19 Jeremy Reimer wrote: The issue is the randomness and the seemingly arbitrary nature of deletions. Tim Morten LinkedIn posts? Fine, allowed. Tim Morten LinkedIn posts but the post title isn't deferential enough? Deleted. dawg, is this naivete act a troll? My guy, some clown is modding the reddit. This ain't a computer science seminar. We aren't solving for an eigenvector. This is video games. This is giant megacorps syphoning money from impulsive, thrill seekers engaging in an unhealthy habit. So dude, just relax, and enjoy the stupidity. Don't play video games expecting objectivity and scientific rigour. The reddit is in the same state as the revenue stream of the game it covers. Its borked. | ||
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Jeremy Reimer
Canada1220 Posts
On December 09 2025 00:39 JimmyJRaynor wrote: dawg, is this naivete act a troll? My guy, some clown is modding the reddit. This ain't a computer science seminar. We aren't solving for an eigenvector. This is video games. This is giant megacorps syphoning money from impulsive, thrill seekers engaging in an unhealthy habit. Ironically, when you're programming a 3D game engine, you're often solving for an eigenvector. So dude, just relax, and enjoy the stupidity. Don't play video games expecting objectivity and scientific rigour. The reddit is in the same state as the revenue stream of the game it covers. Its borked. The status of moderation on the Stormgate subreddit is not that important, obviously. There are many more important things in the world. "It's just video games, lol!" is fine, but it's also needlessly nihilistic. One can find a more useful place to stand between these two extremes. Describing things as they exist and not misrepresenting them is still important, no matter the context. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17819 Posts
On December 09 2025 00:53 Jeremy Reimer wrote: Ironically, when you're programming a 3D game engine, you're often solving for an eigenvector. Eugene Fiume was my favourite graphics prof. a pioneer in 3D graphic rendering. i learned the bresenham algorithm in his class. if video games ain't paying you what you're worth and you have a deep math background i suggest passing the first 2 actuarial exams. you'll get an analyst job at a P&C Insurance Consultant instantly. On December 09 2025 00:53 Jeremy Reimer wrote: Describing things as they exist and not misrepresenting them is still important, no matter the context. true. i'm not about to call Spartak a liar! the man has done an amazing job keeping the RTS genre growing and thriving. During Tasteless' esports lifetime achievement award speech he said he felt bad because he thought Spartak deserved it. | ||
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Jeremy Reimer
Canada1220 Posts
As usual, there's nothing of substance. Tim's grateful for the suggestions from last week's post, and as a result has "a handful of new conversations in progress". If only you could pay developers with conversations, Tim would be golden! | ||
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Gargonus
41 Posts
This speaks to the scarcity of capital The audacity of saying that after burning $40M to the ground. | ||
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ScoutWBF
Germany641 Posts
On December 09 2025 02:15 Jeremy Reimer wrote: If only you could pay developers with conversations, Tim would be golden! Can always pay them in exposure | ||
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