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[C.A. Sinner]

I hate to play the devil's advocate here, but I actually understand Codergames a lot better after reading that. He's not some kind of paranoid, narcissistic lunatic, he's someone who's just starting out and is extremely, perhaps irrationally, proud that he actually managed to get a game out there.

Keeping that in mind, I think some of the criticism he received in the original Invader Attack thread was overly harsh and could have been toned down. Also, I remember on of the first replies criticizing the game on grounds of its genre, which, in my opinion, isn't useful feedback.

Sure, his reactions are immature and inappropriate, but I don't think they're completely incomprehensible.

[phubans]

Yeah, I haven't said a single thing for or against him personally. Sure, he made himself out to be a dumbass but I'm sure I could relate to his struggles if I read everything. However, I'm more interested in the Illuminati-esque joke of this thread 

[Melly]

The initial criticism he received may have been a little harsh, but his responses right off the bat were to write them off as stupid comments by people who knew nothing of making games, constantly quoting other people that praised his work beforehand. That people in the thread remained civil to him and tried to talk sense to him instead of just calling him a douche was a wonder.

Either way, probably a good idea to just let this all go.

[Snakey]

I think I better explain some of my comments.

Website
To me, I still feel that the site is quite cluttered. My comments about the visitor counter, awards, ads and general weird flow of his site still stand I feel. I mean, I did visitor counters in the 90's too (1995-1997) but now no one does them. After all, imagine if Google did it . As for the awards, I explained why they're a little pointless. Lots of awards that bear little meaning and influence to the web visitor, but add to the general clutter of the website. As for the ads, well, I don't know about you but placing ads on your company website shows ... shows, well either the web host is free/cheap or you just want to find as many ways as possible to made money (while simultaenously pissing people off). It works well enough for the sites that offer free content to you, but when you also have to pay for the content, it barely makes sense. And lastly, it takes far too long to get to the good stuff.

Game
The game didn't work full stop on my laptop. All I got was a garbled mess. I asked for a fix/patch but he said "The game is not for you [or , NO GAME FOR YOU]". Seems a little unfair that he should tell a customer what he/she should like or enjoy. Besides it also doubles on the "compatibility" awards. It didn't work on my machine. Seems like a problem with compatibility if you ask me.

At the end of the day, due to the medium of text it can be a little hard to tell exactly what tone this all said in. But I still think that my comments were quite fair and not in any way harsh.

I suppose at the end of the day, he was really looking for praise. When he didn't get it among the peers that he wanted to be with ... he just got really upset. I suppose when people get upset they start doing irrational things (such as making a blog post such as that). A great thing I've learnt while doing all this stuff is that sometimes you just have to keep your damn mouth shut.

Also, I think the feds on are onto us! 

[Zaratustra]

exactly how many communities of tigsource haters exist right now

[Μarkham]

I don't get the purpose of partially censoring the swear words you say on your own website.

[moi]

Let's make that the theme of the next compo.

[Hangedman]

Self-censorship compo?
No Sense of Humour compo?
No Fun Allowed compo? (I'd love to see what we could do with that one)

[Evan Balster]

He shouldn't have been banned.  He needs to learn and grow; why not here?

Pardon me for being sickeningly positive.  Here's a picture of a sad kitten.

[allen]

He shouldn't have been banned.  He needs to learn and grow; why not here?

He wasn't interested in learning or growing anything. He was only interested in hearing positive feedbacks about his game, and not much else.

But I don't think he should have been banned either, his thread should have been locked sooner and then warned by a moderator that if his attitude didn't approve he would be banned. But he kind of dug his own hole by being so condescending, so it's hard to blame the mods for lacking patience.

[Contrary]

Wow 89% is a really high score; maybe you guys are wrong.

[Dustin Smith]

Maybe more people should review his game.

I would do so, but that would encourage such behavior in the future. Apparently the only dilalect he understands is numerical reviews, so it would have been a way to get across to the poor chap.

[Inane]

Ahhh shaddap, ya'll. TIGS might not be the illuminati but this thread that's just people saying an unrepresented guy is crazy over and over is boring and doesn't do shit to disprove him.

[Dragonmaw]

Self-censorship compo?
No Sense of Humour compo?
No Fun Allowed compo? (I'd love to see what we could do with that one)

I think it's the TIGsource Illuminati Competition.

[wogan]

Sure, his reactions are immature and inappropriate, but I don't think they're completely incomprehensible.

For real.
Most of you guys are taking way too much pleasure in mocking this guy... it's turned in to a real circle jerk in this thread. It's not such a big surprise you get people feeling a little left out or resentful, even if they are showing it in the wrong way.