Um, it looks like Everiss presented a theory about the failure of a company he used to work for, a theory that people disagreed with, and then he corrected a couple of incorrect dates and deleted a bunch of comments. That certainly won't win him medals for journalistic integrity, but I don't know if I'd characterize that as "disgusting."
What's that about journo stalking?
Well, the Imagine thing was a bit of a silly that kicked it all off although calling his complete revision of history in order to blank an especially dark slate on his CV "a theory" is umm, letting him off light y'know? Especially considering how well documented the demise of Imagine is (ffs, it was filmed for the BBC!) and how it contradicts everything Everiss himself had said before then. It probably means little to US folks, but it's a seminal point in UK games history - a company that so utterly lived beyond its means it makes the story of Ion Storm seem like My Little Pony and one that exploded very publicly on TV. And Everiss was partly responsible for that demise. Not fucking playground pirates.
And when I said "disgusting" I was referring precisely to Everiss' behaviour afterwards. For around 3 months later he obsessively stalked Stu Campbell (and fuck knows why he didn't pick on me, John Walker or anyone else involved in the comments section - we got off light I guess or he just couldn't dig up any shit on us), at one point in a comments section comically asking him out for a fight (granted, this was at least funny). Some of it I touched on in my piece but it went on much longer and much further than that and was really fucking creepy and icky. He's a nutjob.
Suing over honest criticism is a blow to free speech everywhere. Bruce himself isn't the point here.
Actually, he partly is. You know there's a right way to do things and a dodgy way to do things and Bruce has a way of stating his bizarre opinions as fact. He doesn't research, he doesn't care, it's blog hits and controversy all the way. It really was only a matter of time before someone came along and attempted to drag him through the courts. Yes, Evony are shits but you can't divorce that from Bruce's blog hit seeking ways. He'd shit on your gran if it meant he'd get 10 more visits to his blog. And it's that hit seeking that got TCE named in the legal letter and it's only the fact that he's now banned from innumerable places on the internet that stopped his stuff getting spread further and more people ending up with threatening letters on their desks.
It's all very well taking up the sword of righteous justice against Evony, cock knows they deserve all the flack they get, but you've got to have the context of how this situation emerged and that hinges *entirely* on how Everiss operates.
He's not anywhere nearly as righteous or as innocent as he'd have you believe and that *is* important. I appreciate most of this probably sounds petty or means nothing to most people on here, but if you'd seen first hand the way Bruce operates then you'd not be so quick to leap on this.
i don't know anything about this bruce guy, or imagine for that matter, but i agree that i don't see what the big problem is with him. so he blames piracy for the fall of his company 20 years ago, when it's not entirely piracy -- so what? are people disgusting just for rationalizing their faults and blaming others instead of themselves, and for stating opinions as facts?
also, if there's something wrong with merely stating opinion as fact, why do you say things like (recent example, from memory) 'geometry wars is definitely better than such and such a game, in this order, all other orders are wrong' -- isn't that stating an opinion as fact? why is that not disgusting, and him saying some magazine failed because of piracy is?
his faults seem like the faults of being merely human (the rationalizing animal), which everyone does, whereas evony's faults seem like faults that actually not all that common in regular folk: suppression of free speech, inappropriate / deceptive advertising, stealing images from others and using them in their advertisements without permission, etc.
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