druez
04-13-2004, 11:38 AM
With Skydogs permission, he said I could start a new thread.
I've been doing reviews for about 2 years now I think. I like playing games as most of you do and I don't mind giving my opinion on things. I've always held myself as a know-it-all and I don't mind getting ripped for my opinions or arguing. "I’m polish ok? :)"
Anyway, Sometime around September I asked to write previews and reviews of FOF and TPF and I contacted both companies. Jim said no on the preview because release was almost here, but he said I could write a review but asked me if I was part of the marketing crush of .400. I answered no and at the time I wasn't at all.
I entered into the beta test right before I did my review for FOF. I gave FOF a good review and I liked the product again, my biggest problem being bland graphics "in my opinion" but touted everything else highly. I then became more involved with TPF and Joe Stallings. Joe start feeding me rhetoric about how much this board was anti .400 and I bought into it hook line and sinker. He asked me to post things putting down this board and Skydog personally. Well, you all remember the Skydog is a dictator thread don't you?
Anyway, I thought being the dumbass I am, /[I] that is was the right thing to do and you guys meaning the vast majority of FOFC were against .400 for trying to do things differently. I was banned as you all recall. Then TPF was released and I wrote my review of the product, [I]"I based it on what the game could become rather then what it was at the time" I allowed my personal feelings towards the company influence my review of the product. I still stand by the review for what the game is today, but at the time it was to high.
Anyway, so me looking at Skydog as the enemy I entered into a huge flame war with him on the .400 forum and Jim and FOF were dragged into it. I was cutting and pasting things Joe wanted to say in my posts and started pointing out the bugs of FOF to defend TPF. YES IT WAS UNETHICAL OF ME TO DO THIS and I WAS WRONG. I choose my personal friendship with Joe over my ethical morals.
After people on this forum who liked my past reviews questioned my integrity, I at first fought with them, "yabanci for example" and simply didn't want to except the truth about myself and that I fucked up. Well, I wrote Skydog a letter and asked to be let back in and apologized for the way I treated him. Every time someone here wrote something negative about .400 or Joe, he would tell me and I would come here to argue for him. Yes, go ahead say it again, I'm a dumbass.
Anyway, there are many more details that I'm not going into right now, I just want to focus on the ethics involved on these various things and admit I was wrong publicly and apologize to Skydog, Jim and the rest for my past transgressions. I asked HR to review FBCB and I was excited about it. It’s a great game and I loved it. Well, I was discussing this with Joe and told him I liked quite a few things more then TDCB. He said and I quote, "rip his game, say its ok to play but its real amateurish". I said no, I'm not doing that. Arguing on a forum is one thing, but taking a review that is quassi professional and ripping a person’s livelihood is another. I gave FOF a good review as you may recall, but I argued on the boards about it, for some reason to me that seemed ok at the time. To make matters worse he then asked me about OOTP constantly while he was still working with Shaun on Total Pro Baseball. He wanted release dates and private information. I told him over and over again that I signed an NDA and I won’t break it. I finally said “No Joe, I'm not going to give you that crap and I didn’t talk to him since” I came to realize that my personal integrity is much more important then having someone for a friend that just uses you for their own personal gains.
I bring this up now because I couldn't stand to see Joe sit there and gloat knowing what I know about him. There were people patting him on the back for nice screens when they are ripped from the net from others hard work, anyone remember Joe's Diablo/.400 website a while back? There is a word for things like this in the animal world, its called a parasite?
Well they say, “The truth will set you free”. You guys might rip me or flame me, but I think I'm doing the right thing and coming clean. Carry on with the flames or rips of me, I just thought you all might want to know and if you didn't go read another topic :)
Jason
I've been doing reviews for about 2 years now I think. I like playing games as most of you do and I don't mind giving my opinion on things. I've always held myself as a know-it-all and I don't mind getting ripped for my opinions or arguing. "I’m polish ok? :)"
Anyway, Sometime around September I asked to write previews and reviews of FOF and TPF and I contacted both companies. Jim said no on the preview because release was almost here, but he said I could write a review but asked me if I was part of the marketing crush of .400. I answered no and at the time I wasn't at all.
I entered into the beta test right before I did my review for FOF. I gave FOF a good review and I liked the product again, my biggest problem being bland graphics "in my opinion" but touted everything else highly. I then became more involved with TPF and Joe Stallings. Joe start feeding me rhetoric about how much this board was anti .400 and I bought into it hook line and sinker. He asked me to post things putting down this board and Skydog personally. Well, you all remember the Skydog is a dictator thread don't you?
Anyway, I thought being the dumbass I am, /[I] that is was the right thing to do and you guys meaning the vast majority of FOFC were against .400 for trying to do things differently. I was banned as you all recall. Then TPF was released and I wrote my review of the product, [I]"I based it on what the game could become rather then what it was at the time" I allowed my personal feelings towards the company influence my review of the product. I still stand by the review for what the game is today, but at the time it was to high.
Anyway, so me looking at Skydog as the enemy I entered into a huge flame war with him on the .400 forum and Jim and FOF were dragged into it. I was cutting and pasting things Joe wanted to say in my posts and started pointing out the bugs of FOF to defend TPF. YES IT WAS UNETHICAL OF ME TO DO THIS and I WAS WRONG. I choose my personal friendship with Joe over my ethical morals.
After people on this forum who liked my past reviews questioned my integrity, I at first fought with them, "yabanci for example" and simply didn't want to except the truth about myself and that I fucked up. Well, I wrote Skydog a letter and asked to be let back in and apologized for the way I treated him. Every time someone here wrote something negative about .400 or Joe, he would tell me and I would come here to argue for him. Yes, go ahead say it again, I'm a dumbass.
Anyway, there are many more details that I'm not going into right now, I just want to focus on the ethics involved on these various things and admit I was wrong publicly and apologize to Skydog, Jim and the rest for my past transgressions. I asked HR to review FBCB and I was excited about it. It’s a great game and I loved it. Well, I was discussing this with Joe and told him I liked quite a few things more then TDCB. He said and I quote, "rip his game, say its ok to play but its real amateurish". I said no, I'm not doing that. Arguing on a forum is one thing, but taking a review that is quassi professional and ripping a person’s livelihood is another. I gave FOF a good review as you may recall, but I argued on the boards about it, for some reason to me that seemed ok at the time. To make matters worse he then asked me about OOTP constantly while he was still working with Shaun on Total Pro Baseball. He wanted release dates and private information. I told him over and over again that I signed an NDA and I won’t break it. I finally said “No Joe, I'm not going to give you that crap and I didn’t talk to him since” I came to realize that my personal integrity is much more important then having someone for a friend that just uses you for their own personal gains.
I bring this up now because I couldn't stand to see Joe sit there and gloat knowing what I know about him. There were people patting him on the back for nice screens when they are ripped from the net from others hard work, anyone remember Joe's Diablo/.400 website a while back? There is a word for things like this in the animal world, its called a parasite?
Well they say, “The truth will set you free”. You guys might rip me or flame me, but I think I'm doing the right thing and coming clean. Carry on with the flames or rips of me, I just thought you all might want to know and if you didn't go read another topic :)
Jason