Same here. First time I logged on in years. Felt bad because I had tribes I just let lay stagnate so I renounced them so others can take over.

About time. Flash really really needs to die.

Another reason why I'm becoming more and more wary when it comes to funding games on kickstarter and via early access. Just no accountability when they pull stuff like this. From what I hear, WiiU users where a huge part of their kickstarter funding and now they just gave them all the middle finger. Here's another company who's games I will never buy again.

I agree and instead of downvote have a report button. If the downvote button is to remove content that adds nothing to the discussion then those comments should probably be removed anyway. People are less likely to report posts if someone else has to read them (the mods) and sees who did the reporting. Therefore it would only be used when a post does have to be removed.

Sorry to hear that, wish you the best. I'm sure someone will step up and help run the tribe so don't worry about that. Your health is more important to take care of yourself.

My stance, as it always has been, is that modding is the gaming equivalent of fan fiction. Derivative works that people spend time making out of their mutual love of the original work. You don't see fan fiction writers clamoring to get paid because the notion is absurd. And this connect between the two leads to my problem with this statment:

"I think that we feel like there is a case to be made that people who spend a lot of time working on mods ought to be able to have a way of monetizing what they're doing."

You know, if a fanfiction writer wants to make money doing what they're doing they become a professional writer. Similarly, if a modder wants to make money doing what they do, they become a game developer, designer, ect.

The US uses metric where it counts, like science and whatnot. It's not something that bothers me when it comes to everyday use.

As the community grows there's going to be those who abuse the downvote button; no getting around that. As long as the majority do use it correctly the upvotes should make the few abusers insignificant. So what, 2 or 3 people downvoted your submisison. Look at the other side, 51 people upvoted it. The community has spoken and those 3 downvotes mean nothing.

EDIT: I have a suggestion though, how about making upvotes and downvotes public? Like you can click on the number and it will give you a list of the usernames who up or downvoted a submission.

Yes but I would wager he's practically unhireable now as a CEO considering the things he's said about his former employer and coworkers.

Pao and her husband's shady past were enough for me to not want her as CEO. So I don't apologize for that. But yeah, I agree about the communication. So much speculation that people are throwing around as fact on Reddit all because the admins don't want to be upfront.

Guy starts a kickstarter for awesome dinosaur game. Gets funded, and releases barebones Early Access version which other people proceed to buy. Absolutely vanishes and development stops. Reaches a head when the artist leaves because he can't get in contact with the developer who still owes him money. Steam removes The Stomping Land from the store. Everyone is angry and wants refunds that Steam and Kickstarter won't give. So pretty much this guy ran off with everyone's money.

Agreed. I've personally sworn off all Early Access games until Steam holds them more accountable for failures. DayZ hasn't failed officially yet, but I highly doubt I'll ever see a finished version; Towns development died and they released a half-assed "complete" version of the game; Nether development just died; Also The Stomping Land dev just up and vanished with everyone's money from KickStarter and Early Access.

Yeah, never trusting Early Access again. Only Early Access games I'll ever own are the ones I bought before I made this decision. So far I have never given in, not even for Besieged. As good as that game looks, I'm not buying until it comes out of Early Access.

Preordering only ever made sense when there were a limited number of copies shipped on release. When it comes to digital copies, they are, for all intents and purposes, infinite in number. No need to ever preorder a digital copy of a game.