No, I wasn't trolling, at all. I also understood entirely that "being friends" was referring to being Steam "friends" - I never suggested otherwise, nor did I claim you were talking to the dev. outside of Steam (which is a moot point, anyway).

My judgement of you was based on your obtuse attitude, saying absolutely asinine things like "you're just a troll, that's why you were banned from the discussion board.." when the guy's making a perfectly cogent argument / point, and "I do own the game and I've had no game-breaking bugs whatsoever after 3.5 hrs of play (thus far).. ..I have no doubt that there are people experiencing issues, but I am not one of them, so I cannot bash the game for something I'm not experiencing". Right. So, lots of people post videos, screenshots etc. all over the web of horrendous issues with the game, yet their experience with the game counts for nothing in your reviews, because you haven't experienced or been able to reproduce the same issues? Ignoring such reports, possibly because you enjoy some of the games' premise / theming / intended gameplay? That's bias, and quite ludicrous bias, at that.

What further drove my comment was idiotic ramblings defending a horribly bad game, such as "the devs are working very hard addressing the issues people do post about" - which is patently false - as well as refusing to see an obvious ploy by the dev. to artificially raise Metacritic scores. This has happened before on other games, and any fool with two eyes and a working brain can see exactly what he was trying to do, there. Especially in light of more recent developments, such as what he tried doing to TB, as well as censoring the Steam discussions on his own game by outright banning people posting anything negative. Again, with some simple deductive reasoning, one can deduce that the dev. was doing nothing more than trying to silence people thoroughly and long enough to slow the spread of news of how horrible the game is, in an attempt to still get some cash from Steam, before sales entirely dried up / halted. If you don't see that, you're truly an idiot.

Then there's the simple issue of looking at the game objectively, to assess empirical qualitative values, which you seem entirely unable to do (hence my further balking at you being a part of the games press, as this would definitely be a base requirement for good reporting / reviewing). The game is severely broken, bugged, and full of (sometimes game breaking) glitches, aside from having a lot of problems with core game mechanics that simply don't work as intended, are ambivalent in their workings, or are simply not part of what you could to some degree objectively call a potentially enjoyable experience.

Have you watched TB's video, and Birgirpall's? You can check my thread right here, where I have listed the "key features" the game itself touts as selling points, providing links to specific times in both videos that show how horribly even the "key features" the game itself flaunts work in-game, even failing to work entirely in some cases (stealth, for example). The videos are worth watching for some laughs alone, and show exactly what's all wrong with this game. Wrong enough to make me say, that any games press member worth their salt, who was able to judge and comment on a game objectively, without any form of bias, would harshly criticise this horrendous excuse for a videogame - and guess what, across the board, these members of the press have done exactly that. Yet here you are, defending it.

And calling people trolls for pointing out the obvious. And calling me a moron, even though your own sentence is "..because he's ruined my own reputation because of morons like you.". Were you trying to say something along the lines of "his behaviour ruined my reputation also, because now others will criticise me for earlier defending this guy, which means they're stupid because I defended him before he did those bad things"? Yeah, your sentence didn't convey that properly, at all. In fact, were I to actually look at what it says, it says that the dev. has ruined your reputation somehow because of people (morons) like me. Meaning - he was somehow motivated by "us", or his ruining of your reputation was a directly causal consequence of umm, a group of people ("morons like you"). Which doesn't even make sense - it's like saying "the cake tastes like bananas because a squirrel". Because "morons like me" WHAT?

Yeah, your stance on the matter sucked, regardless of whether the revelations concerning the dev.'s behaviour were already out there or not. The game's horrendous, the dev.'s worse, and your language skills are on par. I repeat - it makes me a saaaad panda, knowing people like you get to write reviews that can sway peoples' opinions of things.

Have a great day,

Moron.

Warm regards,

- Moron