badjournalism

Welcome to internet time. An hour from reddit AMA to webnews to his twitter to his lawyer telling him "oh snap".

Well, I figured as much. I was in Marketing/PR/Damage control till about 5 years ago. It was very difficult to reeducate some clients who had been told dishonest tactics were the "industry norm" from previous "specialists" they had contracted. Without educating the entrepreneur, the same mistakes are likely to happen again.

Much further down the line of course, but it may be a good idea to split the product line into pure gamer mods for enhanced shooter control, and a separate line for special needs clientele. While some needs like "reloading without releasing the analog sticks" may overlap, review and usage videos seem to make bumper accessibility needlessly cumbersome for players without short fingers. The two markets may have differing needs. The split would also make it seem less like Kotkin is "playing the goodwill for disabled gamers" angle to sell expensive peripherals to regular gamers.

Having difficulty reading this. Maybe because it isn't. peppered with strange. periods.

I think a twitter user linked you to an old review on http://gengame.net/2011/03/avenger/ Have the usability issues raised in that review been addressed on the current models? Is there any reason you know of that other reviews around the same time had hardly any negative opinions on the prototype/product? Any reason for the strangely imbalanced reviews on Amazon, prior to the PennyArcade incident?

@OceanDeepSea Paul @Kakmize im not holding anything hostage and I can not go on the record and say anything about that yet as soon as there is news i'll tweet 2 hours ago via web

He denies this on his twitter.

I second that recommendation. The topic won't be as hot tomorrow, and many would be content to walk away with "Paul/Ocean Marketting/Kotkin/Avenger are a bunch of douchebags" as a conclusion, especially now that Paul got the axe.