BASH 38: Glasses Half Empty
October 11th, 2007 — bashBASH is hosting a roundtable this week with the top tier of the Call of Duty community. Joining Jock are:
Tally, from Rise of the Resistance, Matt Pruitt of planetcallofduty.com and BritishBulldog1 from HeatofBattle.net.
The discussion in the roundtable will focus on one pressing issue: the status of the relationship between IW and the PC Call of Duty community.
This discussion was prompted by Tally’s recent proclamation, which was posted in community forums:
Well, I love COD, but I cant continue to support a game developer whose so-called “Community Relations Manager” ignores PMs and emails from its fan-base after having initially invited them away for a fun trip, and then simply ignoring them as if they didnt exist. Its just insulting.
I said from the get-go that this was/is IW’s last chance with me, to keep me in the community, working for the fan-base, and producing custom content and being a general cheer-leader for them. I said that if they get it wrong this time out, Im gone. I really, really cant sit around forums for another year listening to all the upset fans (or, should that be “former fans”?).
They started out great, with invites and personal chats to key members of the community. Then, we got news of the Beta, and the PC community - of which I consider myself a part of - kicked off because it looked like the 360 was being “favoured” again, just like they were with COD2. We were assured by 402 that this wasnt the case. PC would get its fair share of exciting things.
Bullcrap! Its the old IW shuffle, blowing smoke up our asses to keep us placated. We still dont know the answers to the nagging questions about COD4 MP, and its only 30 days to shipping.
Is the IW/PC Community relationship improving since CoD2’s release or is it deteriorating? We find out in this episode.
This webcast has been archived. Please email jock at jockyitch@gmail.com for a copy.
October 15th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Mr. jock I will like to congratulate you on your show, i enjoy it a lot, i think is realy need it in the game community, also i will like to see may be a video stream intead of audio only, i hope you are considering video srtreaming in the future for BASH it will be great to put a face on those game community leaders.
thanks for hard work
Gilbert Figueroa Orlando, FL
October 15th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Gracias Gilbert.
My goal is to provide an alternative medium for those leaders to talk to you!
As for a video stream, I am looking into this - but I will tell you that I have a face for radio - so I may leave video to my associates.
I am glad you are enjoying the program. If you have any comments, please come to the BASH boards and leave us your comments and/or join our community there. You can get access to the boards through the BASHandSlash.com portal (http://bashandslash.com)
Thank you.