They were not univited guests. They were they as the invited representatives of the sites that sponsored them. They also happened to be NMA members, and last I checked Bethesda had not even blacklisted the site, and it is certainly no criminal organization. According to Pete in the Q&A they are even reading and "in contact with" NMA. Again: if some site with an invitation to an event decides for whatever reason to send a representative that is also an NMA member, who obviouly had no chance to misbehave at an earlier event yet, I simply see no problem. Its not like they gave wrong names, stole the tickets, or snuck in in black Ninja suits. Nor have the particular NMA members uttered any death threats against Devs afaik. TES forum members have several times been at Beth press events as representatives for one site or another, giving both enthusiastic and critical accounts. If Bethesda feels they need to change their system because of that, than they are the morons, and NMA is right about them.
So it would be like me going under the press pass of GamerDad and also gathering info for RPGWatch?
No, because you could use RPGWatch´s press pass.So it would be like me going under the press pass of GamerDad and also gathering info for RPGWatch?
They were not invited as NMA because to Bethesda NMA is just a fansite, and they don't invite anyone from fansites, only "press" - be that a real rule or a pretext, but thats the reason they give.
Now if it had been Roshambo who went to the press event, I might agree with you.
So I still can't find anything very evil in this coup. Even less so because the resulting preview is detailed, factual, and fairer even in the commentary than I would have dared expect.
The reason was give for earlier contacts, IIRC, BN should know.
In it's language, structure and tone it plays heavily and obviously.
Wow, what a paranoid post.
I don't think you're nefarious, you just wrote a very clumsy piece. I was very clear about that.
While I would agree that Mo has become a fucking troll over the past months I think he has a point this time. It is possible this action has done a lot of smaller sites a disservice.
Your opinion is duly noted.
If Bethesda's takes exception at any of this, that's kind of their problem.
Apropos, seems the professionals agree with Moriendor
Nooooooo... dammit. Couldn't you find someone with a brain who agrees with me instead of Matt Peckham? Sammy was right in his comment on the previous page. This is (at least beginning to get now) fucking embarassing .
I want you to confiscate my computer if I ever write anything as vague and insensible as this sentence.Matt Peckham @ NMA said:It's just that annoying little hangover everyone's blithely ignoring about how deception empowers the public relations cloud when it comes to future information sharing.