Mr Khan said:
Mazty said:
Mr Khan said:
fillet said:
That's the warped way of looking at this stuff that I'm complaining about here.
He's been a software engineer for EA for over 10 years. Anything he says is "technical". If he's putting himself and credibility on the line to say this stuff then it's clearly from a technical perspective.
What other perspective is there? Are you suggesting that he just doesn't like Nintendo!!!? LOL. What kind of childish fanatasy land mentality is that? It's one a lot of users here seem to live in.
If someone has held a job coding for 10 years plus with 1 company and stayed there..that says to me that person knows their shit.
This isn't some indy dev, it's someone on a payroll.
Take notice of that context and what it means.
Unprofessional or not, he said it. Deal with it, and discuss the meaning of what he's saying. Character assasinations are about as far off topic as one can get, and go absolutely nowhere.
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Clearly he's stupid enough to mouth off in a public forum. That helps to degrade his credibility a bit.
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And that's a damn ad hominem. A few stupid twitter comments doesn't suddenly mean the guy doesn't know his stuff. Sorry but you really should avoid these threads as your bias gets the better of you more often than not.
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Ah, you quoted me before my edit.
The ad hominem is valid in this case because we are trying to establish his credentials as a professional in the video game industry. I submit that his unprofessional conduct degrades his credibility, leaving aside the fact that there are plenty of routes (including, again, other EA employees) through which he can be proven to have been talking out of his ass.
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Technical credentials are mutually exclusive to "being an arsehole in public" credential.
Due to him not actually working on a game, his opinion should be seen as more valid and trustworthy than a developing arm like Criterion who have just released a game.
For the record though, I don't have an opinion on this (as in is he right/wrong) but on a mechanical level think that a developer posting on twitter as opposed to a press release/pro interview is more believeable by default, however colourful the language.
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