Igår berättade vi om hur Adam Orth fick lämna Microsoft efter att aggressivt ha klagat på de konsumenter som satt sig emot krav på ständig uppkoppling för spel. Nu har Orth fått stöd från före detta Epic- och Gears of War-mannen Cliffy B.
Cliffy menar att det är väldigt lätt att kasta sten i glashus i en sån här situation:
"It's awfully easy to sit on an anonymous forum or venue and sling mud at someone who has put themselves out there. Show me a person who hasn't said something dumb or incorrect or yes, even cocky on the internet and he should cast the first stone."
Krav på konstant uppkoppling är också något vi får vänja oss med, enligt Cliffy:
"My gut is telling me that an always online future is probably coming. It's coming fast, and possibly to the majority of the devices you enjoy. Sim City, with all of its' troubles on launch, seems to be selling briskly. Diablo 3, the poster child of a messy launch, is estimated to be at 12 million units."
Slutligen berättar Cliffy att han äcklas av hur lynchmobbar online kan få en person att förlora sitt jobb:
"I find it disgusting that an online community would revel in the fact that they may have potentially contributed to a person losing their job. Even then, if they didn't have anything to do with it at the end of the day, that they have the collective ego to think that they could do that. In a world of Indie-go-go and Kickstarter, where we can do great things in numbers, we should know better."