I går skrev vi at Adam Orth forlater Microsoft etter å ha terget på seg spillere som ikke likte ryktene om en konsoll som alltid må være på nett. Nå har Orth fått støtte fra den tidligere Epic- og Gears of War-mannen Cliffy B.
Cliffy mener at det er veldig lett å kaste sten i glasshus i slike situasjoner:
- 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.
Han mener også at vi må venne oss til tanken om å alltid måtte ha nettilgang:
- 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.
Til slutt forteller han hvordan han blir kvalm av at lynsjemobben på nett kan sørge for at folk mister jobben:
- 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.