What would you like to see as a result of your videos, if anything? Do you want some kind of mea culpa from Mr Drew?
I would like to see him aknowledge that there were tremendous faults durring the event without mocking the community in the process.
He even put on that Palpatine avatar on forum profile and Twitter, to mock the people criticising him, while stroking his own ego.
I'd like to see him drop the ridiculous notion that anyone is calling him an all seeing mastermind, when the only thing that peopled outhright called him is a liar, and not just me.
But what I would like to see the most, is him getting of his high-horse and stepping down to talk to us like our opinion matters.
All he ever had to say in response to accusations, was the truth "I know I promised a fair event and choice for everyone, but yes I loaded the dice, I didn't think it would make such impact and matter that much, I was a bit ignorant, I'm only human, we all make mistakes, however we can't really turn back time, it would be impossible to redo the event at this point, thus we have to live with the results that we have, I'm sorry, I have learned much from this, and we will do a better job next time".
That would have been a very honest, humane way to aknowledge criticism, instead of simply spitting to our face, outright calling us lunatics that are yelling at the clouds, especially when everyone can tell that nothing was quite right durring the event.
In my eyes he would look like an honest and down to earth man, who can accept his own mortality. None of us are perfect, we are all human, we all lie, we all deceive, we all make mistakes both willingly and unvillingly, that is part of the human condition.
However, instead, he choses to sit on his high-cloud and bask in his own ignorance, while mocking any criticism.
Honestly, the more I think about it the more I hate him and any content related to him.
Something, that was not the case 4 days ago, when I just thought about him as some guy writting relatively cool stuff.
But what do I know, I'm just a peasant
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I watched your video MassiveD - your previous video was fun to watch by the way. I especially liked the photo shopped Return of the Jedi picture you did
However, I did not see any evidence in your video of Drew Wagar lying or admitting that he "weighted the dice". The snapshot you have of his comment only goes so far as saying,
"I had weighted some aspects in order to level the playing field between protagonist and antagonist".
That's a very ambiguous statement from which to pool a claim as severe as 'this was rigged'. His statement there could mean anything from researching how best to give as many people as possible a chance to instance with Salome and friends to ensuring that an equal number of antagonist and protagonist groups are involved and anything in between such as getting advice on which PvP load outs might be likely to be used. I would need more clarity from Drew Wagar about his statement before I assume that he rigged the event.
You also don't provide any evidence when you discuss how Salome's ship was apparently purposefully gimped. Where is the evidence that proves that Salome's ship was purposefully 'crippled' as you say? From my own observations I know that her ship was not engineered and Drew is not the Galaxy's most experienced player when it comes to PvP but does that constitute as Salome's chances being crippled
on purpose? I personally don't think so. If we go down that route we might as well say that Salome's chances were always crippled unless a massively experienced player such as CMDR Truesilver were flying as her in a fully engineered ship.
I did not see any evidence in your video that supports the claim that the dice were loaded in favour of Salmoe dying. Now my own assumption is that SDC got used because of their predictability - they are the world's most predictable troll group when it comes to events and streams. They come, they disrupt, they lol. There is no one in the entire ED player base that could have been surprised or "masterfully tricked" by what Harry Potter did. One trick ponies can't surprise anyone. This was predicted by Drew, he put the carrot on the stick for them (Salome) as a distraction and got the ending he preferred in terms of story: a dramatic sacrifice for his main character. And we all still got the secret info via the other characters who survived. Win, win except for the alarming levels of publicity ED keeps on giving to gaming trolls, which even Drew states wouldn't have been his preferred choice of antagonist.
But, all of that is just my opinion. I have no evidence to back any of it up as fact.
So again I must reiterate that I have seen no evidence to support that Drew Wagar lied about the chances of Salome dying. I have my own personal opinion but that is not fact. Whether I like the outcome or not I have yet to see solid evidence that the event was rigged therefore I don't think tarnishing Drew's name is warranted. At it's most simplistic: Drew Wagar organised an event in open. SDC got involved in their predictable style and Drew got blown up during said event - this unfortunately has become the rather depressing story of Elite Dangerous when it comes to live events/streams in Open mode.
When I say that Drew loaded the dice, I do not mean that he did it by ill intent.
I don't think that Drew is a bad person. However, I'm a bit sick of his "but but but I only meant well".
Bad deeds, are sometimes done by good people, and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
My friends? They never saw Salome once, they were on her friend list, yet never instanced with her.
Which is fine, RNG or whatnot.
My point is that the game in its current form, and the community itself, was already a leveled playing field with a 50%-50% chance for Salome to live or die.
The only reason any tinkering was edit to it, was to load the dice. Meant well or not, that what it was. He tinkered with the game out of sheer ignorance, and furthermore I hear a lot of people say that he did it to make Salome survive longer somehow, but in fact he did the opposite, he shot her in the foot and sent her on her way saying "I helped hurr durr".
What aint broke - dont fix it, and all that jazz.
Imagine the outfall, if in the olympics judges would come out and say, "well we dont feel like our field is level enough, so we gonna give this 1 runner a bit of doping, just a little bit, while we club that one in the knee, for event purposes you know"
No. Just no, end of discussion.
And I like the comparison slightly above "it's an equivalent of Han Solo being killed at the end by buggs bunny"
That would not have been just, same with Salome, a character that old in the lore not given just and fair end was a big mistake.
The notion that author is god has already been debunked.
Let me remind you of a certain visionary, who at old age decided that Yoda should blink, and Solo shot second.
He was briefly escorted to the nursing home, with a younger, less looney tuned author put forward to take over.
I like Drew, I really wish he would stop dismissing his audience when they are doing no harm, but criticising his incompetence. I criticise mine all the time, I don't see why should he be immune, especially when the community knows that technically, regarding lore, his word is no heavier than Dave's over there in the corner,.or Bob's, or your's Javert.
English may not be my native tongue, however I know what the word lie means. I studied criminal law, and I can tell that alot of people dont know the intricacies of the word.
For example, you know that withholding information when making a statement is also considered lying?
Drew said "your choice matters" when advertising the event, he witheld that the dice was loaded.
He lied. Even if he meant well
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