In a stunning show of game journalism, Gamergaia interviewed modder-in-exile Prosper.<blockquote>In what may have been a reaction bred by disillusionment, he began to visit his former haunting grounds with offensive behavior, driving former supporters away and attracting the unwanted attention of moderators. "I took on a new personality," he said, "I was warned once for acting like i was on drugs and the second time for being harsh... and finally I just fought the mods themselves."
What eventually got him kicked from The Nexus, one of his two major outlets for advertising his ideas and results, was what he describes as an unprovoked attack by a number of respected modders. He suggests that it was because of his ambitions for Fallout multiplayer that he was ejected from the community without warning. Regardless of how or why it happened, Nexus was lost, and so too was his most appropriate stomping grounds.
Prosper has lost the official Bethesda Soft Games Forum, too. Not only did he manage to get himself threatened by Bethesda’s legal team after suggesting they allow encryption of plugins, but he was permanently banned after he bluffed at having a leak of sensitive Fallout 4 documents. Take this with a grain of salt – until Bethesda's reaction made him think otherwise, Prosper himself intended for it all to be a joke. Six minutes after posting pages upon pages of backdated material originally developed and scrapped for Fallouts 1 and 2, his account was frozen, both on Bethesda’s official forum and on the popular image site on which he stored his documents.
Does it point to twitchy fingers at Bethesda nervously pulling documents in fear of letting potential Fallout 4 quest material out into the open? Maybe not, but it begs the question of why seemingly outdated documents were treated like highly sensitive leak material.</blockquote>We're sorry for banning you, Prosper! Truly you are a visionary. Obviously when you spread the publicly-available Burrows design docs claiming they were for Fallout 4, you were Fighting For The Truth! Truly you are an hero!
No, I'm just kidding, you're still banned.
Thanks OldSchoolBluey AKA Prosper.
What eventually got him kicked from The Nexus, one of his two major outlets for advertising his ideas and results, was what he describes as an unprovoked attack by a number of respected modders. He suggests that it was because of his ambitions for Fallout multiplayer that he was ejected from the community without warning. Regardless of how or why it happened, Nexus was lost, and so too was his most appropriate stomping grounds.
Prosper has lost the official Bethesda Soft Games Forum, too. Not only did he manage to get himself threatened by Bethesda’s legal team after suggesting they allow encryption of plugins, but he was permanently banned after he bluffed at having a leak of sensitive Fallout 4 documents. Take this with a grain of salt – until Bethesda's reaction made him think otherwise, Prosper himself intended for it all to be a joke. Six minutes after posting pages upon pages of backdated material originally developed and scrapped for Fallouts 1 and 2, his account was frozen, both on Bethesda’s official forum and on the popular image site on which he stored his documents.
Does it point to twitchy fingers at Bethesda nervously pulling documents in fear of letting potential Fallout 4 quest material out into the open? Maybe not, but it begs the question of why seemingly outdated documents were treated like highly sensitive leak material.</blockquote>We're sorry for banning you, Prosper! Truly you are a visionary. Obviously when you spread the publicly-available Burrows design docs claiming they were for Fallout 4, you were Fighting For The Truth! Truly you are an hero!
No, I'm just kidding, you're still banned.
Thanks OldSchoolBluey AKA Prosper.
Wow. Prosper made the big time.
