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xDUMPWEEDx: Vox Pop Winner November 2012

Posted on Thursday, December 6 @ 13:08:41 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

There was a lapse in Vox Pop entries last month, but that could be because of a glitch on our technical end or shandog's second extra-credit blog in October (which is now been counted here). At any rate, I actually wrote my own Vox Pop about MUGEN 1.0+ to fill in the gap. But since I'm nice and reasonable or something like that, I have chosen to lose. For our community!

Despite the gap, we did have more than several entries. And what variety there was. shandog137 openly discussed the issue of sensitive video games like Homefront and Medal of Honor: Warfighter, but also the trouble of video games being able to participate in the discussion about foreign wars. Does playing a game where you can be a terrorist mean that you favor terrorism or even empathize with terrorists?

Tyrannis gave feedback on the Hawken beta, which people should check out if they like mech games and don't mind paying nothing because it's free-to-play. sliverstorm, ever the statistician, offered up his views on THQ's financial troubles with his signature charts and graphs.

I ultimately chose xDUMPWEEDx for alerting all of us to an oversight by Activision to treat its community respectfully. Many PS3 players experienced the exact same issue that he was. And while It's one thing for a company to ignore or dismiss customer claims, it's another thing to blame the community in effect for an error that clearly exists with photographic evidence. I'm glad that xDUMPWEEDx has been able to fix this problem without their help and that he was able to vent his frustration here on Game Revolution!

Want your thoughts featured in Vox Pop? Write a blog via your profile page and you're automatically entered!

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Winner: xDUMPWEEDx
Title: My sickening Black Ops 2 experience

Excerpt: "Activision has continually denied any wrongdoing and is steadfastly sticking to their claim that it is the user's fault and their problem to fix."

Runner-Up: shandog137
Title: Modern Warfare Games and Artistic Liberty: What side to portray?

Excerpt: "Do you provide country-appropriate content? It reminds me a bit of HomeFront being banned in Korea… and that was pure fiction."

Runner-Up: Tyrannis
Title: Love Thy Mecha: My feedback on the Hawken beta

Excerpt: "...if you have any inclination towards the mecha genre, look to Hawken when it finally releases. It'll apparently be F2P, as well, so that's another bonus."

Runner-Up: sliverstorm
Title: The Public Financial Rise and Fall of the THQ

Excerpt: "This is the completely biased—yet completely factual—rise and fall of THQ, in the company's own words."

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Comments

LawnGnome
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Dec 6th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Who is that a picture of? Charles Manson? Great articles everyone!

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shandog137
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Dec 6th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Congrats xDUMPWEEDx...the best thing to come out of a shitty game launch is some cash from GR!

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Jonathan_Leack
Joined: Jan 2012

Posted: Dec 6th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Congratulations DUMP!

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xclant
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Dec 6th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Great work Dumpweed

And i dont think playing as a terrorist means you support or empathise them it just means you want to see how the other half lives theres 2 sides to every story ive always wanted to play a COD game from the German point of view does that mean im a nazi....

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xDUMPWEEDx
Joined: Jan 2012

Posted: Dec 6th, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Thank you GR and everyone else for reading my Black Ops II article. I'm honestly quite surprised my rant won this month, because sliverstorm and others always write such great articles. I'm just glad that I informed people about how Activision is treating their customers and what kind of products they are releasing, it is important information to know and something to think about the next time you are about to drop $60 on a game.

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xDUMPWEEDx
Joined: Jan 2012

Posted: Dec 6th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
And thank you to Game Revolution for giving me the medium in which to convey my voice to thousands upon thousands of devoted readers! GR ROCKS!

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sliverstorm
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Dec 6th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Great article, Dumpweed. Congratulations!

Thumbs up to Tyrannis for the l33t beta infoz Hawken preview, too. I'm super-excited.

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xDUMPWEEDx
Joined: Jan 2012

Posted: Dec 7th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
By the way, Black Ops II is still to this day having serious issues on PS3. Patch 1.04 was released last night and since the patch my PS3 has hardlocked 3 times resulting in file system corruption. The problem still exists to this day.

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