There it is. That's the look. We've seen it for seven years on post after post. You all despise us. Cynics. Disbelievers. Mods with an anti-Sony bias. You've heard of rumours? The forum was obsessed with them. They loved to watch gamers and press burn, the way their hopes blackened, blistered, melted off their words. They burned developers they didn't like; they burned publishers that disobeyed them; they burned anyone that was against them. Before long, half PR community was against them. NeoGAF saw traitors everywhere, so they had their posters place caches of rumours all over the forum: beneath gaming discussion, the slums of off topic, under posts, titles, avatars, even beneath the Community OT itself. Finally, the day of reckoning came. IGN marched upon the forum after the cancellation at the Team Ico. But Scott Rohde arrived first with the whole Sony army at his back, promising that The Last Guardian still existed. We knew Sony better than that. They've never been one to bank on development hell. We told NeoGAF as much. We urged them to move on. But the forum didn't listen to us, didn't listen to the mods who tried to warn them. But they did listen to Yosp, that grey sunken cunt. "You can trust Sony," he said. "Team Ico has always been developing The Last Guardian." So, we opened discussion and Rohde sacked the forum. Once again qw came to the forum begging them to see reality. They told us to bring them IGN's head. Then they turned to each other, "Ban them all," they said. "Ban them on our forum, ban them in their URLs." Tell us, if your precious community commanded you to ban a popular source of gaming coverage and stand by while thousands of men women and children anticipated a title stuck in development hell, would you have done it? Would you have kept your oath then? First, we changed the thread title, and then when the posters turned to flee we added a stupid poll. "Ban them all!," they kept saying. "Ban them all!" I don't think they expected it to be at E3. They meant to wait for as long as necessary with the rest of us and watch The Last Guardian rise again, reborn as a PlayStation 4 title. We kept the thread open to make sure that didn't happen.
