I want to bring up the subject of the Steam Curator page again, specifically the apparent omission of Roxor's review on it.
For the record, I want to preface that I didn't particularly like Roxor's review. I acknowledge that it is quite accurate, painfully so, but reading it is like what you go through after having dug up your long-lost, beloved uncle and propped him up on the chair: some people are going to insist on pointing out all the bad things like the fact that his skin is starting to peel off, that there are maggots coming out of his eyes, and that he stinks so bad the dog left. But it's your uncle -- do you really have to point all that out?
I also want to say that Decado's more "feely" review makes me comfortable. I want to snuggle up with it. It's like a nice, warm security blanket. There aren't nearly as many reminders that this game isn't what we all so desperately had hoped it would turn out to be. There's no mention of its effect on several Codex members; that it drove people like
Sensuki permanently insane. It's a nice review (and yes, it is a review). Even if its bulk is comprised of emotional rhetoric. I like emotional rhetoric.
But the fact that both reviews aren't featured on our Steam Curator page is, in my estimation, at least, a travesty, and, at most, a felonious omission.
Here is a screenshot of who I would assume to be Codex' authority on this matter,
Infinitron's, apparent opinion:
I kept asking after that who exactly it is that defines what should and what should not be included on an official Steam Curator page. Infinitron would not answer. Others stated they thought that both reviews, balancing one another out, would be best. Still others felt that they agreed with Infinitron, that only "recommendations" are appropriate there.
I ask you, Codex: what do you really think? Are we beholden to some standard that we will blindly follow? Who is it that decides for us what we can and cannot say about a game in a format that (unfortunately) is the most widely-viewed available to the gaming public (certainly we can't invite everyone
here)? Haven't we always been about the truth here? Hasn't Codex always held in great disdain anything that smelled of roses and honeysuckle dreams? Fuck my comfort level: I know what's right and what's wrong. Fuck what Steam might say we're "supposed" to do as Curators. Fuck being a Curator in the first place but that cat's (or should I say Bee's?) been let out of the bag for a long time now.
I don't like
Darth Roxor. He makes me feel bad inside. But the feeling that Codex is hiding our other half from the seething Steamtard masses on a game that deserves to be both equally loved in NAMBLA-like fanboy passion and hated with every fiber of our hivemind collective possible feels even worse.
I say this crime must be corrected, if not punished. Put links to both up on the Curator page. Buck the Doritos trend! Restore Codex Glory!
Who's with me?
