-Ray Blaak
To the Editor: I was just reading the escapist for the first time, excellent stuff! Good read.
Just thought I'd correct a couple of things in "A Deadly Dollar," I'm the CEO of Guiding Hand Social Club and one of the people that had a rather big part to play in the Ubiqua Seraph job.
Anyway, Mirial lost an Apocalypse Navy Issue, she was killed by our operative Arenis Xemdal in an Apocalypse Imperial Issue (two of a kind). The navy apoc isn't all that special, worth over 2 billion ISK at the time, not really limited edition, unlike the imperial issue. Also we got paid up front, not upon completion of the job.
Nice article anyways, just nitpicking really. :D
As to "The Great Scam" referred to, it's just something the SomethingAwful people made up, based very loosely on real events (entirely different scam), changed to make it more entertaining than it actually was.
-Zeraph Dregamon
To the Editor: Normally, I am full of praise for your excellent web magazine (although I do feel it tends to have a bit of a MMOG obsession). But reading the item "Jerk On The Internet" in last week's issue, I have felt compelled to write in and criticize it.
Put simply, it irks me that the writer feels the need to justify his obnoxious and antisocial behavior by cooking up some pseudo-scientific, self-aggrandizing reasoning for it, and worse, polluting an intelligent and entertaining gaming magazine with the results. The whole article reads like an elaborate confession as he attempts to rid himself of guilt by projecting reasons onto his moronic actions, even resorting to simply insulting those who are (quite reasonably) annoyed with him, by branding all Counter-Strike players as brattish 15-year-old gun nuts.
He doesn't even stick to his excuses for his obnoxious habit; one minute he is "(fascinated by) human behavior," the next he is doing it to teach those crazy counter-strikers to lighten up; the next it is a "multimedia art form." Lastly, Shannon, if you're reading this, please write something worthwhile with your evident talents instead of trying to find reasons to be a pain.
Otherwise, congratulations to all The Escapist staff and writers for putting together such an enjoyable, informative and polished weekly read.
-Appleseed
To the Editor: Anyway you can make The Escapist a paper magazine delivered for a small fee? I like the feeling of opening my mailbox and being able to read something physical vs a computer screen. Plus, I like to read on the train.
-Aldo
