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Behind the Line: GOG and Sean Halliday

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GOG community manager Sean Halliday was fired last week for several high profile missteps on their Twitter account. My reaction: "He claims that while he’s sorry for the two inflammatory Tweets he sent there was never anything malicious behind them." That

Behind the Line: Telltale Games

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Telltale Games is no more. The story is still developing, but it’s undeniably a bad situation. Scores of people have lost their jobs with no warning. This is a tragedy, but I’m struck with just how surprised some people are.

Behind the Line – Riot Games

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Riot Games… This just pisses me off. God Damnit You know what, if that company falls apart, I won’t shed a tear. Sure, I’ll feel bad for some portion of the workforce that needs to find a new job, but

Behind the Line – ArenaNet

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Ok, I can only take so much stupid before I gotta speak out, and this ArenaNet story is way past that line. So, my sorta hiatus is over, with a change in format. I’m not retelling the story, I’m just

BTL Radio Podcast – Ep 050: Extra Credits QA Revisited

Hello Enthusiacs! After the last episode, I spoke with Dave Guilland (I may not pronounce it right, but at least I can spell it right), the writer for the Extra Credits episode on QA, and he agreed to continue the

BTL Radio Podcast – Ep 049: Extra Credits talks QA

Hello Enthusiacs! I wrote about the Extra Credits QA video already, but I felt there was more to discuss, and that the topic lent itself more to a discussion format than an article anyway. With that in mind, I got

Behind the Line Radio – Ep 044: User Acquisition

Hello Enthusiacs! Today we welcome Warren to BTL Radio to discuss the crossroads between marketing and analytics that is User Acquisition, including exactly what is it, what role it serves, and it works.   Download this episode (right click and

BTL Radio Podcast: Analytics

Hello Enthusiacs! After way too long talking about it, we’ve finally got a guest on to talk about analytics. John (not the same one as an earlier episode) was kind enough to join in and talk about a number of

BTL Radio Podcast: E3 2017

Hello Enthusiacs! This week Kynetyk and Baron Fang discuss the news coming out of that wretched hive of hype and marketing: E3. There’s a lot to go over, so we discuss the 5 major food groups: Bethesda, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony,

BTL Radio Podcast: Steam Customer Support

Hello Enthusiacs! Valve has been making some tweaks to how they present their Steam Customer Support information, so we brought Blake back to discuss the new information Steam is sharing and to put it in context for everyone else. The discussion