The Forgotten City Conundrum

[Orgaya]

A while back I downloaded and played through a Skyrim mod called "The Forgotten City". It was a decent mod. I commented on the mod page with this:

 

"The quest was fine.

I'm not sure if it deserves all of the accolades it's receiving, but seeing as how most mods are retextures or eye candy followers, and how most quest mods are about you being a murdering courier, I guess it means something. The story was decent enough, with a refreshing focus on the characters, setting, and writing, and I do recommend it for anyone wanting to play a quest mod, but it just wasn't as enthralling as it's hyped up to be. For me, anyway.

Negative as this all sounds, as I said, I do recommend it. For me it was just good enough; nothing was bad, but nothing really gripped me either."

The next day I found that the comment had disappeared. Thinking that the site had eaten it, I reposted. Next day, same thing - comment was gone, but this time I was blocked from the page altogether. It was then I realized it was intentional.

Pettily I created a second account under the name Orgaya2 and reposted it. Once more denied access, I messaged the mod creator asking why he had done so. His response was a copy paste of the TOS explaining that I was not allowed to have two accounts for the website. Because I was unaware of this, I promptly contacted an admin and had the account deleted so as to remove any future issues.

Next I posted the comment on one of the forums the mod creator had linked on the site. After a few days of back and forth deleting and posting, he/she eventually locked the thread itself. So I located another thread he/she had linked where my comment would be appropriate, and that thread was locked as well. In fact, all threads were locked and the author disabled me from sending any more personal messages.

So here we are. Petty? Absolutely. On both sides, mind you; I hold no illusions that I'm the better man here. But I put this here as an interesting story and perspective on how much of a lens others put over certain properties. Littered with nothing but praise all over the mod page and comments and controlling any and all feedback speaks to me more than the mod itself.

And now that I think about it, it's sort of apropos. The mod's story is about how a few abuse power in order to trample the many, for petty and insignificant reasons, all so they could live in their own little bubble. I wonder where the author got their inspiration.