There's an interesting weekend read on
IGN
which attempts to sort through the complicated saga that intertwines the fates
of
Titanfall,
Titanfall 2,
Apex Legends, and the
communities for these projects from EA and Respawn (thanks Neutronbeam). It's not an
exaggeration to call this complex. It involves hacking, DDoS attacks,
conspiracies, attempts to manipulate journalists, and more, so it defies simple
summarization. Here's a portion:
Not even a week after the document was
posted on SaveTitanfall.com,
Upper Echelon Gamers
obtained Discord transcripts that appear to show one of the perpetrators of
the Apex Legends hack, named Dogecore, in collaborative communication with an
author of the document, named Wanty. In the transcript, Dogecore appears to ask
Wanty if he'd like him to change the message left on the Apex servers by the
hackers to something more specific. These messages were sent on July 4, the same
day as the breach, and a month before Red Tape was made public.
"Pointing to SaveTitanfall is a good thing though," replies Wanty, again
referring to the calling card left by those who broke into Apex Legends. "We get
all the attention in one place."
This disclosure totally disrupted the narrative. If the voices behind Red Tape,
a document which aims to lay the tumult in the Titanfall community at the feet
of a handful of duplicitous hackers, are also in active partnership with those
same hackers then, well… then nobody knows what to believe anymore. Maybe p0 is
right. Maybe he did get railroaded.