Largely accurate RPS article about JJ2+
- Posted:
- 21 Apr 2015 at 16:30
- Source:
- Rock Paper Shotgun
Welcome to anyone just joining us from Rock Paper Shotgun! The major misconception from RPS’ writeup that you should be quickly disabused of: actually, Jazz 2 has had a map (and tileset) editor since the day it was released, meaning we have many thousands of custom downloads for you to check out. :) Or just join an online server hosting some of them.
For everyone else reading this: hey, everybunny, we got on Rock Paper Shotgun!
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This… This is fantastic! Congratulations! I’m so happy for you I can’t even explain!
This “largely accurate” article describes the latest JJ2+ update as “0.5”, calls Jazz a “pistol-toting dudebro”, manages to find as many as “15 different modes”, as well as “pages and pages and pages of patch notes” in a single page document.
RPS is just as incompetent as Kotaku and you should think twice before giving them pageclick money.
The fifteen game modes stat comes directly from the readme’s introduction. The changelog requires many, many page down presses. I don’t see a problem.
If you want to get reported on by goodgamers.us or something, talk to them yourself.
I guess attention is good.
Attention from the overall gaming community should be cherished if you ask me. And btw, Hi NinjaDodo (if you’re reading here)!
1: We can’t expect a random journalist to know the ins and outs of a dedicated community he/she never visited before. It usually takes new members here several weeks to months to feel ‘integrated’ or how you’d call it.
2: Even though we’re at Plus 5.0 it is still called a beta. It’s common practice to give beta versions a 0.x version number and start at 1.x for the first ‘completed’ release (unless you release in phases e.g. Stable, Beta, and Dev). So I believe calling it 0.5 is understandable confusion.
That said, calling the level editor a new feature might be a tad sloppy. Though Plus did bring new features to level designers that I believe the writer had in mind when he highlighted it.
1. No, but we can expect a person writing articles for a living to actually proofread their own article before pressing Submit.
Yes, I agree on that part. Journalists should be thoughtful with their own articles, and not stick to a ‘been there, done that’ kind of publishing. This article seems to be rushed in such a way.
^ At least let’s be thankful that there is an article! ;)
Errr, most of the comments there are from JJ-ers. By the count of them, I didn’t saw many people caring about this either.
The RPS article brought 772 more views than the previous day.
Understandable confusion imo
Who took that pic on the top?
It’s from ModDB.