because thereâll come a time where people need to stop bringing in baggage from over a year ago and realize that one moment of frustration isnât indicative of a playerâs overall personality
Because heâs young and attractive.
Literally all there is to it. Thatâs how all poster boys are made. Heâs really nothing special outside of that.
Because something that happened a year ago doesnât shape an entire person.
Look at Jeff Kaplanâs history on Everquest. At face value you wouldnât want a player like that representing your game, let alone being the face of the gameâs development and lead design. Yet now, people couldnât even imagine him saying the things he did back in the day.
Ok but literally telling someone to kill themself is probably in the range of âentirely unacceptable.â Itâs kind of the most horrid thing you can do online.
Iâm not talking about vanilla rage, someone yelling âYOU SUCK UNINSTALLâ or anything like that. This is next level.
You can leave out the second part.
And unlike half the OWL Roster, he doesnât talk like he has a mental disability.
Jake is the face of OWL because heâs one of the few players who can actually pass for a normal human being.
We get it. You like XQC.
Thereâs still a difference between time of saying the things they said, the frequency of misbehaving and a difference in the targets they choose.
Background-checks and importance of personality have only become relevant since XQC and other mistakes.
It was a different time when Jake first entered OWL.
Canât tell if this is against the forumsâ ToSâŚ
Assuming it is, considering itâs calling out a specific playerâŚ
SooooâŚflag?
Also: Video be old bro. Need to come up with more recent data to appease the âitâs old and datedâ crowd.
what now?
Does having an accent equate to âtalking like he/she has a mental disabilityâ now or something? lol
Lol you couldnât be further from the truth. I donât like him at all.
I wouldnât want either of them representing the game.
People also donât necessarily change that much.
Heâs still running under part of the same screen name he used back then.
He felt that someone getting reported several thousand times and only getting a week ban was a time for a roast rather than indicative of a major issue.
Jake? more like Yeahke
The problem being that you can dig up dirt all you want for every potential âface of OWL.â
Jake has been acting nothing but professional with just the right amount of rivalry around the Houston Outlaws.
Maybe itâs about making a statement of showing players how they can âstrive to cleanse themselves from such things?â
Because thatâs really what he is - a classic player, one of âusâ, assuming the responsible role-model or face of OWL.
If you reprimand it now after all this time, youâd turn him into another anti-hero for the toxic crowd who now would feel their toxic ways to be ârebelliousâ yet again.
I get your sentiment but I disagree. Why are âredemptionâ cases held in higher esteem than people who were always good?
It would show a lack of tolerance for unacceptable behaviour. âyou tell someone to kill themselves, maybe you redeem yourself but not here. Itâs too late for you.â
Maybe you shouldnât throw too many stones at days long past.
Hit us up again, if you find something that isnât as dated.
Whatâs the expiry date on being reprimanded for bad behaviour?
Redemption is a thing. Telling someone to take their own life is utterly heinous, and I probably wouldnât have given Jake a second chance. However, his behavior over the past year has proven to be perfectly acceptable.
Who?
⌠is he though?? 