If you're not aware, Paul Trowe of Replay Games (the company who started the Leisure Suit Larry kickstarter) sent out a message to the press that he wanted to sue Wisecrack games for using Al Lowe's name and the Leisure Suit Larry name on their kickstarter. Al Lowe reponded to the message saying that he didn't intend to sue and that he gave his permission to use his name and wishes Wisecrack Games luck on Sam Suede.
However, some posters on the Adventure Gamers forums have dug up something rather concerning. According to this post by Adventure Gamers poster supaplex, a person called "gamespygeek" has been trolling the Sierra related kickstarters. There is a profile on Myspace also under the name gamespygeek that looks like Paul Trowe. Additionally, the name on the Myspace page "Jiminy Drambuie" is friends with Paul Trowe on Facebook, and both Paul Trowe and Jiminy Drambuie are listed as living in Austin, TX.
Also, an Adventure Gamers forum user by the name of Siddhi noted some similarites between Gamespygeek's trolls and Paul Trowe's own posts.
Gamespygeek wrote on SpaceVenture kickstarter:
I don’t know who the heck this guy Chris Pope is, but I believe in Scott & Mark and their ability to make a game after all these years. I originally dropped my pledge to $1.00 because of the technical screw ups but I don’t think that’s The Two Guys’s fault…I blame that on the Chris guy…he’s leading this effort.
Ask them why they didn’t join up with the folks at Replay Games to create Sierra 2.0 and instead chose some guy they’ve never heard of, Chris Pope, to run a company they don’t own.
All of this evidence does seem like Paul Trowe, or a friend of Paul Trowe, is trying to sabotage other Sierra related kickstarters. And if that is indeed the case, it's incredibly poor sportsmanship and reflects poorly upon Replay Games.
Update: The gamespygeek myspace page has been removed. I had anticipated that might happen, so I saved an image of the page, which can be viewed here.
Check out Paul Trowe getting mad that he can't market on the Austin IGDA page.
"On IGN there is a user “gamespygeek”, who has that account since Dec 7, 2009:
http://www.ign.com/boards/members/gamespygeek.3330496/
The only review that user has posted is a 10/10 review for an obscure game developed by Replay Games.
The review: http://readerreviews.ign.com/rrview/pc/doctor_fizzwhizzles_animal_rescue/14354057/116403/
The game: http://www.replaygamesinc.com/?games=doctor-fizzwizzles-animal-rescue
"
Anyway, there is no real proof trowe is gamespygeek, but he never explained the fishy circumstances..... Time will tell.
Vainamoinen
So Trowe had the stones to admit the trolling and apologize for it. I can somehow respect that. This article should be updated.
ThunderPeel2001
Link?
http://www.spacequest.net/index.php/topic/286-controversy-paul-trowe-on-the-two-guys/page__st__20
btw I'm monolith_pig. All I can say is if this trolling IS Paul Trowe I feel let down. He freaked out once and we forgave him - cmon we're all human right? But if this is him too then he's definitely a bad egg.
Vainamoinen
So Trowe had the stones to admit the trolling and apologize for it. I can somehow respect that. This article should be updated.
Vainamoinen
So Trowe had the stones to admit the trolling and apologize for it. I can somehow respect that. This article should be updated.
Where has Paul done that? Last time I heard (couple of days ago) he still vehemently denied everything.
Replay Games just seems to be Paul in his office while the actual Larry production will be done by adventure mob, who's art and game quality seem very iffy if not straight up mediocre. They are certainly no Daedalic.
lancelazer
Yes, but all the stuff in the Mixnmojo post basically pertains to the Spaceventure stuff. There's only a mention of the Sam Suede lawsuit in the first paragraph.
If he actually made his peace with Spaceventure, a month ago, then I'm not sure why he's still posting spiteful comments as recently as last week.
koosjebig
@lancelazer
that confession only pertains to his smear against the spaceventure back in May, the hate against Sam suede is more recent. Therefore, nothing has been settled!
Yes, but all the stuff in the Mixnmojo post basically pertains to the Spaceventure stuff. There's only a mention of the Sam Suede lawsuit in the first paragraph.
that confession only pertains to his smear against the spaceventure back in May, the hate against Sam suede is more recent. Therefore, nothing has been settled!
http://www.spacequest.net/index.php/topic/286-controversy-paul-trowe-on-the-two-guys/page__st__20__p__2266#entry2266
It's good that metafx grabbed that snapshot. Here's the one I took moments after reading this article. At first I faced the original pic and then it changed into this for just a few minutes before deletion:
http://i47.tinypic.com/10i53xl.png
Running a google-image search on the avatar, I found this site (among others) already using the pic: http://tinyurl.com/PTsource
This is a story about an ugly person and bad businessman who is soon to sell buttons at the door.
http://pastebin.com/APpNyyPZ
http://i46.tinypic.com/fnux6w.jpg
Maybe he's even involved in those 2 weeks of legal problems the Two Guys had?
This in one messed up serial adrenaline junkie, I'm glad to see this reported here.
Al Lowe worked for King's Quest 1, a franchise now licensed by TellTale Games, who are very Mojo appropriate thanks to their great Sam and Max and TOMI games.
Anyway, I read this whole gamespygeek thing yesterday at the forums of Adventure Gamers. I thought it was silly at most. But why is that profile now deleted on myspace? The plot thickens...
REATIME UPDATE: Now, not even the account exists! Let's take a snapshot of that too then :)
Remember al's opening line, "hi, Im legendary adventure game creator tim sch--- I mean al lowe"?