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By and large I presume other CCP creators are not directly commenting on this out of a sense of respect and decorum. Most of the content creators in the CCP, and this includes Vega himself, respect the program and the participants enough to respect the relatively private nature of the discussions and interactions within it. Why Vega decides to do what he does is his own story to tell. No one should read their own interpretations into the absence of commentary, although I suspect most people will.

Here’s what I’m willing to state. My own direct interactions with Vega were less frequent than with some others, but they were generally respectful, and I agreed with some of this stances and disagreed with others. He was not the lone voice of dissent in the CCP by any means, nor do I believe he ever implied he was. I believe the farthest he went in his video was saying he was a minority voice in the specific ways in which he took some of that criticism to logical conclusions, and in that I would agree. I cannot speak for Vega or anyone else for that matter, and I have no insight or knowledge of any private interactions he had with other CCP members or the Kabam people, but there was some definite friction that came about in what I will call here Vega’s style. This happened even in some of my interactions with Vega, although I never took any of it personally myself. I simply understood Vega was often a very pointed advocate. But this does come with challenges in groups.

As far as I am aware, Vega left the CCP of his own accord, and even he states this. He did say that he felt a discomfort that I will paraphrase as feeling “unwanted” but that’s a thing only he can or should elaborate upon, as that’s a personal feeling. To the extent that I know any of those details, that’s wholly not my place to disclose. What I will say is the narrative that Vega was kicked out of the CCP because Kabam didn’t like his feedback is at best ludicrously oversimplified, and I think Vega would agree that’s not the foundation of his issue with the CCP. It is quite a bit more complicated than that.

The opposite narrative going around is this is just Vega trying to farm clicks. I don’t know him personally myself, but I don’t believe that either. As I said, Vega is a very pointed advocate, and I think he’s doing what he is doing because he believes in it, whatever it is. I think he feels what he is doing is the best thing for his own advocacy goals. The fact that how he thinks and what he does is not always obvious to other people encourages people to fill in the narrative with something they find easier to understand. He’s a drama queen, he’s trying to get attention, he’s farming views. These are easy narratives to promote, but I don’t think they capture the complexity of real people.

I’m not saying I agree with his stance, or that I think it even makes sense to me per se in all respects. But real people march to the beat of their own drummer. They do what makes sense to them. They don’t usually care if their internal logic doesn’t make sense to others. If there’s one thing I can say about the CCP, as is true in any group of people, even when people agree no two people arrive at the same conclusion by the same path. The number of times I have found myself in agreement with someone, but could not make heads or tails of how they arrived at the same conclusion as me, is uncountable.

Agree with Vega, disagree with him, take up his cause or ignore him completely, that’s up to others to decide for themselves. The one thing I would say is don’t fill in the gaps in the narrative with easy spackle. It is basically always wrong. I think of all the things we might have disagreed with, this is something for which I believe Vega and I would be in complete agreement.

“I’d have two nickels…which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice!!”

(I really hope y’all get this reference 😂)

And fairness of competition means if you want to go for the rewards at the top then you face the accounts you might not want to face

This is pretty much how I read most of that Dev Diary as well…

Dude you seriously got a problem, and Kabam drools over people like you....

You have been wanting a champ you basically know nothing about yet?... Yes I get it maybe its a character you like from a comic or from lore; but how can you possibly want to purchase something you know nothing about this much?

Labubus ruined a generation.…

"We missed the mark. We really didn't want to miss the mark. But we missed the mark. We've heard you about missing the mark and we promise we won't miss the mark ever again. Because we hear you."

"Spider-Woman is super scary on Node 42 in War, i.e. a single component in a massive game...therefore we're going to nerf her and not the node."

"We want to get rid of the Classic requirement for EQ but, sorrynotsorry, our code is so stupid that it'll take up to six months to change it."

"To prevent this from happening again, we're supposedly implementing better review and testing processes that should've been in place in the first place. Honest!"

You have a point. Why should they nerf a miniboss, where if you dont have 5 out of 300 champions to fight against him every day, multiple times per day, you just die.

Be so fr rn