Postby Robotrek » December 8th, 2021, 3:50 pm
The biggest piece of exposure for the Amico, the AtariAge thread, is gone. Apparently for mostly 2 reasons. One, Tommy couldn't stop promoting his "I'm going home and taking my ball with me :'( " Facebook group, stating he wouldn't be posting on the incredibly mean and hostile AtariAge forum anymore. Also, apparently he made a comment inferring that anybody who dared ask him an uncomfortable question was a person of, shall we say, "phallic" descent.
Tommy, in typical Tommy fashion, damage controlled in a Facebook post with a whole "We were planning on shutting it down anyway" spiel. The owner of AtariAge didn't say anything of the sort, and basically inferred it was due to Tommy's behavior. However, it was stated that "A new Amico forum will return if and when the Amico is actually released and starts arriving in customers' hands". Even Albert is skeptical of the idea that this thing will ever come out.
Naturally, the Facebook group is private, and you can be sure that any uncomfortable questions or criticisms will get you an immediate sentence to one strike of the ban hammer. For a guy that follows people on Twitter than rant and rave against "Safe Spaces", he sure seems to be making one for himself.
I won't lie though, this kind of tabloid level PR disaster is incredibly entertaining. And this is coming from somebody who had a good bit of excitement when the console was FIRST announced.