OK, following a conversation with Chalex last night, that some of you were present for, I have decided to withdraw participation from this project.
Essentially, it revolves around the exclusivity of the stuff we write and where we are allowed and not allowed to post it in regard to our blogs. What it boils down to is that if I write stuff for this site, I would not be able to have it on Addenda Provided, only a copied paragraph and a link to the article on the ATK site. In order to make this appealing to me, I would need a complete parallel for content, because AddendaProvided is my main content outlet, and if that has to be compromised in order to provide content to another site over Addenda, then I cannot be a part of it.
The other thing is the idea I had behind Addenda was that I would literally just transcribe what is in my head, so it may not always be clean or PG or PC, but it would be an honest, independent opinion, which is what I believe I would lose if I joined this venture. Nik said most of the arguments last night and it revolved around the procurement of the review code from companies and what it may entail to begin with or be part of the agreement of the code, and regardless of if that is the case or not, I would prefer to remove any form of influence of that on my writing so I can continue to create as many awesome idioms as I can to describe truly terrible products and then chase them out of town, over being asked to dial it down in order to appease sponsors.
I'm guessing this will be quoted and I will get a couple posts below saying I'm wrong or that I haven't thought about something, etc. However, unlike what I usually do on these forums, I'm actually not going to respond. I've pretty much made my mind up on this, and unless something significant changes that appeals me back to this idea (free games a week early is not one of them), then I won't be reading this thread again.
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