It may very well have been the V gods
I finally got a response on ICQ from dave baranec - he just asked me to stop messaging him. Obviously he still holds a grudge against me for having a difference in opinion with him on how programming should be done, and having the college board on my side.
Well if V themselves really did ban me this comes as a major blow. This is their payment to me for over 20,000 lines of code and 2 years of my free time dedicated to promoting their games.
Before this another 2 years promoting their games was very forseeable. Red Faction is a great game, but if this is how they repay their most dedicated fans loyalty I will join the ranks of the legends that have disappeared, or perhaps remain but just take the kindness and the defense of volition away when it comes to be reviewing the behavior of their games in relation to the code.
The future is now unclear, you don't backstab your greatest fans without ripples in the community. Consider this the rock dropped in the pond.