I did expect a small percentage of that outside group to read our announcement, and I very naively thought what we were saying might get them to see the whole EGS debate as lightheartedly as we did. Regardless of what you may think about the way they handled business, the treatment to which they've been subjected is pretty fucking unjustifiable. Makes you proud to be part of an internet community of video game enthusiasts, doesn't it?ĮDIT: the devs have since released a statement fully detailing both the decisions that led to this clusterfuck, and the consequences that they've had to endure as a result. Perhaps it's just because I've been moderating this site for 8 years but does it seem to anyone else that we, as a society, have grown increasingly worse at dealing with this shit? What happened to ' Don't feed the troll'? That was a meme 10 years ago and it's like we collectively forgot and now everyone is a conspiracy theorist.Īnyway for this reason a completely harmless indie dev is suffering the wrath of a bunch of entitled internet crybabies over unsubstantiated rumours contrived by (presumably) morons because of some faux-loyalty to a developer company who only feigns interest in them as long as they keep mindlessly vomiting money into their lap. Roaster Toaster August 5, 2019Ī bunch of lies, misinformation, conspiracy theories and malice? Cool.Īs we're all no doubt familiar, attempts to derail a conversation or muddy the waters with specious allegations are the base tactic of internet assholes everywhere, often for little reason other than they enjoy causing trouble. It's the spyware, selling data to the Chinese government, leaking users credit card info, unethical bribes, etc that makes people despise Epic. Literally no one cares about 'another launcher'.

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