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Hektor

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I have bought like 500 indiegames day1 throughout the last years, but seeing the constant toxicity and entitlement by developers recently just makes me wanna use the ytorrent launcher going forward.

Like I'm just so over it.
 

Swenhir

Spaceships!
Apr 18, 2019
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I think you guys shouldn't extrapolate and generalize those behaviours to the whole indie devs and kickstarter dev community. Sure, many of them sold out and have behaved like complete bellends but you also do know how many of them are still doing right by consumers.

I just fucking hate that Epic is having this much of a chilling effect on the indie/ks ecosystem. I can't wait for them to just go fuck off back to just being good engineers without delusions of grandeur in the PC space.
 

Tizoc

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Look Indie dev.
If my money ain't good enough for you in 2019, it ain't good enough for you in 2020 and afterwards.
I'd be best giving it to a more deserving indie that didn't get paid more than a million dollars to be a sell out or give it towards a charity.
 

Rosenkrantz

Once Punched Man
Apr 22, 2019
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Between Ron Jeremy's House of [In]Sane Twats and this travesty I might as well stop supporting indies. Why should I give my hard earned money to someone who hates me and lacks any empathy to people who supported them since day one? These fucks were able to move to the city they wanted to live in thanks to their patrons money and now they don't have a common decency to reply to these people with respect they deserve? Fuck them, they're scum who doesn't deserve an ounce of kindness their community showed them.
 

Knurek

OG old coot
Oct 16, 2018
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Between Ron Jeremy's House of [In]Sane Twats and this travesty I might as well stop supporting indies. Why should I give my hard earned money to someone who hates me and lacks any empathy to people who supported them since day one? These fucks were able to move to the city they wanted to live in thanks to their patrons money and now they don't have a common decency to reply to these people with respect they deserve? Fuck them, they're scum who doesn't deserve an ounce of kindness their community showed them.
#notallindies
Just, you know, don't support devs you don't like, but don't hurt devs that did nothing wrong.
 

C-Dub

Makoto Niijima Fan Club President
Dec 23, 2018
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Holy shit this dude is not only an asshole but hes also a fucking idiot. You heard it here guys, Blizzard, Ubisoft and EA are paying themselves to make their games exclusive to their own platforms..
He's not stupid, he's creating distortions like that on purpose. Intellectual dishonesty is a common tactic of scoundrels.
 

RionaaM

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Holy shit this dude is not only an asshole but hes also a fucking idiot. You heard it here guys, Blizzard, Ubisoft and EA are paying themselves to make their games exclusive to their own platforms..
Why didn't I think of that? I should start paying myself a lot so I can become a millionaire. This guy just discovered the ultimate get rich quick scheme!
 

Arsene

On a break
Apr 17, 2019
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Lol at cloud saves "released" on Trello. It's just 2 games.
Both of which are games that have been on Steam for ages with cloud saving included since day 1.

You’d think they’d focus adding cloud saving to their exclusives first.
 
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derFeef

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Recieved my first ever troll warning on Era (Or even the old place), thanks Epic and Mechwarrior.
Tho I admit my comment was a bit trollish :p

Also wow, Rami with his argument he would immediately shoot down if it was used by another person regarding his decisions.
 
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Trisolarian

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Kinsly do note equate Obama to Tim Sweeny considering Tim's trumpian posts
Chill, its just a funny callback thing. I don't care about Tim's politics bc anyone can be corrupted by money and become a petty, greedy, dishonest jerk. Its a shame we've got one in the White house right now.

Some classic Nathan Grayson here;


Honestly, just fucking start working on games at this point Nathan. We know who's side your on and reading his posts is like reading a "news" article in the New York Post. Painfully clear how biased he is.

Anyone have any idea what the free games Epic will be paying to give to me August 9th?
 
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Swenhir

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This Ooblets situation is such a huge shitshow, I am in awe of this developer's stamina. He's been digging a hole for many hours and he shows no signs of stopping.
I'm pretty sure that at this time, he's dug through the mantle and is well on his way to the other side. Will he survive the intense temperatures of Twitter's troll core? Will he last to tell the tale of Discord's lost angry gamer's civilization?

More after the break!
 

MJunioR

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Chill, its just a funny callback thing. I don't care about Tim's politics bc anyone can be corrupted by money and become a petty, greedy, dishonest jerk. Its a shame we've got one in the White house right now.

Some classic Nathan Grayson here;


Honestly, just fucking start working on games at this point Nathan. We know who's side your on and reading his posts is like reading a "news" article in the New York Post. Painfully clear how biased he is.

Anyone have any idea what the free games Epic will be paying to give to me August 9th?
Journalists are probably super happy with Ooblets announcement because they can just quote multiple pieces of that in order to back their opinions about EGS now. I mean, looking at this Kotaku piece, Nathan barely needed to write why people who disagree with the devs are toxic or how EGS problems aren't that big of an issue - the announcement already covered it and he just need to copy and paste!
 

Eferis

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I mean they say that it doesn't matter anymore if the game turns out to be bad, so yeah, they clearly stopped caring altogether about their own work.

So pretty much "yeah we got money to improve the game now... but eeeh we don't actually give a crap about our game anymore".
 

Nyarlathotep

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Someone please ask our dear perplamps how he has helped the fight against climate change today btw.
EGS doesn't support multiple vendors, so the EGS titles available to buy on places like CDKeys are the physical copies that didn't sell at physical retailers, reshipped to a reseller, gutted of all the physical materials that came with those boxed copies, then resold digitally as just the enclosed key.

Now, I'm not a professor of ecology or anything, but it seems to me that printing and manufacturing a game box copy, shipping it to a retailer, reshipping it back to a warehouse, reshipping it again to cdkeys, taking all of that packaging that is unwanted and irrelevant for a digital sale, and then throwing it away to get at the thing someone wants to buy - the cdkey - isn't exactly beneficial to the environment.
Certainly not when the steamworks alternative would be to just sell cdkeys a huge fucking block of keys in the first place for customers who like cdkeys, no shipping, manufacturing or logistical costs (finanical or ecological) involved.
 

kio

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Apr 19, 2019
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The last 24h sound surreal. How can anyone defend what those devs did/said? How can you champion what's happening as being normal? How is treating your customers like toxic trash acceptable and something to rally behind?
Can you imagine if any other industry did this?
 

rybrad

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I do not understand any of the devs defending this type of behavior. Best case scenario is the people who were buying the game no matter what shrug their shoulders and the people on the fence start bailing. This is really putting me off supporting indie devs altogether. That Simon Roth tweet is fucking hilarious because if someone told him to curbstomp himself you know he would be screaming about toxic gamers.

As kio said, it is hard to imagine another industry being so shitty to potential customers.
 

Derrick01

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This tweet is so profoundly baffling that I can already tell it's going to make me waste way too much time trying to understand what the hell it means.

I really like schreier too but this is one of those things that was so dumb it makes me question reality itself. Was this a glitch in the matrix? Am I real??
 

MJunioR

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This tweet is so profoundly baffling that I can already tell it's going to make me waste way too much time trying to understand what the hell it means.

I really like schreier too but this is one of those things that was so dumb it makes me question reality itself. Was this a glitch in the matrix? Am I real??
There's a competition for the biggest brain moment in EGS discussions and now Jason don't want to stay behind other outlets.
 

Trisolarian

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Ugh.... Jason.

Reminder of why I don't follow anyone or anything on twitter. People lash out and go into crab mode while being dogpiled. I've done it a million times. Ugly thing to see and all respect we should have for each other goes right out the window.

Its totally possible to not like the EGS in a lower key way, while still using it for certain things and wishing it would improve before you spend money on it.

Gamer should not be an analogy to "shitty human who has no respect for anything" the way its becoming now. Fuck it. I'm a gamer. I don't harass people, I don't scream horrible things to people over voice chat. I don't steal games. I love video games and I love talking about them. I'm going to keep this term "gamer".
 

Eferis

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I mean in absolute terms Schreier is right, the whole idea of defining people as consumers like if consuming is their only goal is shit and that's probably what he meant but, since the whole gaming industry exists and thrives in a capitalistic environment... that tweet makes no sense and he's just trying to look smart.

EDIT: Never mind, I just read his other tweets and I won't give him the benefit of the doubt.
 

goat

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I know we don't discuss the other place, but holy shit some posts in that Bronson's thread is disingenuous "I wash my hands of it" type of excuse.

Is something in the air today? Why is everyone trying to be a super snarky megamind?
Shit like that is why over the weekend I logged out, deleted my bookmarks and became MC eggsclusive.
 

Trisolarian

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In positive EGS news


Is the free game for Aug 9-15 and it looks like a hoot.

Plus get your Alan Wake today people! Free! Its a Stephen King novel come to life if Stephen king wrote himself in another book other than the dark tower!!
 
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