If you backed a game through Kickstarter or Patreon, goals are not pre-orders, investing isn’t the same as buying.

I’ve been thinking of this. All this rage, all this hatred, all this definitely unacceptable behavior... fuck, it all only helps Epic. Every time rabid Steam fanboys throw a hissy fit at a dev, they just make themselves - and the largely silent and inactive towards bullying and trolling store of their choice - look…

I don’t think even Prince managed to pull it off. Sure, he kept being large, but that’s because he’d already become larger than life for some (and because he was a man - let’s be honest, Madonna or Cher wouldn’t be able to pull such shit off and remain popular.)

It basically took his death for him to appear all over…

You trying to say the Cheshire Cat’s teeth aren’t natural?

Sarah wore blackface once, twelve years ago, and has been saying she’s sorry about it since.

Yah noticed this. It’s quite absurd I must say.

Yeah, I’m sure I paid full price - I bought both games last week. ONI cost me $6.99 and Portia cost me $8.99 - ONI was further discounted over the weekend to like $5, but I had already bought it by then.

As far as I know, EGS has a much more comprehensive regional pricing scheme than Steam, although apparently by your…

But hey, at least devs are getting paid more. Nevermind that gamers from foreign countries with weak buying power to begin with are being forced to pay more in order to actually supplement this razor thin deal.

To be fair, you can often find help for common problems on the Steam forums for games, so on that level that’s a strike against EGS.

However, the forums do indeed fall into toxicity far too often, far too easily, so maybe a better way for people to write guides on how to fix stuff and the like should be devised than…

Yeah but they themselves often act condescendingly by going all “we can condemn both things, you know,” as if both acts were equal.

A developer can be shitty if they want. Don’t like it? Don’t buy their games and watch them go out of business. No need to expect Kotaku or any gaming website to write whole articles…

Well, the thing is Valve hasn’t really had any high-profile releases in almost a decade now, before crunch culture was widely documented.

They’ve been giving a free game every fortnight (now every week, sometimes two games a week) since December at least, and they’ve pledged to continue doing so for the rest of the year.

Many of those games are quite good, too, with things like Alan Wake, Enter the Gungeon, Moonlighter, Oxenfree, Overcooked, The Witness,…

Activision-Blizzard is also owned by a Chinese company, in this case NetEase. I’m yet to see the outrage about their games or people refusing to play any games of either company.

I’m also not really sure why the Chinese government would be so interested in my data. I’m honestly more worried about identity theft than…

They can ask you to leave the premises for doing that, too.

-Awful customer service.

As for the first point: no one is saying that anyone has a right to send death threats, but these devs did call people, even members of their patreon who sent them money, “entitled babies” for complaining.

This is only true if people gave you money before you did whatever it is you did. And even then, your only right is to ask for a refund - you definitely don’t have the right to send people death threats.

The difference for you, as a customer, being?

Valve doesn’t pay developers for exclusives simply because they have for a decade now held the PC market hostage. It’s easy to say “they’ve never paid for exclusives” when you’re willingly avoiding to look at the big picture and the reasons why such a practice was never…

Even if the quote is real (and I dunno if it is or not,) it’s hard to argue with the dev’s points when, you know, the gaming community are reacting exactly like entitled babies over this.

He should sue for pregnancy-related discrimination tbh.