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- Mar 16, 2019
The most galling thing here, is that game journalists were just up in fucking arms about criticism the Ooblets dev team got after they went Epic exclusive and after they posted a condescending message to the fans. I'm not gunna pretend the team didn't get some harassment or hateful messages, they did, but by and large, it was just criticism. And journalists lost their collective shit. They painted gamers as toxic and this and that and they rallied behind the idea that developers shouldn't face abuse.
Fast forward one fucking week
And now you have a writer (Valens) literally delving into the accounts the Ion Fury developers follow on Twitter, while they also make up baseless claims of transphobia and other nonsense, and starting a campaign to deplatform them. ResetEra even had the audacity to suggest contacting their employers to "make sure they don’t infect other projects."
This is a legit campaign to abuse and bully devs because they said things some people didn't like. But every journalist is gunna keep their fucking mouths shut, or worse, jump on the bandwagon. I'll bet my left nut that Kotaku has something condemning the developers by Monday. They are hypocritical fucking assholes and I'm actually mad...
This industry is fucking gross.
Fast forward one fucking week
And now you have a writer (Valens) literally delving into the accounts the Ion Fury developers follow on Twitter, while they also make up baseless claims of transphobia and other nonsense, and starting a campaign to deplatform them. ResetEra even had the audacity to suggest contacting their employers to "make sure they don’t infect other projects."
This is a legit campaign to abuse and bully devs because they said things some people didn't like. But every journalist is gunna keep their fucking mouths shut, or worse, jump on the bandwagon. I'll bet my left nut that Kotaku has something condemning the developers by Monday. They are hypocritical fucking assholes and I'm actually mad...
This industry is fucking gross.