So here's something people on here have missed.
Recently, a game called Cruelty Squad has been making the rounds. It's an immersive sim with an incredibly off-putting aesthetic, and intentionally so. David Jaffe decided to give it a shot, he didn't like it, and wanted to get a refund.
“No idea why consoles don't do this, but @Steam does such a great job making sure customers are satisfied. I've never been refused a refund and (consequently) I always put the cash back into Steam. How in the world are gamers supposed to know if they want a game till they try it?!”
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People were upset by this, partially because the general consensus is that Cruelty Squad is quite good once you adapt to its extreme visuals and partially because they see it as bad form for someone as big as Jaffe to be publicly shitting on an indie project such as this. That doesn't matter, people dislike games all the time. Jaffe however wasn't taking the blowback very well.
“So I played this game. Didn't like it at all. So I returned it to Steam. They were great so I tweeted about it. And then the fanboys (or trolls?) came out of the woodwork. So I made this. https://t.co/LLtu88XX96”
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(No, I don't know why the second archive is in another language. Never used it until now)
All of this happened on March 2nd, and eventually people forgot about it and went back to playing the game. Then out of nowhere yesterday, Jaffe decides to tweet about the game
again bitching about the fanbase and why they'll prevent him from ever trying it again.
Why Jaffe decided to open himself up to more arguing is beyond me, besides perhaps the fact it's made him slightly more relevant than he's ever been in recent years, but if you look at the replies, you'll find this.
“@davidscottjaffe why backpedal? https://t.co/C4v3a08ZMv”
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That would be the developer of Cruelty Squad, referencing an earlier response Jaffe made to them promising he would buy the game again and try it out with an open mind. So Jaffe is not only blaming the fanbase for not allowing him to enjoy the game, he also broke his word to the actual developer that he would try it out again.
If he just didn't like the game, that'd be one thing, but Jaffe just can't let the disagreements go and it's becoming increasingly pathetic.