So here's some vintage GAF/ERA for ya that I only remembered because of the TLOU2 Thread.
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Way back in 2016, an indie developer put out a simple, silly little game with a commentary on the media's reaction to tragedy called #BlockLivesMatter. It's a fairly straightforward little game in which the cube you control proceeds to go on a
killing derezzing spree, and you either use a black cube (which can start off only melee attacking, but which can just roll over other cubes to defeat them and which will have to fight hostile blue cubes) or a blue cube, in which case you can launch rockets (but your enemies are black cubes). The game was programmed in Unity and was pretty good for something so stupid and simple, with a fake newscast going on the entire time (and said newscast blaming violent video games for the carnage when you finally Game Over). The game got to Greenlight, and was comparatively well-received.
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Unfortunately, this was a case when the satire was a bit too on the nose, because NeoGAF (back when it and ERA were one) fucking lost its shit over this. While the old guard Gaffots
thought it was hilarious, the contingent of NeoGAF that we are more familiar with wouldn't stop screeching about how offensive the game was, ultimately leading to the mods
closing the thread as things descended into complete pandemonium. One would think the story would end there, but it didn't, of course - since once the tards of old NeoGAF lock on, they
never let go, and that's especially true when the game in question is effectively making fun of the sacred cows of the dipshits we all know and mock.
While the game got a rather surreal hitpiece from
Slate, claiming it was the most offensive game of 2016 - in fucking
January - this is a case when the bigger story is the one you haven't heard: namely, how the game just
disappeared from the internet entirely. If you go to the website of the developer,
they claim that an unspecified departure of a team member made working on the game further impossible, but give no further information. The thing is, that doesn't quite explain why the developer shuttered their Greenlight page, pulled down their own download page, removed all Alpha builds of the game from circulation, and have not done a single fucking thing since their departure literally 6 days after the Alpha Build went up.
Even their Twitter went dead silent. Fuck,
even the Box News Live Twitter, which was intended to integrate with the game, stopped updating at the exact same time.
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See, while the game got a massive groundswell of support on Steam and from the general public, in private, the tards of NeoGAF were incensed with the existence of this little block-shooter. And, given NeoGAF's time-honored tendency to dox, threaten, and harass basically any developer who so much as looks at them funny, the implications of this are quite clear - realizing that the hive had been stirred up, Abandon Ship games basically DFE'd before anyone involved at NeoGAF (or anyone like them) had the chance to go full Autist and attempt to destroy their lives and careers. You would know this was not an irrational concern if you've been reading this thread.
We may never know the full details without more people coming forward, and frankly none of us could really ask the devs to.
However, that the game exists and annoys NeoGAF is reason enough for me to
rehost the Alpha build if you want it.