| > The big issue here is that when you speak to players (and I have, a lot), a large number of them would agree with this statement “There are times when it’s reasonable to send personal abuse to a developer,” although they differ on when those times are. Seems disingenuous. Without qualifying what those times are, it's logical that almost anyone would agree with that sentiment on some level. Did the developer take a drug-fueled sex tourism jaunt with your Kickstarter donation? Yeah that person probably deserves a little abuse. > And what will happen when the best established developers and most talented up-and-comers decide that it’s not? I think that gaming is probably the last industry that will suffer from something like this. There's always going to be a glut of people that want to work on games/in gaming. I don't think this editorial really says anything. Some people on the Internet are loud assholes. Game developers put themselves on the Internet. Ergo, some people on the Internet are going to be loud assholes to game developers. You can find someone complaining about anything: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23applesucks&src=typd https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nycsucks&src=typd https://twitter.com/search?q=%23berniesucks&src=typd https://twitter.com/search?q=%23catssuck&src=typd https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rainbowssuck&src=typd This has been a problem for decades, and probably ages before that: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 Loud, angry, vocal minorities tend to drown out the majority. If you can't ignore that, you'll never succeed. |