Ooblets dev received thousands of "hateful, threatening messages" over Epic exclusivity

[Mifec]

I do but you're limited to what you can report.

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Thread is probably gonna get locked and people banned soon anyway.

 

[Etrian Darkness]

They would've received this even without that blog post. They probably did receive more because of it because people had something more tangible to get annoyed about.

 

[Phellps]

Utter nonsense. There are a whole bunch of responsible developers who sought to minimise antagonism when they made similar announcements.

I agree that there's no way you can avoid anyone reacting negatively to this kind of announcement, but you don't have to deliberately stoke the flames.

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That's putting a lot of responsibility on the victims of harassment. Despite, you know, not being the ones actually engaging in harassment.

 

[GhostTrick]

The fact that their blog post is "stoking the flames" leading to them getting harassed is nonsensical.

They could've made a blog post saying "We're releasing exclusively on Epic Games Store. Deal with it", and that would in absolutely no way justify the abuse they've got over this.

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That's not what they said though.

 

[Redcrayon]

This thread is generating a high number of reports and is temporarily locked while we review it's contents

 

[Morrigan]

After reviewing this thread it seems best to leave it closed.

Targeted threats sent to a developer should be taken seriously, period. An unfortunate number of posts appear not to have done that, and it doesn't seem like the discussion can be salvaged.