What is driving the discussion over the last 48 hours is a horrid torrent of abuse labeled at the 2-person team behind Ooblets. If people are leaving on account of a toxic environment it doesn't line up with the conspiracy theories Eloka was peddling either way.
(Whether accurate or not) she is saying that some of the people who are fueling the backlash are alt-righters, correct. But she's not saying that anyone who gets dragged along is an alt-righter
My first reaction to the blog post was "oh no no no no" because I knew exactly what it would lead to. Is it seriously still news to people that these hate groups live for this? They love to latch onto "legitimate negative" stuff and avalanche it to hell so things like EGS is a goldmine for them. That EGS has been a snack for them has been shown over and over during this past year. It started for real with GG and together with everything else alt-right it has evolved into what we have seen during these past days.
Probably because people get away with constant trolling in PC related threads, saying shit like ItS JuSt A LAunChEr Y u MaD, and asking idiotic, leading questions they already know the answer to
This. I fucking knew what was going to happen the moment I saw the reaction start to unfold.
Why are you making it personal like this? This is the kind of thing she was talking about (and which the alt-right excels at): making people rage against people rather than against systems
It sometimes sucks that you can't express yourself even in an unharmful way. I have literally ignored threads to stop myself reacting in them
I can't help but feel people do this on purpose to stir shit up. I can't comprehend how stupid you'd otherwise need to be to have legitimate reasons to hate something but then decide "yeah, let's make shit up about them to make them seem even WORSE"
I meant the issue at hand. If you're unhappy with EGS make points against EGS. If you're unhappy with EGS exclusivity, make points against EGS exclusivity. Making it personal by attacking the people involved is both counterproductive and toxic. When someone is the victim of harassment, talking about what they did to, in your view, invite the harassment comes uncomfortably close to victim blaming
What if someone is unhappy with how they went about delivering that information, though?
That's the thing. They interacted with their community not with the "PC community at large". Most of the anger is coming from outside the game's community, from people they weren't even communicating with in the first place
Their subsequent messages (and initial post) were very much directed at the PC community. Unless you think they're telling their own community that they didn't want the game anyway.
The problem is, the conversation always starts with personal attack:
As someone that boycotted Steam you will always get this question when boycotting a DD service. Its not a personal attack. They just dont get it. Most people dont see the store/distribution method.. they see the game.
that sounds more like a (possibly inflammatory) statement followed by a question than a personal
Oh, I wasn't talking about the harassment of the devs. I was just mainly covering the personal attack regarding EGS discussions in this forum.
I don't think the developers of Ooblets said anything like that? Certainly not in their blog post
The discussion I was having with another poster, before you chimed in, was in fact about the Ooblets dev specifically
