Are this many people missing the reference from the "kill yourself" statement? It's taken from Futurama (Bender) and another one of his jokes that people take seriously. The shit this guy gets is ridiculous. Marcus spouted pure nonsense with no justification. Who cares if some famous indies deny giving a comment on a…
Internet only made this more accessible, that's it, articles that try and add their own spin to this issue as if it's something more are just doing that. I expected better then PA honestly. Real classy also how they use the red-herring example of the COD patch and the death notes on that, when the two situations aren't…
It's very sane, when you'd go to your workplace and vent all the time it would end up poisoning the environment and cost you your job, no matter how right you were. The reason developers won't even go there is because the only ones they'll end up hurting is themselves, they'll focus on the boat-loads of positive fans. It's…
I think Beer is way out of line in this instance, but Fish's tendency to behave like a prima-donna doesn't exactly make me all that sympathetic to his plight. If you're an indi guy your community's respect is your most precious resource - you don't have millions of dollars of marketing money to get the word out, you need…
I love that image but I really hesitate to name anonymity the problem because people act like dipshits even without it, like Justin said that's just what some people have going for their personality, they revel in it and seek out likeminded people who egg them on to do it. Anonimity is also one of the only tools people…
I disagree with Xoliul on this. Yes there are things that should probably not be said or done in a public space on the basis that publicity should not be necessary but I don't think it's that black and white. For a start there is, in my opinion, a tenuous link between sharing with friends and sharing with a community. For…
Fish did NOT Make millions. Maaaaaybe made in the vicinity of a quarter million for a 6-year perma-crunch. 200,000 sales on XBLA with Microsoft taking most of it, publisher taking most of that cut, his former partner taking a sizable chunk, then the development costs, and the programmer he hired, along with marketing,…
The thing is, humans are very judgemental and shallow. It's not hard to empathise with Fish's situation and it's not hard to like his games and his merits as a designer. But whatever he does or says is all we're going to get to know about it and that's what will inform our snap-judgements. So when "person I haven't met 1"…
Phil Fish had the audacity to reply to ridiculous amounts of vitriol and personal attacks in kind. This made everything worse of course, but it's extremely shitty that it's expected of him to just take it and not reply to any of the bullshit people pull. He responded to a personal, non-constructive attack on him and his…
Not sure if this has been posted here. He explains himself here and apologizes for his harsh one liner. http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mission/7458/the-indie-dev-who-claimed-modern-japanese-games-just-suck-explains-himself I do not follow him regularly and I have seen some questionable commentary from his side. Abuse is…