We've talked a few times about ridiculous lawsuits involving video games or people getting upset with a certain franchise
But those were all regarding people attacking the developers now
What about the other side of the spectrum surely developers can keep their heads level enough not to lash out at players, right?
Well, you'd be wrong. What is up guys Jimmy your cows welcome to chaos top tens today
We're gonna be taking a look at and counting down 10 developers who actually
Attacked their player base
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Kicking off our list at number 10 today is Phil fish
And this indie developer is best known for his work on the great
2012 puzzle game Fez but
Regardless of how good the game was it was hard to sell it to people when you openly insult
those who might not want to now Phil fish has been known for openly attacking critics on Twitter for example on July 27th of
2013 he told someone to kill themselves on April 20th of 2013 he said if you couldn't afford his game
Then either steal the money or shut the eff up about it
And he has been known for attacking journalists claiming that they ejaculate vomit out their mouths from the sidelines now
Come on, man. You got to be able to take the criticism in an industry like this
And number nine we have Riot Games you guys probably know right as the developers of the extremely pop their mobile League of Legends well
Unfortunately riot came under fire a few months ago for one of their team members
Attacking an actual League of Legends streamer known as Tyler one in the league discord calling him well
They call him a dick insulting his appearance and saying he was going to die from a coke overdose or testicular
Cancer yes
These are actual things that a developer said about a streamer who plays
Their game now the developer was later identified as Aaron Rutledge, and he was fired for his behavior
Which he claimed was because he was drunk at the time regardless
It doesn't matter you you don't attack
bully and make fun of the people that play your game because as with YouTube and me and I make the content if
Nobody's here to watch the content. Then it does nothing. They get it same goes for the games. They make the games
That's awesome. They develop them, but if nobody wants to play them they aren't worth anything
At number eight
I'm sure you all expected this one to be on this list in one way or another and guess what you were right e a
Electronic Arts is pretty much famous for being a a-holes to players at times although
They rarely
directly address the player base usually they just
Disregard what people want or they create awful games that are mockery of what the franchise is used to be
But there was one incident where EA representatives actually made a pretty awful backhanded comment about people who didn't like their games
Following the 2014 release of the Dungeon Keeper reboot, EA faced a ton of backlash, which they're there trust me
they're used to for how aggressive the
microtransactions were essentially
Charging the player for every possible thing they want from the game and the fans were
Furious at the fact that this is what EA did to reboot such a classic game
I mean it was a beloved series Dungeon Keeper
Everybody loved in response to the backlash EA's head of mobile Frank something apologized for innovating too much
Seriously an EA employee responded to a game's criticisms by disregarding fan concerns in claiming that the micro transactions were
Innovations and kind of slapping the gamers in the face by saying. I'm sorry we progressed too much ahead of you guys
Ok at number 7. We have Taeyang they
Made Rambo the video game if that's not an attack. I don't know what is
Okay on to our next real one at number six studio wildcard and for those that don't know
Studio wildcard of the team behind the popular survival game Ark survival evolved which is a really cool game
I played it myself which got a full release on August 29th of 2007 day after two years in steam early access
The game has had a bit of a rocky history with fans getting pretty upset at the way certain DLC and expansions were handled
especially when making the transition from early access to full release in September of
2016 a player wrote a lengthy statement in the art discord server
Going into detail about what they thought was wrong with the new expansion
And how he and many other game were disappointed however a studio wild card employee wasn't happy with the criticisms and went on the attack
responding with a lengthy post of their own
Dissecting the original post and generally just insulting and belittling the original poster
Calling them too cheap for not wanting to pay for the expansion
Definitely not a very good way to win new people's hearts over when it comes to your early access game when you say people are
Too cheap to buy your product. That's that's that's just that's wrong on so many levels
Cracking you to the top five we have Blizzard Blizzard used to be known as one of the most loved and community driven companies out
There but they took a bit of a nosedive in recent years especially
regarding World of Warcraft and the fan demands for legacy servers for those that don't play wow the game was changed a whole lot whether
Or not you enjoy the new way
I was totally up to you
but when the game changes so much it presents a bit of a problem since it's an MMO and once the old version of the
Game is gone. It's pretty much gone forever
Well to help with this issue there were groups of people who hosted legacy servers which were private servers on old versions of the game
So people could still enjoy the vanilla and fans have been begging Blizzard to bring back official servers for older versions however
Blizzard showed extreme disrespect for fans of old versions and even insulted someone at Blizzcon just asking if they could
Consider reviving the old game the link below is to that clip if you guys want to watch it
Thankfully they recently changed their ways and announced
They'd be bringing back
Legacy servers in the future for those that missed the classic Wow and actually I'm gonna play that clip for you right now
Have you ever thought about adding servers for previous expansions as they were then?
No
and
And by the way you don't want to do that either you think you do, but you don't
At number four we have a double dose of VA
You knew it was probably gonna happen on a list with a topic like this
His next incident of EA's buffoonery as I call it comes from the build-up to the 2017 Star Wars Battlefront 2
And I'm as I'm sure all of you remember. It was just a couple months ago
there was a lot of worry surrounding Battlefront 2 leading up to the release due to the inclusion of
game-changing innovating
Microtransactions now when you're a community manager for the company
It's your job to make sure that your fans are excited and not worried about your game right well
Not exactly according to EA on November 12
2017 just 5 days before the game's launch EAS community manager Matt everich took to Twitter to start and swell
He's got a little upset ok with concerns about the game
And he called them aren't chair developers and suggested that the fans didn't actually know what they wanted from the game now
He quickly deleted the tweets and apologized for it, but not before they were screenshotted and spread across the internet further
Frustrating fans of the battlefront series as their concerns were just in a way being laughed at by E acorrea
According to them and then we got battlefront 2 and you guys know what happened after that
At number three we have dota 2 imba and
It's a dota 2 modding team ok
They got a lot of negative attention back in 2016 for their extremely unprofessional handling of a new mod in the game called
Imba inba I but whatever which was a custom match
It could be played in a variety of different ways during the early days of embas
But I'm gonna call it a player named balmy made a reddit post
Criticizing the balancing and the makers of the mod fired back atom in full force
Not only did they start opening throwing insults at him on that subreddit
But they made hi balmy fu the top of the page
Then at the top of that that you should an update to the mod that banned him from ever playing their mod again all
Because he simply criticized the balancing if that's one thing a lot of developers miss if the people are taking the time to criticize
They care about your product. They want it to be better
and
number two we have digital homicide
Irony in this one the indie developer got a lot of attention back in 2014 following the recent the first game thus
slaughtering grounds on Steam which was a zombie FPS made up of stolen assets from other games in online artists
YouTube critic Jim sterling made a video ripping it to pieces and also
Exposing digital homicide for deleting negative criticism the game calling it one of the worst games of 2014 well D
H wasn't happy about that and they decided to attack sterling with a copyright claim on the video which
Also making a video of their own insulting him and claiming
It was a joke of the industry the battle between the two continued all the way to
2016 when James Romine of digital homicide personally filed suit against early for attacking and
assaulting and slander demanding that he pay fifteen million dollars the lawsuit was later thrown out due to how ridiculous was and
romain claimed that he was destroyed because of it and
Finally back to back baby digital homicide one more time
Taking the top two spots on this list while the last entry was just targeted at one specific person
they took it a step further shortly after that and
James Romine decided to file suit against
100 different Steam users claiming they had caused him personal injury for their scathing reviews of his games and the total sum of demanded money
was 18 million dollars and he also demanded the valve given the personal identities of every user you heard me right an
Indie developer was so upset that people gave him bad reviews
Did he demand at 18 million dollars in the players to identities needless to say valve was?
furious about this
they decided to completely cut ties with digital homicide on September 12th of
2016 every digital homicide game and DLC pack was removed from Steam and they banned them from ever coming back
Good riddance is and there you have it my friends. Those are 10 times that developers actually attacked the players
Let me know if you know of any other instances or which one of these stands out the most to you
I just I know there are criticisms that are done the wrong way, but when somebody criticizes in a orderly fashion
You should never be attacked by a developer. It's because you care and you're passionate about the product
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