The post was tongue-in-cheek and appeared to try to speak to people upset about Epic Games Store but willing to engage the argument in good faith, a seeming miscalculation in retrospect. They pair put up a blog post explaining their reasoning, citing that the money Epic was offering for exclusivity could help them make the game without stress and hire on more people to help out their beleaguered contracted programmer. Knowing that exclusivity deals, especially to EGS, tend to anger PC gamers for oftentimes a variety of reasons, Glumberland hoped to kill the controversy with kindness ahead of time.
On Thursday, the developers at Glumberland, a husband and wife team made up of Rebecca Cordingley and Ben Wasser, put up a blog post announcing the Epic Games Store exclusivity. This small game that never really garnered much attention has become the flashpoint for a larger culture war over developer decisions, the Epic Games Store, and the validity of consumer anger and entitlement. While a Steam listing has been up for some time, the game has not actually been purchasable, and is coming to Xbox One still. The "Ooblets'" exclusive deal with the Epic Games Store has become the latest proxy battle in an online campaign to stop game developers from embracing Epic.Last week, the developers at the two-person studio Glumberland announced that they would be bringing their upcoming adventure game Ooblets to the Epic Games Store rather than Steam on PC for a period of temporary exclusivity. Based on her posts though, you guys are a perfect pair of ****heads," a Reddit user wrote. "When this is all said and done, and your game and career are in shambles, I hope your wife leaves you. A handful of the offensive remarks are documented in the Medium post, but most are too profane to reprint. The couple say they have now received tens of thousands of messages across Twitter, Reddit, and Discord, including anti-Semitic and racist remarks threatening violence against both Cordingley and Wasser.
It was a stupid miscalculation on my part."
"By engaging directly with that crowd, I mistakenly thought I could have some impact on their opinions and emotions and defuse the situation with some lighthearted criticism of the main things that drove them to attack people. "I very naively thought what we were saying might get them to see the whole debate as lightheartedly as we did," Wasser wrote in a post on Medium. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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