Secondly I don't blame devs for not beeing active on social media with the community. Especially when your game is rather small this task can be really mentally exhausting and we all know how easily people get toxic on the Internet.

I took fault with that as well.

I am a developer who makes games on the side. I mostly do gamejams and release games on itch.io. It's a pretty positive community.

But I did get one comment (only one) that some troll told me to stick to my day job. Like I am? I do this to create art and fun, and make bank working a boring software job. I put all my passion into making this game in a short gamejam window.

I know some fans love reading about "the struggle". They see the developer eating ramen and crunching 160 hours as passion. To me, that's abuse. Because survivors bias, there are people with 100x the passion but their game doesn't sell.

Everyone who puts out a game is doing it for different reasons. You have no idea if the dev team was crunching late hours while their child was dying from cancer. Or if they were coding this on their golden yacht using AI bots. To judge them because they don't share that as not having passion?

It's a toxic metric and would strongly recommend removing it.

7/10 doesn't mean it sucks. Just means adequate.

I played the Division 2, Ac Valhalla and FarCry 6 for 100+ hours. They helped me during the worse times of the pandemic.

But if I was talking to friends or making recommendations, we'd be taking about games that are better than that. The Elden Rings or the Ghost of Tsushima

This is a solid point.

In a polite environment like an office, if one person was offended enough to call it out, there's a huge chance others feel the same way.

I mean there will always be Karen's who flip out that you're just eating chips loudly.

But It's up to the company culture to decide how to approach it as a whole, rather than address it with a single person.

• stop keeping in touch with toxic people just because you might need them someday.

This one is big.

Had a talk with a guy recently. He's always putting other people ahead of him to give his life meaning. And yet it also stresses him out, doesn't get anything in return, and is only doing it because of a hypothetical "they'd do the same". But they don't?

I used to live off of the leftover food of people who didn't finish their plate at a restaurant.

Is there a single page timeline of all these changes?

Like they started building mega tanks but then realized it wasn't working out because land mines would cripple them.

Ubisoft games have such a weird "design by committee" feel to it. Like they poll the internet every few weeks and make decisions off of that. New hot game has battle pass? WE HAVE BATTLE PASS.

They also seem to follow a checklist of mediocrity. Every game needs a dozen collectable items. Every game needs to have the same l types of quests that GTA3 had. Every game has to have a massive open world. Every game needs a online component and live service. Every game needs a incredible hook, which then they Marvel-safe it to avoid offending online babies.

Their games come off with 7/10 energy. Ubisoft games don't move the needle. They're pretty adequate as a game. But when I have thousands of games to choose from every year... Ill pass.

This is how most Gamer™ outrage is. Lots of sweaty weirdos getting triggered.

These nerds would have called Chess "woke" because the Queen is the most powerful piece.

He'll be speaking at future GOP conventions.

I woke up today and at the team meeting, my company literally asked about roadmaps and to start planning for them.

Bro, I'm panic snacking right now you want me to what?

I'm support Mr Trump removing the bullet proof glass. Start allowing MORE armed MAGA to attend his ramblings. Only way to stop a bad gun owner, right? Just because one iddy biddy assassination attempt by a Republican happened?

Come on Mr Trump! 2FA! Don't be a wimp!

Not a single Trumper can explain why this was unfair because their homie likes to grab pussy and fucks underage girls with Epstein.