UPDATE: Mike has quit Code Avarice due to his tweets, so now hopefully it will be possible for the game to come back to Steam. No need to punish a whole team for one persons mistakes who longer has anything to do with the game.
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In a case of common sense going out the Window, Mike Maulbeck developer of the game Paranautical Activity that was only just released in full on Steam has been a bit of an idiot. I only sent word to GamingOnLinux last night about the game being released, and now I'm sending word about this.
He may have removed the tweet, but the internet saw it, screenshot it, and sent it to Valve who quickly cancelled relations with the developer and removed his game for sale. Probably not the best idea with his screen-name mentioning murder either.
There have been plenty more tweets about this, but this confirmed PA is gone:
Personally I wasn't a big fan anyway, since the developer decided to call it quits and cut off the big feature list it was supposed to have. To then idiotic (let's call it what it is) outbursts like this is not what we need.
Threats, even ones people don't mean just shouldn't be made. What ever happened to common sense? Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
All of this because Paranautical Activity's carousel banner section on Steam said "Now in Early Access" instead of "Now released". Valve are a company, made up of humans. Humans make mistakes, so to then go on a twitter rampage and say you're going to kill Gabe...*sigh*.
Source Article, also thanks to the comments on my other article pointing the situation out. What a shame.
For anyone still interested, it's on Desura & from the developers directly. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Original Article Below
In a case of common sense going out the Window, Mike Maulbeck developer of the game Paranautical Activity that was only just released in full on Steam has been a bit of an idiot. I only sent word to GamingOnLinux last night about the game being released, and now I'm sending word about this.
He may have removed the tweet, but the internet saw it, screenshot it, and sent it to Valve who quickly cancelled relations with the developer and removed his game for sale. Probably not the best idea with his screen-name mentioning murder either.
There have been plenty more tweets about this, but this confirmed PA is gone:
Welp. PA no longer on steam. I'm done making videogames now. It sucked while it lasted.
— Mike Murderbeck (@SpooderW) October 20, 2014
Personally I wasn't a big fan anyway, since the developer decided to call it quits and cut off the big feature list it was supposed to have. To then idiotic (let's call it what it is) outbursts like this is not what we need.
Threats, even ones people don't mean just shouldn't be made. What ever happened to common sense? Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME STEAM? WE JUST RELEASED OUT OF EARLY ACCESS AND THIS IS OUR FRONT PAGE BANNER? pic.twitter.com/Zfhj4VA8UX
Mike Murderbeck (@SpooderW) October 20, 2014
All of this because Paranautical Activity's carousel banner section on Steam said "Now in Early Access" instead of "Now released". Valve are a company, made up of humans. Humans make mistakes, so to then go on a twitter rampage and say you're going to kill Gabe...*sigh*.
Source Article, also thanks to the comments on my other article pointing the situation out. What a shame.
For anyone still interested, it's on Desura & from the developers directly. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Mike has ruined this for the other guy who is rather upset at it all.
I feel bad for the guy.
Sure, he can turn things around in the future and in his own apology letter he seems to recognize that being the public face of a company is the wrong role for him. I personally hope he learns from all this and works to be better in the future, and not to buy into the narrative that "it's not so bad" and starts seeing himself as victim in this situation.
And then Mike retweeted this:
https://twitter.com/Idubbbz/status/524356828210413569
UH?
Woah, you usually don't see so many mouthbreathers outside an aquarium.
Apparently Gabe Newell isn't actually a person? Bet he'd be surprised to hear it!
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Anyway, I must say it feels like there are more vocal people these days than back a few years ago, probably because I didn't visit these vocal areas, but oh my I must also say: he's quite peeved, probably needs a bird to comfort him or steal his delights, like the one that got stuck in a building within my university which had the soul purpose of nothing more but distracting me from my cup of coffee.
On a more serious note, if anything of the previous was truly serious really: I feel sorry for his team, not much (or at all) for him as far as I've heard about him. Although, I kind of don't care what I hear about him. Also, I honestly clicked this article cause it had Gabe in it.
Anywho.
Take care!