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If anyone is wondering why…yeah there’s no reason. It’s just sad losers trolling them and hacking their Discord for no reason other than (probably) the lulz.
It's incredibly common for game developers. Change a variable from a 5 to a 4 and you get death threats. Change it back to 5 ane you get more death threats.
The reality is that a lot of gamers simply aren't very good people (and now they often have the far-right cheering them on).
I loved working in the industry but the constant tantrums and entitlement made it easy to leave.
people who can't create things threaten people who can create things. huh, what a world eh?
Sounds like capitalism.
How pathetic. Humanity sucks man. :(
We should make the internet unavailable to kids and teens, the temptation of trolling is too much for their undeveloped brains.
There are as many unbearable man-children as there are socially underdeveloped teens on the internet. As sad as that is, even if we banned teenagers from the internet it wouldn’t improve anonymous spaces all that much.
Basically if you try to do anything these days you can expect death threats.
I think it's easier to write about the games people don't have get death threats nowadays. This is so sad
I know people can be absurdly toxic in general, but does it seem like games are an unusually concentrated place for that? If that is the case, why is that?
Yeah I really don't understand this why specifically the gaming communities seem to suffer from this problem more than others.
Perhaps it's not reported on as much in other hobby circles, or it's a confirmation bias on my part.
Regardless, it's really disappointing that these communities have this 'there I go death-threating again' stigma growing against them. Absolutely disgusting.
I don't think it's games that is the issue. You see this in various other places as well.
Maybe it's just me then. I know it happens elsewhere, but it just seems to happen more often in games. I feel like I'm reading stories all the time about developers getting threatened, but I feel like it's much more rare to see for instance stories about filmmakers or authors being threatened.
Naw OP is right. Music fans, tv show fans, etc all have these weird subgroups that take everything way too seriously and go after people or make threats etc etc. I think it’s more whenever you hyper concentrate people, boil them down like this, that this stuff happens.
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The skyrim modding landscape has got so much worse in recent years, so many mod users are so self entitled, dumb, and very demanding it's so disappointing seeing this niche area getting so much worse thanks to more and more people flocking to it
Why was it ever SO hot though? I was always blown away that so many people build and use 10k mods for a 15 year old game.
Was it like an Android customization thing? Making your perfect game? I played modded Skyrim a few times and at a certain point it just got silly.
I will plug modded Morrow-wind though. What an amazing game if you can get the graphics a little more up to par.
It's hard to say tbh, Skyrim offers a great base to mod off of, the scripting system is very strong too(only held back but slow refresh times) and tools are freely available and easy to uae to create these mods, I assume aswell the fact there's not been another TES game to pull people away and the general state of gaming over the last decade, people are going back to it
Also tons of people myself included make mod lists but never play
That unfortunately what happens when a game with mod supports gets a bit older. There's a sweet spot in modding, easier than that; dumbfucks arrive, harder than that; nobody mods and scene dies out incredibly quickly.
Minecraft sits right on the spot for example. Not too easy that any idiot can do it, and it isn't hard enough to require a CS degree to mod.
Ah yeah the modding tools being very new user friendly is defo a big thing that has lead to this, I think the lack of a new TES game and the insane explosion of high quality popular mods has brought more people into the scene too
Oh I couldn't express myself very well. I'm not complaining about the great tools; but the extremely easy installation of mods. Developers are great either way imo.
You say easy installation of mods, but an alarming large amount of people still fail to install mods correctly
Sorry, I didn't read your message as a complaint about the tools be easy, but making things accessible will defo bring in larger numbers of people, sadly :(
STOP! YOUVE VIOLATED THE LAW! Pay the court a fine or SERVE YOUR SENTENCE. All your stolen goods are now FORFEIT!
How great would a C&D letter from Bethesda written like that be?
I would expect and accept nothing less.
Just like Microsoft's legal letters should have a picture of Clippy and text saying "Hey! It looks like you're being sued..."
I'd be curious to know what the death threats entail. Like, of you don't finish this free mod soon your going to be killed? How does that even make sense?
Although I suppose the sort of person who would send a death threat over the internet is not going to be known for thier intelligence.
Some people just seem to get off threatening people. I’m convinced it’s their kink
You can't ever try to talk reasonably with this kind of people. They're completely mentally checked out already
It sounds like the story of the AetherSX2 emulator, that happened earlier this year: the main developer got burnt out by all the harassment and threats from toxic individuals and abandoned the project out of frustration.
The internet can be really hard for sensible people, I hope wherever Tahlreth is right now is feeling better.
I don't entirely hope he's feeling better cause he definetly lived for the drams, and hyped it up however he could. He also shit talked a lot of other open source devs, especially of emulators
That doesn’t mean he deserves death threats. What the fuck is wrong with you.
Thank God I never said he did, nor believe it eh
The lack of self awareness is palpable
Was there a return address available for any retaliatory death threats? Because IWKAMF.
Wtf does IWKAMF mean?
It means this person is trying to grind their 'keyboard warrior" skill, which to my mind is a waste of spec points but maybe they're running some gimmick build.
If you get a sufficient following, you will get death threats. Its just an unfortunate fact of life I'm afraid.
Just guessing, but either:
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I Would Kill A Mother Fucker, or
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I Wipe Koala Asshole Against Face
it's just a game ugh wtf 😢
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