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Forums - PC Discussion - Paranautical Activity pulled off Steam because developer tweets ''I am going to kill gabe newell. He is going to die.''

Sounds like a whiny bitch. Who makes death threats on the internet unless your a complete fuck? He acts like he is an AOL chat room back in the 90s.



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Man, indie developers really are assholes lol



Kane1389 said:
Man, indie developers really are assholes lol

lol you have a point there. But technically it's not about indie developers per se, the big developers are the same. The difference is those have PR agencies that correct/control everything they let out into the world. Indie developers don't have that luxury!



They just got pulled from the Humble Store



poklane said:
They just got pulled from the Humble Store

Ouch. See what a idiot can do! I feel for the partner, this could ruin them.



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A man named "Murderbeck" saying he is going to kill Gabe Newell on Twitter....



Yesterday, Paranautical Activity released out of steam Early Access, and following some confusion about the state of the game I became frustrated with Steam, and tweeted a series of angry tweets that ended in me sarcastically saying I was going to kill Gabe Newell. A statement I obviously didn’t mean but was regardless completely unacceptable.

As a result of my actions, Paranautical Activity, a game made by 4 or 5 people depending on who you count as team members, was removed from steam. I feel is it my responsibility to step down from Code Avarice completely so that Steam has no reason to harbor any more ill will towards the company, and maybe even if we can’t see Paranautical Activity restored, at least future Code Avarice games may be allowed onto the platform.

I’m really, deeply sorry that my short sighted, hot tempered actions resulted in not only my own dreams and aspirations being destroyed, but those of the entire team I worked with. I’m sorry that my statements made Valve and/or Gabe uncomfortable and upset (rightfully so).

My temper and tendency to use twitter to vent has been a consistent problem since I entered the games industry, and I just can’t do it. I don’t have the willpower necessary to be the “face” of a company. If I do continue to work in games it’ll be as an anonymous 1 of 1000 at some shitty corporation, not the most public figure of a single digit sized team.

I’ve sold my half of Code Avarice to Travis. Given up all my rights to CA as a company, and all it’s intellectual properties. I won’t receive any money from the sale of Paranautical Activity or any future games CA develops, I won’t be consulted on business decisions, and I won’t have any hand in development.

I’m out.

http://codeavarice.com/post/100592709238/mike-is-leaving-code-avarice

Hopefully for the other developers on the team this means that Valve will let them put the game on Steam again.



Oh man!



How people can behave so irrationally sometimes is beyond me. Deserved, and it looks like he learned his lesson. Shut your mouth (/stop typing) if you have nothing nice to say.



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Ninsect said:
How people can behave so irrationally sometimes is beyond me. Deserved, and it looks like he learned his lesson. Shut your mouth (/stop typing) if you have nothing nice to say.

He did. But it's sad he ruined it for himself so easily. People need to think before acting on Social Media!