When everyone shares their earnest views, the best ideas ultimately prevail. “We at Epic Games have often shared our views about the game business and companies in it, and we support the entire game community’s right to speak freely and critically about these topics, including the topic of Epic, our products, and our store. The upfront money they’re providing means we’ll be able to afford more help and resources to start ramping up production and doing some cooler things.”Įpic Games took it upon themselves to issue a statement on Monday, formally denouncing the alleged harassment Glumberland says its received. Now we can just focus on making the game without worrying about keeping the lights on. “That takes a huge burden of uncertainty off of us because now we know that no matter what, the game won’t fail and we won’t be forced to move back in with our parents (but we do love and appreciate you, parents!). “Because Epic doesn’t yet have the same market share as their competitors, they offered us a minimum guarantee on sales that would match what we’d be wanting to earn if we were just selling Ooblets across all the stores,” Wasser wrote of the deal. Ooblets is just the latest in a string of exclusivity deals announced since the Epic Game Store's inception.
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In a blog post published on July 31, Ben Wasser, one of only two developers on Ooblets, announced that studio Glumberland had signed a PC launch exclusivity deal with the Epic Games Store. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts."Įpic Games has formally denounced the “harassment of partners, promotion of hateful themes, and intimidation of those with opposing views,” following a deluge of “thousands, if not tens of thousands of hateful, threatening messages” sent to the developer of Ooblets, the colorful creature-collecting game. We’ve all got a lot of power to counter hatred and pain, but it takes a truly strong person to act on it. To everyone who has publicly and privately supported and defended us, I don’t know whether we would have gotten through any of this without you.
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"Please have a little perspective before letting your mild annoyance lead to deeply hurting a fellow human being. "What happened to us is the result of people forgetting their humanity for the sake of participating in video game drama," Wasser writes.
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Wasser continued by drawing a distinct line between the patrons of Ooblets and those who entered their community just to stir up anger. Maybe these folks don’t know what Patreon is and think it’s the same thing as Kickstarter, or maybe they’re just trying to cover their undue entitlement in the trappings of concern on behalf of patrons." We’ve been getting nonstop questions about whether patrons will still get Steam keys or not, despite none of our Patreon tiers offering the game at all. "At the same time, our detractors were using the fact that we had a Patreon as a core argument for how we were supposedly double-crossing people.
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Our announcement went to them first with a message about what it would mean for patrons (namely that we were no longer financially dependent on their support and wanted them to be aware so they could feel free to cancel or lower their pledges) and asking what they thought we should do with the Patreon in general, given all that. We definitely owe them in relation to all they’ve done for us and what we’ve promised them, and we try really hard to honor all of that. We have a relationship with patrons that has expectations laid out up front. "I’ve never made any statements that were unappreciative of them at all, and mischaracterizations of my messages are not very convincing. "We absolutely appreciate the support of fans and especially all our Patreon supporters, who we’ve been in communication with throughout all of this," Wasser writes. Wasser again refuted the notion that his tone during conversations around the announcement was disrespectful.
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Developer Ben Wasser writes that the messages in the blog are a selection of just what was sent directly to him and fellow developer and wife Rebecca Cordingley, and that the pair did not monitor other social platforms like Reddit or 4chan. The messages displayed in the blog post show an extreme level of antisemitism, threats of physical and sexual violence, and other various slurs. The blog also addresses the impact the vitriol has had on the studio's two sole members. Ooblets developer Glumberland has posted a lengthy blog detailing the various messages the studio has received following their decision to sign an exclusivity deal with Epic.