
What’d be next? Game consoles paying for games to be exclusive on their consoles? Netflix paying for exclusive shows? Newspapers paying for exclusive articles? It’d be some sort of late capitalist dystopia.” “Just imagine if other companies got it in their head to offer funding in exchange for exclusives. “This is exactly what Marx warned us about!” designer Ben Wasser wrote to kick it off. In an attempt to meet the inevitable backlash head on, they explained their rationale in exhaustive detail.ĭeveloper Glumberland’s exclusivity announcement post is a mixture of frank and tongue-in-cheek. Today, the game’s developers announced that, on PC, Ooblets will be an Epic Games Store exclusive. It’s not even out yet, but the gooey, chewy mash up of Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon, and Pokémon has already earned its fair share of salivating admirers. You'll be able to just install it and run it, like it was on a console.Ooblets is one of those games that just oozes effortless charm. If you piss off the Internet, and you know you made a mistake, you can point to the few ill-thought-out death threats and play the victim.Īs for Ooblets, the poor behavior and unprofessional reaction of the developer aside, if you wait for the Steam version you'll get the best possible experience. The death-threats also make for a good excuse for the accused party to make themselves look like a victim.

Asking them politely not to only encourages them. It's frustrating because a few edgy middle-schoolers who think they're being funny can reflect badly on an entire group of people with legitimate complaints. Some ill-adjusted dork is always going to dispense with the empty death-threats. I wouldn't say the community is to blame. The community was mostly to blame because some did issue threats.

The developer went crazy and lashed out at the Steam Community. Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:Game developer decided on getting that sweet Fortnite money and went to Epic for their exclusive place to get it, for at least a year, if not more on PC.
