I am not sure if this was brought up already but I didn't see anything in the first 3 pages and I don't have enough time in the day to sit there and pour through a ton of pages here to see.

So there was a game on Steam called Darkbase 01 which got a ton of negative reviews marking the game in the "negative" range and if you seen the game in action you could understand why. It looked like a high schooler's attempt at making Alien Breed.

So instead of taking criticism, the dev decided to no longer support the game and replaced the gameplay trailer with a pic of a turd(honestly couldn't tell the difference) with the words "Steam community in a nutshell" pointing at the turd
followed by a short tirade on how the entirety of the gaming community has become just awful.

The game has since been removed from sale on Steam but luckily not before people took screengrabs of the altered store page(see attached).

And of course Jim Sterling had his fun making a video show casing the tantrum and subsequent field day the community had to the meltdown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTYyTSJmDMg

Darkbase01 ?

Isn't that adapted from a famous Garth Marenghi scifi novel ?

haha damn.

"You can all keep your drama - for my life doesn't revolve around video games" says the failed video game developer throwing a dramatic temper tantrum.

I am not surprised Jim Fucking Sterling Son is involved. :-)

Yep, i saw part of the drama on Steam yesterday and just thought "WTF?". :D

Another Dev going nuts Phil Fish style.

On a side note the game is still up on Desura:

http://www.desura.com/games/darkbase-01

And if anyone wants to find out if DarkBase 01 is really as bad as most people think - I have a Desura Key for it to give away. Just reply if you want it.

Completely unacceptable, but I can understand the meltdown. 57 reviews, most of which are negative, and most of which you can bet aren't tactful about it. And who knows what else on the forums. For a game he/she probably worked very hard on (regardless of the final quality). Not everyone is equipped to handle that sort of stuff, especially if the dev is younger. When it involves pointing and lauging at someone from a position of power, you can bet Jim Sterling will be there.

Granted the Steam community has had more then it's share of asshats, any place that is as big as Steam is are going to have that problem even GOG is going to have that, if it already hasn't started already. But in a sense I don't blame a good chunk of the community over there for getting hostile at devs of shitty, half assed games like this(seriously it looks like a bad newgrounds version of Alien Breed) since thanks to Valves lack of curation the store has become a breed ground of shitty games with even shitter devs.

So people are going to be alot more hostile when they see crap like this. Makes me glad shit is curated over here since this is the kind of shit we can look forward to if they opened the door so to speak, sure I may not always agree with GOG's decisions and will happily call bullshit when they reject certain games like when they Rejected Xenonauts, Avernum Escape from the pit, Unepic, Cat Lady, ect. granted those games did eventually come here but my point still stands.

Well the dev himself posted on Steam that he is in his 40's.

Ooh... that's not great.

He gets a bit less slack from me. I just assumed it was a game from some 13 or 14 year old.

A literal pile of shit on steam. Quality control matters.

Yeah, people seem to be getting really upset about the quality of games making their way through Greenlight. Which probably isn't a bad thing. Between refunds and negative reviews, the curation probablem is probably going to be solved (or at least improved) by players. At this point there's not really any way to dupe people into paying for garbage.

Oh, trust me, i'm well aware of the garbage that greenlight releases and i'm not trying to defend the developer but stuff like Steam reviews is pointless because of:

a) Fanboys
b) "Lulz made a joke out of 10"
c) Steam curators and bandwagon mentality.

Besides, the problem is that this new "developers" need to develop (no pun intended) thick skin, you get alot of stupidity in their forums like people asking for the game to be free...


I'm curious (and sorry if i'm confusing with someone else) do you have a publisher for your games or do they get approved by greenlight?