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Jonathan Blow doesn't read contracts carefully.
- Thread starter Zombie James
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Winterfang
Banned
My reaction reading this thread was "=/" from start to finish.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Also quick to make a thread out of his initial tweets. Was this to antagonize someone or a group of people?
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
It wasn't a mistake, it was a conscious decision to tweet whilst making no effort to check any facts.
Uh. Wow. That's pretty interesting
Simon Belmont
Banned
Moral of the story: there's no fucking pleasing this guy.
uncledonnie
Banned
I think he's a drama queen in general. Not going to stop me from playing The Witness -- hell Fez is my favorite indie ever. But he really strikes me as a whiny prima donna.
Seriously, just because something has been around for X amount of years doesn't mean it'll be there forever.
accused them of lying when they were touting the 300,000 servers thing (claiming that virtual servers aren't real servers), repeatedly said they have a culture of treating developers like shit
i'm keen to not say that his comments have a strong effect outside of internet communities, but blow is absolutely at least partially responsible for the general consensus that MS is bad for indie developers, which carries a lot of weight among enthusiasts
rokkerkory
Member
that's how I feel too
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
What would he hope to achieve by pulling the game? Silly man.
LapinAgile
Member
What is this? Applying common sense and rational thought on the internet?? NO meme him until he apologizes!!
walltowall
Member
There, fixed it for you.
Empathy for what? He could have just contacted someone at MS but instead he had to be a douche bag and start a whole "look at how terrible MS is" thing on twitter, even threatening to pull the game off of XBLA, only to find out that this price drop happened over 3 years ago and he probably agreed to it. He deserves to be called out.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Apparently his memory only goes back to 2011 as well.
The Witness and Transistor are reasons some if my friends are going PS4 along with other things. If MS could get both of those, and maybe a choice couple of other games (Hyper Light Drifter) it would have been a decent cout on terms of E3 announcements.
Jonathon Blow is a silly feller.
Four_Chamber
Member
Love the title change. Braid was a good game no doubt. Blow is just a phenomenally huge drama queen. Those tweets make him look like an idiot. I guess he wants people to realize how bizarre he is?
Had no desire to play his new game before this anyway
Had no desire to play his new game before this anyway
I like both of you. Let's go for beers.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
What a goober, lol. Good game though.
LapinAgile
Member
He also relatively quickly tweeted he had made a mistake. I am sure no one here has posted or blurted something out that was a complete blunder.
Hyper light drifter is confirmed for X1. Just pointing that out, I completely agree with you.
Microsoft has a vested interest in all games sold their doing well too.
Don't think they were just advertising it to help their ol' pal Johnny B out, they're in it for the money too.
uncledonnie
Banned
MS already has Hyper Light Drifter.
Personally I'd rather play Below and Super Time Force than either Transistor or The Witness, but I'm happy I own both systems and don't need to make the choice. I do feel like we're getting close to the point where neither publisher has a huge indie advantage to the extent that it would sway a console decision.
Phire Phox
Banned
Lol what a clown. He must feel so embarrassed.
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh the irony of this post.
Fox Mulder
Member
if only he just shut the fuck up and kept making cool games.
Grimm Fandango
Member
He went right to Twitter first without checking anything. He deserves the raking.
not psycho
Member
Thinking that MS secretly changed the price without his permission was a mistake. An understandable and easily corrected mistake. No harm, no foul.
Telling the world that MS secretly changed the price without his permission was not a mistake. It was intentional. Even if he had been right, he would still have been wrong to say that without verifying first.
LapinAgile
Member
He's so despondent over this thread his Starbucks got cold. Colors are less vibrant, food has lost it's flavor... for what? A laugh? A moment of levity? Twitter claims another
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
So wait.. You want him to become a slave to us and not speak his mind? Wow.
cpp_is_king
Member
Twitter: Making another idiot out of another person.
My stepfather was an asshole, really mean guy. But he did impart one gem with me that I will take to my grave: "It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you're an idiot, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
My stepfather was an asshole, really mean guy. But he did impart one gem with me that I will take to my grave: "It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you're an idiot, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
It's why I have and plan to pick his games up during near nothing sales or on Humble Bundle.
(Moves slider to 100% of payment to charity)
i don't think there are any indies who have said that in reaction to this tweet
LapinAgile
Member
Impulsive? yes. A poor reader of legal documents? Yes. A covert console detractor? Stretching. An idiot? That's just being a little snide and offensive. Was it smart? No but that doesn't make someone an idiot.
Not sure if rage is the right word, but it did sound like he threatened to pull the entire game off XBLA. That came off as rather emotional