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[turcy]

unprofessional? yes.

childish? yes.

full of himself? yes.

human? also yes.

as much as i'm tempted to decry Mr. Blow on the internet, he IS just a weirdo sensitive tech-geek like the rest of us.

glad he backtracked, but was really silly of him to vent like that on the internet in the first place.

just keep making games Jonathan, and stop posting on social media [like, entirely].

 

[Storm Chamber]

Let's not blow this out of

Nevermind.

 

[ph00p]

Talks a good talk for someone making a iOS game that will also be on PS4.

 

[turcy]

Let's not blow this out of

Nevermind.

Talks a good talk for someone making a iOS game that will also be on PS4.

lol²

 

[-COOLIO-]

I feel like this is one of the many, many, many situations on the net where the "tone" is being misinterpreted.

This is actually a larger problem with internet communication in general. So many freak-outs over misplaced tone.

agreed.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

I feel like this is one of the many, many, many situations on the net where the "tone" is being misinterpreted.

This is actually a larger problem with internet communication in general. So many freak-outs over misplaced tone.

How else are you supposed to read a comment like "I can just pull the game" in response to what he plans to do next?

There's really very little room for misinterpretation of tone in such a comment...

 

[Gestault]

If someone sees ways this is inaccurate, I'll try to adjust, but this is roughly the series of events:
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(1) Someone signs a business agreement where someone else is putting money behind them for a creative venture.

(2) Shortly after that, the person laments in a public interview that they couldn't control the price to make it less expensive.

(3) The product finds great success, is very lucrative for that person. They say in an interview that in light of that, they had no concerns.

(4) Agree to a price drop (directly and contractually) roughly a year into the life of the product.

(5) Several years later, publicly malign the company for lowering the price "without their knowledge/consent."

(6) Threaten to take it off a service out of spite, because it makes more money elsewhere.

(7) Realizing their error, rationalizes that the company is so bad that he had no choice but to assume the worst.

And my reaction.

 

[StuBurns]

I don't think MS funded Braid.

 

[galvatron]

Silly moments like these are why anyone running a business who posts on twitter needs to put their tweets on time delay. A friend of mine likes Hootsuite for that (not at all connected with that company, just baffled at how many people post brain farts on twitter which are then inexorably associated with them and their products/company).

 

[Gestault]

I don't think MS funded Braid.

Wouldn't a publisher be in charge of promotion and distribution expenses? My understanding is that's their role.

 

[inpHilltr8r]

How is this hedonism? Was he in a coked gang bang when he posted it?

Was joking about the 1% problems thing directly above... wait, why am I bothering with this?

 

[StuBurns]

Wouldn't a publisher be in charge of promotion and distribution expenses? My understanding is that's their role.

Sorry, I misunderstood, when you said creative venture, I thought you meant funding the literal product.

With Braid obviously there's no distribution fees outside of the normal XBLA store costs, which MS itself is responsible for, but yeah, I imagine MS paid for whatever marketing campaign it had.

 

[fvng]

Would you say..be a grown up and call or get your lawyer to call Microsoft
Or have a tantrum and publicly bash a business partner?

Right, which is why I said he was in the wrong. It's literally the first thing I said

I'm only saying that my initial reaction would have also been anger/surprise.. but yes he should have investigated first before sending those tweets...

 

[Night_Trekker]

Maybe he'll make 40% more because more people will buy it.

Yep. Capitalism, how does it work?

 

[Warm Machine]

Sorry, I misunderstood, when you said creative venture, I thought you meant funding the literal product.

With Braid obviously there's no distribution fees outside of the normal XBLA store costs, which MS itself is responsible for, but yeah, I imagine MS paid for whatever marketing campaign it had.

Giving it front and center dash space is/was a huge deal. It is for any game as that is how users know to buy the game in the first place. I think I read Blow made 2 million off it in the first payment after MS took their 30%.

 

[SlowRevolution]

He messed up, got corrected, and apologized. A lot of people who fuck up don't bother with the last part.

I guess he should probably be more professional and make sure he's right before venting about something on twitter, but this doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

Probably kind of biased in his favor because he was really good when he was on Giant Bomb's last E3 stream and I haven't really heard anything about him since. I don't follow him on Twitter or anything either, maybe he says incorrect things a lot and it gets old.

 

[FloweryMarston]

Thread still going. Man, E3 can't come soon enough, slow as hell days are making GAF crazy