PilotZmii napisał/a:Amun-Ra napisał/a:What is that? Some kind of victim blaming?
It seems that way, I'm not sure who's playing the victim. This seems to be about the "Secretum Labyrinth Dark Castle" controversy for the Atari 8-bit. A game similar to Zelda or Adventure where the user explores different screens, collects items and searches for treasures. Posted in 2019 and looks like a music glitch debate as the screen changes. AtariAge forum members attack other games like Prince of Persia. A similar group of people.
I'm not sure why game developers face challenges there. It could be envy or price. The 8-bit Atari lacked something like Zelda, or an extended 2600 Adventure until the retro game makers created something.
It's pretty clear who is 'playing the victim' here. Someone who propagated multiple AtariAge forum accounts and then - after being banned - multiple social media accounts, and has admitted same in as many words (falsely professing to have shut down the accounts on multiple occasions, before proceeding to continue using them). He then plays the victim by claiming that the consequences of his actions were not the result of maintaining sock accounts, shilling, spamming, libel, sending unsolicited and menacing emails and DMs, but some kind of conspiracy to damage his business. Perfectly legitimate constructive criticism (which began politely and in good faith before it became apparent that the protagonist was using the sock 'Bluemoon_001' account to deflect remarks about 'gaps in music' which were only recently acknowledged to have existed all along, and finally - three years later - have been fixed; this was only one of several illegitimate accounts) is - again - framed as 'victimisation', 'bashing', etc. You can see the discussion between two accounts (PeteyM5 and Bluemoon_001) maintained by the same person right here:
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/28529 … ser-video/
Why anyone would dredge up this three-year old farce (and the legitimate criticisms, which he clearly can't get over to this day) when it's the very thread that resulted in him being booted off the forum after he sailed too close to the wind with the 'Bluemoon_001' account, I don't know; I couldn't have selected a better example which demonstrates every point I am trying to make.
Never mind my 'understanding' and forgiveness toward stupid behaviour: there are 'social consequences' to pig-headedness (deafness to criticism) and deliberate deception (presenting to potential customers mutliple sock-accounts masquerading as independent, unbiased commentators); perhaps if one had not employed such nefarious methods in the first place, and had not continued to do so, it would not be necessary to publicise the matter for the benefit of uninformed community members (as I am inclined to do, having blocked the sock accounts, every time I receive another creepy email from a new burner account).
This is the reason this 'game developer [faced] challenges here', not because of 'envy' (of what?) or 'price'. Not even the nothingburger debates regarding PoP and its use of XBIOS or the game author's theatrical, cape-swinging exit from one of my threads is comparable in any way.
In any case: write more, since the material becomes more interesting with each post. ;)