Spilbranchen er fyldt med passionerede mennesker, lige fra udviklerne der laver spil til de fans der køber dem oplever dem og ultimativt reagerer på dem. Denne passion bliver dog en gang imellem omdannet til vrede, og det er der mange udviklere der mærker på blandt andet sociale medier, når de bliver genstand for hårde ord fra fans.
Det har en af stifterne bag den succesfulde indie-udgiver, Devolver Digital, udtalt sig om ved Reboot Develop-messen (via GamesIndsutry), og her går han også så langt som at sige, at gamere er gode til at være "complete fucking assholes online".
Mike Wilson har sagt følgende:
"The biggest problem is they're now expected to have direct conversations with their audience on a regular basis throughout. That's something that no other artist in the history of making art has had to figure out."
"These are already people trying to do something very hard: make a game that stands out from the thousand games coming out each month with just two or three people, and knowing that the audience will never understand it's just two or three people. They'll just assume it's some big studio and should be as good as [bigger] games."
"The gaming community is... great at being complete fucking assholes online, and I don't understand why that is. When you're having a hard day and there's a thousand people on Twitter at any time willing to agree that you're a piece of shit, that you should stop working because you're never going to make anything good, it's pretty hardcore for a sensitive person."
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