This video gets posted all the time, so it's a shame that it's actually extremely dumb.
If you don't include a creator's politics in your judgment of something, then that's totally valid, but there's this revisionist narrative going on trying to excuse Phil Fish for his behavior or otherwise insist that he's not a jerk at all. But nobody provoked Phil Fish to say that PCs are "meant for spreadsheets," and nobody provoked him to brag to PC gamers about how many sales the PC version was getting despite his comments. Nobody provoked him to tell someone that his entire nation's creative output sucked. Nobody prompted him to tell people to kill themselves or make death threats at his business partner.
Explaining this away as the actions of someone who wasn't meant for the spotlight being thrust into it is operating under the (even more insulting to him) assumption that Phil can't be responsible for his own actions. What wound up happening to Phil was inexcusable and I wouldn't wish that on anybody, but the fact remains that Phil Fish was a bully. He was a bully of his own choices and his own volition. Even if we ignore the things he did that were overexaggerated reactions, he went out of his way to hurt people completely unprompted on multiple occasions.
For the record, I played Fez and enjoyed it. There are developers I won't deal with due to their thoughts and actions anymore, though. Randy Pitchford continually lied to his playerbase to attract sales, I fell for them, and I won't anymore. I won't buy games from any developer that associates themselves with Gamergate (Running With Scissors, Spicy Horse/American McGee, whoever made Huniepop). And David Cage can basically just fuck off.
