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[Draugoth]

The situation is still unfolding.

Artur Smirowski the developer behind the indie game Soullash 2 has been the target of harassment over

TLDR: According to him the reason is becase the game involves around passing down genes to future generations

This has caused the developer to lash on the harassers on twitter:

My grandparents survived the nazis, my parents endured communism, I had to live through religious oppression since the age of 10, and now some spoiled brats think I'll bend my knee to their rainbow flag, or else they'll type some words.

Some other players simpatized whomever, and started buying the game to give positive reviews:

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[Generic]

To be fair, he insulted his consumers.

 

[Guilty_AI]

sold

 

[poppabk]

This game? Same sex marriage, how would you even tell?

 

[ZehDon]

Games been out for close to a year, feels odd for this to be a thing now?

 

[Guilty_AI]

Games been out for close to a year, feels odd for this to be a thing now?

Early Access, new content.

 

[keraj37]

sold

Sold indeed.
I will never play it, and I dont buy digital game renting rights, but this is an exception.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

To be fair, he insulted his consumers.

No, he insulted a very little bunch of people who'd bitch about his game and never buy it anyway.

 

[StueyDuck]

Games been out for close to a year, feels odd for this to be a thing now?

Feels a bit manufactured imo

 

[Kupfer]

This game? Same sex marriage, how would you even tell?

 

[Spukc]

 

[Barakov]

To be fair, he insulted his consumers.

Yeah, just like that concord ex-dev insulted THEIR consumers.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

To be fair, he insulted his consumers.

He did, however said customers pulled typical “oh, I love your game, I would just like to have same sex marriage included to feel more connected to the characters”.

The guy is Polish, Slavs that don’t go out much don’t really know how to play the game. His response should have been: “Hey, thanks for your message! Having everyone enjoying the game is super important to us. Unfortunately as a small studio we have to prioritise certain features, it’s not always possible to include all of them at once. We will take a note of the requests and hopefully we will be able to work on it down the line”.

 

[FewRope]

Feels a bit manufactured imo

Manufactured outrage it's a thing, and this is it

 

[The Cockatrice]

Feels a bit manufactured imo

Im going to go with this as well. This tactic has been used before for small indie games to garner attention, regardless of good or bad.

 

[pachura]

Bringing up grandparents surviving WW2, wow

 

[Heisenberg007]

To be fair, he insulted his consumers.

Right to insult them if someone deserves to be insulted.

 

[bobryisk]

By description and his name he seems to be from Russia. If true then there's a law here that prohibit anything gay related in media.

 

[pachura]

Nah, he's Polish

 

[Guilty_AI]

The guy is Polish, Slavs that don’t go out much don’t really know how to play the game. His response should have been: “Hey, thanks for your message! Having everyone enjoying the game is super important to us. Unfortunately as a small studio we have to prioritise certain features, it’s not always possible to include all of them at once. We will take a note of the requests and hopefully we will be able to work on it down the line”.

That was kind of his answer tho. The stronger reaction was after freaks decided to cruzade against him.

 

[PJX]

He did, however said customers pulled typical “oh, I love your game, I would just like to have same sex marriage included to feel more connected to the characters”.

The guy is Polish, Slavs that don’t go out much don’t really know how to play the game. His response should have been: “Hey, thanks for your message! Having everyone enjoying the game is super important to us. Unfortunately as a small studio we have to prioritise certain features, it’s not always possible to include all of them at once. We will take a note of the requests and hopefully we will be able to work on it down the line”.

That was his first reply until they attacked him. With these people, they are never satisfied. He should've just ignored them and move along. Our studio got hit up by Sweet Baby Inc for a game we are developing. We just ignored all thier emails, eventually they left us alone.

 

[SpearHea.:D]

Bought and left positive review. My man got balls.

 

[diffusionx]

"make your own game, chud"
"Ok"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT!"

 

[Orangee]

By description and his name he seems to be from Russia.

Ouch.

 

[Hypnotoad]

Those chuds can't keep getting away with it!

 

[tommib]

another culture war banger from Draugoth

Take a break man.

And this seems like the dev went full on retard for exposure and to get some sales out of it.

 

[PeteBull]

The guy is Polish, Slavs that don’t go out much don’t really know how to play the game. His response should have been: “Hey, thanks for your message! Having everyone enjoying the game is super important to us. Unfortunately as a small studio we have to prioritise certain features, it’s not always possible to include all of them at once. We will take a note of the requests and hopefully we will be able to work on it down the line”.

Here in poland many ppl dont bend the knee to purple overlords, no1 gives a damn if some clown gonna be triggered/enraged or w/e, they dont buy games for the most part as we saw with repeated failure of many woke trash games

 

[finalflame]

Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated

Aaaaaand I'm out. Good for them for sticking to their guns, though.

 

[Draugoth]

another culture war banger from Draugoth

Take a break man.