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(I'm posting about this because I recently, as in just a few days ago, bought into this game. It looked and still looks cool. It's using a method similar to that of Minecraft, where you pay for the game "as is" but then get free updates as the game development progresses.)
You know what's worse than getting your home broken into and your crap stolen? Having to deal with selfish, entitled asshats giving you shit over it, that's what. (Seriously, just look at some of the hateful comments on those first three links I posted to get a taste of it. I'm not even going to touch the reddit thread that keeps being mentioned.)
As for me, I hope they recover from this and keep up with the game. If they don't, I can certainly understand why they would stop, given the reaction to this. It sucks that they got robbed, but it sucks even more that they're getting lambasted for it on top of that. Yeah, sure, they should have had offsite backups or whatever, but still, if someone comes up and says oh man I just got robbed, and you start giving them shit about what they should have done and this, that, and the other, you shouldn't be so surprised and butthurt when they justifiably rip you a new one and/or tell you to STFU.
Similarly, this is why I have a tiny bit more sympathy for Sony than most seem to. Sony gets hacked, people blame Sony rather than the hackers. Indie Stone gets robbed, people blame Indie Stone rather than the robbers. Sure, in both cases, the victims of the crime could have probably done more to prevent it from happening, or to mitigate the losses that occurred, and both reacted rather poorly after the fact, but the bottom line here is that if the encrusted, diseased anuses who did the hacking/robbing in the first place hadn't done so, it wouldn't even have been an issue.
This is a good example, on many fronts, of my ever increasing belief that it is the "gaming community" at large that is a huge part of what is wrong with the game industry and just gaming as a whole.
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As usual, Rock, Paper, Shotgun said it best.
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You know what's worse than getting your home broken into and your crap stolen? Having to deal with selfish, entitled asshats giving you shit over it, that's what. (Seriously, just look at some of the hateful comments on those first three links I posted to get a taste of it. I'm not even going to touch the reddit thread that keeps being mentioned.)
As for me, I hope they recover from this and keep up with the game. If they don't, I can certainly understand why they would stop, given the reaction to this. It sucks that they got robbed, but it sucks even more that they're getting lambasted for it on top of that. Yeah, sure, they should have had offsite backups or whatever, but still, if someone comes up and says oh man I just got robbed, and you start giving them shit about what they should have done and this, that, and the other, you shouldn't be so surprised and butthurt when they justifiably rip you a new one and/or tell you to STFU.
Similarly, this is why I have a tiny bit more sympathy for Sony than most seem to. Sony gets hacked, people blame Sony rather than the hackers. Indie Stone gets robbed, people blame Indie Stone rather than the robbers. Sure, in both cases, the victims of the crime could have probably done more to prevent it from happening, or to mitigate the losses that occurred, and both reacted rather poorly after the fact, but the bottom line here is that if the encrusted, diseased anuses who did the hacking/robbing in the first place hadn't done so, it wouldn't even have been an issue.
This is a good example, on many fronts, of my ever increasing belief that it is the "gaming community" at large that is a huge part of what is wrong with the game industry and just gaming as a whole.
(EDIT)
As usual, Rock, Paper, Shotgun said it best.
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Date: 2011-10-17 06:56 am (UTC)From:I do hope they learn from this however. Point in case, they can make use of those filehosting sites like mediafire, rapidshare, hotfile, etc etc (there are dozens of the same damned thing these days) to keep an offsite zip of the project materials. If there are multiple people in the dev group in different houses, they should also each keep a copy of the back up, etc. With the filehosting sites, things usually aren't made public by default and for extra security they can just password the zip.
Still, hopefully they'll be able to bounce back otherwise. And hopefully it'll be a learning experience.