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kane_magus) wrote2014-11-17 03:50 pm
kane_magus) wrote2014-11-17 03:50 pm
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"Dev who threatened to kill Gabe Newell returns to his studio"
Remember this dumbass? The idiot who threatened to kill Gabe Newell of Valve and then resigned from his company because of the controversy? Well, the fucker came back. His company rehired him.
"First off, Mike is back. This is probably not hugely surprising to some of you, but Mike couldn't commit to his decision to leave Code Avarice," the studio revealed last week. "Travis publicly denounced his departure, and in the weeks following his official stepping down Mike had second thoughts. Looking for a new source of income was extremely overwhelming and when it finally came time to put pen to paper, Mike and Travis agreed the best thing to do would be to have Mike return to Code Avarice."
In related news, their shitty game is still shitty and is still banned from Steam, as it should be. The only difference now is that Steam probably won't accept any future games that these clowns try to get onto Steam.
"First off, Mike is back. This is probably not hugely surprising to some of you, but Mike couldn't commit to his decision to leave Code Avarice," the studio revealed last week. "Travis publicly denounced his departure, and in the weeks following his official stepping down Mike had second thoughts. Looking for a new source of income was extremely overwhelming and when it finally came time to put pen to paper, Mike and Travis agreed the best thing to do would be to have Mike return to Code Avarice."
In related news, their shitty game is still shitty and is still banned from Steam, as it should be. The only difference now is that Steam probably won't accept any future games that these clowns try to get onto Steam.
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This doesn't end well for the company or any of the employees I'm sure.
I doubt any new game they make will end up on Steam, even if the hot head pretends to quit again.
Apparently he's back because nobody would hire him, if he was finding "obtaining a new source of income" challenging for two whole weeks. The two weeks when you know damned well no developer group would take him on and thus infect their own dev group with the bad karma he set himself up with.
Not that I expect this to change anything for myself, but I'll probably just boycott the company over it all. I say it won't change anything because I didn't know a damned thing about them prior to this, and I'm still not interested in them now.
I do look forward to the next meltdown and twitter outburst that will probably accidentally come directly from their new studio twitter account. XD
I don't see how they expect this to change anything with respect to their personal twitters. If he makes death threats and other such things on the personal twitter again, he'll still probably end up causing problems for the studio - if it was related to anything the studio was doing (like getting a game on platform X)