Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn’t want to earn money from them I wouldn’t charge money for them.”

The game follows the premise of being trapped in an underwater submarine out of necessity to capture deep pictures.

  • AatubeOP
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    47 months ago

    Yes they did, just read the tweets linked

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      Tweets do not represent significant backlash .

      Edit Significant backlash would be something like getting delisted from steam

      • AatubeOP
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        177 months ago

        A ton of people attacking the dev on Twitter is significant backlash. An earthquake does not have to cause a Tsunami to have a big effect.

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        -277 months ago

        IMO, not even visiting is very weird. Just use a blocker and steal their revenue.

        As an uninformed, I also wonder why you think IGN would make up stuff.

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          They (including Musk) make money off of how ubiquitous it is, even if you’re not viewing ads. They leverage that daily view count.

          No judgement, but if you’re visiting X/Twitter, you’re supporting them. As for IGN, there’s the “too much water” controversy, but basically, they’re just way too corporate for me…

        • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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          37 months ago

          Not using a service that you dont like and dont agree with is weird? Really?

          • AatubeOP
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            -17 months ago

            It’s like insisting on always paying with cash imo. Does some ethics but quite a bit of an inconvenience if you’re in a queue.

            • @Kedly@lemm.ee
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              27 months ago

              Ok yeah, you can be annoyed, but your cash example is ALSO perfectly fine if a person decides digital money isnt for them

              • AatubeOP
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                17 months ago

                Yeah, I get the same level of annoyed on both of these. Cheerio

        • @asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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          -157 months ago

          You can’t say things like that here! We are a bunch of nerds who cling so tightly to online privacy and morals it is practically our personality!

          Nah it is weird, in the sense that most people really won’t put in that much energy to avoid a site even if it was to gather information. It’s atypical.