Paranautical Activity Dev Goes Full Retard, Threatens to kill Gabe Newell

[smackababy]

I'll never understand these idiots who take to Twitter the minute they need to vent. The guy is obviously way too immature to be in business.

The only thing he did wrong, IMO, was actually use Twitter for this. It seems more and more people are learning the hard way that anything you put on the internet, especially stuff directly connected with your name, can bite you in the butt. I don't fault him for saying he was going to kill Gabe. It is pretty obvious it wasn't a real threat. Nobody actually thinks he is going to actually attempt to take Gabe's life.

 

[Genx87]

I'll never understand these idiots who take to Twitter the minute they need to vent. The guy is obviously way too immature to be in business.

That is the whole purpose of Twitter. To get instant gratification. This idiot used his instant gratification to issue a death threat against the CEO of the distributor of his game. And he was instantly gratified right off Steam.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

Idiot move, obviously, but steam being tardy with release times is pretty disrespectful to developers who have timelines and may have put money into advertising release dates, have to suffer the fallout of fan anger at delayed release etc.

It also seems to suggest that valve has not automated the process of timed releases, which for a company of their size seems completely ridiculous on their part, this is not a complicated thing to get right, so I kind of understand his anger.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Idiot move, obviously, but steam being tardy with release times is pretty disrespectful to developers who have timelines and may have put money into advertising release dates, have to suffer the fallout of fan anger at delayed release etc.

It also seems to suggest that valve has not automated the process of timed releases, which for a company of their size seems completely ridiculous on their part, this is not a complicated thing to get right, so I kind of understand his anger.

In this case the correct course of action would be to contact valve privately first. If that goes nowhere for some reason, then you tweet them publicly. If that gets no response, then you send a tweet out to all the fans with a request for them to petition valve to change the status of the game. If nothing works then you threaten to kill Gabe because that has the same effect as pulling your game off of steam, which was your only remaining option anyway I guess.