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.

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    Did they face significant backlash? Or is IGN just trying to “make fetch happen”? I might have just missed it.

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      I believe it. A friend of mine raised the price of his game from free to $2 with a big update, and still kept the download for the older version free. He got all sorts of backlash, even death threats. These people are children.

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        Tweets do not represent significant backlash .

        Edit Significant backlash would be something like getting delisted from steam

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          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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        Thank you for responding, but no, I’m not going to xitter.

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          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…

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

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              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.

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

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            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.