I hate everything about the language used here. Not your fault. Just hate it.

Misgendering people is not funny.

I kinda hate the guy so it's hard for me to keep the tone neutral but I'll try my best.

Long story short: He's a popular streamer that had a few controversies that caused many people labelled him as arrogant or egotistical.

The latest one is his take on the "stop killing games" initiative that he was against. He had a video a few months ago were he misrepresentated the movement and spread misinformation (whether or not this was intentional or misinformed is up for debate) and caused a significant drop in the momentum of the movement, refusing to accept any criticism and doubling down on things. That was until recently were the initiative was in the last month and a half before the big deadline at only around 50% of the required signatures, but then huge momentum sprung up with a lot of people marking him as the "villain" of the movement and because of his controversy before it wasn't long before word spread.

This has obviously led to harassment of the guy(which I feel is too far personally) which he responded to by tripling down on his opinion causing further being labelled as the villain. Eventually the momentum carried it over the finish and people are happy that he didn't get his way.

According to 30 rock it is.

The difference is that 30 Rock is not doing it to be mean spirited.

What u attempt to accomplish? Maintaining games also takes time and effort and server costs and they likely kill them to save costs.

There is no way this petition is gonna do anything

To his credit, at least he admits this. It’s not like he’s hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.

I'm sick of that excuse. The whole I'm dumb or I don't know or it's for the algorithm excuses people make to try and deflect criticism. Guess I've just seen to many people of prominence use that excuse one to many times over the years.

Is this a real screenshot of him crying about the initiative reaching 100%?

Very unlikely. He hasn't made any content covering the initiative yet.

When games put DRM in them that requires a server

And I buy that game

And then they take away that server

I want my money back

Or for them to patch the game so it works

It’s not fucking hard to figure out

It’s playing the game by the rules as written. If the Game Master is upset at a player for using their own rules against them, that’s the GM’s fault. I can’t begrudge a guy manipulating a mega corporation (in this case, manipulating Google/YouTube’s algorithms) for profit. He needs viewer retention to stay at the top of the algorithm, so that’s what he’s doing.

then don't make single player games (or sections of games) require a server.

In Ross' video, IIRC, he said 110% was good, 120% was pretty safe, and 140% was very safe.

edit: Correct autocorrect.

I mean, he's said before that shitty code doesn't make for a good or bad game. He gave examples of lots of successful games that have "bad" code and that it doesn't matter and people should just make games.

Can't wait for him to see this and claim it was his plan the entire time

I've just heard so many of the same excuses for even scummier people over the years of always shifting the blame to justify whatever is necessary to get the bag. The excuses seem ever less convincing.

At best we get fresh new EULA's to click through on our way to play our game.

I've signed a lot of petitions over the years, and I'd sign this one too, but it's pretty naive to think this will actually do anything useful.

I watch this dude sometimes, he says he's a fulltime game dev but all I see him do is play other games. The game he works on has seen very little progress.

Would be nice if he at least admits he's a streamer and not a game dev.

For those who don't know, this streamer is only tangentially related to the stop killing games petition because he made a comment about it being BS because he misinterpreted what it was supposed to do. He used his misinterpretation to spread false information about this petition leading to it not getting the support it initially should have.

When the guy behind the petition made a statement saying he didn't think the petition was going to get enough signatures in part because of the misinformation being spread about it, PirateSoftware doubled down on his false claims and all of this lead to people doing the research they should have done in the first place and deciding to support the petition after all.

What we should probably be learning from this is that we should do our own research, and find out things instead of taking the word of random people online.

Edit: electric has brought to my attention that it wasn't just one clip, but in fact a whole video dedicated to spreading misinformation that was made by Thor from PirateSoftware. Just wanted to be clear about that.

Its okay to stop running the servers. All gamers want is to have the stuff it takes to continue to enjoy the game after the companies are done.