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You truly believe piratesoftware is the only reason a million Europeans didn't sign a petition on game preservation? You truly believe, if not for him, the EU would have passed legislation to regulate the video games industry. You might as well be mad at Gawr Gura for increasing the price of rice in Japan.
He spawned a bunch of misinformation that people are repeating to this day every time the petition is mentioned. He was by far the largest negative influence on the campaign. Even if it was always doomed to fail, who would you have OP clown on if not him?
I was pointing out elsewhere that I hadn't heard of this guy before today, but Chet Faliszek, who you may know from indie hits like... let's see... Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2 and Portal 2, seems to not be on board for very similar reasons.
https://bsky.app/profile/chetsucks.com/post/3lsd7rsd3j22n https://bsky.app/profile/chetsucks.com/post/3lsf4vxbtls2p
I don't fully agree with either of them, but targeting a specific guy just because he happens to be the one that got into a call/response thread with the figurehead of the thing you support is pretty toxic interneting, and I don't like it.
He's also the founder of the studio, the person financing the game and as far as I can tell the lead and director of the entire game.
"He's just a writer" only works for me if you have actively shipped a game and converted it from central servers to community maintenance. And no, "I ran a server once" doesn't count, and neither does "I've been paid for code before, just not in games".
From the tone and content of the conversation so far, Faliszek's credentials are way above anybody who has chimed in here. You can disagree with him (I do in some things), but you can't dismiss him out of hand based on his skillset. That'd be absurd on the basis of... well, his resume, but it certainly is on the face of the detailed information he's sharing.
(and incidentally why nobody in the games industry wants to talk to anybody online, because damn)
I’ve been reading the other comments and you’re not the type of person I would enjoy talking with. Thus why I deleted my comment.
Peace
That's fair, and thanks. No hard feelings at all.