Epic Vows to Support Partners Dealing with Abuse and Fake Info Following Ooblets Backlash

Epic Vows to Support Partners Dealing with Abuse and Fake Info Following Ooblets Backlash

4 years ago
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https://wccftech.com/epic-support-partners-against-abuse-ooblets/

Late last week charming-looking indie life sim Ooblets became the latest game to sign an exclusive deal with the Epic Games Store, which was guaranteed to generate at least some backlash, but the developers of the game opted to take an, uh, different approach to announcing the EGS deal. For the most part, the message was just an honest accounting of why Ooblets developer Glumberland went with the Epic Games Store (basically, they offered them a minimum guarantee on sales), but they also made a few sassy comments downplaying people’s issues with the EGS and its launcher. Personally, I though the message was all in good fun, but sometimes the Internet doesn’t have much of a sense of humor.

The negative response has been way more intense than Glumberland expected, with the two-person team being “just devastated” with 10s of thousands of angry messages. Worse, fake/offensive screenshots and videos attributed to Glumberland’s Ben Wasser have begun making the rounds…