Abandoned developer fed up, threatens action over death threats

One of many saddest truths in immediately’s gaming panorama is that there’s a sector of people that will get so labored up over video video games that they’re going to resort to loss of life threats. Whereas which may be a reality, it doesn’t suggest that anybody has to sit down again and take it. Developer Blue Field Video games, who’s at the moment engaged on Deserted, is vowing to not sit again and take it anymore. On Saturday, the staff lambasted the newest spherical of loss of life threats and is promising to take motion.

Right here is the total message posted to the Blue Field Twitter account (by way of GI.biz):

The next message just isn’t addressed as an organization, however as a bunch of human beings. The previous few days have been troublesome. Dying threats are growing on-line however sadly additionally bodily and this has to cease. We have now been coping with loss of life threats the previous few months and the previous few days we’ve got been coping with it once more, particularly bodily. This not solely impacts us as a staff, however everybody inside our environments. Different companies, households and everybody surrounding us. We need to work in a protected surroundings and with job openings upcoming sooner or later, we need to supply a protected work surroundings for future colleague’s aswell. [sic] We cannot tollerate [sic] this and we are going to take motion by offering authorities IP addresses, logs and digital camera footages.

We’re totally conscious of the adverse scenario that we’ve got created and we really perceive your frustration. However what we do not perceive are the loss of life threats. We perceive and recognize your curiosity for Deserted, we’re working onerous on Deserted. We are going to begin an everyday weblog on our web site which you could observe and we are going to put up any information on Deserted on our Twitter. However all we ask till then, is simply to offer us area and to us work on Deserted.

Please.

The loss of life threats seem to stem from Blue Field just lately debunking rumors that it was engaged on a Silent Hill reboot. Web detectives had been surmising, based mostly on the little info at the moment on the market about Deserted and Hideo Kojima’s penchant for misdirection, that this sport would show to be one other Silent Hill in disguise. With PT on the market as precedent, such an concept wouldn’t have been unparalleled. Nevertheless, generally a cigar is only a cigar, and that appears to be the case with Deserted.

We’ll proceed to watch Deserted’s progress right here at Shacknews, in addition to report on any additional motion that the corporate is taking towards anybody sending loss of life threats.