Are people deliberately looking for fights with indie devs lately?

[Pixelspeech]

Hello everyone,

I have a tendency to read up on every indie game that appears on Steam and one trend I have noticed lately is that there's a growing group of people who go on the forums or community hubs to say bad things about games that have only barely been out for a few hours. I normally wouldn't care much for such trolling practices, but oftentimes the developers respond by locking or removing threads, followed by those same people opening new ones (or going on message boards) screaming about how "this dev is censoring criticism" or "this dev treats his customers like crap."

Today it was Dark Shadows, yesterday Galactic Command, I can only wonder about what it will be next. Is this something we should be concerned about?

 

[WeepingAngels]

Hello everyone,

I have a tendency to read up on every indie game that appears on Steam and one trend I have noticed lately is that there's a growing group of people who go on the forums or community hubs to say bad things about games that have only barely been out for a few hours. I normally wouldn't care much for such trolling practices, but oftentimes the developers respond by locking or removing threads, followed by those same people opening new ones (or going on message boards) screaming about how "this dev is censoring criticism" or "this dev treats his customers like crap."

Today it was Dark Shadows, yesterday Galactic Command, I can only wonder about what it will be next. Is this something we should be concerned about?

So people criticize games, then the indie developer locks the thread which makes matters even worse because now people can correctly claim that the developer is censoring criticism?

I think it's clear why PR people are needed. Indie developers have a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot.