The missed post from JaWoodle

[FramFramson]

Leaving aside morality and blame games, I do not at all understand what TFP hopes to gain from going after Jawoodle so hard.

Even when they're in the right, those sort of heavy tactics only ever costs a company sales and reputation; it never improves those things. It's even dumber when coops came out literally just a few days afterwards (yes, the bandits were probably more important, but it still contributes to making TFP look bad).

Just seems like comically bad comms and legal strategy to me. Taking the "biting the hand that feeds him" analogy a step further, if someone's out feeding the ducks or the squirrels or whatever and they bite him, anyone watching would naturally expect them to stop feeding said critter. But if he flips out and starts chasing that animal around with a stick, the same observer's going to not only think that guy's ■■■■ing crazy, but even start to figure the animal was right to bite them!

 

[HammerDano]

What?

That doesn't matter. They didn't want these bandits and the other content revealed. And that also doesn't answer the rest of my questions.

Still there was no clear indication that TFP/BHVR was continuing to seek legal action...despite what the title stated.

And two wrongs don't make a right.
And also you can't use philanthropy against claims of a god complex and narcissism when it's known that narcissists with god complexes like to show how philanthropic they are.

just to give you the info...not to give you grief : Jawoodle's video is called "they THREATENED to sue me"...not "they are suing me" you and some other people seem to have misread that.

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And now the game has magically gone from Very Positive recent reviews on Steam to Mixed.

Hopefully, this triggers Valve’s system and they start excluding these disingenuous negative reviews from the rating.

It would be sickening to know that anyone could be held hostage by a bunch of parasocial sycophants.

to be fair TFP showed these people that it is only the bottom line that seems to motivate them into actually listening.

 

[Baradar]

What I find absolutely mind boggling and fascinating is that he seems to have fans. And I don't mean that in the sense that he is a bad person or anything and doesn't deserve fans (I don't know anything about him), but that Youtubers become so popular that they kind of get devotees and hangers-ons. I don't know anything about this world, obviously I actually read some of the comments below his latest video and people seemed to treat him like some idol and were enraged about how he has been treated. And now they come here to whine and cry. Not over the direction of a computer game, but how a guy who makes videos playing a computer game is being treated. Astounding.

What's worse is fanbois that worship companies.

I have to ask, were you born yesterday? There are cults to personality everywhere. Starting with the orange carcass in the WH along tv evangelists that scam money out of gullible idiots and going back 10's of thousands of years.

Being a fan of a youtuber or twitch streamer is no different, the choice is you don't have to pay them to watch their content (some stuff may be paywalled but their standard content usually isn't). Far less of a cult than the idiots wearing red hats.

 

[Rooster Gold]

I'm not the biggest TFP fan but c'mon. Jawoodle f'ed around and found out.

He was asked to take out the material, chose to bite the hand that feeds him. What did he think was going to happen?

My thoughts exactly

 

[Adam the Waster]

I read a lot of people saying that it's TFP's fault, they screwed up by releasing the wrong version.

If you're so enraged with TFP why don't you guys direct your rage towards the employee, inside The Fun Pimps, who actually screwed up?
He (or she) should be fired.

In the same way, JaWoodle after refusing to edit out of his videos the undisclosed content, must pay in whatever way TFP can enforce their interests, be it ending the collaboration with him or legally enforcing the agreement.

Justice should be done on both sides, right?

Agreed. The person clearly messed up

 

[GoatBoySteve]

I want to add my voice to the others here asking The Fun Pimps to take it easy on JaWoodle. Josh is a prominent member of the community, his work on base building is where many of us get our start.

Pursuing legal action against him is already impacting the way I see the TFP. I know he inadvertently leaked some stuff they weren't ready to leak, but it's not gonna hurt them. I saw that video and it got me excited, but TFP reaction to the leak is kinda ruining that excitement. They're coming off as bullies in this, picking on a small content creator who has spent years fostering love for their game.