Tycho said:
[Child's Play] has been asked what the goal is, and how much they need to raise in order to get the ending produced. We've also been contacted by PayPal due to a high number of people asking for their donations back. This is in addition to readers who simply couldn't understand how this was connected to Child's Play's mission. We were dealing with a lot of very confused people, more every day, and that told us we had a problem.
That alone is fucking disgusting. I cannot believe I'm a part of a community full of whiny, entitled, and egotistical assholes. For years, we've been struggling with the stigma that gamers, as a whole, are hopeless losers who are prone to violence and childish behavior, and here we are
proving them right.
Penny Arcade's Child's Play (and by extension, Desert Bus) has been one of the greatest and most wholesome thing to come out of the gaming community, and has really helped quell the image that we're mindless slaves to "murder simulators", and
just because a single AAA game had a sub-par ending, the gaming community managed to turn this into a fucking circus. Donate because you want to help Child's Play, not because your unwarranted self-importance demands that you somehow
deserve a better ending simply because you may or may not have actually purchased the product.
I'm sick of this attitude. It needs to fucking stop. No other medium of entertainment stoops so low as to make petitions and campaigns over such trivial bullshit.
You don't see people sending death threats to Michael Bay's personal phones in response to Transformers.
You don't see people making massive online petitions to boycott Eoin Colfer's
And Another Thing... or Brian Herbert's
Sisterhood of Dune.
You don't see people withdrawing their donations from a food drive because they wanted a different ending to
The Sopranos.
We're supposed to show the world that we're much more mature than this, and instead we're turning into another self-indulgent internet mob.
[HEADING=1]Go fuck yourselves[/HEADING]