Why Hire Loathesome PR?

[II2]

I'm sure most of you remember Paul Christoforo, or at least all his zany late 2011 clusterfuck. I'm sure you remember Randy Pitchford getting a bit too defensive about Duke Nukem Forever reviews and making threatening allusions. Now another such creature has come to my attention...

Fortresscraft, the XBLA indie minecraft competitor has not been gracious [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-17-fortresscraft-creator-rejects-minecraft-clone-claims] when confronted with (inevitably anticipated) border-plagarism comparisons to minecraft. Generally, the creator's comments seem a bit "dost protest too much", if he really believed in his creative vision as something beyond exploiting a popular gimmick on an unreached platform. His attitude has always seemed untactful, but not nearly so much as his PR man "DJ Keemstar"*:


Horrible.

Anyway, 3 instances of poor PR is hardly a TREND, but it is all in the last year or so and kinda makes me wonder: What qualities do these guys demonstrate that make people WANT to work with them in the first place? is it just the bravado and "I got the hookup$"? Does the order of magnitude of these people's rage have some kinda index correlating to how large profile (or not) their products are? Can you get away with more bullshit in a smaller team with less defined standards?

What are your thoughts, Escapist?

Also, why haven't they severed him and cauterized the wound?
http://www.fortresscraft.com/TeamMember

 

[Zhukov]

Yeeeaahhharrg...

I think the top comment on that video sums it up nicely: "The butthurt is strong with this one."

He does have something of a point. Minecraft was based on another game. But his manner kind of eclipses anything he actually had to say.

As for how they get hired... well, I imagine they weren't yelling about "fucking cocksucking motherfuckers" during their job interviews. Also, in some cases they probably knew the people involved, especially with smaller developers.

 

[Plucky]

Think of it this way, there has probably been countless derivatives from the Minecraft formula, heck, even Minecraft is partially based on infiniminer and there are probably even more games accused of ripping from Minecraft such as Roblox....lol...

What was his inspiration? I mean Notch started to work on Minecraft once Infiniminer became an orphaned project and intended to place emphasis towards the building side of things, right?

But after looking at a few Fortresscraft pictures, it's hard to not to call it a near plagiarism...

Not to mention that there's also Total Miner....a game's aesthetic and formula shouldn't be copied so closely, but try to improve upon it with its own quirks, makes you think; wonder how a Minecraft RPG would work out....some sort of hybrid of ClaDun, 3D Dot Heroes, Fallout 3 and possibly a dash of Half-Minute Hero?

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I love that at the end he basically threatens to make a guy suck his dick, and then calls HIM a ******....