Ooblets For PC

Ooblets is a game about farming and collecting creatures.

Epopee addresses Ooblets outrage with declaration on “misinformation and abuse”

Development

Ooblets developers ‘Rebecca Cordingley’ and ‘Ben Wasser’ notified last week that their long-awaited field life sim Ooblets will be an Epic Games department store monopolized at launch. The message, written by Wasser, was unencumbered and unapologetic: He said that threatening to buccaneer games because they don’t appear on a specific storefront is the epitome of “immature, toxic gamers,” and that time getting mad is “cathartic,” people should reminisce that “this is all low-stakes video game commodity we’re dealing with here” and it’s “nothing to get worked up  toward.”

Unsurprisingly, some got very worked up in reaction. In an update mailed to Cordingley’s Patreon (via USgamer), the developers said that they seriously judge incorrectly just how angry the answer to their message would be.

We’ve been receiving thousands if not tens of thousands of awful, threatening messages among every possible platform all the time, they wrote. It’s especially harmful since we’ve had such a positive, supportive communication with our attendance throughout development.

I couldn’t have conjectured the scale of what it would feel like to be the target of an internet hate mob. I already had a lot of empathy for other targets of previous hate crowds, which is why we wanted to direct that kind of thinking in our announcement, but I had no idea it was this terrible.

Wasser said that: on August 3, for example, that someone has faked a screenshot of him saying that “gamers would be better off in gas chambers.” The day then, a video pretending to show him posting the message, and then removing it, began to make the rounds not hard to fake, either.

Cordingley also addressed an “out of text” quote about Ooblets Patreon that was existence presented as a dismissal of backer concerns, saying that it was part of a reception to claims they were “scamming” Patreon sponsors by the timing of the announcement, which was actuality inaccurately reported.

“We actually truly love and appreciate the wide majority of our patreon backers and until now they’ve been super understanding,” wrote Cordingley. “The larger part of anger we’ve seen around patreon money is from people outdoors of our backer community.”

The Ooblets Patreon update also portends that the bulk of the vitriol aimed at the developers achieves from outside that community, which presently has just over 1,100 patrons.

Features

• Start life in a little run-down farm that you’ll cultivate, modify, and custom-make
• Customize your character’s dressing, hair style, and general appearance
• Have dance battles with wild ooblets and individual ooblet trainers
• Explore a diversity of locations across Oob, all with their own biomes, herbages, characters, and unique ooblets
• Increase new friends by planting ooblet seeds that will blossom into baby ooblets
• Join an Ooblet Club that matches your individuality
• Upgrade your house with new furnishing and decoration
• Level up your ooblets and unlock new dance levels
• Roll up seeds, items, furniture, machinery, badges, and friends along the way

What it means for Ooblets:

• Ooblets will be launching on PC via EGS. We won’t be selling the game on other PC shops for a quite long while.
• We’ll still be launching on Xbox One. The Epic property is just limited to PC.
• We got some cash money upfront from the trade so we can build the game we always wanted to with fewer agreements

More information about Ooblets

Release: 2020
Developer: Glumberland
Genre: Life simulation game
Platforms: Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Designers: Rebecca Cordingley, Ben Wasser
Publishers: Glumberland, Double Fine