A RimWorld modder with 40+ mods has removed them all from the Steam Workshop and forums over Tynan's refusal to let her advertise her Girl Coding charity in-game.
Remember the RPS hitpiece against RimWorld when it hit 1.0? Seems someone listened and believed, and decided to remove all her mods from the Steam Workshop, but not before pushing one final update that replaced all the custom artwork with the logo of her gynocentric coding organization.
Some choice quotes from the meltdown thread, from the author's post titled "How I learned to love Male Justice Warriors and the Ludeon Way":
Today I made a decision to update all 41 of my mods for the final time this time with a commentary of replacing all the graphics with logo of a feminist charity. This decision was made after a convo with Tynan and dealing with the RimWorld community at large on the mods I've made.
The conversation left a horrific taste in my mouth of seeing their consistent deflection from blaiming steam support and twitch initially and then proceeded to claim that the external messaging is me taking advantage of RimWorld for my own goals. Following up with yet another it's steam's fault!1!1!!!!"
I spent the week considering what if anything I would do other than be done with RimWorld, and I decided that this statement, removing my recommendation from steam and the final destructive update.
The post also references the RPS article and SJW screeching about a lack of gay representation (it's scientifically accurate, and therefore somewhat rare), and 'encourag[ing] patriarchy.
OP then proceeded to attack people who were unhappy about the destructive update as 'white, male, and cis' before deleting her Reddit account.
It seems pretty obvious to me that following Steam's rules about advertising would be important to a developer trying to keep his game on the storefront, but apparently that compliance doesn't extend to mod developers of a certain ideological bent.
A lot of people's savegames are now near-permanently broken, or permanently broken, thanks to the 'final, destructive update'.
What a shit-show.
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Posted Nov 10, 2018, 3:38 AM UTC · edited
Well, yeah, it pretty blatantly is. I wonder what mental gymnastics she's performed to think it's not.
If you she wants complete creative control she should make her own damn game instead of doing the usual SJW move of trying to assert control over other people's work.
An important bit the OP doesn't mention: the "external messaging" bit refers to her intent to use the game's Twitch integration to spam the charity in streamers' Twitch chats, hence the "blaiming steam support and twitch initially" bit.
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LMAO