Making games ain't easy...

Microsoft announced earlier last week that they would allow indie developers on Xbox One to self publish. In response to this news, a couple of gaming outlets reached out to Phil Fish, a canadian indie developer, asking for his opinion. Fish refused. Later, in an "Invisible Walls" podcast from Gametrailers.com, Tim Beer went at Fish with pretty harsh words. He called him a "fucking hipster" and a "tosspot" for not giving his opinion on the matter. You can see the juicy bits right at the beginning of the show.

I am not taking sides, mind you. Personally, I don't like either one of these characters, for stuff they've said in the past. But what shook me was how Fish reacted. Shortly before locking his twitter account, he tweeted the following :

"im done.FEZ II is canceled.goodbye."

"to be clear, im not cancelling FEZ II because some boorish fuck said something stupid, im doing it to get out of games"

"and im getting out of games because i choose not to put up with this abuse anymore." 

It seems he had quite the meltdown. Not only did he cancel "Fez 2", he also left the gaming industry. That's quite surprising considering, he worked in this industry for quite some time. I mean, he put four years of his life into his first game, "Fez". Four years in which his father died, his girlfriend left him and his former partner gave him legal trouble. Even before Fez he worked at Ubisoft. If you ask me that's a lot to give up on because of haters.Of course he got a lot of hate because of some things he said, and because he was kind of an asshole in some situations, but still. Imagine what all of this can do to a person.