He should have just let it lie and asked for the abandoned tag, he wasn't exactly a great shining beacon of civility or common sense either on those threads... So while I agree that the community wasn't good to him, it was still only a subsection of it, and now he's punishing everyone equally, when he already took down the things that generated the majority of the problems anyway.
That's my problem with it... I don't think it's entitled to say it's wrong when you give someone a handmade gift that you know they'll enjoy which you worked hard on, but then their asshole friend makes a bunch of shitty comments about it after they leave the room, you take it back from them, and not only that but you take back everything you ever made for them, and you break it all right in front of both of their faces and say fine then assholes, happy now?
And I never suggested that I was more mature (though I hope I wouldn't act in the same way) I just thought he was, because he started out with a thick skin, which I respected, then took this step, and it's just unlike him.
Why is it okay to rip Mason a new asshole for doing similar, but not Danny?
He didn't have to keep responding for as long as he did as it was... So he helped his own stress along by not quitting sooner. People could have been nicer of course, but what did he expect after all the bad management and infighting?
No, he doesn't oh us anything, but a basic level of respect for those that didn't cause him any major problems (the majority of the community) would be appreciated, and by taking all games off the archive, for everyone, he's giving us all a big fuck you from my point of view.
Again, multiplayer servers are down, multiplayer games were the ones that generated most of the hate. So where is the problem here, why try to rewrite history?
You can separate your self from a toxic situation with grace, or you can do it like Danny did, messily and with all sorts of bitterness, but that second option just hurts you as well.
Yeah like I said, I'm not sure on the specifics of the copyright thing, but while claiming something does give you some rites, what I was getting at is that a court isn't really going to give a shit about it if your just some random dude with an online not company unless the other guy is some kind of Goliath and you can get enough press attention.
And yes, I did kinda trash his games, because most of them weren't that great in some way or another, not all of them, but the best ones were short lived anyway sadly.
Their was allot of potential wasted so sure, I'm kinda bitter especially after this crap, because Danny's thick skin and cool ideas were the biggest things I respected about him as a dev, but I also didn't keep posting for a year after the damn things were already dead like some others, who Danny should have known better than to listen too anyway.