Mastodawn

Is there a good summary thread? I wonder how exactly this user lost their job as a result of this.

Edit: found this.

reddit.com/…/in_an_effort_to_cut_down_on_the_what…

This part was particularly interesting…

Shortly after that the original Challenger post a video with his face and his voice clarifying all the rules talking about his love for the community, and the game, how he plans on donating the money regardless if they complete the mission or even attempt it…The only stipulation is they get to choose to charity if they win.

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TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus Mar 7

I can give some; A player started a charity event (proposed to) involving the dev team playing the game at its highest possible difficulty, difficulty 10, in a game where the highest achievement is obtained at difficulty 7, after which there are no achivements, so to play dif 10 you gotta love the game and be insanely good at it. Said challenge happens on the hardest scenario of the game, a difficult planet with a weird name that i forgot.

Cool, I guess.

Another player added to the challenge that he would pay the dev 1000 dollars, but not for charity, no no, but to prove that dif10 is fucking impossible. Which triggered a ’ discussion ’ that brought some ‘git gud’ players to be overzealous. They doxed the first guy, sent death threats and other things to.

in short, he got his life ruined because he attempted a fun charity event.

I don’t engage with these communities…but it ended up in an article so i happen to know about it.

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Almacca Mar 7

Just say to the ‘get gud’ mob to post a video of them doing it or gtfo. If they can’t do it, they pay $1000 to charity.

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yermaw

Nice idea, decent rebuttal, unfortunately superdoxxed and SWAT have been deployed to your house. That’ll learn ya for trying to have fun on the internet.