To any #developers excited by the upcoming #SBox games platform by #Facepunch
What I have seen and interacted with the past few days, community conduct wise, is extremely concerning to me as a #gamedev professional.
There seems to be no community management, and it's like they said "lets give the community of DarkRP a game engine toolkit"
Bullying is enabled from the top, and a few times I saw it from FP staff.
I have no clue how they will attract (or train) professionals. #Toxic #Source2
Group-think runs wild, zero moderation on the forums. Write well thought out feedback? You get a bunch of unrelated replies from people who didn't read your post trying to troll you. Staff member users on the forum are not clearly marked, so you have to guess. No obvious community rules posted.
It's exactly what you wouldn't expect from the same development communities #Facepunch is trying to compete with.
#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic should avoid like the plague.
#Source2 #indiedev #gamedev
AND I was told many conflicting information from staff about the #Sbox toolkit being ported to #Linux
There is more evidence that it will remain Windows only forever. Staff seem to have a huge toxic bias against linux users (myself included) for some reason.
Overall it just seems like there's no cohesive management #Facepunch is doing, which is required if they want a healthy platform.
This is not *just* another Garry's Mod, and they're treating it like it is from a community aspect #gamedev
#Linux or no, it will not be worth the #MentalHealth cost to navigate a #toxic community to invest my skills.
I can only hope that #Valve is paying close attention and can correct the arrogance that's happening inside #Facepunch - from what I've seen and heard from others there's a lot of it.
I've been waiting for years, and I'm just extremely disappointed - including because Garry used to be someone I idolized. 😔
Bamboy