Fez developer's site hit by DDoS attack
As a result, the company's founder says he wants "out" and offers to sell the company and Fez IP.
As if things weren't already heated enough for Polyton founder and Fez designer Phil Fish, a hack attack on both the publisher's official site and Twitter account may have just pushed him over the edge.
Both the Twitter account and the site came under attack Friday, with Fish saying that they've been "doxed," with various pieces of personal information, like passwords and banking information, being publicly revealed. Since then, the main site has gone into maintenance mode, and the Twitter account has been suspended.
It's been a rough weekend with hacks all around, with Sony's PlayStation Network, Microsoft's Xbox Live and even Depression Quest developer Zoe Quinn under DDoS style attacks.
But this one may have pushed Fish over the edge. He announced on his Twitter account, before shutting it down, that he was done. "I would like to announce that Polytron and the Fez IP are now for sale," he tweeted. "No reasonable offer will be turned down. I am done. I want out."
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Robert Workman posted a new article, Fez developer's site hit by DDoS attack.
As a result, the company's founder says he wants "out" and offers to sell the company and Fez IP.-
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First time was him leaving making his own games forever but still publishing other video games. This time it leaving the industry all together. He now wants nothing to do with video games at all.
Not to mention the fact that he is selling the IP to the one game that he created himself so the crybabies that have been harassing him and bitching at him can finally get what they want: a sequel to a game.
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Yeah, except no one 'hacked' him except for himself. It's a ploy for attention. There was too much data exposed in such a short amount of time that there was no way anyone 'hacking' could've done it. He dumped all of his info out there in a ploy to get people to buy his shitty company, and blamed it on the gamer audience that he hates so much.
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But no one believes him. He loves dramatic exits with a big ole Andy Kauffman Twitter pic. So no one ever knows what his deal is or how far he'll take his drama. So people doubt it's validity. They think he wants to martyr himself for all this Zoe bullshit. I highly doubt he'd take it this far, but I also think he's a one hit wonder who dreads having to release another game.
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I still wonder how the RIAA/MPAA arrived at real people to prosecute 10+ years ago. What happened to that method of locating offending folks and bringing them out of the shadows to face justice?
Doxing and DDoSing and SWATing and whatever else people think is hilarious needs to be squashed - and in that whole "make an example" style. Grandma faced the wrath of the MPAA and RIAA for downloading a christmas song or whatever... yet we hear nothing about folks that perpetuate this new extremely harmful stuff.
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I chalked that up to typical "dumbing down" for the audience.
It's obvious they are writing to bring in a more mainstream audience. Their headlines are so incongruous to the content if the article a lot of times. It's super interesting to me to see how the site is morphing to capture it. I hope one day they share some data on how well it has worked. Must be tough with us pedantic a-holes calling them on it too :)
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