Bear Simulator Developer Quits After Receiving Bad Feedback

<p><em>Bear Simulator<&sol;em> was initially funded via Kickstarter on April 18th&comma; 2014 and had raised over &dollar;100&comma;000 USD&period; Essentially&comma; it was yet another strange game labeled as a simulator title&period; Steam version released on the 27th of February&comma; 2016 for PC&comma; Mac and Linux&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The description has some joking elements within it such as <em>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s a game where you play as a bear and explore stuff&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> or <em>&&num;8220&semi;Discover secrets but keep them secret ya hear&quest;&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> So clearly the developer&comma; Farjay Studios&comma; didn&&num;8217&semi;t take the game that seriously&comma; why are you disappointed by the community backlash&quest; Surely most of these people who helped fund the project via Kickstarter knew exactly what they were buying into&comma; why change it or give into this negativity&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>PewDiePie played <em>Bear Simulator&&num;8230&semi; <&sol;em>let&&num;8217&semi;s just say he didn&&num;8217&semi;t like it &lpar;but likes <em>Goat Simulator<&sol;em> and <em>Who&&num;8217&semi;s Your Daddy&quest;&comma; <&sol;em>two similarly wacky titles&rpar;&period; You can find what PewDiePie had to say about the game in <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;hbVUF5b307s">his video description<&sol;a> shortly after the video went public&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The developer has posted several updates over on Kickstarter in regards to fixing some of the games problems and future game updates&period; Yet decides after all the drama they will quit developing the game&period; Here&&num;8217&semi;s the most recent Kickstarter update&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;Well the game didn&&num;8217&semi;t have a great reception&comma; has a stigma against it&&num;8217&semi;s name and there&&num;8217&semi;s plenty of other problems so making any updates or going further is basically a lost cause now&period; Plus not skilled enough to make the game better than it currently is or write better updates than previously&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Was really hoping the Steam release would go well but why would it&comma; should have just gave the game to backers and not bother with Steam&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Also don&&num;8217&semi;t want to deal with the drama anymore&period; Can&&num;8217&semi;t ignore it because that causes more drama and can&&num;8217&semi;t do anything about it because that causes more drama&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>It was really fun making the game&comma; trailers&comma; updates&comma; websites&comma; tutorials&comma; blog posts and stuff&comma; hopefully you all liked those things&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Am glad most of you guys are happy with the game though&comma; unless you were just being nice &gt&semi;&period;&gt&semi; Really must thank you for the in-depth emails and comments&comma; learned lots&period; Hopefully the game lived up to your expectations and had enough content to explore&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Will make another game update with Kickstarter Island included and some other fixes&comma; leave a comment below of what you really want fixed&period; Will work on fixes and features until you&&num;8217&semi;re all happy and content then stop&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Must be doing this PC game dev thing wrong because it is way too hard to stay happy and productive&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Do you think the developer is giving up too easily on <em>Bear Simulator<&sol;em> or does it come down to not wanting to be in the spotlight&quest; Let us know what you think in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kickstarter&period;com&sol;projects&sol;1330754003&sol;bear-simulator&sol;posts&sol;1510978" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Kickstarter Update<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;hbVUF5b307s" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">PewDiePie&&num;8217&semi;s YouTube Video<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;