Thread by @jeysiec, I've reached the absolute last straw of being tired of how amazingly [...]

I& #39;ve reached the absolute last straw of being tired of how amazingly self-centered, abusive, toxic, and wrongfully entitled too many board game fans are.

I& #39;ve been sour about it for a while now, but I dealt with abusive nonsense the other day that& #39;s just... I& #39;m done. I& #39;m fed up.

I& #39;ve spent a few years now watching GTG and some other related companies regularly get abusive crap hurled at them by board game fans over things they genuinely didn& #39;t do wrong or had no control over, and then I& #39;d get abused when I pointed that out. I was already tired of that.

Then Underbite spends its time jerking around its PS4 customers with months of empty promises about the port that never materialize with no communication offered. Then suddenly they cancel it without warning out of the blue.

Cancelled because of catastrophe, personal emergency, something out of their control? No. Their lead dev got sniped by an AAA company and didn& #39;t give their 2 weeks. Months of jerking around their customers and that& #39;s the way their employees think is appropriate to finish it off.

So, this time around, I good faith stood up for the PS4 fans because this time around the company and its employees actually could have averted the issue and at every turn made no effort to not do so. I& #39;m a Steam user, I didn& #39;t have to care, but I wanted to say something.

I wanted to be fair, after all the abusive crap I got for defending GTG, I wanted to make it clear, it was always about being fair in how I express criticism.

And what happened? You guessed it, gamers found a reason to be abusive again.

In GTG& #39;s case, they have a bunch of nice, well-meaning people to abuse, so gamers do that. In this case, the company itself has been mostly uncommunicative in general, so they decided to be abusive to the cheated fans (and people who feel bad for them) instead.

What disappoints me is there was one person in the GTG fandom who, I thought they were a decent guy, and I& #39;ve never given them any reason to dislike me, but they still thought it was OK to abuse me to defend Underbite and its employees when they should know damn better.

And this is a 2-pronged issue, so here& #39;s the rest. I was upset the impression was the employee got sniped by an AAA company w/o giving their 2 week as it left customers high and dry when the dev and their team had already failed to deliver the product for months as it is.

My take is if you& #39;re leaving a job voluntarily just to "upgrade" (vs due to suffering personal harm from the job or an emergency) then the moral thing to do is make sure your coworkers and clients aren& #39;t going to be left in the lurch before you leave.

And *that* got me attacked.

Everyone was like "I should get to bail whenever I want and it& #39;s not my responsibility what happens it& #39;s the company& #39;s" including the GTG fan who should know better saying they& #39;d bail during a busy shift if they got a good enough offer.

And acted like that& #39;s a reasonable stance.

And then they started calling *me* "unreasonable"/"entitled"/"selfish" for disagreeing and it& #39;s like, excuse me? You& #39;re sitting here saying you should be able to do whatever you want and not care how your actions affect others, but you think *everyone else* is selfish? Really?

Let me set this straight. Sure, technically a company should be taking care of it, but we all know it won& #39;t. So this is you knowing full well you& #39;re going to screw over your coworkers & clients and trying to wiggle out of the inconvenience of caring about anyone but yourself.

And sure this started out with a video game, but there are far worse consequences of bailing for better things without giving your "two weeks". Especially things like medical patients being left without care and medications they need being the most important one I& #39;ve experienced.

I& #39;ve also been the coworker who got left holding the bag of doing double my workload by someone who no-showed, and hey guess what? I don& #39;t get the same privilege you do of leaving, and neither do the other people who now have to clean up after the mess you dumped in our laps.

If you have an issue with companies treating employees like crap, great, I do too. You know what the cure is? Unions. Social movements. Pushing for policy. Not screwing over coworkers and clients and then trying to victim-blame us as being "selfish" for calling you on it.

Sorry for this lengthy rant, but damn am I tired of so many board gamers spouting so many abusive, self-centered views at everyone within earshot and then victim-blaming the recipients for being angry. How about cleaning up your act to start behaving with basic human decency?

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