Posted January 24, 2024 by droqen
I've decided to disable new downloads & purchases of Cruel World.
The reason for this is that I believe the stumbled-upon experience of Cruel World is not very good: that is, if someone wanders onto my itch page and discovers Cruel World and makes the decision to purchase it, they are not having the intended experience, and the unintended experience is largely negative for the audience that happens upon it.
Primarily, this is understood through a number of 1-star reviews left on itch.io over the past couple of years, one left as recently as 63 days ago. (Gosh, I wish it was 66 days ago; how perfect would that be?)
Let me be clear that I am not removing the ability to download and purchase Cruel World because I want to avoid getting negative reviews, but because of what the negative reviews tell me: that perhaps people are giving me $6 and having a bad time. There are different sorts of bad times one could have with a game, with my games, with Cruel World, but at present I don't like the idea of this game being experienced so outside of its context.
Thank you for playing Cruel World. and for being part of making its world the terrible place it was always meant to be.
love, droqen.
p.s. As always, pirating is encouraged.