You should watch this:
It might not change your opinion, but it is still a decent point.
Personally i don't care if Phil came back or not, i still think he is kind of an asshole, especially with what happened
this morning, but polytron working more as an indie partner is something i welcome.
I'm not sure if I agree with the premise of this video - essentially the idea that's being conveyed is that we should close an eye on Phil Fish being a hot-head and at times an asshole because a) he's always been hot-headed and an asshole and b) because people are mad at the concept of a circle-jerking
"indie" developer, or rather, a pretentious
"auteur", not at Phil Fish the individual. Well, I've got news for everybody - neither of those factors makes Phil Fish any less of a circle-jerking
"indie" hot-headed asshole
person.
As a developer who puts out a product on the market, you become married to it and have to get used to the fact that your
"audience" comprises of both people who admire you as an individual and those who hate your guts. Conversations between a developer and his/her audience are not at all like conversations between two boys on a school yard, Phil Fish the developer and Phil Fish the person are two different personas, if he's unable to be professional via official channels, perhaps he should not participate in them.
If I tweeted at any randomly picked famous person, say, Johnny Depp and told him that
"The Lone Ranger and Transcendence are sh*t movies and he sucks donkey balls as an actor because he's a one-trick pony and is permanently married to the Jack Sparrow role", chances are that I would be
ignored or the reply would either be neutral or an attempt at making the conversation a big joke because replying aggressively would simply give bad rep to Johnny Depp the actor - Johnny Depp the individual's feelings are a completely different matter. Unless Johnny Depp would specifically want to cause some buzz around himself, I would not hear anything along the lines of
"No, you suck" as a reply because that's unprofessional.
To reiterate, if Fish can't handle the heat, he shouldn't expose himself to it. Defending rude responses with the
"well, they were rude first!" is silly in a professional setting - in his position, he has to be better than his peers and that's that. I won't dwelve into his other flaws, but I will say that he has to learn when's the time to bite himself in the tongue and just let it go or at least steer the conversation to a different subject before he makes another blunder. Blunders are not charming, they're annoying. They're giving him press, but it's bad press.
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