Just Desserts: Personally, I'll say what Notch isn't: He's leaving because the community is bursting at the seams with dickbags
Just Desserts: The way people conducted themselves at large with this whole EULA thing and again the Bukkit thing is downright fucking shameful
Just Desserts: Adults acting like children, children acting like infants
Just Desserts: Musicians, authors and actors receive immeasurable support from their fanbase who will rise up when someone tries to shit on them, game developers have no such protection - we're just expected to take it
Just Desserts: People will make outrageous demands of game developers, go on infantile tirades if just one thing about the game isn't exactly to their liking.
Just Desserts: Threatening to withhold their precious twenty dollars if you dare to do something that does not somehow perfectly align with the vision of millions of gamers simultaneously.
Just Desserts: Yet heaven help you if you try to call someone onto the carpet for doing this - then, suddenly, you're a veritale pariah like Phil Fish, the punchline to a joke, widely derided for having the audacity to call childish behavior exactly that.
Just Desserts: Where were all those good, positive people trying to stem the tide of hate we've suffered for the past two months?
Just Desserts: Where were the people when we were being inundated, being called faggots, telling us to choke on a dick, that we're "worse than EA", calling Markus "fat fuck"
Just Desserts: And for what, because they're angry we don't want to see the game parted out like a Ford Pinto at a fucking chop shop?
Just Desserts: So yeah, everyone's going to be looking for someone to blame, but nobody's going to blame the right person: Themselves