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ok, I think the thing here is that basically we have done our level best over the last year and a half to provide something that we think is a good deal for the end user. We've done that at considerable risk to ourselves, gone out on a limb, had no income during the process, and at the end of it delivered something that in terms of Llamasoft releases is simultaneously the most effortful (having taken over a year of two people's fulltime work) and the *cheapest* (costing less than anything we've sold since 1982). On top of all that we've had the controversy, with clueless fuckers kicking us in the nuts before we've even launched and people swearing *blind* that we're just being wilfully obscure and that what we consider to be valid experimentation is in fact self indulgent wankery. I know that's not true, but if i try and defend myself I get castigated for "not being able to take criticism" or whatever. I know loads of people actually like what we've done but there are others who just try to say that's not valid and all those people are for some reason just wanting to tell us what we want to hear as opposed to what is true. And then there are people trying to exploit the damn thing, people complaining because something doesn't work how they want it to, people complaining because they are the customer and always right and demand a certain response for their £3.50, and good goat I can't take it any more. I really can't. I need to absolutely disconnect from Space Giraffe. I love it to bits and I will enjoy playing it but I can't bear being emotionally invested in it any more. Now I want to try and look forward to the next thing and to be brutally honest I am not even sure at this point I want the next thing to even be another game. Maybe I should just focus on the lightsynths, there doesn't seem to be the same level of vitriol involved in those. I'm tired, tired of the goddamn Rev, tired of those who call me somehow evil for giving a shit, tired of the act of giving a shit itself, tired of waking up and feeling anxious and upset, tired of everything at this point. I'll still be around, but I won't be talking about SG, about the design of SG, or the critical response to SG, or anything else related to it. Whatever happens now you've had your £3.50s worth. I'm sorry. For my health's sake I need to look elsewhere now.
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