With Threes ($5.99) getting a free version, titled Threes Free (Free) and not Frees, it looks like developer Asher Vollmer and artist Greg Wohlwend are trying to get the word out about it through Facebook marketing. As you may know, 2048 came out after Threes, but because it was free, it probably occupied a bigger spot in the cultural zeitgeist than Threes had. Not to say that Threes didn’t do well, because it did, but 2048 did steal a lot of its thunder, to the point that many people think that Threes copied 2048. When you combine that with the general unpleasantness of Facebook commenters, you get this fine situation, as pointed out by Greg Wohlwend:
When @ThreesGame advertises on Facebook: pic.twitter.com/r3FmodMrXo
— Greg Wohlwend (@aeiowu) June 12, 2015
Yeesh, their parents should have raised them better. Of course, Facebook commenters being awful to game devs is nothing new:
The Temple Run Facebook page is pretty amazing.http://t.co/AZGOBXtshttp://t.co/ZnDlTcDmhttp://t.co/8qER4z8Yhttp://t.co/IrxhgN8f
— Eli Hodapp 🌊⛵️🏴☠️ (@hodapp) April 1, 2012
I wonder how Mr. Horani’s tort claim went. The point here is that humanity is capable of many great and wondrous things, and also of being irredeemable jerkwads. Be excellent to each other. And maybe buy some rad merch. Merch is all we really have.
