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Does he ban everyone though? I haven't checked myself and only heard around 2 or 3 people here say they were banned and one of them, upon repeating his criticism, seemed to be mocking/insulting DPCs writing rather than offer constructive criticism. The leaves 2 people so it's really just between 2 options: 1) People that offer constructive criticism or voice it in a reasonable way are not banned, people that throw out insults and call it criticism are (this is rather common and usually leads to "muh free speech" discussions), or 2) DPC quite literally bans anyone that voices any criticism whatsoever but only around 3 people from this board have joined the discord and done so in the last 2 years because it's an unwritten rule on the discord to never voice criticism and users warn each other about it (sadly also common with indy devs/devteams recently and I think people are aware of YandereDev...).I honestly think you're missing completely the point of this discussion. No one doubts this is his game and he's doing it more than OK and should stick to his vision. We're just stating that he (or his mods but probably following his orders) has decided to shut every possible dissident voice that says he's doing a)something possibly wrong (of course in our humble opinion); b)something that a paying customer of him doesn't like. And there's a line between discarding those suggestions and complains and directly forbidding his players to raise a critical voice against his work in his official channels. Any opinion stated in a respectful way should be allowed and some of them might even help you to improve, as any serious business out there knows, but he has chosen to close himself in an echo chamber where people only can praise him or stay quiet. His choice, but that's not a smart (nor a classy) move at all. In the end, he (his staff) is going to hear insults and idiotic comments anyway before banning those users, but by banning abolutely everyone who dares to differ he's also missing some valuable inputs from interesting and well-intended people.
So I'm not really ready to either completely dismiss or fully believe the claims about his ban-happiness, since we're mostly going by word of mouth at this point and both versions could be true.