Fraud in the Indie World? – FEZ Investors outed as Judges for Title’s Awards

"The Group Indie Fund appears to be responsible for manipulating events at both IndieCade and IGF in order to maximize their profit margins on FEZ to the detriment of all the other Indie developers that entered the events looking to win the awards that FEZ received. Any publication that gave FEZ coverage due to these awards, or any customer who bought FEZ based on these awards (or the coverage of them through the media), seems to have also possibly been duped."

[Majin-vegeta]

This some BS.These clowns are destroying our hobby.They need to be made an example of.

[CBOAT]

How else could a piece of shit like FEz win any kind of award.

[Mega24]

Did shit just hit the fan for Phil and his group of hipsters?

This is serious shit right here, I bet the #gamergate bs was created so this was overlooked.

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If it wasn't for gamergate this would not have found out. Gamers have been doing more research then actual game journalists

[Blacktric]

Everything regarding this has been explained in the video below;

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

This is how f**king corrupt these people are. He basically shat all over his audience, called them entitled, misogynistic, racist... He went on to shitting on an aspiring Japanese developer during a conference (just because he asked a question), by saying Japanese games are terrible and they need "to learn more from American ones". And this happened during a conference where tons of people were watching all this. Then there's the "suck my d**k, choke on it!" thing on Twitter...

And all for f**king what? So he could cover his and his merry band of hipsters' corrupt asses.

[Mega24]

@Blacktric

Thx for the link. If all of this information is true, this people most be held accountable for their actions, some major corruption going on.

[Gh05t]

How in the world can these people not recuse themselves as judges. If any judge will directly benefit from PRIZE money won at these events they should have recused themselves. This needs to be publicly done not behind the scenes, to keep the integrity of the concept.

This is beyond reprehensible!

Fez won this award and all its benefits (Which may have changed over the years but probably close to this).

Seumas McNally Grand Prize Winner receives:

Cash prize ($30,000)
Award Plaque
Three All-Access Passes to the 2014 Game Developers Conference
Mention in Game Developer magazine
Mention on Gamasutra.com
Press release coverage
A one-year limited use license to use a version of the official Independent Games Festival name and IGF Winner logo in promotional materials relating to their game entry.

[CerealKiller]

That is messed up these guys need to be held accountable.

[detobu]

If you have clout like this, you aren't really "indie" anymore. They are acting just as badly as the AAA developers.

[XtraTrstrL]

After all Phil Fish's BS attacks on us. Always making us out to be the sub-human pieces of trash. Then his Captain-Save-A-Ho move to defend Zoe Quinn. I felt bad for him when watching Indie: The Movie, even though he looked like an angry jerk there and even at the time - I felt his partner that split from him back then probably had good reason. Now, it's just ridiculous how much of a hypocritical, disgusting idiot he's shown himself to be. Clear all these dirtbags out of the gaming scene in general.

[Dirtnapstor]

FEZ is a pretty cool game, simplistic yet refined in its own way.
I wonder if this is the real reason Fish did and acted the way he did...?
Idk, haven't followed too much of the controversy other than to know the system was scammed.

[iNFAMOUZ1]

wtf the article changed, wrong comment

[Pathosverdes3]

Here comes FezGate.

[j0ncap125]

If this all turns out to be true, we should petition to have Fez removed from Xbox Live, as well as Steam and any other digital distribution platforms currently available.

[Debaitable]

I personally want the game to be eradicate for from my account.

[Spotie]

This is getting outta control. But it goes to show you why we as consumers need to be diligent. No matter what, we should NOT be turning a blind eye to less than ethical actions in the industry. Yes, this extends to console manufacturers, as well. If anyone needs a reason as to why we DON'T need to forgive and forget, it's stuff like this.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

If this is true. Wow.