Yay!

All right, so let's come on in this journey.

So we released our game, right?

Yes.

We got some pretty good reviews.

Not all sites give reviews for Early Access games because they wait until the actual release, until we actually

review it some sites do like here's my early access review and blah blah blah so so it's still pretty cool to see like so many different outlets um talking about the game and stuff like that um

yeah

it

was it was weird to see the the large outlets and a game on there

again it's

just one of those wacky things where it's like you make a game and then

Kotaku and Rock Paper Shotgun and shit are, they're like writing articles about it.

And for me as well, it was like my first release and then like, you know, seeing Satisfactory next to GTA is

like, what?

Yeah, that is weird.

Next to just chatting.

So this was the most insane part, I think, because on Twitch, we actually had more viewers at one point than Dota.

And that was like, holy shit.

Yeah.

And, of course, it's, like, just for a moment, but we'll take it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We'll take it.

We'll take that.

We'll take it.

100%.

Yeah.

And, yeah, we got, like, a ton of people watching us on Twitch.

Our Discord blew up.

Our Discord blew up before, but, like, around release, it got really big.

We're, like...

upper 90,000.

I don't know if we've hit 100,000 on Discord.

Yeah, 90-something.

And at the time, Discord... What the fuck

was

that?

Spicy hiccups.

Spicy hiccups?

So at the time, Discord released their server discovery thing.

And what they did then was it was just like...

the most like used i'm not sure like exactly how it worked but there's something about like how the most used servers like the most active servers or something like that and our server just do up there we were like top six for a while that was crazy um like it's so weird

which is really weird like here we're closing up to overwatch in terms of people active and stuff like that and we're above minecraft the minecraft official minecraft discord stuff like that so that was that was pretty zany um thanks everyone who's on the discord thank you everyone yeah i just want to see it it is so it is so mind-blowing honestly yeah yeah um and

so

So at the time, right, a few months into release, everyone was like,

oh,

Epic Store, no one's going to buy the game there.

Yeah, because the Epic Store thing

happened.

Yeah, Epic Store, right?

So we kind of went for that.

So Jay said...

We have sold well, we have sold 10 whole copies at the time of this tweet.

So we went from 10 copies, we went down to 9, but then we went up to 15, but then some of them refunded, so we're back down to 9 again.

Then

we

went to eight.

Yeah, it was turbulent times.

Turbulent times.

So turbulent times.

Merry Christmas.

Whoa.

High five, buddy.

We just got stream sniped by Darude.

We just got swatted.

Too bad.

Oh, I should have switched.

Whatever.

Yeah, so it was turbulent times.

Yeah, turbulent times.

It was rough.

And the media picked up on this.

They picked up on it.

All right.

Before that, we got back to 10.

Right.

So this tweet was caught by a bunch of weird news sites.

One of which was like, satisfactory game only sold nine copies on Epic Games Store leading to dev Twitter tantrum.

Twitter tantrum.

Yeah, this is an amazing one.

Just a quick note.

Please don't like Google this website because you don't want to give them traffic because this is actually a dog shit website.

But this is hilarious.

All right.

So.

This website was like, it was not a bot because this was written.

I'm pretty sure because it was not written like the bot websites.

Wait, I just want to say one thing, right?

I've had some

people at that time comment or DM me saying, wait, I can't believe you only sold 10 copies.

I was really excited about the game.

I wanted you to be successful at it.

And they sort of believed that.

And I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, we're doing fine.

It was just a joke, right?

But you've got to understand that I guess some people don't catch it, or maybe it's like a language barrier thing that would pick up on that.

However, an English website,

journalist, wrote the following.

Anyone with any common business sense will tell you to sell your product through the largest distribution pipeline.

So they're basically trashing Epic here.

And they're going on like, oh, there's the 10, 12% cut over here, blah, blah, blah.

And it's like, while Epic is heavily promoting their store as being developer friendly, they've also been heavily promoting their store anti-consumer as well, blah, blah, blah.

And then it's like, we have Coffee Stain Studios, Satisfactory, was only in the St. Jill digits after refunds.

They believed all of

it.

And then they quote

the tweet.

Can you imagine if we were announcing that we had nine and I put the gif of this woman and they're like, look at this official statement.

So they went on saying like, however, people begin mocking the developer for not releasing on Steam, where they probably would have had more than nine sales.

Okay, fair enough.

This rings especially true since according to Steam Spy, most of Coffee Stain games sell upwards at least one million copies on Steam.

That's a huge drop-off from going to one to two million copies down to just nine.

Turbulent times.

Yeah.

So we kept tweeting, right?

Or rather, you kept tweeting.

You kept responding.

And it's like, yeah, nine is not satisfactory.

So the whole article is based essentially on those tweets, right?

So it's like, if we put it on Steam, maybe we'll send tail copies or something like that.

Well, that was odd.

Anyway.

Oh, yeah, so that was someone... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So in the article, they kept going around, like, Coffee Stain Studio developed quickly and acknowledged that vitriolic remark was made from the wrong account, which is based on the joke that you, like... That's

the, yeah, because, okay, so if you didn't know, on Twitter, there's my personal account and the Satisfactory account, right?

And they hate each other, and so they comment to each other, and they say mean things to each

other.

Right.

So on that tweet on the left, what you can see is a tweet from Satisfactory saying, How about

you

shut the fuck up, Jason?

Which has like over 700 likes.

Yeah.

It's bizarre.

And also kind of like a meta joke here as well is that this was at the time when you were on vacation.

So I was doing, this was right about the time.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

So we were like, I was, you were handing off the Twitter account to me.

So I was going to start doing tweets from it.

But then our meta joke was like, now no one will know if you're trash talking yourself or if it's me.

Yeah.

So I replied with this when you said that.

I said, whoops, sent from wrong account.

Because we already tweeted that I was going to do it.

So that was the joke there.

But the website picked up on that and they were like, turns out that Snutt and Jace actually run the Satisfactory account and we're alternating.

By the way...

Jace then comes out to admit that he's got bipolar disorder.

Like, from fucking nowhere.

Just out of nowhere.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then it goes on like, Jace also has pronouns in his Twitter biography.

So that helps explain why he has an SW, uh, STW slant to the way he...

I didn't comment

on my Kristen

Stewart gifs.

Yeah.

Shame.

None of that matters, though.

truly truly an amazing amazing article what was it what was it like for like

for you for example because you weren't even on twitter or anything like that no were you even aware of any of this stuff happening

yeah yeah like i would browse twitter just to read stuff

yeah

and

at the time i was like oh boy i'm happy i'm not on twitter now i've returned to twitter i don't know why

Do you know if this stuff even affected you as you worked or anyone else?

I

got

more affected by

seeing how many people were playing.

That for me was not anxiety, but it made me aware of like, oh shit,

a lot of people

are seeing what I'm doing.

There's a lot at

stake.

Cool?

Yeah.

But yeah, in the end, this whole thing resolved with the update of the article saying, a Twitter user asked the Satisfactory account if the numbers were real.

And in a separate tweet, the account said, it was just kidding.

Got him.