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There's a reason I've never played Fez. It looks like a neat game (not REALLY my type of game, but I know it'd be fun). The creator is a douchebag. I refuse to pay for it and support him. I might play it if I won it or someone gave me a copy, but I will never personally pay a single dollar to him or anyone who supports him.

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If it comes to a point where all I can think about when engaging with the product is what the person did.

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I don't really care about developers' behaviour, since I'm playing games, not devs :d

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What I do depends a lot on how bad I perceive their actions to be. If someone is just a bit of a douche I'll downprioritize whatever they've made. Might buy it if it's really cheap, or after I've exhausted the other alternatives, but I won't strictly boycott them. Someone doing something really bad, be it sexually assault someone, using their wealth to support really bad causes and so on, I'll boycott them.
Orson Scott Card is for an example an author who i refuse to support. He has used the money he got from his books to actively work against gay rights in USA, so any money he gets from me if I buy his books will in the end support a cause I'm really opposed to.

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Brutal DooM creator is a complete scumbag. So i dont play Brutal DooM. Simple.

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Nah, whatever really. I don't usually care about their personal life. The exception might be book writers who sometimes write about themselves in their work.

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This is another one of those things that need to be addressed on a case-by-case basis, I think.

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I gave up on Jim Sterling after discovering that he doesn't really hold up standards equally...

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I don't follow the guy, is it about him being outraged by DoA?

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Hey how about provocation? I mean when person didn't make anything wrong but false news appears about this person.

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What kind of person someone is and what they create are two separate things. If I would care to not listen/watch/play stuff from people of not-so-nice nature, I'd have to throw out like two-thirds of my stuff.

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I tend to separate the artists from their work. People exist on a spectrum, not everyone are is inherently good or bad so in most of those cases I can write them off as idiots and focus on their work, as long as they don't use it as a platform to propagate such ideas. I do get a bit sad whenever I learn that some musician or an actor I like is a Scientologist or anti-vaxxer (in this day and age, ignorance is a choice).

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I'd stop buying because that supports, but I'd also not play anything they make.

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I personally dont care at all, I like my music no matter who sings/plays it
I play my game no matter who made it
I watch Onision even if I dont really like him XDDD
So, nah doesnt really matter who's who or what for me :d

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Would you continue enjoying games/music/videos/etc. after learning their creator is a bad person?

just the thread title,
no.

already stopped enjoying some music groups/artists/actors after reading what they have done in real life. it's not about morals, it just about me constantly thinking about their deeds. i can't enjoy their work anymore.

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It's a tough one. I was really enjoying a comic called 'Rat Queens' but the artist got dumped over domestic abuse. Which was fairly understandable and the backlash was especially predictable given the 'girl power' context. But the new artist really isn't anywhere near as good and has completely ruined the comic for me. Sometimes (maybe even often) talented creative people aren't perfect, where is it appropriate to draw the line between morals and enjoyment? Many talented folks throughout history have been complete dicks. I'd probably vote for the 'I'd think it was OK to enjoy their stuff with reservations once they were dead' option if it was there...

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Hate the creator not what's created.

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The Needle drop made two videos regarding that matter (1, 2)
I am not sure about that, not really encountered anything like it, but I definitely tend to have strong opinions about people doing certain things that I have a personal relation to. I don't really care about the person behind the art most of the time, because I just enjoy what they made if I pay for it or not. Thinking really hard about any incident where someone I enjoyed for what they did turned out to be a bad person. Sometimes I was even supportive. For example I don't get the Phil Fish hate. I kinda relate to that guy and fully understand his situation and behaviour showcased in Indie Movie. Other examples aren't relevant as I stopped watching/listening/playing whatever they made already after I heard about stuff. Like the guy from As I Lay Dying who tried to murder his girlfriend or wife. Stopped listening to their music years ago when that happened. Bill Cosby... His time was over already at this time. That guy from Burzum who murdered one from Mayhem? Well, that's pretty Black Metal to me, so it fits.
Kanye is a dick, yet he has some songs I used to listen to for a brief period of time.
I think in conclusion I can say that I don't really care apparently.

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As long as their views/agenda/offensiveness/whatever are not influenting the medium they are creating I won't care. I will dislike them as a person but it doesn't mean I cannot enjoy their work for what it is.

For example - I love FEZ, it's great game even if Phil Fish is a horrible person. It's innovative, beautiful and really fun.

Another example - I totally love Pantera. I grew up listening to it. Recently Phil Anselmo turned out to be a white-pride neo-nazi idiot and I do totally despise him for that. Does it mean I should burn all my Pantera CDs? I should never ever again listen to a band I grew up listening to? No. In the songs themselves there's no white supremacy so I can still enjoy them despite hating the person the singer is. If the songs were full of racial slurs, white supremacy etc I wouldn't like them and wouldn't listen to them. If the non-racism songs are sung by a racist I can still enjoy them.

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It depends on what they'd done and how strongly I feel about it.

Some things I can let slide, but for particularly offensive things, I just stop purchasing and listening to or enjoying their art. I'm the same about the subject matter of the music I listen to also, though. If the topic is particularly offensive, no matter how good the music itself is, I won't purchase or listen to it.

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I'm a person who believes in innocent until proven guilty, so allegations aren't usually enough to dissuade me but if you get accused of child molestation or rape, it makes me want to burn anything. I outgrew Lost prophet's but that didn't stop me from going back into itunes and deleting all their music even before he admitted to being guilty. Like something about hurting kids you know? Which sucks because if you didn't then your entire life is ruined.

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From my point of view, not buying a game because the developer said something you find offensive or stupid (Phil Fish) is childish. Not buying a product because the creator did something horrible, got away with it and is still alive (Roman Polanski) and you don't want your money to go to him is understandable.

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If I detest a person, I can no longer enjoy their work. So far the only person this happened with is Scarlett Johansson and I haven't seen a single one of her films after this.

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What did she do?

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I'm actually curious about this myself.

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See comment below.
:)

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There was an old video in which she demonstrated how narrow minded she is by mocking my country (Bulgaria) in an interview with Jay Leno. It's stupid, but the thing that annoyed me most was that her PR department tried to censor the whole thing. When they saw they can't, they made her tell a sugar coated story about "My wonderful bulgarian bodyguard, who saved my life". The thing was so obviously fake, that I can't stand her anymore. Too bad, she was really good in "The Prestige".

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Didn't know about that. I did some research and found the video you were talking about :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfklWFn9zpk
I can see why you're offended, and I don't find it funny at all.

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I guess it's the stupid "no handgun" remark. We don't go shooting each other on the streets, gun control here is a serious thing. Saying something that implies the opposite just reinforces the false stereotypes about eastern Europe. We aren't savages.

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It depends on the type of work it is.

If the person is a star in the video/movies, then yeah probably because I don't want to see them give their opinion/entertainment, but (hypothetically) if there is one really terrible person at Rockstar, I wouldn't stop buying their games because of some guy who does the textures is a huge ass hole.
Although if the company as a whole is filled with pricks then maybe.

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