Starsector multiplayer upgrade#
The influx of people pushed Flow Fire Games to not only upgrade the servers but to implement a chat filter, noting that the chat “completely derailed on Sunday”.
Not only were the game’s global chat and Discord server filled with “Hey hey people”, they were also filled with slurs, insults, and arguments about everything from the game itself to the people who played it. A big part of Sseth’s humor is in making offensive jokes – and when his fanbase entered the game’s community, they brought in some of that over-the-line humor. A relatively innocent incident of the effects a person’s popularity can have – as opposed to what can happen when people become rivals or even outright enemies.īut, of course, it isn’t nearly as cut and dried as that. A popular content creator talks about a product he likes, and it’s not long before his fanbase arrives in force to try it for themselves. In the two cases above, the cause and effects seem simple enough. Those two incidents got me thinking about the kind of power that celebrities – whether on stage, on a field, or on the internet – can wield, knowingly or not – and the effects that that power can have. Something similar happened a while back – Sseth made a review of Starsector on August 2nd last year, and the website where the game was purchased received so much traffic it went down temporarily. Flow Fire Games, the developers, had to upgrade their servers on Sunday just to keep up with the influx. The game’s cooperative multiplayer mode, which Sseth had also praised in his review, suddenly had so many games running that connection issues were rife – and the servers for the multiplayer mode even went down a few times due to the sheer amount of players that joined. It wasn’t long before the game’s global chat was filled with Sseth’s signature intro phrase, “Hey hey people.” The number of people playing at once shot from less than 100 to over three thousand over the course of a few days. Within three days, over 600,000 people had watched the review, and even before that mark was hit, many of the video’s viewers were eager to give the game a whirl. “Complete madness” also describes what happened to the game shortly afterwards. He thoroughly enjoyed the game, commenting that “Every single run is complete madness.” 31 this year, a YouTuber known simply as SsethTzeentach released a video about a game called “SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising”.
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