Creator of Silent Hills P.T. PC Version Suspends Development - Players Threatened to Kill Him
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
KONAMI's lawyers didn't have to intervene - toxic gamers did all the work themselves.
Recently, a developer under the nickname LoreanXavier announced that he would practically stop working on the unofficial PC port of Hideo Kojima's horror game Silent Hills P.T. The reason for this decision was not a DMCA notice from KONAMI's lawyers, but rather online attacks from some users. The developer was accused of fraud and even threatened with death.
LoreanXavier is a young man without a stable income. Since 2024, he has been reverse-engineering Silent Hills P.T. and creating a native port alone. His project attracted the attention of various people, including detractors:
I am 21 years old, unemployed, and my financial situation leaves much to be desired. Besides this project, I have enough problems that I already struggle to cope with. I'm not saying this for sympathy. It's just how my life is right now. When the project started gaining attention, I was enthusiastic. Unfortunately, along with it, so much hatred fell upon me that I was completely unprepared for it. I was called a racist, an anti-Semite, a fraud. People took my words out of context, dug into my past, and claimed that my entire project was AI-generated garbage, that I didn't write the code myself, or simply presented an emulator in a new wrapper as my own development.
LoreanXavier clarified that he never hid the fact of using AI tools to help with debugging and some development tasks:
My repository is open — people can see what I actually created instead of repeating someone else's words. I am not a racist, an anti-Semite, or a fraud, and I'm f***ing tired of explaining it.
Some haters tried to block his donation accounts and even bank accounts:
I am unemployed, I provide everyone with access to this project completely free of charge, and some, apparently, consider it an achievement to deprive me of the small voluntary support I receive. I also received personal threats, including death threats. And all this — because of a free video game port.
The developer is proud to have created an unofficial PC port of Silent Hills P.T. After the release of version 1.0.8, he “possibly” will fix something else or release an update if he feels like it, but he is not ready to promise anything. He is currently actively working on the PC version of Silent Hill 3.
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