8 Times Video Game Developers Publicly Insulted Their Players

8. League Of Legends Dev Wishes Death Upon A Streamer

League of Legends is one of the most popular games streamed on Twitch, and one of its biggest streamers is Tyler Steinkamp, known primarily as tyler1.

Steinkamp made a name for himself due to his toxic in-game behaviour - including trolling teammates and aggressively insulting other players - which eventually led to him being banned. Developer Riot Games understandably didn't want their game to be associated with this type of behaviour, and they clearly wanted to make LoL as welcoming an environment as possible, for all players.

But it wasn't just the company as a whole that was unhappy with the way Steinkamp conducted himself - specific individuals who worked there were also mad at the streamer, too.

One of those individuals was Aaron Rutledge, who went as far as expressing his dislike of Steinkamp on a public Discord server. Rutledge called Steinkamp a "homunculus", likened him to a terrorist, and even said it would be "fine" if he died from an overdose, or testicular cancer.

Obviously, wishing death upon someone is never okay, even if they may be misbehaving in a game. As a result of his comments, Rutledge issued an apology, though that didn't stop him from being let go by Riot Games shortly after.