GamerGate - Oliver Campbell rages at Tim Schafer

"How to alienate your target audience."
By: Tim Stapler Schafer

He went over budget and was far behind schedule, so Activision cancelled it. EA later un-canceled it as basically a photo-op to win back dune street cred with gamers, but they pot the brakes on the game's DLC since it didn't sell very well. I think the whole thing left Tim Schafer very cynical towards publishers and the core gamer audience, because his transition to the SanFran indie scene and subsequent slip into madness began after that.