Ion Maiden comes out and ResetEra gets pissy at a bunch of comments on the 3D Realms discord from VoidPoint developers (creators of Ion) that are deemed by them to be "transphobic" (which surprise, surprise,
they're really not). 3D Realms rather than sticking up for the dev teams basically punishes them by having $10K sales of the game be sent to some random trans hotline suicide center, planned to censor the game due to "homophobic" references (one Olay bottle that's spelled "Ogay" instead and text OUTSIDE THE FUCKING LEVEL THAT CAN ONLY BE SEEN WITH CHEATS with the text "fagbag"), and saying that all devs they work with from now on will have to take
state mandated sissy hypnosis lessons regarding how not to be "sexist" or whatever. At most due to the review bombing 3D Realms pulled back on the censorship but not only have they still donated game money that should've gone to the development of the game with post content to some tranny fund but now they've basically alienated the game to both the woke and "redpilled" groups so neither of them will buy it. Also a VoidPoint dev pointed out that they not only were their salaries based on the game's sales but as well as the game's future content such as expansions and patches. As of now there has been only one patch out and the last update on Steam was on Sept 20th (which were the devs talking about AI design and such). Along with all that bullshit you also have the possibility that all of this might've started from some
retarded anon who was pissy the devs didn't want to use Shelly's old blonde design.
tl;dr They've made VoidPoint undesirable devs to work with despite being good people by ousting them as "transphobic", they've shot themselves in the foot by treating their developers like shit, and they've shot most possibilities of Ion Fury or the franchise (or hell, the 3D Realms brand in general) to have a good future.