DolphinDom 🐬 | Dominic Catelani

Vitaliy Naymushin, the creator of Jonesy, has posted a new tweet for the first time in a decade and thanked fans for their support. Furthermore, he retweeted a post criticizing the fact that no executives at Epic Games are taking public accountability for the current situation.

I know I’ve been dragging a bit on getting these games out, but last night I finally submitted them to moderation to get it listed. Unfortunately, it got flagged because of the Wordle word list. With 14,600+ words, I was obviously bound to miss a few. I removed the flagged words and resubmitted, only to get flagged again for additional ones. That alone was frustrating, why not just surface all the problematic words in the first rejection? I fixed those, submitted again, and then got flagged a third time, which resulted in the entire project being locked. I’m already in contact with Epic to get access restored to resolve the flags, but I just needed to vent about how ridiculous that process feels. Yes, part of the blame is on me for not catching every single non-TOS word despite my best effort. That said, breaking violations into multiple rejections, causing repeated strikes, and then locking the project because of it is incredibly frustrating. Thankfully, I backed everything up on a test island, so I still have all the machines and full access to the different games. Still, it looks like I won’t be able to list them publicly until Epic helps resolve the issue.