History YMMV / ParanauticalActivity

* NeverLiveItDown: Mike Maulbeck, the lead developer, ''threatening death'' to Gabe Newell [[DisproportionateRetribution over the final release still being labeled as Early Access]], which led to Steam taking down the original release and cutting ties with Code Avarice. Discussions of ''Paranautical Activity'' to this day are bound to bring this up.

* OvershadowedByControversy: ''Paranautical Activity'' is only known to the public for Mike Maulbeck's, the lead developer, infamous rant that resulted in a death threat and led to the game being removed (see below).
* WhatAnIdiot: Shortly after the game's official release, developer Mike Maulbeck was maddened by Steam's advertising of the game as Early Access despite that they've ended the beta period and went on Twitter to vent about it, including tweeting a threat towards Gabe Newell. [[LaserGuidedKarma Valve promptly removed the game from the service shortly thereafter and cut ties with the developer.]] Shortly afterwards, Maulbeck apologized for his actions, left Code Avarice, and sold his interest in the company to fellow developer Travis Pfenning, in an effort to convince Valve to restore the game to Steam or at the very least allow future Code Avarice releases. It wasn't enough though since the game remained unavailable on Steam until the developer sold the IP to another company. Maulbeck has since been rehired by Code Avarice, who have implemented stricter policies regarding social media posts.

* InternetBackdraft: Not so much towards the game itself, but more towards Steam. This game gained fame amongst gamers when controversy erupted over ''Paranautical Activity'' being denied a Steam release for arbitrary double-standard-invoking reasons. Thankfully, it was eventually able to make it over to Steam through the Greenlight system. However...

* WhatAnIdiot: Shortly after the game's official release, developer Mike Maulbeck was maddened by Steam's advertising of the game as Early Access despite that they've ended the beta period and went on Twitter to vent about it, including tweeting a threat towards Gabe Newell. [[LaserGuidedKarma Valve promptly removed the game from the service shortly thereafter and cut ties with the developer.]] Even though Maulbeck wasn't really going to murder Newell (and wasn't likely to anyway), it was a rather poor handling of a business situation on his end and he deservedly received the punishment. Shortly since then, Maulbeck has apologized for his actions, left Code Avarice, and sold his interest in the company to fellow developer Travis Pfenning, all in a effort to convince Valve to restore the game to Steam or at the very least not blackball any future Code Avarice releases. It hadn't worked enough though since the game remained unavailable on Steam. Maulbeck has now been rehired by the company, who are implementing stricter policies regarding blog posts (even though the incident was triggered on Twitter, not their website). It took the developer to sell the IP to another company for it to return to Steam.

* WhatAnIdiot: Shortly after the game's official release, developer Mike Maulbeck was maddened by Steam's advertising of the game as Early Access despite that they've ended the beta period and went on Twitter to vent about it, including tweeting a threat towards Gabe Newell. [[LaserGuidedKarma Valve promptly removed the game from the service shortly thereafter and cut ties with the developer.]] Even if Maulbeck wasn't really going to murder Newell (which he definitely wouldn't be likely to anyway), it was a rather poor handling of a business situation on his end and he deservedly received the punishment.
** Shortly since then, Maulbeck has apologized for his actions, left Code Avarice, and sold his interest in the company to fellow developer Travis Pfenning, all in a effort to convince Valve to restore the game to Steam or at the very least not blackball any future Code Avarice releases. It hadn't worked enough though since the game remained unavailable on Steam. Maulbeck has now been rehired by the company, who are implementing stricter policies regarding blog posts (even though the incident was triggered on Twitter, not their website). It took the developer to sell the IP to another company for it to return to Steam.

** Shortly since then, Maulbeck has apologized for his actions, left Code Avarice, and sold his interest in the company to fellow developer Travis Pfenning, all in a effort to convince Valve to restore the game to Steam or at the very least not blackball any future Code Avarice releases. It hasn't worked though since the game remains unavailable on Steam. Maulbeck has now been rehired by the company, who are implementing stricter policies regarding blog posts (even though the incident was triggered on Twitter, not their website).

* WhatAnIdiot: Shortly after the game's official release, developer Mike Maulbeck was maddened by Steam's advertising of the game as Early Access despite that they've ended the beta period and went on Twitter to vent about it, including tweeting a threat towards Gabe Newell. [[LaserGuidedKarma Valve promptly removed the game from the service shortly thereafter.]] Even if Maulbeck wasn't really going to murder Newell (which he definitely wouldn't be likely to anyway), it was a rather poor handling of a business situation on his end and he deservedly received the punishment. (Shortly since then, Maulbeck has apologized for his actions, left Code Avarice, and sold his interest in the company to fellow developer Travis Pfenning, all in a effort to convince Valve to restore the game to Steam or at the very least not blackball any future Code Avarice releases.)

* WhatAnIdiot: Shortly after the game's official release, developer Mike Maulbeck was maddened by Steam's advertising of the game as Early Access despite that they've ended the beta period and went on Twitter to vent about it, including tweeting a threat towards Gabe Newell. [[LaserGuidedKarma Valve promptly removed the game from the service shortly thereafter.]] Even if Maulbeck wasn't really going to murder Newell (which he definitely wouldn't be likely to anyway), it was a rather poor handling of a business situation on his end and he deservedly received the punishment. (Shortly since then, Maulbeck has apologized for his actions, left Team Avarice, and sold his interest in the company to fellow developer Travis Pfenning, all in a effort to convince Valve to restore the game to Steam or at the very least not blackball any future Team Avarice releases.)

* WhatAnIdiot: Shortly after the game's official release, developer Mike Maulbeck was maddened by Steam's advertising of the game as Early Access despite that they've ended the beta period and went on Twitter to vent about it, including tweeting a threat towards Gabe Newell. [[LaserGuidedKarma Valve promptly removed the game from the service shortly thereafter.]] Even if Maulbeck wasn't really going to murder Newell (which he definitely wouldn't be likely to anyway), it was a rather poor handling of a business situation on his end and he deservedly received the punishment.

* WhatAnIdiot: Shortly after the game's official release, developer Mike Maulbeck was maddened by Steam's advertising of the game as Early Access despite that they've ended the beta period and went on Twitter to vent about it, including tweeting a threat towards Gabe Newell. [[LaserGuidedKarma Valve promptly removed the game from the service shortly thereafter.]] Even if Maulbeck wasn't really going to murder Newell, it was a rather poor handling of a business situation on his end and he deservedly received the punishment.

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* InternetBackdraft: Not so much towards the game itself, but more towards Steam. This game gained fame amongst gamers when controversy erupted over ''Paranautical Activity'' being denied a Steam release for arbitrary double-standard-invoking reasons. Thankfully, it was eventually able to make it over to Steam through the Greenlight system.

* GoddamnBats: Goddamn Moths that shoot homing shots at you. They're usually more of a threat than some of the bigger enemies or bosses that they occasionally flank.

* GoddamnBats: Goddamn Moths that shoot homing shots at you. They're usually more of a threat than some of the bigger enemies or bosses that they occasionally flank.