How do you deal with all the pressure and mad players who are unsatisfied about your games? I recently became a "successful" indie. I was broke for 2 years and then i got to steam and now im pretty much rich. With the money i made i only god more problems and more stress and im more depressed than ever... If you have any tips, even a comment back would mean alot. I look up to you, watching your interviews and stuff kept me going at the times i was desperate for rent money..

the trick is not caring.. like genuinely not caring about people who dont show you respect. 

respect is something everyone feels entitled to.. its kinda funny because most people who use that word these days dont realize how entitled they are actually being by assuming that respect is something everyone should have instead of something you earn. 

if someone doesnt treat me with respect.. they simply dont exist to me anymore. they vanish from my view and no longer enter my thoughts.. so if you start feeling pressured by “fans” who can respect you enough to know when to ease up.. cut them off. stop looking at what they are saying.

focus on what really makes you happy… as you know now, its not money. so rethink what you need, what will keep you happy and just put your time and effort into those things. 

ive gone through some lame situations in the past few years, a lot of them due to my “successes” and the thing i learned that has helped me the most is that negative unhappy people are a cancer, they will infect you, bring you down and suck you dry. be positive, compassionate and gentle to the people you care about and respect… and ignore the rest.