Dev of Star Fox-style roguelike hits back at negative response to improved accessibility features: "Sorry not sorry"

gamesradar.com:

The developer of a popular Star Fox-style roguelike has said "sorry not sorry" after a player changed their positive review to a negative one following the game's accessibility update.

Aaron San Filippo, developer of Whisker Squadron: Survivor has released a statement after a player felt the need to change their positive review to a negative one following the game's most recent patch. Along with the new accessibility feature, which allows those who need it to slow the game down, the developer also fixed a bug that changed how the game counted a certain achievement - which is what's got some fans so worked up. 

On the topic of the bug fix, Filippo writes on Steam: "A recent patch fixed a bug with how we were counting stats for the 'Victory' achievement (unlock criteria: win a run). Consequently, the global completion percentage jumped from around 1% to around 10%." The developer continues: "Someone left a negative review over this, mistakenly thinking that this happened because we added accessibility options that allow you to make the game run a bit slower, or to reduce the incoming damage a bit. That's definitely not the case." 

I'll never understand people getting angry over games having options that they don't want to use that don't affect them at all.September 27, 2023

Here's my "official" statement on this in the Steam forums in case anyone wants to read it. Probably easier than answering the same 2-3 comments here over and over hahahttps://t.co/hFVMcA5oADSeptember 28, 2023

Elaborating further on the changes, Filippo writes: "Yes, there are now accessibility options that give you the option of slowing the game down a bit, or to take a bit less damage. These aren't a complete set of accessibility options, but they are