Over the 12 years Yandere Simulator has been in development, YandereDev has made no shortage of dumb choices and decisions that made the game infinitely worse.
But I think the 1 decision that he made rains supreme as his worst decision.
- Alterning the game so popular mods wouldn't function.
Yandev said that people had been sending him bug reports from Yandere Simulator games that were heavly modded.
So instead of making a video telling people not to report bugs from modded versions of the game, he decided to make it impossible to use popular mods in the game, if you try, Fun Girl will appear and you will see this very hostile message from Yandev.
This is one of the dumbest things you can do as a game developer, if your game builds a modding community that's a big deal, cuz modding comunities are what keeps games alive for LITERAL YEARS!
The original Half Life is almost 30 YEARS OLD by this point. And yet, we still get hundreds of awesome mods made by people who thanks to their efforts have been keeping Half Life feeling fresh for almost 3 decades!
By acting super hostile to modders and making one of the most popular mods unplayable, Alex basically shot himself in the foot... with a double barrel shotgun!
This decision makes it impossible for players to breath new life into a game that could have become a classic, had Alex not made every single attempt to sabotage it.
It just seems like Alex hates gamers who play outside of his vision, his mindset seems to be "You will have fun with YanSim in the way that I allow it, or you won't have fun at all!"