The Rise and Fall of Webfishing

ROllerozxa	ROllerozxa	Posted on 2025-06-06 00:47 (edited 2025-06-06 00:48) Link
Posts: 256 Joined: 2022-06-04	In autumn of last year there was this game called Webfishing that completely blew up once it was released on Steam. It's a cutesy furry-esque and queer fishing game with multiplayer chatroom elements, and obviously it became popular because everyone is miserable nowadays and it was an outlet for many to socialise and feel belonging in a comfortable environment. I bought it during a dip in my life because I felt it would be the perfect thing to make things feel better. I then got hooked on it simply due to the fact that the lobby browser was geography-based. Being able to join lobbies with people that lived in the same or neighbouring countries to me was very interesting, and the way it was in Webfishing was unlike anything else I've ever experienced in any other game. ...However because of the game becoming so popular, cracks started to show in the game. There were no such people in the lobbies around here but there were reports of people going around crashing other people's games with exploits and doing all other kinds of shenanigans because of the game's faulty netcode. I'm sure it happened. Then there was a new update that came out on New Year's Eve. It fixed all the bugs and exploits people had been using to cause havoc in the game, fair enough. But it also completely removed the ability to sort lobbies by geographical location... And since then I haven't really been able to play it again. It was a brief source of joy but such things never last, and it was a cold reminder of proprietary online games that can be ripped away from you or irreparably damaged at any point in time.