Excellent Bucking Bull Industry Article

Over the past ten years I've dealt with rabbit, dog, cat, pig, sheep, cattle, horse, and goat breeders while creating online games that attempt to simulate their various industries.  Without fail, there are always a few jerks who think their way is the only way something should be done if it is going to be realistic, which ironically is the exact opposite of the way the other jerk thinks that it works in real life.

I’ve only shut down one online game because of it though.  It was a game where the users bred and managed virtual bucking bulls.

I didn’t shut it down because it didn’t make money.  I shut it down because there were too many real life bucking bull guys on there that carried the mentality of that industry into the game.  The machismo and “the only way to get my point across is by being the biggest a-hole” attitude just wasn’t worth it from a customer service standpoint.

This article goes into a great detail of depth regarding how an offshoot of that attitude, the subset of breeders that think the only thing that matters is breeding bulls that will make it onto TV, is hurting the entire industry…