Both McMillen and Tyrone tweeted out a series of possible hints (and red herrings). The situation was exacerbated by a few expertly launched salvos of psychological warfare from the devs. It didn’t take much to send the entire community into a tailspin of conjecture and wild mass guessing from there. When asked about the disparity, McMillen insisted the number was accurate, implying that the content is merely hidden. Afterbirth was advertised as having 120 new items, but until early this morning, the community only managed to confirm the existence of 74 new items. The cause of the hysteria was simple enough. But none of it could be accessed by any amount of digging, crazy challenge, or datamining, McMillen and Rodriguez were playing a cheeky prank all along. Turns out they were sort of right, there was “missing” content. All the while, developers Edmund McMillen and Tyrone Rodriguez were stirring the pot, unleashing cryptic tweets and sneaky links, watching as it all boiled over. They thought Afterbirth, the recently released Isaac expansion, had some secret content they couldn’t get to, and they couldn’t help but tear themselves apart trying to find it. Heading over to /r/bindingofisaac was like a scene in a thriller where the cops peel back the secret entrance to a psychopath’s lair and find a wall of photographs with all the eyes scorched out with cigarette burns and a bunch of creepy doll heads nailed to a shelf. The Binding of Isaac fan community spent the past few days in the thores of a full blown, conspiracy nutjob meltdown. After all, you have to have a decent sense of humor and a slight masochistic bent to be an Isaac fan in the first place]
Even if the situation was unintentional and beyond their control, they at least had some fun with it in the meantime, which is all well and good. Edmund and Tyrone seemed to be intentionally egging the conspiracy theorists on. Guess we’ll have to wait for the whole story, but I don’t think I’m ready to believe it was all a complete misunderstanding. In this environment I don’t fault you for assuming crazy shit but seriously I’m not mad at anyone and wouldn’t fuck with people like this No one was upset at anyone at all there were was just a launch bug that caused missing items due to a “thing” that I can’t talk about now Cagey as ever, Edmund won’t go into the hows and whys of what happened or why he couldn’t say anything at the time yet, but promises all will be revealed in a blog post in the coming days.
Edmund has taken to Twitter over the past few hours saying the missing items were the result of a post-launch bug and not part of some nefarious plan to punish dataminers.
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