Oh don’t get me wrong: that’s absolutely a major motivator (maybe the major motivator) for most companies. But like, even the company I work for, where the company owns the building outright, keeps trying to convince people to come back to work and everything I keep hearing from higher ups is stuff like “Oh it’s just…

From what I’ve seen on YT and AIN.CAPITAL it is mostly how the game has been funded and promoted in Russia itself.

“about Transgenders”?

“transgenders" go fuck yourself

“Russian developer operating in Russia”.

I always find it funny that a country where everyone can run around packing heat, they’re afraid of people packing virtual vaginas.

These “how do you explain this” bits of your post are you just not understanding/lying.

How exactly does this game get “a pass” when there was enough controversy that the composer donated his entire salary to charity?

Is your argument that unless you can talk about all problematic things you can’t talk about one problematic thing without it seeming odd that you’re not talking about all the other problematic things?

Mick Gordon seems to have developed an uncanny ability to work with some extremely suspect folks and come out looking like the good guy. Hope the dude gets a chance to just make some more rad music for games and not have to do a PR tour over it in the future.

It’s absolutely attendance theater. I’m not at actiblizz either but where I am, WFH has been huge in terms of improving my life as a dev. I’m no longer getting up at absurdly early hours to commute into an office where I literally cannot focus because I can’t do any creative work in corrals or open floorplan areas…

The Discourse around Abby was *so* fuckin’ weird, and a small section of TLOU community has literally never been able to recover their fractured psyche after Part 2 took away Joel Who Was Actually A Shitty Person But They Have No Media Literacy And So They Made Him Their Video Game Dad.

if you wanna be a capital g Gamer, you gotta max out your pedantry stat and get on your soapbox.

You sure do spend a lot of time typing out comments that skirt the line of defending bigots.  Stop dancing around it, just be honest for a change.

hmm. I’d like to see if sales fell across the board, or if the type of game matters. For example, I’m a fan of Jurassic World Evolution 2, which I totally plan to buy once it leaves GP, but that game is kind of open-ended, make-your-own-fun kind of deal. But I wouldn’t pay for, let’s say, Immortality which I finished…

i laughed when they revealed it was an old man who was the sniper. i played a lot of mgs3 growing up so i could only think of joel vs the end

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You’re mistaken. It’s the developers of this game who have already been paid. You could preorder 1,000 copies and the actual workers won’t see any benefit. Can you guess who is receiving royalties despite having little-to-no involvement in this game’s production?

This is all colossal shit show, but the fact that there’s even a significant number of voices standing up against JK’s transphobia is heartening in a way. It reminds me very much of the anti-gay movements in the late 90's and early 00's - hopefully a sign that yet another form of bigotry is dying.