On the very first day of journalism school, we are taught not to make ourselves the story. When media outlets decide they’re going to stop covering something because of the creator’s personal opinions, they start themselves down a very slippery slope of looking down their noses from their glass houses and deciding…

This is a great article btw, I finally read the tweets and I gotta say (maybe in my ignorance) that they are not bad at all, I expected her to want to lynch trans people.

I agree that’s why I’m not saying it’s only trans people doing this or that all trans are like this. Nuance exists

There should be a clear separation between trans people who just want to live their lives and the woke shit disturbers than just live to antagonize everyone.

Yep. Even smaller trans tubers were initially piling on any big name streamer that wanted to play the game -- Pikamee wasn’t the only one that was affected by this, many other vtubers were affected by the death threats and harassment as well, including Doxxing Silvervale’s mother -- and these vtubers and their…

Honestly the game has gay couple has a trans actor playing a trans character, is more racially diverse than og harry potter for cast, and main character is refered to as they them. You can be even trans. At this point I think Kotaku and the like are actually losing at this. Yes JK is a bitch but this game is the most…

I’m not sure honestly, I do feel like most of it has been blown out of proportion. On the other hand though, I have seen people I know say things along the line of ‘if you even think of buying this game, you are not my friend, you are not an ally’ which I would also argue is blowing all of this out of proportion. Its…

I saw some of the stuff being thrown at Pikamee, it definitely wasn’t “just threatening to unsub”. In both her original tweet and her reply she was constantly called a transphobe, told to off herself, sent death threats, told that she was directly killing trans people, and had trans and ‘ally’ accounts celebrate her…

But, if she retired because of the Hogwarts Legacy controversy, trans people and trans allies ARE the problem here. It’s a video game. Yes if people buy it it makes JK Rowling richer and she’s a horrible person. But, she’s already got more money than she will ever need. Harry Potter is important to many people and for…

The hate is because it’s not a fun game, it was written badly, the trailers were amateur hour garbage, and because the price, not because the MC.

Played the PC demo and it ran great but the game play loop just didn’t grab me. Over all its 0kay, combat is decent once you get use to it, the world is kind of meh, nothing I have not seen on a dozen other games. The biggest hurdle is the price $70 for a overall mediocre game? I just don’t see the value in it, maybe…

I wanted this game to be good soooooo bad. The dialogue was worth dunking on but this game received amplified hate beyond it’s offence due to the MC being a black woman. Still looks like there is fun to be had but not at $70. Luckily for me the price should drop quickly and any other studio who was doing a Whedon…

Developer: “Just spend $500 for a new console you can’t afford and don’t want any other games on instead of spending $60 for a game on a system you already have, lol”

Too scared of putting it on PC on release because fans might fix it via mods 

I mean yes. But up until FF7 Remake we did have a small golden period where every mainline single player Final Fantasy game was available on PS, Xbox, & PC. So I don’t think people were too unreasonable to expect that even with recent renewed interest in selling Sony exclusivity it doesn’t need to sell that it would…

Given how Yoshi-P turned around FFXIV, I think if anyone can turn out a good Final Fantast game, it’s him. Even still, I am really only just cautiously optimistic.

Fuck me for wanting to give you my money for a game on a platform I already own that has shown it as a platform is interested in JRPGs especially of the scale and scope that FFXVI is likely to be. 

Exclusivity sucks (even the ones that might benefit me)

Corporate arrogance is not surprising, and even Yoshida is not immune to this. I get Elon Musk vibes from this guy, tbh.

A lot of the popularity I think comes from GTA RP where there are a lot of players that play as police, which is a different perspective. And probably some of it comes from eagerness of players for GTA 6, so even a similar game like this that gives a new playstyle will appeal to them.

It was a massive failure because of Sony’s incredibly boneheaded attempts to force people to buy exclusive storage media at 5-10x the rate of the same amount on an SD card. The systems came with very little storage, and Sony really wanted people to pay out the ass for those memory cards. When people balked at paying…