I went to a gaming convention once. I swear none of the fuckers knew what deodorant and perfume were. I never went again.

Yup happened with Aloy too because she “wasn’t attractive enough” to be a female lead character

Oh no its that super vocal crowd who have been screaming about it online ever since the first SM game that they thought the devs had made MJ some kind of “SJW hag” because of “woke Disney” or some other shit. There are a lot of people who are constantly shitting on this game because they think one, this version of MJ…

(Except Deadspin; RIP comments section)

This is an article about video game fans, on a site about video games.

Psychotic? I think you mean “Presidential”, my friend!

Okay, so they don’t report on it.

Gamers were a mistake.

Their whole shtick is that she’s “unattractive” which is completely bonkers, especially coming from stinky-ass Gamers, of all disgusting people.

Imagine being a woman, whose been sexually harrassed, stalked, raped, or any other number of things, just for being a woman. Thats all women and Its been a problem LONG before the internet. Its a huge societal issue and another one we all just seem to shrug and put up with, like school shootings or pandemics.

Fucking gamers jesus christ

Absolutely psychotic behavior, totally unacceptable.

I wonder if women get briefed by developers/publishers when they’re hired to act or model for a game, if they’re at all made aware of what will happen in social media as a consequence of being hired. I wonder if, whoever will end up being cast as Abby in HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us, she will be made aware that,…

I don't know if it's because I've been in a dark place in my life lately but harassers like this should be neutered so that their genes can't contaminate any further generations. Pathetic losers

The fandom behind these games is a constant embarrassment.

If your CEO is touting the blockchain NOW in 2024, your company is doomed.  It was forgivable that certain people wouldn’t understand the technological limitations enough in 2020 that they’d tout it as the next big thing.  But if they still can’t see the complete lack of benefits to game development at this point...…

Yoshida is basically running his division like a separate company these days and trying to ignore everything Kiryu says.

Taking the Konami route I see. This may be the end of the careers of a lot of prolific artists at Square, including the ones of the FF team.

“Kiryu also mentioned AI, saying that while the generative technology carried negative connotations...”

Wow, Squenix is just on the wrong side of literally every issue aren’t they