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Alanah Pearce claims Wukong dev crying at TGA when Astro Bot won, refuted by community note

KungFucius

KungFucius

King Snowflake
Cakeboxer said:
So is any award. Pnly ypur own pick matters. But i rather respect player's choice instead of some experts. For the same reason i think the Oscars are a joke and the movie with the most viewers shuld win instead, because that's the people's choice.
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The nominees are mostly shit. If someone picks an apple instead of one of the 4 piles of shit next to it, did the apple win a worthwhile award?
 
Black_Stride

Black_Stride

do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
ProtoByte said:
Not really sure who to believe here.
For whatever reason, I think someone that works at IGN is probably not a credible source when it comes to bad/embarrassing things related to a state-funded Chinese game company of import.

I have no admiration of fondness for Pearce, but it's hard to believe she would just make this up. In fact. if you'd told me that she was trying to sweep on behalf of state-funded Chinese, I'd be more likely to believe you.

But then, it is an absurd story. Placing that much import on the AMERICAN TGA despite winning other awards and making all of the money? And then to actually believe that Wukong was going to win?
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The Game Awards were broadcast.

You can look in the background of when Astrobot won GOTY and the GameScience guys are are few rows down.

Here they are crying and super upset:
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Polygonal_Sprite

Polygonal_Sprite

Gold Member
StreetsofBeige said:
I love how video game industry people rag on peers in the industry.

Gamers say gaming doesn’t have a lot innovation.

Maybe not in the games, but how many industries can you name where the people are constantly trolling or arguing with other people or bosses or customers on social media?

Innovation at its finest in my books!
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She’s no longer on their level due to being let go by Sony. This is probably why she is jealous of them and made this shit up to get a pat on the head by the virtue crew.

I’m glad Astrobot won.
 
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hlm666

Member
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It's so bizarre that this chick would make up something so regarded about the Wukong devs. I mean the entire show was live FFS what exactly was she thinking was going to happen :messenger_grinning_sweat:
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She came out with situation-ally disabled if you have kids and play games without a pause. She is so arrogant she would serve you her own shit and say it's chocolate and expect you to believe it and label you the problem when you don't.
 
Buggy Loop

Buggy Loop

Member
lh032 said:
but what about the GOTY script written 2 years ago?
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From the other thread, I posted 2 times and peoples ignored


« The original article was humorous, relaxing, soothing, respectful and self-reflecting throughout, but a few translations (like that "freaking nothing" sentence) failed to convey the joking and self-mocking tone, and accidentally portrayed Feng Ji as being bitter. I've seen many got misled in the comment section. Dangerous mistranslations like these can make him a crisis! »

He’s joking around. Who the fuck thinks he really wrote a speech 2 years ago?

Translations are difficult even with interpreters, let alone a machine one
 
Kokoloko85

Kokoloko85

Member
Lol Alanah is whatever but gamescience Im sure is salty

And Asmongold….better ethics?? Guy’s a youtjube sensationalist.
This guy almost cried when Astrobot won… I can imagine the kind of losers who think this guy is a champion or something.

If I want a correct translation, Ill ask someone outside of the country who isnt probably a cuck to any of the companies involved
 
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EN250

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It wasn't true and basically her saying that means in her head = asian = all the same, so might as well be the monkey man game dev 🤦‍♂️

This kind of crap is bad in itself but also fuels the ire of youtube grifters mad AF because ASTROGOAT WON GOTY, so it's mildly entertaining :messenger_beaming:
 
Zacfoldor

Zacfoldor

Member
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken, Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools.

Nothing she ever makes in her entire life will be as good as the worst 5 minutes of Wukong.

Serious Brian Cox GIF by SuccessionHBO
 
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hououinkyouma00

hououinkyouma00

Member
Why bother lying about something that can be so easily debunked? You really think nobody would call you out when they were sitting there as well and when cameras were being pointed at them constantly? The cameras showed the front rows where all of these devs were all the time so there was no chance it wouldn't have been caught on camera if it happened.

She sure loves her attention.

FoxMcChief said:
Don’t say such bad things like that. That’s just gross.

I was honestly thinking it was going to be either Astro Bot or Metaphor.
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It would have 100% been Rebirth. I haven't finished Metaphor yet (loving it so far) but it didn't have a chance up against Rebirth.

Also Rebirth was great.
 
thicc_girls_are_teh_best

thicc_girls_are_teh_best

Member
I think she just has a personal axe to grind with Tencent. Made some other major claims about them either last year or back in 2022 about forcing studios to remove certain types of things from their games pertaining to certain minority groups. AFAIK the studios Tencent have their hands in either don't care about mandating that type of thing in the first place (so you can't claim they're being forced to "remove" it), or the ones who have it in there have been allowed to do so without much pushback (whether they do it the right way or, as Ubisoft have shown lately, the wrong way).

Like don't get me wrong, I don't really "like" Tencent either or basically any Big Tech company TBH. But I'm not going to accuse them of things there is no solid proof of them doing just to earn brownie points online, either. Now if it's other things like helping with the CCP's social credit system, well, yes, that's worth bringing up. But it's also a completely different conversation and has little or nothing to do with gaming.

ProtoByte said:
Not really sure who to believe here.
For whatever reason, I think someone that works at IGN is probably not a credible source when it comes to bad/embarrassing things related to a state-funded Chinese game company of import.

I have no admiration of fondness for Pearce, but it's hard to believe she would just make this up. In fact. if you'd told me that she was trying to sweep on behalf of state-funded Chinese, I'd be more likely to believe you.

But then, it is an absurd story. Placing that much import on the AMERICAN TGA despite winning other awards and making all of the money? And then to actually believe that Wukong was going to win?
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FWIW, Tencent's been distancing themselves from the CCP the past few years. Some of the CCP's regulation attempts on gaming did not sit well with some companies, and I think they also understand that if they want more global market share, a lot of things with the CCP are probably incompatible with audiences outside of China (and even some within China, they just can't openly disagree about it publicly).

At this point Tencent's probably no more "state-sponsored" by the CCP than Microsoft is by the U.S government. Take that for what you will.
 
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