Game Developers celebrating assassination of Charlie Kirk [Update] Sucker Punch Dev Fired, and SP issue statement

Wishful thinking.



A sign that you are not thinking critically. You've got it out for "these people". Just few months back, we had two D-politicians murdered in their own home along with their spouses in an act of political violence. While some surely were, you don't have to celebrate their deaths to show clouded judgement. Selective indifference is enough.

My dad went down the youtube rabbit hole with crypto-currency as a gateway. When someone broke into nancy pellosi's home with the apparent intention of killing her with a hammer, I asked him if they should have done that and he said "maybe they should have". The violence may be ideologically driven but it's not as cleanly down political lines as you seem to think.

Right now, many liberals and not just the far left are crossing their fingers for trump to croak of natural causes. Not exactly the most noble wish. But if you remember the celebration of hillary clinton possibly having some rapidly terminal disease, you may see that wishing death on people you hate is universally a base and ugly side of human nature.
^^ This.

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It is unfortunate that people love to label themselves and others "Left" or "Right" (two sides of the same coin) and to me, it just goes to show that people are "hive-like" and mostly hypocrites, no one looks at how they are acting, only how the other is acting and are looking for a "gotcha" moment. Things are not absolute. I've come to realize with everything that is happening around the world, there are "sides" and people haven't really changed all that much from years ago. It's a different version of that division which is finally leaking. Ugh.

And people can be easily manipulated. Sad times, sad times.
 
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Moving forward, please keep this thread on topic as it relates to reactions to Charlie Kirk's death in the gaming community. There is a broader discussion in the Off Topic forum. And please, be civil.

I Can Do What I Want Parks And Recreation GIF
 
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Haha just seen the posts of trump saying Antifa counted as a terrorist organisation and he will come down on any company contributing etc to this organisation, and lead actress from ghosts saying "I'm antifa , so is my wife" sucker punch and Sony gonna regret putting activists etc into roles in there company



Sucker Punch is located in Bellevue, WA which is like right in the heartland of Antifa. So when people say it was just one or two employees, I got a couple bridges to sell you.
 
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Gaming companies need to vet their future community managers better. There are so many people passionate about certain games or IP's... hire them and not crazy people from twitter/bsky or former reddit mods using their new position for things that could actually hurt the sales and the company's image.
 
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If Sucker Punch and Sony would've done this a few ways ago I would be supporting Ghost of Yotei

Shame
The fact that saying "we do not condone the celebration of political assassinations" is controversial to Sucker Punch says a lot about them as a company. And about SIE as the owner.
 
They are only saying this because of the backlast. They are not saying it because they are really sorry. Do not be fooled!
for the AAA studios i'd agree but Void Interactive the OG team originally were pushing boundaries with portraying things like a college shooting and human trafficking, they didn't seem very woke.

Clearly once publishers get involved and the gaming machine takes over the weirdos infiltrate.
 
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As a gaming community, we really need to boycott these developers. They need to see some Concord numbers for these games. They will never learn otherwise. Just say NO. You have plenty of other games to play. You really do. Trust me.
 
As a gaming community, we really need to boycott these developers. They need to see some Concord numbers for these games. They will never learn otherwise. Just say NO. You have plenty of other games to play. You really do. Trust me.
I just play Japanese games these days, especially Nintendo games. There's thousands of those I could go through instead of wasting time on the latest Western AAAA woke generic open world "masterpiece"
 
I think this is the news that would sadden more people than the GoY.


The heads of these major gaming publishers should be dragged before Congress or the House Oversight Committee and forced to explain why their staff behave like such consistently malignant cunts.
 
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The heads of these major gaming publishers should be dragged before Congress or the House Oversight Committee and forced to explain why their staff behave like such consistently malignant cunts.
That would be an overreach and a literal violation of free speech. Corporations have the right to hire anyone that says anything under the protection of free speech and those same corporations have the right to ban any type of public facing controversial speech; however, the government doesn't have the right to dictate what their speech related policies are.

What the government could do is establish government regulation over the industry like they have with tv and radio and be more hands on, but that'd also not really be a good thing.
 
S Scrawnton I agree and to clarify:

This isn't about jailing anyone - it's about making clear that free speech comes with accountability. And when the western gaming industry openly nurtures Far Left activists, it's only right that authorities pay closer attention, given the shooter's history and the industry's impact on the young.
 
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That would be an overreach and a literal violation of free speech. Corporations have the right to hire anyone that says anything under the protection of free speech and those same corporations have the right to ban any type of public facing controversial speech; however, the government doesn't have the right to dictate what their speech related policies are.

What the government could do is establish government regulation over the industry like they have with tv and radio and be more hands on, but that'd also not really be a good thing.

You can't scream fire in a crowded theater and you can't encourage violence against others. There's not 1st amendment violation by being called to congress and testify why your employees are members of a designated terrorists organization or why they are openly encouraging violence against their conservative constituents
 
S Scrawnton I agree and to clarify:

This isn't about jailing anyone - it's about making clear that free speech comes with accountability. And when the western gaming industry openly nurtures Far Left activists, it's only right that authorities pay closer attention, given the shooter's history and the industry's impact on the young.


May people decide with their wallets. I don't want politicians messing with the only entertainment industry they haven't fucked up yet.

The only case IMO that justifies an immediate public action is Roblox.
 
Lmfao why Kotaku

It wasn't Kotaku. Game File


I figured Fleming wouldn't talk about the firing, that I'd get a no comment. But on September 12, the political and corporate reaction to people's reactions to Kirk's killing was becoming a major story—even more the case this week, as it'd turn out. I couldn't not ask about it.

"The facts are accurate," Fleming told me.

"Drew's no longer an employee here. I think we're aligned as a studio that celebrating or making light of someone's murder is a deal-breaker for us, and we condemn that, kind of in no uncertain terms. That's sort of our studio, and that's kind of where we are."

I said I was curious how you weigh a person's 10-year run at a studio against a social media post, but a rep for Sony who was present for the interview (that's normal) said they wouldn't be commenting further.

We moved on.

 
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S Scrawnton I agree and to clarify:

This isn't about jailing anyone - it's about making clear that free speech comes with accountability. And when the western gaming industry openly nurtures Far Left activists, it's only right that authorities pay closer attention, given the shooter's history and the industry's impact on the young.
as i have said several times. this is not an issue of free speech but a case of extremist ideology infecting institutions and corporations. The receipts should be very easy to obtain. Too bad the people on position of power (Trump and the rest of the circus) they don't come across as very capable or/and assertive
 

There's just no scenario now where it doesn't look like they were forced to say this instead of truly believing it.

It was a no-brainer to say this, literally the second it happened.

The statement "hey, we don't celebrate people dying" shouldn't have been a contentious one.

EDIT: by the way, anyone actually read the article, moron totillo blames the "anti-woke" crowd for the firing, not the "anti-assassination and anti murder crowd". He's also trying desperately to make the Sony PR to be the bad guy and not the nutjob who thinks murder is ok to be the bad guy.
 
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It wasn't Kotaku. Game File


I figured Fleming wouldn't talk about the firing, that I'd get a no comment. But on September 12, the political and corporate reaction to people's reactions to Kirk's killing was becoming a major story—even more the case this week, as it'd turn out. I couldn't not ask about it.

"The facts are accurate," Fleming told me.

"Drew's no longer an employee here. I think we're aligned as a studio that celebrating or making light of someone's murder is a deal-breaker for us, and we condemn that, kind of in no uncertain terms. That's sort of our studio, and that's kind of where we are."

I said I was curious how you weigh a person's 10-year run at a studio against a social media post, but a rep for Sony who was present for the interview (that's normal) said they wouldn't be commenting further.

We moved on.


Lmfao I'll make a 1/2 hearted statement no apology and yeah no more questions about us being a bunch of terrorists

EDIT: the son of a bitch THINKS SP is "aligned" not its out of fucking line period
 
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Too little too late
yep, the damage is already done. And the crazy ones on Purple World are not going to be happy either, alongside Sony supporting terrorists.. yikes. a complete and deserved shitshow of a release, throwing 5 years into the garbage....SONY and any other company should really ask themselves if going down the DEI/Woke path is really worth it moving forward.
 
From the interview:
"Drew's no longer an employee here. I think we're aligned as a studio that celebrating or making light of someone's murder is a deal-breaker for us, and we condemn that, kind of in no uncertain terms. That's sort of our studio, and that's kind of where we are."

But this is a lie. We know Senior Producer Kelly Snyder liked the post as well.
 
as i have said several times. this is not an issue of free speech but a case of extremist ideology infecting institutions and corporations. The receipts should be very easy to obtain. Too bad the people on position of power (Trump and the rest of the circus) they don't come across as very capable or/and assertive

Yeah and to riff off of this statement, many lambasted Elon's purchase of Twitter, but it couldn't have come at a more critical time. We were at the peak of institutional capture - media, academia, and tech all moving in lockstep to enforce ideological conformity. Musk's takeover gave the rest a fighting chance and reinforced how batshit the Blue Sky crowd really are.
 
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Yeah and to riff off of this statement, many lambasted Elon's purchase of Twitter, but it couldn't have come at a more critical time. We were at the peak of institutional capture - media, academia, and tech all moving in lockstep to enforce ideological conformity. Musk's takeover gave the rest a fighting chance and reinforced how Batsuit the Blue Sky crowd really are.
It also cleverly organised and placed all the peds and nutjobs into their own "safe space" Bluesky app where they can openly out themselves online and the world can see.

It's almost 4D chess from Musk if that was ever a plan.
 
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Fair, but I think this entertainment industry of ours is already royally fucked up.
most of the failure are only on the western world though

while in asia its actually thriving more than ever. Shift up the developer of stellar blade and nikke just give their employee switch 2 to celebrate the 3 million sale on PC
 
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May people decide with their wallets. I don't want politicians messing with the only entertainment industry they haven't fucked up yet.

The only case IMO that justifies an immediate public action is Roblox.
Sure wish people were actually allowed to do that these days. Yeah, you can decide to buy or not buy what's available. Just a shame the Banks are now deciding what's even available to begin with.


It wasn't Kotaku. Game File


I figured Fleming wouldn't talk about the firing, that I'd get a no comment. But on September 12, the political and corporate reaction to people's reactions to Kirk's killing was becoming a major story—even more the case this week, as it'd turn out. I couldn't not ask about it.

"The facts are accurate," Fleming told me.

"Drew's no longer an employee here. I think we're aligned as a studio that celebrating or making light of someone's murder is a deal-breaker for us, and we condemn that, kind of in no uncertain terms. That's sort of our studio, and that's kind of where we are."

I said I was curious how you weigh a person's 10-year run at a studio against a social media post, but a rep for Sony who was present for the interview (that's normal) said they wouldn't be commenting further.

We moved on.


I can smell the slime from here.
 
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