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[InterMusketeer]

This is from 2021.

He's been posting his opinions regularly on Twitter. He hasn't changed since 2021. He obviously hates part of his audience and can't help but shit on them. Not smart.

 

[Ozriel]

One day we'll talk about the major IQ deficit required to keep falling for these internet grifters and their ragebait.

Another dev fucks over his whole team and his own project by insulting their own customers.

So I'm thinking of starting a cafe up soon. Think I'll go ahead and tell all the customers that ask for coffee that they're assholes for enjoying coffee due to how much migrant workers suffer to source the beans.... surely it'll be a big hit right? Definitely wouldn't be declaring bankruptcy in two months or anything.

Microsoft needs to start taking a much harder stance against this shit. No airing your personal politics online and no alienating fanbases. Warn them first time, second time fired. Make it a policy, and watch these idiots shut the fuck up.

Can you start by being a whole lot less gullible?

 

[Sanepar]

They make games but hate gamers.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

The same gamers who made it possible for them to have a job in the first place? Fascinating!

 

[samoilaaa]

Inst John F Trent already a banned source?

This article/video is about God of War Ragnarok and the dev in question made those statements in 2021 when Kolbe DIDNT work for Crystal Dynamics hell was Crystal Dynamics even called in yet?
Why is he bringing it up again now, when in truth the Angrboda controversy was petty and stupid.

Him defending Laura Bailey for her role as Abby is also commendable, what kind of loser sends death threats to Laura Bailey because shes playing a character they dont like the design of?

His "website" read as substack has weak sources less articles, i mean this article is literally 3 sentences long and he requires people to pay to read posts from 2021?

Nah we need to ban him if he isnt already and people sourcing him also need to get serious.

i dont give a shit when he said it , if it was 2021 or 2024 , just look at his twitter account

he said that games are not for people who are against lgbtq agenda , who tf is he to say who can or cant play video games , the only thing i have to say to him is

 

[Humdinger]

Inst John F Trent already a banned source?

I don't think GAF bans sources. I could be wrong, but that doesn't sound like a GAF practice. It sounds like something Resetera does.

 

[Deerock71]

Also Perfect Dark level designer:

 

[Mr Moose]

and attacked those who oppose race swaps as “racist pigs.”

Oh no, it's retarded.

whats up with microsoft game studios devs? seems worse than sony devs.

MS don't own CD, I don't think.
They do have some stupid devs who don't shut the fuck up, but I think in this case, it's a non-owned dev.

 

[MALpractice311]

Sony got reprimanded so hard for Concord I wouldn't be surprised if there were high level meetings in Japan dissecting exactly what happened and what's to blame. $400 million (allegedly) is not something you can light on fire and not miss, not to mention the loss of face and clowning they received online. They're gonna make damn sure never to leave themselves open to ridicule like that ever again. Maybe Concord was a necessary lesson.

We'll see. If Fairgame$ gets cancelled, then the lesson has been learned. If not, I guess Sony needs to lose another several hundred million dollars.

 

[R3TRO]

I wonder what kind of gamers they’re talking about.

 

[Black_Stride]

The sane gamers who made it possible for then to have a job in the first place? Fascinating!

Sane gamers?
The guys sending Death threats to Laura Bailey, the voice actress of Abby are the sane ones?

i dont give a shit when he said it , if it was 2021 or 2024 , just look at his twitter account

he said that games are not for people who are against lgbtq agenda , who tf is he to say who can or cant play video games , the only thing i have to say to him is

Got a link to his twitter account where he said that?

He did tweet that bigots should fuck right off.
So to use your own GIF, yes Bigots can fuck right off!!!!

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Sane gamers?
The guys sending Death threats to Laura Bailey, the voice actress of Abby are the sane ones?

lol, typo, meant to say "same"

 

[Black_Stride]

I wonder what kind of gamers they’re talking about.

The ones who send death threats to the voice actress of a fictional character even if said voice actress has little to no input on the characters design or what the character does in the game..

 

[Generic]

Kolbe Payne, a Level Designer at Crystal Dynamics who is working on Perfect Dark, seeming does not like gamers says they “were a mistake” and attacked those who oppose race swaps as “racist pigs.”

dude was also a campaign level designer on halo infinite


as for the jaw line , joanna dark might be based on megan boone

I recall Vara Dark throwing the sexism card a week ago. Talk about lack of self-awareness.

 

[samoilaaa]

Sane gamers?
The guys sending Death threats to Laura Bailey, the voice actress of Abby are the sane ones?



Got a link to his twitter account where he said that?

He did tweet that bigots should fuck right off.
So to use your own GIF, yes Bigots can fuck right off!!!!

no problem you can just

 

[R3TRO]

The ones who send death threats to the voice actress of a fictional character even if said voice actress has little to no input on the characters design or what the character does in the game..

Sheesh…Social media was a mistake

 

[Saber]

This is from 2021.

Didn't change much then.

 

[winjer]

The ones who send death threats to the voice actress of a fictional character even if said voice actress has little to no input on the characters design or what the character does in the game..

There are 3.32 billion gamers in the world. One asshole that sends death threats does not represent us all. Not even close.
If someone is sending death threats, call the police, because that is a crime. But never try to misconstrued the tree with the forest.
There are Billions of gamers that don't act like that.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Crazy way to talk about the potential audience for your game. Hopefully senior stakeholders will start to throw these wankers to the curb when their sales plummet. I'm so bored of seeing these entitled twats.

 

[Black_Stride]

no problem you can just

Wait are we seriously defending bigots now?

There are 3.32 billion gamers in the world. One asshole that sends death threats does not represent us all. Not even close.
If someone is sending death threats, call the police, because that is a crime. But never try to misconstrued the tree with the forest.
There are Billions of gamers that don't act like that.

Agreed.

These grifters are inciting people so much their critical thinking is going out the window.
Do you really think he meant ALL GAMERs....especially when Laura herself points out that there are people sending her positive msgs for the performance?

 

[Robb]

Perfect Dark level Designer Says "Gamers Are A Mistake"

Selling my Xbox Series X has never felt better.

 

[RoboFu]

There is always a few bad actors in any group. To blame the whole group is playing victim for attention.

 

[Nickolaidas]

Microsoft is the most infected. Sony was only chasing where they thought culture was going, but after Concord, a company full of CEOs with a car auction habit are going to make damn sure their games don’t pay the woke tax.

Sony's HQ are now in California, so good luck with that delusion. Unless Japan takes back control and tells the woketards to fuck off, Sony's as woke as they can be.

 

[Black_Stride]

Crazy way to talk about the potential audience for your game. Hopefully senior stakeholders will start to throw these wankers to the curb when their sales plummet. I'm so bored of seeing these entitled twats.

TLoU2 did in excess of 10 million units.
GOWR was like 15 million or something.

I think theyll be fine.
For context because OP is lacking, he is talking about people who were hating on Laura Bailey for Abby as if she wrote the character or designed her.
And of course the whole Angrboda controversy.....a fictional character is black.....for shame!

There is always a few bad actors in any group. To blame the whole group is playing victim for attention.

And we really need to look at what he was responding to, saying "gamers are a mistake" cant possibly have been literal, when he is responding to the people sending Laura Bailey death threats.

 

[Bloody Crow of Cainhurst]

We'll see. If Fairgame$ gets cancelled, then the lesson has been learned. If not, I guess Sony needs to lose another several hundred million dollars.

They've already spent too much on it to cancel it, but they can rework the whole "eat the rich" angle with the black girl protagonist with the big afro, because that's what the new Saints Row reboot looked like. They should lean into the GTA heist type of vibe instead, which would be much more palatable.

 

[MarkMe2525]

clutches pearls

 

[Aces High]

Race swapping is an act of racism.

Yet he calls fans racist when they complain.

I deduce that he's a dumb racist.

 

[Loomy]

We'll see. If Fairgame$ gets cancelled, then the lesson has been learned. If not, I guess Sony needs to lose another several hundred million dollars.

What about what you've seen of Fairgame$ so far makes you think it needs to be cancelled?

 

[samoilaaa]

Wait are we seriously defending bigots now?

well i believe being trans , non binary and all that shit is a mental illness , so by ur definition im bigot , homophobic and racist too i think

so there you go

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Sony got reprimanded so hard for Concord I wouldn't be surprised if there were high level meetings in Japan dissecting exactly what happened and what's to blame. $400 million (allegedly) is not something you can light on fire and not miss, not to mention the loss of face and clowning they received online. They're gonna make damn sure never to leave themselves open to ridicule like that ever again. Maybe Concord was a necessary lesson.

Most people moved on from Concord like it never even existed. Most people didn't even know it existed.

Those who keep talking about it are inside a tiny bubble.

 

[Heisenberg007]

 

[Heisenberg007]

In before The Defenders™ here come in saying and convincing everyone that "yes, are a mistake, and yes, we are racist pigs."

 

[Black_Stride]

Race swapping is an act of racism.

Yet he calls fans racist when they complain.

I deduce that he's a dumb racist.

Bro this chick gives birth to a frikken world spanning snake.
I think the color of her skin should be the least of our worries.

well i believe being trans , non binary and all that shit is a mental illness , so by ur definition im bigot , homophobic and racist too i think

so there you go

At what point did I imply you were a bigot or homophobic or racist?
If you consider yourself a bigot thats on you.

 

[Pantz]

0% hype for perfect dark, never would have thought
joanna looks like my family lawyer

 

[samoilaaa]

Bro this chick gives birth to a frikken world spanning snake.
I think the color of her skin should be the least of our worries.

so if there was a game about african gods and yemoja would be a blonde white woman you think african people would be ok ?

 

[Sooner]

This is what happens when you spend 100 billion on IPs, but let the talent go to save costs.

You hire these people who care more about thier woke agenda than the games.

 

[Nostalgic Nightmare]

I wonder who will dig the hole on this one faster, the brain dead level designer or the shovel faced character model for Joanna Dark.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

We suck!

 

[Putonahappyface]

Time of the month?

 

[Esppiral]

These Devs really know hot to damage their own product

 

[IAmRei]

Luckily we're seeing a rise in more Chinese games then.

It's not lucky, chinese dev have different problem : over capitalism, see predatory gacha and awful work condition for the worker.

 

[phant0m]

Seems like once every 3 weeks now, some random person gets fed up and speaks out to give the grifters free monetization.

Then the arguments commence.

Grifting and ragebait is western culture now. Not exclusive to video games, it’s pervasive in all areas of social media and culture.

Anyway, they’re also not wrong tbh. Gaming culture has gotten exponentially more toxic in recent years. Everything is trash, unplayable, too woke, too sexist, transphobic, etc etc. y’all have let the “culture war” (as mentioned above) seep into and cloud your perspective of the whole damn industry.

GAF is all too happy to have a 30 page thread on pronoun sliders but the thread on actual gameplay is only 5.