Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty"

Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Of course there are innocent people, what the fuck.

  Be gleeful about it failing to sell, yes. But don’t be cruel. Don’t be glad that people who did their jobs have lost their jobs because a CEO wants to preserve investors’ profits. All the bad decisions that made the game what it was, in a huge company like EA or Ubisoft, were probably because of upper management and not because the people who lose their jobs did their jobs poorly.

  Dunk the game on reviews, tell your friends it sucks, hell even laugh at the grumbling of the pre-orderers or the captive audience of fans who will die on the hill. But don’t be cruel.

  Be(e) kind.

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  • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have no personal vendetta against any of these individual Devs.

    My stake in this is slightly different. Like, when I heard about how Blizzard treated it’s own staff and then the whole sexual harassment thing popped up, I was done with them. From that point on, that company doesn’t deserve to exist and I blacklisted them. So i try to keep up with gaming related news.

    More studios have joined that list since, for various reasons, and I find myself mostly playing indie titles from small upcoming developers now. I feel better about that.

    I do believe we should be(e) kind. But I also believe kindness is a two way street.

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    • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But you see how this is different right? I boycott the vast majority of AAA publishers too, for the same reasons. That doesn’t mean I cheer when they do mass layoffs. It doesn’t sound like you do either.

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      • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I see how it’s different. And I’m not making excuses for anyone.

        If anything, I’m saying I can understand where it’s coming from. But that doesn’t mean I’m onboard with it all.

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• termus@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait… when was this? Who did this?

  I know of some specific instances of like community managers or a single employee clapping back. Apparently they speak for every employee and the entire community? Is that how this works?

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• BurnedDonutHole@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This just reminding that Postal is the cause of all the violence because we played games on certain hardware. I’m pretty sure at the time if they had ISIS terrorist attacks they would blamed Postal as the cause.

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