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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

You’re missing a step here. 3.5. He chooses not to use the items he has that would have restored his mana

That does change things a bit.

I’ve never played WoW and generally avoid MMOs, so I don’t know how everything works. I just assumed mana items are a time effect thing, so he would’ve needed to plan ahead. If they were already bailing, there’s no reason to use them on the way out.

and avoiding all the other evidence that’s out there you haven’t seen

Well yeah, I can’t know what I don’t know.

Those were the best examples provided to me, and they didn’t seem as bad as people made them out to be. I just have to assume the rest is more of the same.

I’m happy to look at more though. But honestly, I don’t know what you’d gain from that, I already don’t watch his content and support SKG. I guess I might repost some links for others to check out if they’re also confused by the backlash.

playing another MMO on stream

Someone else mentioned that here (today?), and that’s certainly enough for me to not want to watch his streams. I already avoid a lot of the popular streamers for being disrespectful to random opponents, and doing that to someone on your team is absolutely unacceptable.

I still don’t think that warrants the response he got, from calls for resignation to swatting.

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EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t think he’s been swatted. In fact, a lot of the “backlash” that Pirate has complained about has also been debunked. In the contrary, since the backlash started he’s been calling for his fans to brigade and mass report anyone who criticizes him, live on stream.

As for the resignation, generally companies don’t like to have people who are ongoing, unapologetic public menaces to be the faces of their company. Any consequences Pirate faces are all of his own doing. If you’re going to be a public figure, you have to understand that you’re going to be held accountable for your behavior by somebody.

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  literally none of the games had been review-bombed.
  
  I saw some “review bombing” on his game Heartbound. Long term reviews are 62% (mixed, 3000 reviews), and recent reviews are 8% (600+). When I checked a couple weeks ago when the whole thing was fresh, I swear the overall was positive.
  
  To me, that’s review bombing. The game had been out for ~7 years, and nearly 25% of the total reviews are “recent” (many since the end of June).
  
  So my take here is that he was worried that reaction would spread to the other studio, which I guess never materialized.
  
  He filed a lawsuit
  
  That’s really lame. Games should be allowed to use free expression, barring blatant slander.
  
  Any consequences Pirate faces are all of his own doing
  
  I disagree, but I don’t know much about him. I don’t think anyone deserves to be publicly lambasted unless they truly are a public menace like Trump. Tell people to avoid his content, sure, but his work at a game studio should absolutely be unrelated, provided he’s not given a platform for his unpopular views.
  
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  - EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I saw some “review bombing” on his game Heartbound.
    
    heartbound is his game. It’s not published by the company he resigned from. It also isn’t just people review bombing it for some unrelated reason. His game has been in early access hell for years with no sign of ever releasing to the people who’ve backed him and paid for it. And after he started getting all this attention, various developers have been digging into his code and finding out that’s it’s coded horribly, and the chances of him finishing the game with the way it’s coded are low. It’s not review bombing of the reviews are legitimately criticizing the game. The fact that they’re so recent is because Pirates poor behavior is putting his game in the spotlight.
    
    So my take here is that he was worried that reaction would spread to the other studio
    
    Your take would be wrong. He didn’t say he resigned because he was worried about the publishers games getting potentially review bombed in the future. He said they had been review bombed, in the affirmative. Which was yet another PirateSoftware lie.
    
    I disagree, but I don’t know much about him.
    
    Well this keeps coming up and it’s getting really weird that you keep making the point of “Here is my opinion on something, strong enough to believe others are wrong, even though I’m ignorant to most of what’s going on here”.
    
    Perhaps before you make any more assertions you should just go and… figure out what it is you’re talking? I don’t mean to be rude but your opinions just mean less than nothing when they’re admittedly based on ignorance. What I’ve explained to you is
    
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