How is it that gaming as both an industry and as a hobby so consistently manages to attract the worst people you can imagine ä?
How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine - IGN
Submitted 7 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
chakan2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s an escapist thing. People just trying to escape the reality of their lives.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I definitely play games for the escapism (have you fucking seen this shit that’s going on?) but I manage not to be a conservative bigotted sociopath just fine. I don’t think that’s the cause
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It doesn’t, but go ahead and delude yourself.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were to look at your past comments you’d prove my point for me. You might do it right in this thread for that matter
Ashtear@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ugh, that pull quote.
Even in our press guides, we were not to say anything about Alex’s sexuality, period, at all.
Considering the response to the first game and its prequel, I don’t know who the hell SQEX Europe thought their audience was.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not like someone can sneak stuff into a game without trace. I have a hard time buying that a big studio is not using perforce or something simillar to make the games. It takes 1 minute to check revisions and give when those things were added and who added them.
Saganaki@lemmy.one 7 months ago
It most definitely takes a lot longer than one minute to check asset files for changes. That’s like saying you can just pop open 200 revisions of a 300MiB PSD file in notepad and see what change it happened in quickly. I don’t imagine somebody will write in their changelist description “submitting Nazi flag, lol” either.
Definitely a long arduous process to determine it.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean 1 minute as in “start the level tools, select the content, note the name, find it in the revision tracking software, have a talk with the person that submitted it”
It does not take a lot of time.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Oh so this was a company who made the sequels?
The original was great, glad to hear it wasn’t the same creators.
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re a bit mixed up. Don’t nod the original creators made life is strange 2. Deck nine made a prequel to the original and a new entry with a returning character in it called true colours. True colours isn’t a direct sequel and neither is 2.
FireTower@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Any one see any pictures arise from this yet? I played the game on launch then again half a year ago and don’t recall seeing any of these.
jonne@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Presumably they removed it all before launch. What I don’t get is how they didn’t figure out who did this (unless it’s mentioned later on in the article, I have up after it got rambly), don’t they use version control?
lorkano@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If it was someone with certain rights he could theoretically remove trace of this from the history
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 7 months ago
[deleted]Hadriscus@lemm.ee 7 months ago
what ? drama ? have you read the article ?
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, actual gamers do care about this. I suppose casuals and other Nazis don’t, so your notion is flipped.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Wow I’m not even to the Nazi shit yet but I’m already hating Square London liaison and Deck Nine leadership. What a toxic situation
YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Oh for fucks sake. I really enjoyed Deck Nine’s LiS work. This is extremely disappointing.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 7 months ago
“We can say that, during his time at Telltale, Zak was one of the most talented, balanced and inclusive game directors we have ever worked with, and that is evident in the games he has delivered.”
That statement doesn’t read as the defense they think it reads as.
It reads as “all of our other game directors are somehow actually worse.”
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, I read the IGN article earlier today and telltales statement actually put me off them if I’m being honest.