Ori Studio Head Says Review Bombing Might Force Studio Closure, Then Takes It All Back

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• supernight52@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “These days, apparently anyone who doesn’t include five trans characters in their game and doesn’t let their products be influenced by political bullshit is a Nazi. What a world we live in.”

  And like that I will not buy anything by this studio ever. Mahler is a whiny bitch baby.

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  • 7112@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This does more damage than the actual review bombs for me

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      yea for real… like I didn’t even know it /was/ being review bombed, but as an avid fan of the Ori series… this puts a real sour taste in my mouth

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  • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He had more of similar comments throughout the years so… yeah. He’s also known for poor management and causing toxic work environment to the point Microsoft decided to cut ties with the studio.
    Just in case someone thought these are just some out of context or one-time “jokes”/missteps.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yup.

      I want to say we all found out he was a piece of shit in the lead up to Ori 2? Very much led to a lot of outlets doing the “The game is good but up to you if you want to support this kind of worker abuse”. And he just got worse and worse since.

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    • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So then I was correct to spot the plea for positive review bombing his game. Two shades for Machiavellianing your workers, three for us.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And

    The confusing rant then rather radically changed subject to talk about how he doesn’t want to take sides in the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine

    And

    In 2022, VentureBeat reported that staff working for Moon Studios had told the outlet about a culture of “casual racism, sexism and bullying,” describing it as “an oppressive workplace.”

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh shit, thanks for bringing this up. Will definitely never buy a game from this studio again!

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  • LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oof, yep this really does damage to my intention to buy his game more than ‘review bombing’ often you can tell if there is something fundamentally wrong with a game or not based on the actual content of reviews…Or if users are pushing for an adjustment. If there is a whisper of a trans or gay character in a game, there is so much pushback, so I don’t know what the fuck he is on about; Mahler is such a whiny snowflake, that probably needs to take his medication because his post history is looking a little sus. Like he unplugged from reality for a few minutes.

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  • catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeaaaah, I’m with you. What a wild comment to make. I was ready to give them the benefit of the doubt that the whole review bombing drama was just a case of having a bad day but this is something else.

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  • ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh damn. I was going to get the Ori games but will spend my money elsewhere. Thanks for the heads up.

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    • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      🏴‍☠️ them instead

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There was no review bombing.

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    • supernight52@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a quote from the article about his response to this situation.

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• mohab@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this a good time to say Ori is a shit metroidvania? I understand why people like the platforming and chase sequences, but it's a really bad metroidvania as far as everything else goes.

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• gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I assumed pretty immediately upon hearing him in a couple of interviews that he was exactly this right winger camoflaughing as a centralist. I gave the game the benefit of the doubt because I hadn’t seen any hard evidence but I’ll stop talking kindly about the game based on this info.

  Politics is how we organize our society. Most of everything is political. When society starts organizing movements against groups of people, stripping away rights, and generally being Nazis you have to get more political to stop them. Taking no position is taking a position. Join the rebellion or support the empire, there is no in-between.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Takes it all back because A. There was no review bombing, people who left mixed reviews had reasonable a valid complaints, and B. He reverses course as soon as people started pointing out how he was protesting quite a lot about exactly nobody calling him a Nazi.

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• Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Awwww and I wanted to buy and play them :(

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    👒 🏴‍☠️ 🌊 🚢 you can still play them Arrr

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    • Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s when I wear the pirate hat but still! I saw a bundle with the first game :(

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    • Oughtakyk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is the way 🦜

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