This was because said dev made a joke about if the shooter's name was Mario. Because, y'know. Mario and Luigi. Extremely tame stuff. But they fired an employee at the behest of a Twitter mob THAT WAS ALREADY BOYCOTTING THEIR GAME. The same mob that was harassing the star of their game. Dumbfucks.
Shit-
You hate to see it.
Guess they aren't going to get any money from the right or the left now, they just shot themselves fully in the foot.
It's becoming more and more obvious to people that artists make the things they like (words, sounds, visuals etc) and the 'geniuses' behind it are cowards who flee from a targetted microblog hashtag
betcha that they won't feel this way when inevitably a good deal of their staff celebrates trump's passing. Just feels like complying in advance.
Why is it when people work at their jobs they feel the need to say this stuff even though people often get fired over things like this? I'm not saying "don't feel emotions" but just find the right place and time to express yourself. And now its impacting the game
like, my only reason to continue here is because i want to celebrate Erika's big lead role, everything else is making me so conflicted...
It's a shame because I was really looking forward to Ghost of Yotei. Sadly, I will not be buying it now. I can't support this.
So Sucker Punch is run by a bunch of suckers.....got it, boycotted
But now they have both sides mad at them!
I'd say "That's the part that really gets me" but what really gets me is this will only embolden the mob and they'll intensify their efforts. They where just told their whiny little tantrums work.
Why do these idiots listen to Grummz! WHY! This is all that dude does anymore & you're fucking SONY! Even with his meager following, he is less than a flea compared to the millions of copies of Ghost of Tsushima sold! Why can't they just listen to actual fans???
"celebrating or making light of someone's murder is a deal-breaker for us" People who talk like this do not know normal Americans or their humor or their beliefs.
Also America : dead school kids (again) ? Meh At least 1 c-nt : price worth paying , even !
No one with any authority learned a damn thing from GamerGate
Or they absolutely took some wrong lessons from it, and enjoy having an industry attack dog around.
Yeah, that too
It's wild because they don't even give a warning. The news guy that said "k!ll the homeless" got a warning and still has his job
Well, this is going to save me some money.
Keir Starmer type shit.
Is fascinating that the corpo discourse of "not bending the knee" to chinese market (that they ended doing btw). Now bend the knee to the local one. Is there something consistent on there is their hipocrisy and lack of balls.
Investors being idiots and not understanding the customer base, look what happened with Target.
man, you gotta be really weak willed to fold during the times where its most important to not give in the instant things look like they may be slightly inconvenient.
INCREDIBLE
That this harassment mob has been making death threats against Erika Ishii for nearly an entire year, but are suddenly pearl clutching about someone making a joke, should let you know they're full of shit. There's nothing sincere about it, they hated Yotei since the reveal and want to see you fail.
None of that Twitter mob was gonna buy the game anyway, but this sniveling capitulating is sure gonna make the actual audience think twice. Remind me, did anyone at Sony or Sucker Punch speak out to condemn threats and harassment Erika faced?
Not only were they not going to buy Yotei, as far as I can tell most of the so called "true fans" never played Tsushima. At the very least they didn't even make it more than an hour, because it feels like they'd have a lot to say (negative) about Lady Adachi and her whole deal.
A lot of these guys don’t really play video games. At best, they only play CoD and 2K Sports.
gambling-addicted 25-40 somethings who spend most of the work day placing bets, and their time off getting absolutely shitfaced and passing out ten minutes into south park
I'd argue that some of them were gonna buy the game. And they would have regardless because they don't actually give a shit, just pretending to.
By the way, the dev they fired over a joke seems like an absolute class act, standing by the studio and coworkers and showing the kind of integrity the studio head should have, instead of folding to right wing pressure campaign and jeopardising something a lot of people worked hard on for years.
I mean, there've been devs, good peoples, who’ve said stuff like this about companies like Ubisoft/Activision. Ultimately, I think it’s moreso just a means of avoiding burning bridges, cause this behavior from SP execs, is in no way okay and should 100% be called out with anger
The fact they are still saying this about a company that had no qualms throwing them to the trash in an instant, despite how long they’ve been with that studio, if it isn’t just to avoid burnt bridges, I just will never comprehend. corpo execs will never give you the respect and honor you give them
Seeing how the man had been in the studio for a decade, which is something few people under corporate ownership could even dream about, he most likely not only predated the turn to a more corporate mindset, but had the same relationship with the job as people whose bosses knew every employee by name
Bingo!
A good person and a good developer. Not only an absolute clusterfuck for the studio's PR, but also a loss to the team. Absolutely inexcusable, and it's a shame that more people didn't stand up for them. If I was told to fire someone like this, I'd be tending in my resignation.
Honestly would the right-wing hate mob even notice if Sucker Punch rehired him? Just stick a mustache on him like that Robot Chicken sketch.
As always, management needs a swift kick in the arse.
Or they were going to buy it anyways, and bitch the whole time. Eitherway, pandering to them does nothing but invite these guys to hang around and annoy the fuck out of you & your staff, and that makes 0 sense as a business strat.
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One day, you would think they would learn that appeasing this mob will gain them nothing. Today is not that day, I guess.
Why wet they threatening Erika?
Fucking unbelievable. The chuds that always scream about this stuff don't even buy video games. Let alone this one.
It makes me so angry and unless they walk this back (they won't) then I'm just not giving them a penny again. Absolute cowardice.
I'm still looking forward to Yotei whenever it releases on PC, but it'll be a wait for a sale rather than day 1.
Or the much sexier third option.
How the fuck is the game industry actually less prepared and less capable of dealing with a second gamer gate mob than the first one?
why do you think they're less prepared? Sounds like they've weaponized it to rid themselves of contractual obligations.
@brianfleming.bsky.social should know better.
Our species is on the whole so profoundly cowardly and stupid, and it's no fucking wonder we're going to self-destruct through a completely avoidable climate apocalypse. Maybe our end is for the best, ultimately, for life on this planet.
Alll they really had to do was treat this like they treated the star VA's harassment in the game and waited for them to get back Burger King or whatever is next on the right wing's list of grievances.
the ONE silver lining about all of this is that companies are making it really easy to save money.
The worst part is their stupidity will be a victory for the Twitter mob because if it leads to lesser sales it means they give those scumbags fuel to say "SEE, WE WERE RIGHT!".
It sounds to me like they need everybody else to boycott them as well
I was planning to buy the game purely out of solidarity for Erika Ishii. Sure as fuck thinking twice about it now.
now we know why theyre called sucker punch
Sucker Punch is shooting themselves in the foot because people who disagree with this obvious censoring over a white supremacist aren't gonna buy their games anymore now either. Charlie Kirk would've called Ghost of Yotei woke and encourage people to harass the devs. Zero spine.
Putting the sucker in Sucker Punch
The joke was fucking funny too
No one should be forgiven for siding with fascists and Nazis
And in doing so are likely alienating a fair number of people who otherwise would have bought the game
Really wishing people would understand that you could simultaneously denounce political violence, but also feel absolutely no sympathy when a dude that’s done nothing but incite political violence against you sheds off of the mortal coil.
Thinking of becoming a “we need a Sly 5” guy just to annoy these people at this point currently I’m a “Sly 5 is not a fundamentally broken premise like people say” guy which is different
Yeah I'm 100% not buying the game ever after this
I have ghost of Tsushima on my steam wishlist but it’s definitely coming off now
Not to influence anything, and, for legal reasons, this is a joke, but... The PC repack with the dlc runs very well. Do with that "joke" what you will 😊
Feel like pure shit need a fit girl to repack me
Yeah, I was very much looking forward to this game, but now? Not so much. One less preorder for me.
