A little surprised to see this as a response when I wasn’t reading the thread as saying devs should comment on controversial things. Had a talk with a dev recently who said “I know we’re not supposed to talk about other games” when just name dropping something, and I was like wait why?
Yeah people are definitely taking it the wrong way. I’m just talking about innocuous stuff!
honestly it’s a multilayered problem gamers, sure, but it’s also studio mandates I’ve gotten my hand slapped for some pretty innocuous shit someone else said it but my gut is that a lot of Important People really want people to forget that games are made by people
It seems like everyone I ask has a very different interpretation of what you meant. 😅 Do you have an example of "innocuous stuff"?