(09-26-2024, 09:16 PM)Uncle wrote: is this shit planned
people who hate capital G gamers and wormed their way into these positions just to destroy the industry
"oh you chuds like assassin's creed, do you? get fucked, we will take away all your sources of entertainment"
He makes an interesting connection with #MeToo. All those companies staffed up on HR and implemented all kinds of regulations and monitoring to prevent more #MeToo cases.
It just seems like they are risk averse to a fault. If you can't make attractive characters, no one will get offended. If you can't make jokes, no joke will offend etc. etc. .
If we don't make any 'violent' or 'risky' or 'family unfriendly' content Disney will be happy and approve everything.
Of course no one but the most uncreative and boring people want to work in such places, and those boring and uncreative people make boring and uncreative games. All while there is a culture of praising and promoting people for making boring and uncreative buggy games.
And we know from ResetEra how this 'ban list' can go from reasonable (Infowars, Milo, etc.) to batshit crazy (J.K. Rowling).