Really love when the “I survived cod lobby” people will type up a books worth of bitching across Reddit every time a they put a black person or non waifu woman in a game.
Yep, and because they were the COD lobbies themselves
For real they really do overstate how toxic these lobbies were most people just stfu and played the game. These people were probably the ones shouting slurs in the first place.
That’s what makes me laugh about that statement, those lobbies weren’t anything special, almost all the trash talk you heard from them was just the same old tired Racist, bigoted, phobic remarks we hear to this day from them
Idiots who tend to spout that line wouldn’t last 5 minutes with someone who Actually knows how to trash talk with creativity
Or spit facts
I was playing with a group my brother met. One guy (who was the kind of chud who acted in the lobbys like you described) was bitching about matches where he had to dash board to protect his K D ratio and I said “I don’t dash board I’d rather have accurate stats otherwise the KD ratio doesn’t matter because its fake” and he got triggered and me blocked instantly
Which is why they go nuts when a "female" gets in one. Their little feelings can't handle that.
Of course they have no issues hearing the same slurs they love to use.
These guys would wither away in a community Tf2 lobby
Plus, most players never touched voice chat and 'the old CoD lobbies' have normalized people literally never joining voice chat
Seriously, every shooter I've ever played it's the same story now, one or two people in vc who are nothing but angry bc nobody is using vc
"Slurs are a rite of passage" the mfs that think this have literally driven away entire English-speaking markets from playing with mics forever
Well, you see, if you're the problem, every lobby you've ever been in has been toxic.
they were the COD lobbies themselves
We always want to ignore our parts in phenomena. Traffic is bad but I am not traffic, for one example.
Edit: Downvoting me and pretending we're arguing isn't a way to get me to engage with you lol, eat a dick.
Ehh that's not really a good comparison. Traffic affects everyone the same inside, and people need to go where they are going.
In those COD lobbies they were sooo brave in, they had no real effect of anything inside? Why would a raging racist/misogynist/etc be affected by slurs towards the very groups they hate at all? What's brave about that lol.
In two years when the effects of the layoffs hit and the only AAA games coming out are a handful of overmanaged flops and rushed AI Art filled trash, those same gamers will be out here: "OMG lazy fukin devs! DEI ruined gaming!!!!"
It's like Nazi Germany all over again, where instead of blaming greedy capital owners they literally blamed a minority for every economical problem that appeared.
Now they blame ALL minorities as if we all control the banks, media and corporations. Seriously, that's their talking point when they see a minority working behind a triple A title, they put all the blame on them and not on management, corporation or investors.
Yup. That was the gta 6 subreddit back when rockstar announced wfh was ending.
They didn’t care at all because “they have the best job in the world! I want my game now!”
I once was contacted by a recruiter from Rockstar to interview for a job there. Im glad I always read NDAs all the way through, theirs had a lifelong "non-disparagement" clause which was so overreachingly written that arguably giving a negative Steam review on any of their products would violate it. This was just to interview, not even for the job itself.
Needless to say I declined their request to interview.
Companies can and do screw over devs they didn't even hire. This is in addition to the stuff they do to those they hire.
Jesus that’s really fucking overkill.
There were people in that same thread defending crunch.
Overreaching NDA's (or ND's in general) like this are straight up worker abuse and should be made illegal.
They're generally non-enforceable and exist mostly to intimidate you into compliance, because while you will eventually win the court case they as a company have the money to drag it out and you don't.
They tell us "No, they can't do that because it's illegal" but then rich people can screw with people's lives with little to no consequences because everything is for sale, including the courts. They only time they punish the rich is when they overstep so much the court would look bad if they let them get away too much.
That's why I have hopes with developers exiting the mainstream companies and opening their own indie game studios, and even if it's just a single developer the stuff people pull out is very impressive.
Maybe the future is technology becoming more accessible that the cost of production for art becomes lower and lower, allowing creative people to fullfil their craft without having to worry about investment and all the pressure from rich assholes.
In the context of crunches, I've heard people say "pressure makes diamonds." Its so depressing. Look at all the cut content from FNV. Yeah, its a beautiful game considering it took only 18 months but all that means is it could have been better with more time.
Equally frustrating since anti-woke losers for some reason LOVE cyberpunk 2077 now. Even though it had a disastrous launch symbolic with everything wrong with the industry. They praise the devs for making it so much better after launch... Okay why not just give them more time before launch??? I thought we were supposed to be against the early-accessification of the industry?
I think its incoherent not out of malice but just sheer emotion. Consumers want games as fast as possible. They also want the games to be good. Therefore, give them good games as fast as possible. It must be a winning formula otherwise they're just acting like spoiled, crying babies.
I'm pretty sure the problem with Cyberpunk were the investors, but yeah. The investors and most consumers don't understand how much time goes into a game. How fucking tedious it is to program even the smallest thing. Even when you know exactly what you're doing it's still going to take forever to do that thing. I dunno why this is the case. It just is.
You know Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons and Stardew Valley? I recreated the same basic farming mechanics (hoeing the land, planting, watering, making it grow after every time you go to bed, and harvesting) and even though I knew exactly what I was doing it still took me thirty minutes just to do that for a single crop for a single tile in RPG Maker XP (I make Pokemon fan games and that's what's required) because that's just what happens when you make a game.
But people don't understand that. People for some reason seem to believe that because it can take seconds to plant a crop in these games, that programming such a thing only takes a few minutes, tops. But that's simply just not how it works.
Of course something as large as Cyberpunk 2077 was going to take over a decade to make. If I were to guess, the investors heard that the game was technically done, but it went through little-to-no testing. Fixing bugs, or finding ways around the bug will also take a long ass time to do. But the investors didn't care and threatened to pull their money away if they didn't release it before it was ready, because "it was done."
Î THIS
Those anti-woke bros have no understanding of how anything works and think every problem caused by predatory exploitation can be fixed with more predatory exploitation.
Reminds me of Elon Musk blaming the pilot of an plane for a malfuction because he was black, but not the company cutting costs by not fixing their planes.
Most frustrating this is you know how many of these people were all about ethics during GamerGate when they thought it was morally ok to harass women for shit they didn't do.
The thing that bothers me about the support of other industry hostile work environments is that it is almost always hits those same people eventually, and they never seem to understand why. Like if you encourage the gaming industry to have shitty work environments, it's not too long until it hits whatever job, if any, that they work in. If I've learned anything from being on LinkedIn looking for jobs (and sometimes seeing stuff on r/linkedinlunatics), it's that people will observe these negative trends and implement them if they think it'll make profit.
Hey! We generally have a "make fun of gamersTM on weekends only" rule for memes and screenshots of reactionary takes etc. I guess this one is technically neither of these things and people do wanna talk about AC these days. But let us know how you all feel about bending the rule a bit, if you want.
Honestly this picture is so funny I think it should stay up
I am not a fan of bending that rule as I think it is a very reasonable measure that helped a lot to clean the sub.
On the other hand, yeah, this is kind of talking about actual gaming news right now which happen to be about culture war stuff. I would prefer of course that the community avoided failing into the manipulations of corporations by playing into the culture war stuff, but there are some inteligent conversation going on even when it is a case of outrage marketing (not because is unthinkable to have a black samurai but because it is a spicy creative choice made to spark the outrage it sparked).
I suppose as long as the post that are directly making fun or joking or meming or posting takes from right-wingers are kept to the weekend is fine. I also think if a topic is beaten to death there should be some moderation? Like, this three days there have been like 5 or 6 post about AC. I do not know how many more can bring actual interesting conversation and not just be a way for people to farm magical internet points.
It should stay up and be cross-posted to GCJ where this kind of stuff is the bread and butter
That was the reason for the rule, yeah. Sub was turning into CGJ light.
GCJ is definitely overboard. Got permabanned there over very innocuous defense of the Helldivers community when all that hit the fan. For reference, I’ve never even been temp banned from a sub.
They hate gamers so much that they’ll take any stance oppositional to the gaming zeitgeist without thinking — They went straight to defending Sony after Helldivers & defending Microsoft after Tango. This is the same sub that has a sarcastic tag for “worship capital”…
The fact that I am subbed to socialist gaming should give you a clue as to how far left I actually am… But anyone is welcome to take a quick peek at my comment history if they’re not buying it 😂
TLDR: It’s a good rule… that’s a good thing to avoid — but also OP is funny & not at all GCJ levels, IMHO.
I swear to god that place and other "progressive nerd circlejerk" subs perpetuate the fake ass media culture war as much as the chuds, and I always wonder just how much of it is people putting their hand in both pots.
I got permabanned for saying that playing that harry potter game didn't instantly make you cringe (even if it is much more boring than the chuds think it is) because there is actually trans representation in it (since Rowling had little hand in the game itself) so it's clear the Devs probably didn't agree with her views. They don't know the concept of nuance sadly, and I think most of them are still in that reactionary lib/burgeoning leftist phase of their lives.
I mean unhinged mods is a real issue. Their own rules state you can only get permabanned if they temp ban first + I completely believe you because I didn’t actually break any sub or Reddit rule either lol.
There’s echo chamber & then there’s banning anything you don’t like. Wild.
Anyhow, glad I found socialistgaming — much more my speed.
I think it's fine since it's quite a prevalent piece of racism in gaming rn, and censoring that probably isn't the best, but I do think if you want to keep the sub 'clean' you should enforce that rule for general gamer-posting.
I am not a fan of bending that rule as I think it is a very reasonable measure that helped a lot to clean the sub.
On the other hand, yeah, this is kind of talking about actual gaming news right now which happen to be about culture war stuff. I would prefer of course that the community avoided failing into the manipulations of corporations by playing into the culture war stuff, but there are some inteligent conversation going on even when it is a case of outrage marketing (not because is unthinkable to have a black samurai but because it is a spicy creative choice made to spark the outrage it sparked).
I suppose as long as the post that are directly making fun or joking or meming or posting takes from right-wingers are kept to the weekend is fine. I also think if a topic is beaten to death there should be some moderation? Like, this three days there have been like 5 or 6 post about AC. I do not know how many more can bring actual interesting conversation and not just be a way for people to farm magical internet points.
God, in the gta 6 subreddit soooo many people were anti worker when rockstar announced the end of work from home.
They just want what they want and they want it now.
Must consume new content now….
They’re literal children most of the time it seems.
That's why it's good many devolopers are exiting those companies to open their own indie studios, at least I hope they lean more on the side of workers instead of blindly following investors.
I sense much the same in M:tG. Maybe not directly, but I can certainly imagine many players are just fine with the extra-high set release rate whatever it does to designers’ health. Pointing out that it’s really just to catch up with the hedge funds’ demands for tribute probably won’t help much.
(Now whether any of them will expressly say “Well I, for one, welcome our new natural aristocracy overlords”…)
There is this video I saw where a dude is showing Ubisoft musing how to get the gaming community to not look at what an awful company they are to promote their new game. One dude has the bright idea that they play on controversy so the gamers will fight amongst themselves and not pay attention to AC Shadows shitty pre-orders or the fact that you have to have an Internet connection to play the game, even with the physical copy. Think he was on to something.
I saw the same video and yeah, pretty much. It's just like how we only hear about how sexist and racist Star Wars fan are when they don't like something. You can tell how successful any given Star Wars project is by how much the media is talking about the fans being toxic.
Now Ubisoft are using Yasuke as a big black shield.
To be fair, there were a ton of "anti-woke" douchebros shitting on the protagonist of Ubisoft's Star Wars game because they think she isn't hot enough, from one screenshot that is clearly stretched. So we got some of that. And Ubsoft hid behind that too. They don't make good games anymore, so now they make controversial ones.
No, actually, it isn't like that.
"We" don't "only hear about how [bigoted] Star Wars fans are". Some of the more financially successful projects had that issue, while complete bombs like Solo didn't. A lot of good in newer Star Wars is overlooked by these people, and that is the opposite of what's happening with the gaming industry as a whole, although it happens with specific games. (STUPID) people say the other problems with Star Wars are BECAUSE it's "woke" (they aren't), while shithead gamers don't recognize a lot of the other problems at all, or don't make that connection, or criticize them in parallel.
"Star Wars fans" - the ones being criticized - often are toxic, and have heavy overlap with the people bitching about a black video game character.
And Ubisoft isn't using anyone as a "big black shield", and that's a vile thing to say regardless.
There are similarities, and companies do hide behind the controversy, but the way you're characterizing the issue is absolutely wrong.
They really do go on bigoted hate campaigns. It's not slandering gamers. The companies are capitalizing on their bad behavior.
Reminds of the Writers's Strike, they were literally not getting paid for the work they have done despite the contract establishing they have percentage on each profit made with that product. There were movies who made millions that studios declared as losses, and no one even investigates it for what is obviously a case of fraud to evade taxes. There are movies only avaliable on streaming services that have pulled off from all services because the company who owns it doesn't want pay people their part.
It was all happening for years until it finally blew up into a wide strike with even support of high paying actors.
Maybe with entertainment in general, technology advances and becomes more accessible, reducing the costs of production to allow more indepence to the artists behind it.
I joke he was on to something but I actually don't like this train of thought, it makes it seem as though some people think gamers engaging in racism have no agency and they were 'tricked' into being racist
Ubisoft is obviously capitalizing off it but this is clearly a genuinely racist hate campaign
My conspiracy isnt that they chose a black dude who existed because it would spark controversy, the dev teams probably did actually think using Yakuse for an AC game was a good idea (because it is.)
My conspiracy is that Ubisoft either had or paid or pushed a couple o nobody accounts to start amping up the outrage cycle on both sides to then generate a rage bait content shitstorm specifically so that liking this game would become a moral battle that internet culture war losers will spend money on.
This is an actual conspiracy theory and I'm glad you're acknowledging that at least. There is difference between you thinking a corporation is capitalizing on outrage, and thinking genuine racism is potentially a made up problem
I'm 34 years old, been playing since my older brother got a SNES. Life experience tells me that people who play games are fine. People who identify as "gamers" are usually pretty cancerous.
Nah, even gamers are cool... Its just that everyone can become a gamer.
It's not like with politics, where certain opinions direct you in a specific political spectrum. Its like saying that "Breathers" are racist and homophobe... but all humans breath, so it's only natural that the bad people are part of it too.
It's just a loud (and very dumb) minority.
The important point is probably putting Gamer at the top of one’s self-descriptors. Particularly above any sort of philosophy (note that by my lights, politics is “just” applied philosophy). I can certainly tell you that at-least-greatly-sympathizing-with-Kropotkin-and-Makhno is above being a gamer in my case. Actually, so too is being a birder. Somehow give me a stark choice between “never play video games again” and “never go birding again”, and video games are going night-night.
I would describe myself as gamer, and it would be a fitting description (I do like games, both tabletop and pc). But I'm on the total opposite side of the political spectrum compared to the ones complaining about such bullshit. And the same counts for all my friends. Everyone can be a gamer.
So complaining about gamers in general is kinda stupid. Because you essentially complain about all people with a certain hobby. A very varied hobby too, given that there exist games for everybody.
And of course I’d forgotten about the term “gamerbro”—although I’ll be surprised if they use it themselves.
fwiw studies have found that the more actively you engage in hobby spaces, but especially gaming, the more risk you run of being exposed to toxicity. The study found that toxicity and aggression were prevalent among people who regularly engaged in online gaming discussions, so I think culturally progressive spaces especially in games are crucial because most people who play video games don't take to the internet to complain unless they are potentially very angry with something, and not everything they are angry with is a good thing
Everyone can be a gamer, and so many people enjoy games, but identifying as a gamer on the internet and treating it like a societal mission (i.e. being some 'gamers rise up' asshole) tends to be a lot more of a homogenous culture
I am specifically wary anymore of gaming subs that are afraid to discuss, for example, homophobia or antiblackness as 'culture war', I do not think banning cultural discussion in left wing gaming spaces is smart because all of the 'apolitical' gaming news and meme spaces lean right wing pretty aggressively and they don't ban racism, I don't like the idea of gaming spaces banning speaking out against racism before the majority of them even actively ban racism
Damm Gamers they have ruined gaming
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to hate Ubisoft. The protagonists for the next game are not one of them.
As someone with deep understanding of Japanese history, with a specific interest in the samurai, i can understand the anger that come from the protagonists chosen for the upcoming game. Had Ubisoft had any interest in respecting the culture and delivering a true to life main character, then you would obviously have played as Tom Cruise.
Aww, not Daidouji Yuuzan? (Honestly, considering he had to write that code in the first place because of how scurrilous samurai could be…It now gets even more grim that he had to tell samurai that they should have nothing to do with a daimyou who abuses his wife. As in how frequent spousal abuse was among the samurai and kuge…)
This headline is absolutely savage lol.
Somehow they found the most dubious possible way to blame black people if there is a single black character is in a work of fiction (even if it's based on a real person).
Yeah it's been my least favorite inconsistency with Gamers. In every instance on earth capitalism is an issue, they act like fucking Objectivists. But as soon as a fucking unicorn skin for a virtual horse is $1 more expensive than last year, suddenly they're all radical gaming Socialists who want to tear down the powerful greedy publishers and free art from profit with the revolutionary act of downvoting an EA comment. "Vote with your wallet bro" until it affects their wallet.
The worst of the assassin's Creed case is that the protagonist is real, there was a black samurai
They always have the same argument that he wasn't a samurai, and every time they never cite their sources
I have seen a ton of these dudes go, "I can't be racist, I love Afro Samurai, it is just clear that Yasuke was not a real samurai" which is extra goofy bc, 1.) 'I can't be racist, I like an anime with a fictitious Black samurai' is even more divorced from reality than 'I have Black friends', and 2.) Afro Samurai was explicitly based on Yasuke, Takashi Okazaki wanted to make a fictional anime directly inspired by history's first Black samurai, if you deny that Yasuke was a samurai then you deny the narrative background of Afro Samurai, as decided by an actual Japanese creator
Whats more amazing is that they use the Edo definition of a Samurai applying it to the Sengoku period.
Samurai in the Sengoku period just meant anyone who was a full-time soldier. The idea of a Samurai as being a rigid military caste that you "had" to be born into is an invention of the Edo period. Having a long Katana wasn't the hallmark of a Samurai in the Sengoku period either until the late 17th century when Bakufu Edo outlawed wearing of the long sword in public of the non-Samurai population way past both Yasuke and William Adams time.
Now Samurai clans were definitely aristocratic noble families that you had to be born into. Being a member of a clan's Kashindan did not mean you were apart of the clan, but you did not need to be part of the clan to be a Samurai.
You can take Toyotomi Hideyoshi for example, the unifier of Japan and a peasant not of nobility, he was one of Oda's Retainers who eventually became a Samurai.
Yasuke basically served as Nobunaga Oda's Kosho which was a personal servant/bodyguard to a Busho or the Samurai equivalent of a general or lord. Kosho, critically, were considered Samurai. Yasuke was a Samurai who was on Oda's Fuchi (扶持) meaning warrior employed by stipend or paid by a rice stipend which is also a wage for less paid Samurai usually for temporary employment. Given the fact Yasuke was beside Nobunaga Oda side in permanent employment, it doesn't make sense for Yasuke to be anything but a warrior/Samurai.
Also, fuck the Samurai.
Historically the Samurai were basically fucking imperialists and went around slaughtering Koreans in Korea 10 years after Yasuke during the Imjin war. They are heavily romanticized as these "honorable" warriors equivalent to European Knights when really they were just nobles with swords and were like any other warrior that were opportunists commonly changing allegiances, slaughtered civilians, raping, and plundering places etc.
The vast majority of people mad at Yasuke are terminally online, culture war weebs and diaspora folks. Barely heared anything from Japan having a problem with it.
Mike Drucker's great, his name pops up all over the place, and his work is always a joy.
/rj at least I'm happy because everyone involved in this decision is gonna lose their job. And also everyone involved in every other decision too
But if the AAAA slop stops flowing all the presstitutes like Mike will lose their jobs too!!
Good
Who cares about the hostile work environment where the workers are abused? Or the alleged sexism and racism? Or about the layoffs? (Probably to try to replace them with A.I. somehow.) Or even about the microtransactions, where they'll sell faster XP for $20? The real problem is that you play as Yasuke- a black samurai who actually existed!
No, I'm not racist! I'm just mad that the game isn't historically accurate! (Even though he actually existed.) What do you mean Ezio didn't actually fist fight the pope to death?! Next you're going to tell me that mythological creatures weren't actually real and that assassins didn't actually kill them!
It's really fucking annoying, like I cancelled my game pass sub and am never buying from Microsoft again after the shit they pulled with tango and people think I'm over reacting. But they changed a couple of outfits in stellar blade and put a black guy in a game and I'm now crazy for not giving a toss.
Bro fr. I went on steam and saw like THREE DIFFERENT curators that were literally just "WOKE IN GAMES???" or "sweet baby inc detected" where they would just shit on games for being too "woke" or just having gender options at all
Well I rlly dont fare about assassin creeds black n yellow in Japan these mfers acting like they can sell this piece of shit for 130 or screw us wit a 17.99 a month n hoping ppl forget screw that shit don't care if games good it's gonna play like shitty batman arks games anyways
The game is 70 bucks, 130 is the deluxe version to get season pass and some decorations/skins. You can easily finish the game in one month also so paying for Ubisoft+ and completing it means you spent 17.99.
And that's how they sucker people in thanks for stating the obvious
Rare TheGamer W
Anyone have a link to the article?
EDIT: Here. This is actually amazing. While searching for it I found that anti-woketuber Vera Dark (or whatever her name is) made a video on it I guess, calling it a "journo MELTDOWN". I suppose calling out bullshitters like her is considered melting down now.
I really wish the layoffs and worker conditions were enough to get me to stop buying some of these games but my life sucks enough that I will do anything to chase that lil bit of happy brain juice
Getting fired because you did something that pissed everyone off, tanked game sales, tanked stock prices, etc.
is not the same as
getting fired after putting out a hit game then getting fired anyway to increase value for share holders.
The first one is just a consequence of your own actions. The second one is toxic capitalism. They are not the same.
Bro, nobody that matters is mad that the game about the ancient black samurai is, in fact, about the ancient black samurai. Youre fighting ghosts. If you wanna play that card just use horizon zero dawn as an example.
Make better games.
To be fair, I don't care about the layoffs. What do you expect from corporations ran by the literal worst people on wall st.
Always here for Japanese history, though. Hoping this trend continues because there's so much good stuff on that weird, little island
As an ostensible socialist you should care. They’re workers, the ones who actually make the games we enjoy. It’s worker solidarity. Am I shocked that Amazon employees are subject to the conditions that they are? No, but I’m appalled all the same and believe that in a just world it would not exist in any way remotely resembling what it does. Same goes for the games industry.
Edited to add: I’m not trying to be moralistic or a scold. Just wanted to point out that insofar as socialism is politically oriented toward workers’ liberation we should stand in solidarity with all workers.
I don't see anything incompatible with wanting more rights for workers and not being the least bit surprised that a big video game publishing corporation is doing exactly what corporations always do.
I was specifically responding to the statement that you don’t care about the layoffs which I read as antipathy toward the people laid off. Sounds like thats not what you meant though so nvm my bad.
Leftists fighting with each other?! Well I've never!!!!!
lol, jk, just tired of capitalism. Wake me up when Star Trek, plox
The article: Has an ironic title that sets the focus on the horrible working conditions of the industry in light of the recent massive layoffs.
This post: the gAmErs hAtE tHe GaMers. OMG sO fUnNy
Bet you can not guess which one is from the liberal marketing industry of gaming news and which is from a member of a "socialist" community.
I mean the post is sharing the same message as the article it’s just that OP couldn’t come up with a better title, happens to the best of us.
Unrelated but I also gotta play the is the 88 in the username randomly generated or not game here lol
My birthday is the 8th and Reddit recommended me the other 8 when I created my username a while back.
Funny enough, I never realized any nefarious implications until just recently in this subreddit. I suppose it is the easy point of attack when someone disagrees with me, does not matter I am a frequent user on this sub where is evident I am left wing and not some kind of nazi troll.
I looked at your post history and saw you post here often so that’s why I bothered to try to explain my defense of op. That’s also why I said it was unrelated but I did find it kinda funny, unfortunate coincidence lol.
The right doesn't give to shits about workers, unions or fair and equal pay, but race they care very much about because it rules up a very specific people who cling to heritage if racial bigoted supremacist descent
Honestly lately with how a lot of game developers completely lost the ability to develope games I’m for a bit of a spring cleaning. When’s the last time we got a game dropped and then didn’t have to wait a week to play due to it missing 30-60 gb download. As for the assassins creed thing honestly I get it, like out of the millions of Japanese people from Japan they chose the one non Japanese person to make a game over. Instead of you know making it a fake person like they have for the past like 8 games
If the studio is going to fail because it is pissing off a critical mass of its customer base, that's on them. It's never the consumer's fault if a product fails, it's the fault of the producer who failed to make a product that the market wanted.
It is not the consumer's job to consume something they don't like just because someone's job is at risk.
The article is talking about people making bullshit, often bigotry-based reasons for shouting down a game that hasn't even been released yet when they should be talking about the actual injustices in the gaming world.
Nobody is saying, "This is the consumers job to support games that nobody wants." AC games have sold tens of millions of copies as a series, people clearly still want them. So let's not dust off the old strawman just yet. Try to engage with the point that's actually being made instead of just tearing down an injustice you imagined in your head.
Pretty sure a lot of them actively support hostile work environments for devs because they imagine it'll drive out the "weak" undesirables who don't tolerate abuse aka all those woke DEI hires.
Crunch - "It's part of the job, don't be a baby. Gimme my toys faster!" Layoffs - "Common practice, who cares, gimme a new toy if you want a job!" Sexual harassment/racism in the office - "Real Gamers remember COD lobbies 🤣🤣"
Ethics in gaming™