I guess this is the best place to put this. I usually don't go on these long form rants, but I feel like doing this one:
So, I expressed a lot of stuff in the ResetEra thread about the Ion Fury stuff. Short version being this will likely negatively impact Voidpoint going forward and how this could affect future content/games, if any, from them to be worse than would be otherwise if this hadn't gone the way it did.
So the other day I tried to discuss this in a private group ran by someone I loosely knew. I already knew he had a few quirks about him when it came to opinions on games, but he was always pretty chill. Was. But I tried to discuss this and express essentially what I posted above, "All of this was shitty and shouldn't have happened, now Voidpoint is paying for it and, potentially, so is any future content of theirs".
I am immediately tackled by him focusing solely on the reviewbombing by fans while dismissing everything else, calling gamers whiny babies, and when I remarked how it was as if he read nothing, he immediately starts on this almost bullet point dismissal of it all. "Sensitivity training? Please it'll just be a few minute session and slap on the wrist.", "Forced to donate ten thousand dollars? That's feel good pocket change, doesn't matter.", "They operate in a professional capacity, they shouldn't speak their personal opinions, but since they did, they're deserving of all of the outcome except the reviewbombings by baby gamers", etc, etc. He then proceeds to call my personal opinion that none of it should've happened immature.
I want to believe he was taking a centrist stance of sorts, but this is someone whose game discussions focus on one or two franchises, otherwise it's him talking about how dogshit Bloodstained apparently is for the nth time, or another of the dozens of "Skyrim bad, Morrowind/Daggerfall good" circlejerks he initiates. He's even openly stated that most modern games don't interest him at all, but he tries to act like some moral and technical authority on what's good and what's bad, and what's okay to do in the industry.
It's not quite Era's level of asinine, but it's close enough that I wonder "why the fuck do you act like an authority on stuff you don't even care about?". And I feel like this kind of dismissive attitude and viewpoint, that devs not lockstepping to just "make game, sell game, stay silent" and daring to even so much as voice their personal opinions deserve punishment, without even caring about the hardships a dev is going through, is a major negative facet of today's industry.
These people have fallen right into her trap
