Fntastic release a statement, accusing "bloggers" of spreading "misinformation" that ultimately led to The Day Before's…
  • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
    44·
    10 months ago

    The Last of Us 2 absolutely had a hate campaign long before it released, it was review bombed within minutes of release

    This game had everything on its side. All the youtuber who covered it the months before release were like “it seems too good to be true, but if it’s true it’ll be great”. Everyone wanted it to be good, everyone wanted it to succeed

    • interolivary@beehaw.org
      21·
      10 months ago

      Yeah I remember the “waaaa it went woke, Abby is trans” insanity

      Edit: no brain, it wasn’t Ellie

      • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
        20·
        10 months ago

        It wasn’t her it was Abby, because she was buff they claimed she was trans. Then there was a sex scene with Abby and man and they claimed is was an unskipable gay male sex scene (it was skipable, btw, and it was hetero sex, but she’s got biceps)

        • interolivary@beehaw.org
          11·
          10 months ago

          Oh yes doi of course, that was just a brain fart. But yes exactly this, it was such a spectacularly gAmEr moment.

        • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social
          9·
          10 months ago

          Can’t help but feel some distaste for the idea that a mandatory gay sex scene is grounds for boycott, while most of them don’t mind a mandatory straight sex scene in an M-rated game.

          I have my issues with TLoU2 but that one really brought the chuds out of the woodwork.

          • interolivary@beehaw.org
            3·
            10 months ago

            They take any presence of minorities as part of an agenda to, uh, I don’t know what exactly. They always screech about an agenda but I don’t think even they know what the agenda is supposed to be about.

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
    26·
    10 months ago

    In summary, the writer says the game indeed sucked and it was not caused by racist hate coming from random bloggers, whom by the way they never named. That dev can continue to go fuck itself into bankruptcy.

  • stardustEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    Surprised they didn’t throw in the usual death threats spiel too whenever something isn’t well received so attention shifts to pitying them.

  • HorreC@kbin.social
    12·
    10 months ago

    Was it the hate campaign that made any of your associated address with the company were never a place you were at? Was it them who used unpaid interns to mod and build the game, then left them out to dry with no support when the hate for the state of the game came in?

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    10 months ago

    So… my comment was removed…now we can’t tell scam artists who are peddling literal fake news to “shut the fuck up” here without our comments (that multiple people agreed with here) without getting culled?

    I understand about not being toxic towards other’s here but this was directed at the ponce making that statement