Starker on 19/6/2019 at 11:41
It evidently worked, because up until now I had no idea this nontroversy even existed. Just a thought: maybe if people didn't give them such a huge amount of attention and make such a big deal out of this, they would stop doing it.
heywood on 19/6/2019 at 20:06
I expected that reaction to come from somewhere. Going Hollywood with the marketing raises its profile and draws more critical eyeballs. Personally, I don't find anything actually offensive, but some of the clichéd dialogue makes my eyes roll. Somebody who is looking for things to be offended about could easily pick on some of character stereotypes.
demagogue on 20/6/2019 at 02:19
I don't want to be talking too much to characters in a game like this to begin with. I want to cruise in my flying car through back alleyways, weave through oncoming traffic, and knock a few people off of hoverbikes. Priorities, people.
Starker on 20/6/2019 at 05:58
Quote Posted by heywood
I expected that reaction to come from somewhere. Going Hollywood with the marketing raises its profile and draws more critical eyeballs. Personally, I don't find anything actually offensive, but some of the clichéd dialogue makes my eyes roll. Somebody who is looking for things to be offended about could easily pick on some of character stereotypes.
It's not like the article was exactly eviscerating the game either. It had some concerns about the stereotypes they saw in the demo and some of the gameplay mechanics and that's it. People are so sensitive these days that any amount of mild criticism is elevated to the status of "huge outrage!". The article didn't say the devs were racist, didn't say the game should be banned, didn't demand for anyone to be fired, didn't say CD Project should stop making games, yet some of the reaction to it is as if it did all of the above.
Thirith on 20/6/2019 at 06:35
Very much this. After all, Cyberpunk 2077 still ended up on RPS's list of E3 games to watch out for.
Malf on 20/6/2019 at 09:46
Quote Posted by Starker
It's not like the article was exactly eviscerating the game either. It had some concerns about the stereotypes they saw in the demo and some of the gameplay mechanics and that's it. People are so sensitive these days that any amount of mild criticism is elevated to the status of "huge outrage!". The article didn't say the devs were racist, didn't say the game should be banned, didn't demand for anyone to be fired, didn't say CD Project should stop making games, yet some of the reaction to it is as if it did all of the above.
I'm in agreement that the article was relatively inoffensive and really just expressing mild concern. It's the
comments under the article that escalated things, to the point that RPS had to heavily moderate them and finally close them.
Indeed, the Reddit thread that Mike Pondsmith replied to was criticising the
commentors rather than the
article, but subsequent dumbfuck commentors missed that point. But RPS does tend to attract the ire of the window-licking gamergate crowd.
heywood on 20/6/2019 at 18:48
There's also opportunists like Yong Yea fanning the flames to maximize his views. After his first video on the story generated over 500k views in a day (the one that bukary posted last page), he went and put another one out yesterday complaining that RPS had "doubled down", which has nearly 400k views already.
bukary on 20/6/2019 at 22:11
Interesting... ;)
[video=youtube_share;fFXk5Bte1FQ]https://youtu.be/fFXk5Bte1FQ[/video]
ZylonBane on 20/6/2019 at 22:17
/casts Betteridge's Law