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That tweet from Capcom came TODAY. Grummz claims to have insiders and will release info tomorrow.
Most people don't remember / never knew about the leaks so I'm frustrated everyone is acting surprised, lol.
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That tweet from Capcom came TODAY. Grummz claims to have insiders and will release info tomorrow.
Most people don't remember / never knew about the leaks so I'm frustrated everyone is acting surprised, lol.
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That's why I'm assuming the CEO knows there's something bad in the Kotaku piece that will basically render the company unable to convince future investors in getting involved. Plus he owns multiple other studios he also recently closed? So to me it reads as some kind of money laundering/tax evasion or something.
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I don't think it was due to wokeness. If I recall correctly (this was mentioned on the Pokemon Go subreddit):
There's a Niantic staff member who is favored by management, and their project is these customizable new avatars. People may be blowing smoke up the ass of the favored staff member.
As this guy explains it; more avatar customization is certainly a good idea, but they really dropped the ball by trying to force the male and female character to use the same base model. Sure, it's easier for asset reuse, but it only works with low-poly and chibi styles. The current art style is too detailed for a neutral model to not look uncanny.
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Yeah, that makes sense. The only thing I really got was a referral to another job which paid less and was not as good, but I was probably lucky to get with the way hiring was at the time.
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Expect Maximillion Dood to ignore the problem and once again suck Capcom's dick, since he's a well known Consoomer.
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You can say that about almost every old and ignored Capcom IP.
Unfortunately, nobody listens.
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People unfortunately don't listen, I'm afraid. Especially when they are a huge Capcomfags. One of my favorite games was Devil May Cry but I'm disappointed when they kicked off Dante's VA (from dmc3-5) from merely shitter tweets. I refuse to spend anymore money in Capcom games especially that I sniffed hints of faggotry in their latest Street Fighter game.
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When they got rid of of Ken's VA over bullshit (I don't think the DMC 5 team got rid of him, it was mostly Street Fighter's production that did it), I was pretty much done with them. I might've bought Street Fighter 6 on console, but that was mostly for the benefit of a friend of mine. I won't buy it on PC now that I've moved on. I'll still play a lot of their older games and older fighting games from their glory days, but after Street Fighter 6? Nah. I won't touch anything from new Capcom.
The DMC 5 team were smart in ignoring the shitflinging and taking the dude's comments out of context, so they retained him for 5. So, you have mostly the Street Fighter crew to thank for that round of bullshit.
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It sounds like the company lost a major project due to corporate leaks and probably had to close because that project was what was basically holding up the company. Most people don't realize that most indie developers basically live project to project and use these projects to keep their doors open. Even larger indie studios like Platinum Games had to exist like this, which is why Platinum made so many shitty licensed games. They were basically holding the company together till the next big project. The cancelling of Scalebound almost sunk Platinum, and only the success of Nier Automata saved them.
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I'm suddenly being recommended reaction videos of people watching the Star Wars Outlaws trailers and getting hyped for it, like it's supposed to be an organic reaction, and totally not a paid for shill video.
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We all know what happened here.
The game was woke-infested and fucking crap, the devs hadn't made shit for progress while draining the coffers, the game leaked to Kotaku - who love click-bait and trend-chasing, and as the trend is 'woke bad', I've no doubt the CEO was a child-sniffing closet-fag and the game was probably a pedofile simulator.
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And call everything a far-right conspiracy. I'm still sore on him leaving Dante's VA to die and spitting on his proverbial grave.
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It’s even funnier when you realise these people heckin’ love Wakanda.
Kel1 shi1
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I imagine this was fairly common. I worked for a company during that time that massively downsized and told 30% of the staff they were out of a job at the end of the week. The very next day every manager, director, CEO was out of the the building at an off site meeting. There was a large store room at the end off the office packed with tech and slowly one by one you could see people going in and taking stuff, everybody noticed and it became a cash grab. Even the people that were not made redundant got in on it because they knew they could just blame the people that had lost their jobs. By the end of the day that store room was completely empty. Management didn't do shit.
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As others here are saying, this seems like a simple, mundane business story to me. New studio with big ambitions for a AAA game entirely by remote work finds that it bit off more than it can chew, struggling with progress after several years while still having yet to even publicly announce the game. The low morale causes individual discontent devs to become leaky with highly confidential business information, and this revelation on top of everything else is the last straw for the publisher with the purse strings to cut funding, finally killing the failing project. There's really nothing "bizarre" about the explanation from Jeff Strain. He doesn't blame the leakers for the closure, and even so, it's still very obvious that he's obligated to report leaks to his business partners regardless of whether journalists publish them and that having leakers in the house does not bode well for the project. I suspect that the Polygon journo and her peers understand this, but they need to have their socialist narrative of evil businessmen rather than admitting that their friends' project wasn't getting anywhere.
The statement from Annie Strain is overly wordy, but I take much of it as her paranoically coping with multiple sclerosis, for which I'm sympathetic. It also seems to indicate that she and her husband had lofty dreams of a distributed workplace placing employee comfort so far above vision of a product that it was bound to become a troubled money sink. And of course when that fate finally dawned upon them, they had no choice but to salvage some of those dreams to save what they can.
Regardless, I've only heard of Possibility Space before as the employer of Austin Walker, the hardcore academic Marxist from the popular podcast group Giant Bomb who went on to create VICE Waypoint, one of the most overtly woke game journo outlets for its time. Since the studio never even announced a game, I think most other people only know of it because of Austin as well. His role as "IP Director" gave me the impression that he has the highest authority over the narrative of whatever the game was going to be, a sure sign to me that it was going to be woke as all hell. Even besides him, I can quickly find that the studio had many other woke types besides, and it does appear that "diversity" was an explicit workplace goal for the Strains. In light of this, I also wouldn't be surprised if the purposeful employment of wokesters directly lead to some of the trouble for the studio as internal conflict in similar fashion to one of the studios for the Life Is Strange series as recently described.
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This is why you have security escort people off site and pay gardening leave.
I’ve worked at one or two places were they expected people to work their notice when they got fired and either they weren’t in the next day or they spent two weeks sabotaging everything they could until they could. It’s a level of retardedness on behalf of senior management that even corporate greed can’t excuse.
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They made the women more masculine and the men more feminine.
The characters are very androgynous.. NO idea why the fuck they'd bother with an old game like pokemon go but its clear they're trying to uglify thing to make troons look more "natural" in public perception.
Capcom has been shit for a long time. It wasn't until they had a flop like SFV followed by MVC Infinite Disappointment that they went "oh shit we're ion trouble" and began to clean their act up shortly.
But here we are again with them being assholes. I'm just glad I don't eat up the slop they put out cause I don't give a shit for remakes.
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It seems Japanese gaming companies need to fuck up in order to course correct. See Nintendo, when they fuck up they become so generous, successful and they revert back to arrogant mode.
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I feel bad for anyone who's excited for Outlaws. The trailers suggest it's a story game but Ubisoft hasn't written anything good in well over a decade. The first half of Far Cry 3 being the stand out.
At best it'll be the video game equivalent of a CGI shit fest like PS5's Spider-Man 2. At worst it'll be yet another Ubisoft game to throw into the disappointment pile. Personally if I had to play another Ubisoft game I would kill myself.
Good luck to the headcases who'll buy the 130 dollar deluxe edition and then cope in the steam reviews.
At best it'll be the video game equivalent of a CGI shit fest like PS5's Spider-Man 2. At worst it'll be yet another Ubisoft game to throw into the disappointment pile. Personally if I had to play another Ubisoft game I would kill myself.
Good luck to the headcases who'll buy the 130 dollar deluxe edition and then cope in the steam reviews.