Multiple employees resign from Skullgirls developer Lab Zero following lack of action against Mike Z - Mike Z gets #canceled

How can you oust a CEO that has 100% private ownership? The only way I can think of is mass public outcry but a C tier video game company isn't even remotely high profile enough for that.
Because as as well-liked as Skullgirls is, no one actually plays it besides people that are considered turbo-autists even by the terribly low standards of the FGC. Its most famous player is Sonicfox, who for anyone who doesn’t dip into Animal Control or the FGC Community Watch thread: is an aggressively gay, potential troon, furfag, vorophillic, obnoxious shithead who is much more famous for playing Mortal Kombat when most people abandon it for being boring and dipping into other games only to leave when the established people start beating him. I think anime players have an easier time finding games. They have no market share in the only niche where people would care and the only other game they’ve released in the decade they’ve existed wasn’t very good.
 
How can you oust a CEO that has 100% private ownership? The only way I can think of is mass public outcry but a C tier video game company isn't even remotely high profile enough for that.
They can't do it forcibly, which is why they're negotiating with him. The board of directors wants him gone and all the angry employees are leaving because they are mad he might get money for the game he built, since they perceive it as rewarding the things he's being ousted for.

Basically he could just tell them to eat a dick, but he sees a potential opportunity to leverage a good buyout.
 
That also makes the whole claim that Mike's been an abusive sex offender for 10+ years suspect too, somewhat. They knew Mike was a troublesome, "hostile" guy to be around, who "intimidated" and "bullied" employees, a guy that you had to "tiptoe around", and "everyone knew it"--yet they trusted him enough to hand him 100% full control of the company somehow. Like they didn't expect anything bad to happen.

This is all happening because he said "I can't breathe" on a twitch stream, everything else is just bullshit to try and justify that decision

but fuck them all anyway, it was clear they were all backstabbing shitbags after the Alex Ahad thing, him being "difficult" and "hostile" was him refusing to bow down to the demands of these people, fuck them all, they should never work again
 
Fun fact: They hired hentai animator Zone to work for them. Zone also happened to make a Skullgirls hentai animation, but it turns out that was unrelated.
Zone was definitely a hired gun. Or, at least, he worked for Lab Zero at a time where they were less stuck up than they are now.
That hentai flash he made had a few rape jokes in it too, lampooning the names of the publisher and studio itself, iirc. Thank goodness Zone's somehow managed to maintain a level of anonymity, otherwise who knows how many woke idiots would've come for his head by now, especially considering most of his "portfolio" is non-consensual tentacle rape.
Zone's an oldfag channer too, they definitely could've used that against him as well.
 
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Could shove them in an old Civil War era Dahlgren gun if any of those are lying around. The 15" versions used a 440 pound round shot, so could cram them in there. As smoothbores, no rifling to get gummed up with fat rolls for easier cleaning and due to their design not a single gun ever burst while in service use, only tested to failure point, so easy enough to get enough powder in there to launch them.
 
On one hand it sucks that Skullgirls is effectively dead now, especially after their announcement that they’re adding another playable character, a character that has had her concept and moveset teased since early in the game’s life. The game has great art, great characters, and great music. I don’t believe all of that deserves to die from behind the scenes drama.

On the other hand, it is cathartic to see MikeZ get universally shit on. The man has taken himself and his pet project far too seriously. He always talks about how other games are doing things wrong and that he does it better, when he himself has made one of the least-approachable fighting games to ever exist. He’s done all sorts of performative SJW bs over the years like removing panty shots and giving mobile funds to “Black Lives Matter” (idk how you donate to slogan) and going to bat defend known POS SonicFox after adding his edgy fursona to the game. Him having those same PC culture sentiments thrown right back at him is funny.
 

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The game is a meme due to it's reset heavy playstyle. It seems like most fighters these days try and go for the Marvel vs. Capcom gameplay without understanding what made it so fun in the first place.

It favors autism. Simple as that. You don't need to know fundamentals or have a really good idea on how to read someone. No. It's just go in, do a combo or 50/50 block string, get the combo going and another 50/50/50 rinse and repeat. I've played guys who are "GDLK" Skullgirls and Dragon Ball FighterZ players and they don't know what they fuck they are doing in a game like Street Fighter 4.
 
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It favors autism. Simple as that. You don't need to know fundamentals or have a really good idea on how to read someone. No. It's just go in, do a combo or 50/50 block string, get the combo going and another 50/50/50 rinse and repeat. I've played guys who are "GDLK" Skullgirls and Dragon Ball FighterZ players and they don't know what they fuck they are doing in a game like Street Fighter 4.
Exactly. These devs seem to have forgotten that Mahvel 2 required skill to play. Nobody gives a shit that you did an infinite when you're basically playing a 3 button fighter. DragonBall, Power Rangers, BlazBlue cross all turned into mash square to win at the beginner level and guess right at the highest level. Sure Skullgirls is a 6 button fighter, but the combo system is bland as fuck.

I've basically given up on fighters because of it. New fighters are baby shit, and I'm already drained on OG jank. I basically just want SF4 with good netcode but I can't even get that.
 
Exactly. These devs seem to have forgotten that Mahvel 2 required skill to play. Nobody gives a shit that you did an infinite when you're basically playing a 3 button fighter. DragonBall, Power Rangers, BlazBlue cross all turned into mash square to win at the beginner level and guess right at the highest level. Sure Skullgirls is a 6 button fighter, but the combo system is bland as fuck.

I've basically given up on fighters because of it. New fighters are baby shit, and I'm already drained on OG jank. I basically just want SF4 with good netcode but I can't even get that.

I was looking forward to Samurai Shodown but then SNK had to sell out to Epic. Fighting Games and the FGC are dead.
 
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