I think that might be less on the industry and more on gamers being idiots.
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It's both. Whenever these threats happens, it's almost always the devs getting hit with them 99.9%. Regardless of what they do or what they wanted to do. While those in the exec class, publishers, or shareholders either get threats, or especially don't do anything to defend the devs doing their job and following the publishers orders.
So in regard to Highguard, the game launches in a week, and I know nothing about it. No trailers, no ads, nothing. Are they not even gonna try?
Cancelling the game outright is pretty much out of the question, what with all the effort apparently put into it. A delay would make more sense; a release with a huge publicity blitz would be... daring, is what I'll call it.
It should come out at least, there is no reason not to just launch a completely finished video game. If it makes no money then whatever it wouldn't make any money if you deleted it either. But maybe it makes a few dollars and you can celebrate by buying the dev team Taco Bell and maybe the terrible shitstorm they experience will be a valuable lesson.
Either way, those developers were set up for failure. Like clockwork. Taco Bell would just be insult to injury for some of them.
And here are some note-worthy (or should I say cringe-worthy) death threats in recent years that I can think of:
- Death threats over No Man's Sky launch delay.
- Death threats over Cyberpunk 2077 launch delay
- Laura Bailey, the VA for Abby in TLOU2, getting death threats.
- Palworld devs receiving heat for copy-paste design of the creatures (debatable)
- In mid-2025, some teenage brat threatened Epic Games employees over Fortnite
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Yep. Thank you for taking note of all that. Yet some people or those same people tried to victim blame.
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No matter how dumb or bad something is, there will always be random fans of it.
CPDR has issued a DMCA strike on a CP2077 VR mod. Particularly on how it's paid mod and the modder is generating income from it.
The modder has refuted, saying he created the software that supports various games to be played in VR, and doesn't work with the game source codes themselves. The modder is open to negotiate with CDPR further on the matter
The modder has refuted, saying he created the software that supports various games to be played in VR, and doesn't work with the game source codes themselves. The modder is open to negotiate with CDPR further on the matter
The question is if the software can be used stand alone outside of the game's code. If it's only downloadable or usable as a mod for a given game then CDPR is within their rights to sue. The program must exist on it's own so that it can be called a platform (like Playstation, Microsoft, whatever) otherwise it's a mod and mods require the game the run.
Nothing wrong with being agressively okay. For years that was Ubisoft's approach to things and it worked for a while.
For some reason I just picture some AC protagonist screaming "I AM OKAY!!!! AND THAT'S PERFECTLY FINE! SOMEONE WILL LOVE ME MAYBE FOR AWHILE!"
Oh, I remember when the Call of Duty developers got death threats for changing the refire rate of a sniper rifle in multiplayer by fractions of a second.
None of this would happen if it was possible to punch people in the face through the Internet.
If they don't release it, possibly they can write it off on their taxes and make money that way. It works for movie studios.
Let's not forget the death threats aimed at Bioware over the Mass Effect 3 ending. Which, not defending the ending, but....it's a video game ending. Is that really the hill you (literally) want them to die on?
I don't think it makes much sense to "count" the death threat sent, there's plenty of people who are mentally sick but still have access to the internet, these people have very limited understanding of what is an "okay" behavior and often only understand that they can integrate themselves into a group by showing devotion to whatever hold the group together. When a game gets popular enough, it will inevitably get a few of them. When the dev displease the fan base, those people will try to show devotion by taking the most extreme action they can to show how devoted they are to the game.
Doesn't excuse it, fuck that, and they can fuck themselves either way.
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