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[Jaybe]

Helldivers 2 studio’s thoughts on DEI

 

[justiceiro]

Read avowed and was really confused for a second.

 

[SJRB]

Based.

 

[Bloody Crow of Cainhurst]

Steam users should be ashamed of making this guy cry for days, smh

 

[Pop]

BASED

 

[winjer]

 

[Generic]

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

A rare incel victory.

 

[xrnzaaas]

It's nice to see he's allowed to say those things, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be possible if Sony owned Arrowhead.

 

[lh032]

So it's confirm no acquisition from sony

 

[Bry0]

*if* it doesn’t

 

[Madflavor]

Winds are changing.

After 2024, it feels like the games industry is poised for a vibe shift—or maybe a reckoning

This year's trends and hardships are setting up 2025 to be a year of big change.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[TintoConCasera]

Steam users should be ashamed of making this guy cry for days, smh

Nah fuck off. Maybe Arrowhead shouldn't have taken Sony's (or anyone else's) money if they weren't ready for taking shit because the publisher decides to be dumb.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

It's absurd. And its obvious that people pushing for "representation" are using it as a shield to spread their weird and flawed ideology

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Wooxsvan]

wonder how long before the purpled haired at sony demand his ouster

 

[Mr Hyde]

12 million copies sold to back up his statement too.

 

[playXray]

it’s funny, this is misquoted in the OP both here and on the other forum, and people are going crazy. If you actually read the tweet instead of the post title it’s a pretty reasonable and balanced opinion.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

it’s a pretty reasonable and balanced opinion.

So, what is it?
Game developers should focus on making great games first and foremost?

 

[LectureMaster]

 

[FunkMiller]

Plenty of the usual suspects pissing in their britches over this.

It's ridiculous that 'if it doesn't add to the game experience, it shouldn't be there' is a controversial statement.

 

[j0hnnix]

 

[ResilientBanana]

What’s funny about this is that if a bunch of woke gamers tried to review bomb Helldivers 2, it wouldn’t even move the needle.

 

[Radical_3d]

No, please. The last thing HD2 needs is a controversy in the cultural wars.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

No, please. The last thing HD2 needs is a controversy in the cultural wars.

it already had; furries were involved too.

 

[W11d]

Plenty of the usual suspects pissing in their britches over this.

It's ridiculous that 'if it doesn't add to the game experience, it shouldn't be there' is a controversial statement.

The other forum still cannot accept that it's a lot harder to sell a game with black lesbian protagonist than a game with white dude protagonist.

 

[yogaflame]

Common sense is on a comeback

 

[Radical_3d]

it already had; furries were involved too.

Eeeeww…

 

[bundylove]

 

[Complistic]

Might buy another warbond later

 

[laynelane]

I really hope he doesn't get too much shit for this (he probably will, though). It's such a simple bit of common sense and it's crazy that it's brave of him to say it, but it really is in this day and age. Still, it's something that does need to be said and, more importantly, heard by a lot of people.

 

[Schmendrick]

Holy shit the mental gymnastics in the purple looney bin over this tweet. Apparently in the head of that vocal 0.5% you are nowadays a bigot nazi mass murderer if you dare to have something resembling common sense.
Luckily that filth gets the boot the next 4 years at least....

 

[Kacho]

Going forward DEI will be a detriment to games success. We’ve reached a point where the mere scent of it will whip people up into a frenzy. Western entertainment has poisoned the well so severely it will take years to earn people’s trust back.

 

[NuclearDiarrhea]

Jason Schreier already furiously writing a hit-piece as we speak while his wife is getting fucked by her boyfriend in the next room.

 

[Gamerguy84]

Couldn't agree more. I hope, and itlooks like, the industry is waking up.

 

[Wildebeest]

Are they trying to launch in China or something?

 

[Ashamam]

He replied to a DEI comment, but I read his reply as a bit more general, whilst also encompassing DEI. Basically everything you include should add to a game, if it doesn't add to the game its holding it back. A purist statement if you like. Which doesn't rule out some sort of DEI adding to a game, but generally speaking its forced and detracts because it wasn't added for 'amazing moments'. ie: not artistically driven.

 

[KINGMOKU]

Holy shit the mental gymnastics in the purple looney bin over this tweet. Apparently in the head of that vocal 0.5% you are nowadays a bigot nazi mass murderer if you dare to have something resembling common sense.
Luckily that filth gets the boot the next 4 years at least....

It shows how unbalanced their way of thinking is, and how damaging it is to normal discourse.

This is an obvious statement, and the response by the deranged, should be a massive, flashing, caution sign to those who think DEI is ever a good thing. You cannot force ideals onto people. Human beings don't respond well to being told how to think, act, or feel.

 

[digital_ghost]

Winds are changing.

After 2024, it feels like the games industry is poised for a vibe shift—or maybe a reckoning

This year's trends and hardships are setting up 2025 to be a year of big change.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Couldn't agree more. I hope, and itlooks like, the industry is waking up.

Bandai Namco recently embraced DEI. That’s a bad sign if we want the industry to “wake up”.

 

[Bojanglez]

*if* it doesn’t

Yes, important context.

 

[Three]

It shows how unbalanced their way of thinking is, and how damaging it is to normal discourse.

This is an obvious statement, and the response by the deranged, should be a massive, flashing, caution sign to those who think DEI is ever a good thing. You cannot force ideals onto people. Human beings don't respond well to being told how to think, act, or feel.

I personally hope all this shit goes away. A lot of looneys on both sides telling othed human beings how to think, act, or feel. It's like watching unreasonable reactions to everything day in day out now.

 

[[Sigma]]

Bro he better watch out, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a phone call soon lol. And he said if lol.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Couldn't agree more. I hope, and itlooks like, the industry is waking up.

Bandai Namco recently embraced DEI. That’s a bad sign if we want the industry to “wake up”.

 

[Three]

I really hope he doesn't get too much shit for this (he probably will, though). It's such a simple bit of common sense and it's crazy that it's brave of him to say it, but it really is in this day and age. Still, it's something that does need to be said and, more importantly, heard by a lot of people.

He'll be fine. He didn't say anything controversial. He just said "if it isn't about the game it isn't included in the game", in so many words.

 

[laynelane]

He'll be fine. He didn't say anything controversial. He just said "if it isn't about the game it isn't included in the game", in so many words.

I agree that he didn't say anything controversial, but that isn't how some will choose to interpret it.

 

[mckmas8808]

Helldivers 2 studio’s thoughts on DEI

That's not what he said. The OP lied.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Tide starting to roll out rather quickly..... Indeed.

 

[Sanepar]

Holy shit the mental gymnastics in the purple looney bin over this tweet. Apparently in the head of that vocal 0.5% you are nowadays a bigot nazi mass murderer if you dare to have something resembling common sense.
Luckily that filth gets the boot the next 4 years at least....

That thread is hilarious. Anyone who thinks different they ban, the clear concept of democracy...

 

[Fake]