• mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The three people were replaced with a guy who used to work at EA. And one of their first announcements was an unprompted “we wont put loot boxes in the game”…

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Why can’t the OG devs just opensource the code out of spite. Would be a big middle-finger

  • TheBeege@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Just gonna copy paste my comment on a related post…

    Similar shit happened when they were PUBG Corporation. Fuck these lying assholes. Player Unknown was a smart, capable dude, and they exiled him to a remote office because he got pissed at the CEO for over-monetizing things in a way that cost them players.

    When they released the battle pass while the game was retail, all of the non-Korean employees nearly revolted. It wasn’t smart, and it was a money grab on the players. When the team lead of market research told the product manager that the feature was a bad idea and would lose them all their Western players, the product manager got him demoted and moved to another team.

    When the numbers didn’t look good, the data analysts were freaking out because they couldn’t deliver bad news up the chain of command, even if it was accurate.

    When they acquired Mad Glory, they promised that the dev team would still be contracted to other game companies to build APIs and tools for them, keeping the game industry tooling ecosystem healthy (think op.gg). When PUBG Corporation acquired them, the company canceled their contract with Bethesda for the API they were in the middle of building and forbade them from working with other companies.

    Fuck Bluehole. Fuck PUBG Corporation. Fuck Krafton. Fuck game studios in Korea. Don’t play Korean games. Kpop and cosmetics and whatever are chill. Don’t play Korean games. Korean game companies are fucking cancer.

    Don’t buy Subnautica 2. The Subnautica franchise died when Krafton became the publisher.

    • L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Friendly reminder that Korea invented and perfected micro-transactions. MapleStory has done more damage to both worldwide gaming and Korean game devs than anything else could ever hope to.

    • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Kpop is extremely exploitative to the artists, much worse than game development.

      We’re talking physical and sexual abuse levels here.

      Not chill at all.

    • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Dude what did Korean devs ever do to you ? You ARE generalizing a bit. What’s next ?

  • LifeCoffeeGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Now this has been rather disproved, do we think we could retract the post? It’s probably done harm already but we can at least acknowledge it’s no longer accurate.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      8 days ago

      What do you mean this has been disproven?

      Can you provide some context. A link maybe?

      • Tudsamfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        If you visit the official website of krafton https://www.krafton.com/en/ you should get this pop up:

        Basically, Krafton claims that the 3 founders they fired did not do their job in overseeing the project, leading to a game without any direction. Since the game would not meet their standards, they decided to rework a lot and push the release date back.

        This is an official statement of a company, meaning they can be (and if I read it correctly have been) sued for slander should they lie here. So a legal department looked over this and decided “Yep, we can claim that they abandoned responsibilities, we can prove that in court”. Whether or not this is actually true or just an attempt to regain public opinion, it’s a real shitshow.