favoredponcho@lemmy.zip to Gaming@beehaw.org · 3 days agoJeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down14 cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.worldgaming@lemmy.worldpcgamer@ibbit.at
arrow-up145arrow-down1external-linkJeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'www.pcgamer.comfavoredponcho@lemmy.zip to Gaming@beehaw.org · 3 days agomessage-square29linkfedilink cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.worldgaming@lemmy.worldpcgamer@ibbit.at
minus-squareHonytawklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoAmazing games have received backlashes because they dared to have a gay character in them. It is those complaints that reach the developers when they are being send death threats.
minus-squareGoodeye8@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoIndividual idiots sending death threats is not the same as Forums online (including Reddit… and Lemmy/Piefed, by the way) seem to trigger on people a natural instinct to fit in, as part of a group. Nobody goes on reddit to score points for sending death threats to the developer. You’re talking about a completely different issue.
Amazing games have received backlashes because they dared to have a gay character in them.
It is those complaints that reach the developers when they are being send death threats.
Individual idiots sending death threats is not the same as
Nobody goes on reddit to score points for sending death threats to the developer. You’re talking about a completely different issue.