Corporations hide crimes all the time, even when they are the victims. If the crime will lose them money in any way, either directly or from a reputation hit, it’s very likely a company will not report it.

It only because the employees involved had their NDAs expire and confirmed they saw some very fucked up things that we know what he did.

Twitch fired him publicly when he was one of their biggest streamers. It’s fully possible the explicitly sexual messages are a crime, but the parties involved, including the minor victim, did not want it reported.

You can argue amazon should have reported it anyway if it rose to that level, but with none of the involved parties forcing the issue, it makes sense from a buisness stance not to.

Yeah…that changes the numbers. More like 10-20 years to do just about anything.

Somehow the urgency just drains right out of this for me.

Didn’t they make 10-100s millions of dollars on this? Pays a lot of salaries while you make new paid content.

EDIT : They made at least 12 million sales on steam, and had 7 million players on Xbox, which may be Gamepass, but still makes them money.

So at $30, that’s 66million from steam minus 30% for steams cut, so they banked 44 million at least.

They can pay 440 devs 100k for at least a year. I assume their team is a bit smaller than that, so they likely have years of runway. Linkedin lists size as between 50-200 in japan, so that likely means they are making $50-70k, and there are likely more than 100 devs. I would guess they have a 4 year runway from Steam sales, and maybe 1-2 year from Gamepass.

They got some time to think.

I mean, Alf. Its fitted well, and he’s really putting his hips to work in it.

ET has some real whimsy going on with the clashing styles, but they are just not selling it like Alf is.

Alf is wearing it. It is wearing ET.

Yeah, I was going to say it’s bad timing, but it’s always bad timing here.

I know you’re being sarcastic, but the same witness confirmed no one was throwing rocks anywhere nearby when she was murdered by Israel snipers.

I think that’s common in gaming development. You work on a project until it’s done, then pivot to another or get let go.

The game bombing likely doesn’t help but I expect most devs involved expected this. Apparently development ran 3-4 years, which is a good time to leave a job in tech generally, if not earlier if you want to maximize income.

He worked for the gaming site/podcast “Giantbomb” years ago. Pretty sure the image macro is pulled from one of their podcast videos.

Yeah they worked on the last DLC, which was really good. I think they mainly were involved in the level design though, which even this DLC has down well.

It’s just everything else that makes a game being fucked. No idea why the original devs/designers weren’t aquirehired and kept onboard. Maybe they didn’t like what ol’ Randy had planned.

They apparently rewrote a lot of the code for unclear reasons.

But why?

Basically can say that about the movie too.

“Because we want to” seems to be the reason, and that good enough.

Kind of disappointing honestly. I never played chef in the original, and this video just looked dull.

I’ll still go in on it day one just for the other content, but I was hoping for more.

Why did they forbid talking about stuff that isn’t about the game? Why do they need to talk about this stuff?

The game studio brought this up, not the reviewers. The reviewers are just pointing out that the devs are clearly woke obsessed piss babies that can’t not talk about politics, even when it doesn’t have anything to do with their game.