'Ready Or Not' dev splits with publisher Team17
'Ready Or Not' developer Void Interactive has shared that it will part ways with Team17.
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Ready or Not devs split with publisher hours after confirming school shooting level
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What the fuck is all I can say.
Edit: oh, context below definitely helps. Still a super heavy topic that I don't trust games to handle.
Edit: oh, context below definitely helps. Still a super heavy topic that I don't trust games to handle.
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I never even knew about this game until a week or two ago, and at the time I thought, "I might buy." Hearing about the school level, I'm out.
Alright, life pro tip:
Don't make your thread title sound factual if it isn't.
The article you linked very specifically says it's fan speculation and there's nothing conclusive about the reason why.
It's also horribly stupid fan speculation. The school shooting level was in the reveal trailer four years ago before they even signed Team 17 as a publisher.
Don't make your thread title sound factual if it isn't.
The article you linked very specifically says it's fan speculation and there's nothing conclusive about the reason why.
It's also horribly stupid fan speculation. The school shooting level was in the reveal trailer four years ago before they even signed Team 17 as a publisher.
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I do want to add context. Ready or Not is a spiritual successor to the SWAT series. A school shooting level would be you sweeping a school as a SWAT team.
You would NOT be playing as a school shooter.
You would NOT be playing as a school shooter.
I mean, they were not very secretive about it. Ever since the very beginning and the first trailer years ago was it obvious that it was coming.
The game already has active shooter scenarios in other levels.
If they should or shouldn't do it... I don't know. But it's not some new revelation. And I also don't think that, for the type of game it is, it's some kind of horrible scandal. I do not think this was the reason, because if it was they never would've been the publisher to begin with. Dumb speculation.
The game already has active shooter scenarios in other levels.
If they should or shouldn't do it... I don't know. But it's not some new revelation. And I also don't think that, for the type of game it is, it's some kind of horrible scandal. I do not think this was the reason, because if it was they never would've been the publisher to begin with. Dumb speculation.
Jesus Christ. I was wondering why Team17 suddenly dropped the game, but this seems like a pretty good reason.
Edit: Seems like this is just speculation? Anyways, wierd. Curious to see what the actual context is.
Edit: Seems like this is just speculation? Anyways, wierd. Curious to see what the actual context is.
Here's the actual Reddit post, where a developer answered the question about a school shooting level.
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You do play as a SWAT team in this, so I assume the school shooting level is you playing as the SWAT team sweeping the school for a school shooter or terrorists or something. But tonally that's still a complete minefield.
You play as a SWAT team and active shooter scenarios have always been part of the game. Nothing new here.
The school shooting level was shown in the reveal trailer years ago before Team 17 picked them up. It's just a fan speculated reason and the OP picked a bad thread title that sounds factual based on assumed information that makes no sense.
If you want a far more likely reason they dropped Team 17, Team 17 was telling them to not release the PvE Alpha due to quality. The game is performing well on Steam and has a (last I checked) 96% Overwhelming Positive rating and plays great, it wasn't very good advice tbh.
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Also an active shooter scenario in a SWAT game is literally a cornerstone of the genre so it'd be an extremely stupid reason to drop the game even ignoring that Team 17 would have knew about it for years since the team showed it in trailers before Team 17 even picked them up lmao.
Ima file this under just because you can do a setting doesn't mean you necessarily should.
artistic freedom doesn't mean freedom from consequences and an active school shooter seems like a bad idea even if you are the "hero swat team"
artistic freedom doesn't mean freedom from consequences and an active school shooter seems like a bad idea even if you are the "hero swat team"
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And while it would be a bit tone deaf to be so gung-ho about having a school shooting level, it's in the vein of playing as an armed SWAT team that's called in to defuse active threats, right? And if I recall, the game encourages trying to kill as little as possible.
And while it would be a bit tone deaf to be so gung-ho about having a school shooting level, it's in the vein of playing as an armed SWAT team that's called in to defuse active threats, right? And if I recall, the game encourages trying to kill as little as possible.
Depends on the mode/mission, but yeah, as a SWAT 3/4 successor the goal is to get out alive and non-lethally handling encounters whenever possible.
Seems like really it's a larger question about whether or not you should be making a game about being an American SWAT team.
Like what? I'm actually curious, I don't know.
Sure I'll bet on never.
Gabe personally intervened to make sure Hatred, an actual edgy mass shooter game, stayed on the store, they're not gonna take down an unlicensed SWAT 4 sequel.
Seriously? I dont know anything about this game and it took me 3 sec to understand that its a tactical sim and you sweep the place as a Pig.
Anyway Its very stupid if its true that there is a school shooting scenario, I assume this isnt a studio from the USA?
That's certainly how it was in SWAT 4 and this game is basically a new SWAT 4. You're incentivized to finish a level with zero fatalities.
Might not be a great idea for a level but I don't think it's the reason for the split, especially considering the level's existence was never a secret.
Name 1 good reason why it should be due to this after researching the matter at hand to the best of your ability.
Right, thanks for that. Not my kind of game at all so I'll probably never play this, but considering the context I don't see what's wrong?
It sounds very low on the list of problematic and distasteful stuff regularly happening with the shooter genre in video games.
I don't see how a level where you are a swat team in a school shooting is in any worse taste than making a game where you play as a swat team in the first place.
seems like a weird bar to suddenly set if you were interested in this game.
seems like a weird bar to suddenly set if you were interested in this game.
It's kinda refreshing to play a game like this when the goal is to AVOID killing anyone.
This thread is a good example of fake news on Facebook, and the fact that people do not seem to do a single minute of research if what they've just read is actually correct before posting their knee-jerk response and/or spreading the "facts" they've now learned.
Woof. Wow. That's uh... well, given the initial reveal trailer from waaaay back I guess I'm not surprised, but holy shit. Pretty impressed with the expediency at which Team17 noped the fuck out of this arrangement after learning this.
I hope people aren't thinking you are a school shooter in a SWAT type series.
If this is a high school shooting I think that's a pretty bad look but we've had ideas similar. Siege has Article 5 which is a bio chemical attack with shootings at a fake university. A lot of the early Siege maps are based on real events. Waco being one where children died.
While one game doing it doesn't mean others should, I guess in this type of game is the topic of school shootings off limits and only to only focus on the terrorists are at this hotel or a bank.
If this is a high school shooting I think that's a pretty bad look but we've had ideas similar. Siege has Article 5 which is a bio chemical attack with shootings at a fake university. A lot of the early Siege maps are based on real events. Waco being one where children died.
While one game doing it doesn't mean others should, I guess in this type of game is the topic of school shootings off limits and only to only focus on the terrorists are at this hotel or a bank.
Context aside, "you better believe it's gonna" is a weirdly boastful response to a question like this.
Thankfully I only had an hour played on this, time to refund.
Thankfully I only had an hour played on this, time to refund.
Hold on wait what the fuck? I saw about them looking for a new publisher but not the school shooting bit. Fuck me. Yeah, makes sense. I wouldn't want to publish their game either.
An active shooter scenario doesnt have to be set in a school. As everyone here should already know an active shooter situation can happen anywhere at anytime.
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