Seriously, schreier is doing good things for this industry, shining a light on crunch and other problematic working conditions. People who are calling for his head because he said something that could be seen as negative about sony need a serious reality check
Exactly, that's my issue. It was framed in a strange, inaccurate way, painting all of these things as negative, unusual things when in fact, they were just normal game industry goings on and efficient use for resources. He should be above that type of clickbait reporting. Let's not even get started on the poor wording of the title.
Someone just asked the question if Sony Bend could become independent so Microsoft can buy them... lol.
They paid $10 to ask it as well.
Him shining a light on crunch doesn't make him immune from criticism after he frames an article in a way which is designed to stir up drama and controversy despite nothing wrong actually going on.
Maybe some of these things being normal industry goings is bad
Someone just asked the question if Sony Bend could become independent so Microsoft can buy them... lol.
They paid $10 to ask it as well.
You're telling me that staff being used as support staff between projects when they're not needed to work on their own new project yet, instead of being laid off, is bad? What?
It's not that it warrants a sequel or not, it's that a sequel shouldn't be the de facto next step for every successful game, there's a long list of viable reason why that may not be the best next step, and there's also a long list of undesired sequels in the industry that prove this.
I don't think he said the first part, at least I haven't heard that so I think it was a misinterpretation by one of the users here?
A lot of people in here obviously have no experience with corpos who tell half truths if not just outright lie constantly.
Of course it doesn't make him immune of criticism, I just think the article wasn't even as inflammatory as some of the people here make it out to be. And to call for him facing repercussions for that article is way overboard imo. He usually shines a light on the not ideal working conditions in this industry and some stuff he described in that article were non ideal working conditions. Disagree, fine, no issue with that, but asking for diminishing his reputation after reading some out of context quotes here... Please
I'm sure you can understand why, outside of whatever was in the article, I won't say who I contacted for a story like this. But everything in the article is and remains accurate, despite Sony fanboys looking for any opportunity to wage war in defense of their favorite billion-dollar corporation.
Nothing's in absolutes, but new IP is a vast majority of the time made with the intent on making a franchise. Whether it's AAA or smaller. The developers, publishers, fans, almost all of them want success to be able to make a sequel.
The funny thing about the article was it was never about the actual games, that was just standard industry BS, it's just what people jumped on (though I'm not sure why Jason thought they wouldn't completely overshadow the actual story) it was about some people not being happy with upper management overlooking them, 1 a small group who wanted to become more than just a support team, that ultimately became a support team on their own project (TLoU Remake) and some people at Bend who didn't get a sequel they wanted, so left.
Sorry no one is doing console war. This is about your article bro. You can see my posts and I have been critical of Sony since your story broke. Now it feels like you didn't even talk to Jeff for the story?
lol, how does journalism work?
This should be the slogan for Era, it already was the unofficial one
