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Ken Wong (Monument Valley) accused of abuse and harassment
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What's up with this week?! Holy fuck.
Edit: Also, instantly deleting MV from my phone. Fuck him.
Edit: Also, instantly deleting MV from my phone. Fuck him.
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People are afraid to speak up, seeing other victims getting their voice out gives them the strength to open up about their own.
A lot of people who are abused by somebody above the social totem pole are afraid to speak out. The mental anguish afterwards is the one of the things that hurts people so much. There's a lot of complex things that go into something like this that is above my pay grade.
Not necessarily, it started as such, but it really encompasses everything else.
fuck, what a piece of garbage. there's a film being made based on monument valley, hopefully it gets cancelled.
Yeah I understand, I'm very happy for those speaking up as it takes an incredible amount of courage and I'm proud of them. At the same time, it is sad that there a lot of scumbags out there doing shit like this without being called out.
Weed them out!
We needed a movement like this for a long time. There are a lot of monsters in this industry.
We needed a movement like this for a long time. There are a lot of monsters in this industry.
Abuse and harrassment happen every day of every week of every year
Cool to see people speaking up. Also, why all of these people call the offenders "legends/superstars" or some other superlative? Is this how these devs conduct/think of themselves? They're just regular people :|
Let's see if this Ken Wong(had never heard of this "superstar") has something to say, we should always hear both sides of the story.
Let's see if this Ken Wong(had never heard of this "superstar") has something to say, we should always hear both sides of the story.
Looks like the gaming industry's finally having its MeToo moment. Good, fuck these abusive assholes
It's because you know their name
How many people could you tell me that work on Metal Gear Solid 4? Most would probably max out at around 5-10 people (including voice actors) versus the hundreds of people listed in it's credits
I think it's to make it clear that they're influential people in the industry. Not just some faceless coder or what have you, but the people at the top. This industry, like every industry, is dominated by gross men with so many skeletons in their closets they're spilling out into Narnia and upsetting the fauns.
It's crazy that the gaming industry is only just now getting something that can be considered a #MeToo movement, GamerGate I guess delayed that for a few years.
Devs are more often known by studio names or game names. I find it hard to believe many people haven't heard about Monument Valley one way or another. It's one of those "must have" mobile games that is always on toplists and whatever = "superstar" dev.
Yes. The reason it's called #MeToo is to highlight that the victims aren't alone.
I guess now it's appropriate that Monument Valley got its big(ger) break by being Kevin Spacey's favourite game
Gross industry men are getting their comeuppance. Some of them, anyway.
That makes things a bit better on a consumer end (not like that's the priority or anything). I was wondering if it was just a one-man indie project, but I see it has a lot of talented people involved in its creation.
Even if there was a sticky thread, each individual case deserves its own thread too
All that would do is further bury the names of these abusers.
They shouldn't get less publicity just because we're seeing a lot of them. That would just serve to counter the benefits that seeing others speak out have.
We do. People need to be able to easily make informed purchases (or not), and more importantly the victims voices should be signal boosted in one place rather than sporadically over 9 threads. There will be more.
The sticky could just be a post with links to all the separate threads.
This would be good.
There are also other stories currently floating around on twitter in the game dev space - I don't recognize some of the names but someone from Splash Damage has been accused as well.
Signal boosting these is a good use of Era as a platform
Oh I agree, I'm just saying that a sticky thread with the links of different individual threads would be helpful for those like myself that struggle to keep track of everything.
Oh absolutely, seeing how gaming outlets aren't doing anything on that front especially.
What happens when victims of abuse can finally tell their stories, more people get the courage to step forward.
It's just years and years of abuse within the game industry starting to boil over.
According to RAINN, there are 321,500 victims of rape and sexual assault per year in the US alone.
That's 1,000 victims per day on average.
We've had, what, 5 allegations over 2 days? Honestly, the number is low, even if we narrow our focus to the games industry. Nothing happened, really; we're just seeing a tiny crack in the system thanks to one brave person who spoke up yesterday. That simple act empowered other victims to speak up. Expect more revelations in the coming days and weeks. This is gaming's #MeToo moment.
This was the first thing I thought of when I read the title. Not a good association even if it is coincidental.
So he's a terrible boss?
Like I think it's good that it's out there, bosses who belittle employees to the point of crying suck (I've had one) but it doesn't seem in the same ballpark as people getting sexually abused / raped.
Like I think it's good that it's out there, bosses who belittle employees to the point of crying suck (I've had one) but it doesn't seem in the same ballpark as people getting sexually abused / raped.