the repercussions as has already been said, would be not getting press packages and review copies and not being invited to events or being able to interview sony people
again, not sure what you're trying to achieve by jumping in at the page 24 of a thread and not knowing what has already been said but here
What?
yeah sadly this is all people want, and those same people will bitch about how all gaming journalism is shit
That's purely subjective. Some people disagree with Le Monde's political shift to center but that's about it. On pure information quality, they are very reliable and trustworthy. They participated in the Panama papers investigation and collaborated with the NYT on Snowden's revelations.
Uuuh... What does that mean? It's just because they're VG journalists? William has published several well-sourced, investigated pieces before, on GamerGate, the Escapist story or Ankama's CEO.
Do you have any proof for that? As far as I know Le Monde conducted their own investigation in parallel with CPC and Mediapart.
No. I think he did a good job on his article a few days ago. But it's also my opinion that this second controversy, fueled by a handful of tweets, was avoidable.
i think when they have published two games by them, and are gonna publish the third one soon, have been the sole publisher for their games for 12 years (heavy rain started development in 2006) and have been bankrolling them for that long, they have more responsibility than saying it's an independent studio so we can't do anything. we've just been paying them for 10 years and they've been making us money but we can't do anything.
You think Sony can interfere with QD management?
no i don't think that, but imagine disney is going to release a film, made by another studio. some news comes out about that studio about stuff going on in it that may be wrong, it having a toxic atmosphere and the head of the studio making racist remarks. do we expect disney to say it's none of our business, we're just gonna release the film as we were going to, we're not gonna look into it at all or reevaluate our partnership? disney will likely at least pretend to care and say they're gonna look into it, and if it was proven will likely stop distributing the film and distance themselves from the studio, even if they've already put money into the film.
I'm just quoting you 2, but I'm mostly responding to some people here that think that Sony has any saying who can QD hires or fires.
read my edit
in this situation, do you think apple shouldn't be blamed at all and just keep on making their billions? they can't fire or hire people, they can put pressure on them tho and if it comes to that, stop working with that factory.
Telling a company that they have to fire someone, even just hinting, seems like a lawsuit waiting to be happening.
I won't say that Game Industry (hell, every industry) wouldn't potentially be a better place if businesses involved actively paid attention to ethics. But there's no way to argue we live in a world/timeline where this has ever been "expected", let alone a responsibility of businesses that pay the bills. More often than not - the money-source is the "bad guy" in these relationships, not the ethic-police.
I'm not understanding what you're replying to? Am I supposed to know who Etc. is? What I'm saying is that his post is bullshit. Those journalists aren't "drama queens" on twitter, there's no reason not to trust Le Monde on this even more so with Mediapart and CPC coming up with the same kind of info.
no one is saying that they can force QD to fire someone, and the person to fire would be david cage who is majority shareholder so basically no one can, and he's the main guy so even if they could most likely the game won't continue development
Cancellation of a game they funded? (Detroit)
