Why though? Lol Gestures like this almost always come out of the company budget, not the CEO's back pocket. You're over thinking this and trying to turn it into something it isn't.
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Shift Up CEO, Hyung-Tae Kim celebrated the successful showing of Project Eve at the PlayStation showcase by purchasing a PS5 for each of his 260 staff
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Why though? Lol Gestures like this almost always come out of the company budget, not the CEO's back pocket. You're over thinking this and trying to turn it into something it isn't.
They are primarly a mobile and PC focused studio.
Consoles are not that popular around SK devs so no it's not surprising to not have a PS5 over there.
Right?
End of the interview "so do you have any questions for us?"
"Yeah, where are those PS5's at bro?"
Or...
"Any questions for us?"
"Yeah, is it true that you bought 260 PS5s for your staff? You got good contacts for me to try? Please?"
God I hate certain threads lately. Fucking turning good news into negative bullshit. We get it, you're edgy and the 'devil's advocate'/both sides. But please give it a rest! On topic, this is really awesome and I wish there was a recording of their reactions coming in and getting them!
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You know, everyone and their mother thought this was Bayonetta when it was revealed because it is so strikingly similar. Where is your "blatant sexism" fire for Bayonetta 3 threads? Oh wait, a quick look shows you are looking forward to that sexist game.
RUMOR: Bayonetta 3 to release in summer 2018
I think this deserved a thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7nvc3n/bayonetta_is_coming_in_2018_on_good_authority/ Apparently the leaker say that Bayonetta 3 may release during summer 2018, and we will hear about it in the next Nintendo direct. Personally, i would be a bit...
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Some of ya'll are just fucking hypocrites.
This is some of the most disingenuous drivel I have ever read, honestly. Not to mention pathetic, searching through my post history for 3 years back to a thread from 2018. All that just to reveal the scandalous, shocking revelation that I was... looking forward to Bayonetta 3. Oh my god.You know, everyone and their mother thought this was Bayonetta when it was revealed because it is so strikingly similar. Where is your "blatant sexism" fire for Bayonetta 3 threads? Oh wait, a quick look shows you are looking forward to that sexist game.
RUMOR: Bayonetta 3 to release in summer 2018
I think this deserved a thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7nvc3n/bayonetta_is_coming_in_2018_on_good_authority/ Apparently the leaker say that Bayonetta 3 may release during summer 2018, and we will hear about it in the next Nintendo direct. Personally, i would be a bit...
Some of ya'll are just fucking hypocrites.
Guess what! Looking forward to a game does not mean you agree with everything in it. 90% of games ever made have elements of sexism or racism. I play them still, and I maintain the right to criticize their contents. Buying and enjoying a product does not mean you support every aspect of that product or practice of that company. Guess what else? I might buy Project Eve if it's a good game. And I'm going to continue calling it sexist all the while. AND I'm going to do all of that without being a hypocrite.
If you are going to call me a hypocrite for playing Bayonetta, then I sure as hell hope you do not own or are interested in any product produced as a result of the capitalist, sexist, racist society that we live in. I know for sure you don't own a console or PC, because you of course, are not a hypocrite.
The game and company just got a huge ass boost from having their work show up in the Playstation showcase. Its an insane marketing win, and from reactions i see online its all positive or intrigued impressons. They must be feeling good.
A great gesture by the CEO.
A great gesture by the CEO.
I wish there was a specific thread that deals with what the folks are concerned about because every thread about this game/company is going to get derailed........and that's not exactly fair to people who want to talk about other aspects of the game/company.
Anyway....is Shift Up an independent studio?
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He also worked on Blade&Soul!
Yeeeeeep.
Yeah, I loved his art when I was younger. Still love his style, but...definitely have grown out of some of the aesthetic choices of his.
Man, you sure are giving a performance here just because a 5 second search showed you were looking forward to a game that is exactly like the one you were calling "blatantly sexist", yet for some reason, you feel the need to call it out here and stay quiet about Bayonetta 3 exhibiting the same sexism issue.
And the whole "whatabout YOU buying products and stuff!" is neither here nor there. I am just sick of members here choosing which games they want to go after and give a free pass to (whether because its published by Nintendo, it was their first game, whatever) and actually hype up/express excitement over when they have identical issues. Thats the only thing disingenuous here.
One of my hopes for the future is to never, EVER, become as cynic, negative and overall unpleasant as some people on this site.
its a race to find something to "drag" companies over, whether it's warranted or not.
It's super easy to find PS5s in Korea. Karrot (a popular marketplace app) is filled with PS5 resellers, and the prices aren't bad. I got my PS5 for around $20 over the MSRP.
I don't know the numbers, but Sony is all-in on dominating the console space in Korea. There seems to be a large shipment of PS5 consoles here every two weeks judging by my Karrot app filling up with PS5s biweekly.
It probably took the boss of Shift Up a few months to secure the consoles, but it's entirely doable.
I don't know the numbers, but Sony is all-in on dominating the console space in Korea. There seems to be a large shipment of PS5 consoles here every two weeks judging by my Karrot app filling up with PS5s biweekly.
It probably took the boss of Shift Up a few months to secure the consoles, but it's entirely doable.
Yeah it sucks. Misery loves company.
Anyhow, glad these hardworking devs got a cool perk for all their efforts!
That's pretty cool from him and I'm impressed that this known artist is actually the CEO of that studio.
Also, ALL that gacha money, damn. Nice office they have there.
Also, ALL that gacha money, damn. Nice office they have there.
I'm getting more cynical as I get older sure, but man, I would never spin news this wholesome into something negative. Can't a nice gesture just be a nice gesture?
Plus now 260 developers get to play Gravity Rush Remastered. (Assuming they didn't have a PS4 of course).
Plus now 260 developers get to play Gravity Rush Remastered. (Assuming they didn't have a PS4 of course).
I am sure the employees getting a PS5 will be concerned about that, while playing games such as Ratchet. /s
Sorry, if that comes of as snarky. But I don't think employees will care one bit why their CEO delivered them the present. Fact of the matter is, the CEO didn't need to do that and at the end of the day, those employees will be happy. The reasons behind the gift doesn't really matter imo.
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Apparently not.
But I got laughs reading some of the "reactions" at least.
Mere minutes into this reveal the forum was rife with comments over how sexist/disgusting the MC design was.
I mean there are pretty obvious booty shots in the trailer but it's by no means the most egregious oversexualized female character design out there lol
I'm just responding to the post saying that this place doesn't call out sexist shit in nin-western games.
I'm sure other people have mentioned this, but the notable thing here is that he managed to secure 260 of the things. I guess he could've just paid scalper prices?
Also, I keep reading this as "Shut Up CEO..."
Also, I keep reading this as "Shut Up CEO..."
See I'm kind of of the stance that a healthy level of skepticism towards what is essentially a PR Puff piece is okay. But people have kind of taken it to the opposite extreme of insinuating the absolute worse, and in one case used it as a platform to shame anyone who didn't immediately criticize the character design in the game.
There's a real fixation on posting "Gotchas."
I'd say the overall response to those approaching this "feel good" story with criticality has been counterproductive, whatever you think of where those people landed. For one thing, it's just made this thread worse, filling it with an amount of meta whining that almost certainly outnumbers whatever unnecessary negativity has been posted; for another, the basic instinct to deconstruct these sort of stories is a good one, and the backlash to that hasn't been targeted (at the "extremes") so much as it has just bemoaned the phenomenon of people finding negative angles to fluffy corporate stories.
Like, I dig this story. This artist also being CEO of a gaming company is cool to me. I'm overflowing with positive angles. There's almost always going to be space for pushback, though, and this is no exception.
Seriously, at this point it boggles my mind how people here are more allergic to the presence of "negativity" than to our penchant for forming circular firing squads at the drop of a hat. More often than not it's the latter that derails threads.