Thomas Mahler (CEO of Moon Studios. Ori. No Rest for the Wicked) has some really sus views (GamerGate)
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you're right on the money with that. the idea of "natural" diversity in media is a complete joke
I loved the ori games but will not touch anything by moon given the report on working conditions there and this dumbass.
He wasn't banned, but he disappeared after the allegations about his studio came out and hasn't been seen here since.
It's a shame that I'm going to have to avoid the new game now. I wanted to follow Alexander O. Smith's work, but I can't really jive with the game's director responding to that Hades steam post in such a way. I watched the reveal trailer a few times and it had me hyped. It is what it is.
I actually found this a little triggering, and found myself loathing this person more than before. Thanks for adding it, since I have no interest in interacting with twitter.
Though its not gamedev, Franciskas account is so similar to my own experience with workplace abuse, it genuinely upset me reading it.
Summed up so well as well, which I have great difficulty doing. But yes, everything is justified to get the job done. and it utterly wears you down and totally erodes your confidence and feeling of self worth. For me it led to me almost doing something very stupid.
Horrible, horrible, horrible.
Sorry, just wanted to correct your grammar here. It should be "this guy are a piece of shit".
Isnt it usually specificy the bible, and not just "half a book"?
"Halbe Bibel, ganzer ...sohn"
Also sometimes I wish "Cancel Culture" was real, so that pos would be gone.
Yeah, I regret being hyped by their latest game.
Found it mediocre at best, now this (I kinda hoped the studio had changed its course after the previous reveals).
Mahler is an irrecuperable pos
Found it mediocre at best, now this (I kinda hoped the studio had changed its course after the previous reveals).
Mahler is an irrecuperable pos
And also that character is Hephaestus, who is well known for being disabled. There's even a passage in The Iliad describing him building a bunch of mobility scooters.
WTF is wrong with game designers/devs????????
I have no idea what these people are thinking... they usually have a master degree. Fucking idiots.
Looks like I am permanently skipping his games.
I have no idea what these people are thinking... they usually have a master degree. Fucking idiots.
Looks like I am permanently skipping his games.
Outside of his bad views, seeing him piggy back on any bad studio news or controversial game decision and using it as a way to prop up his game and Moon Studios is just tacky shit. Especially knowing there's been reports of abuse and misconduct there.
I also think the use of the word sus is sus. This shit should be more clearly described with something other than a meaningless juvenile chat abbreviation.
How utterly pathetic. All that self-righteous pontificating about the dangers of cancel culture and yet more anti-intellectual ramblings aimed at all that is "woke" (meaningless though that terminology is) simply because a post whining about the lightest amount of diversity and inclusion was rightly condemned. Not over any grievous affront or genuinely misdirected cancellation (which is practically unheard of in the first place), but because cowards weren't wholly embraced while they lamented diversity for the millionth time.
The greatest question posed in modern history is, "Who has ever been 'canceled' that we wish e had back? Who are they"
For all the crying about cancel culture, no one making a tangible contribution to society has ever fallen victim to it.
For all the crying about cancel culture, no one making a tangible contribution to society has ever fallen victim to it.
Did he get any blowback on twitter when he was almost crowing about not letting Xbox buy Moon Studios last week?
wow. after this and reading his posts on this very forum it's amazing that he has any time left to develop video games with how much of it he seems to spend insulting his peers
I do have to say that I'm surprised that people gave this guy a pass, or a second chance, after the toxic workplace allegations came out at Moon Studios a couple of years ago, but the consistency of what's come after that shows that it wasn't a one-off thing.
Firstly it doesn't matter because Greek Gods are fictional so can be racially anything.
But secondly, it always amuses me that Western/Northern European right wingers like to racially codify Ancient Greeks and Gods as what they look like, when Greeks/Ancient Greeks look different to them and indeed many would be considered "non-white" by the most racist of them, and this guy is in Germany so would probably conflate them with Turks based on looks.
I don't think it got that much push back, but I think a lot of people pointed out that it was unlikely MS would ever have acquired the studio anyway given that MS allegedly broke ties with the studio very deliberately over the toxic culture Mahler cultivated there which included "a steady stream of racist, sexist, and anti-semitic banter". It seemed to me like a pretty obvious attempt to try and spin it as "no, no, they didn't reject me, I rejected them, honest".
I would hope most didn't believe him because he definitely seems like the kind of guy who'd happily screw over his entire workforce for a paycheck.
Some of the most educated people can turn out to be the most bigoted and worst people. For example, eugenicists often were scientists and used scientific racism to justify experimenting on, sterilising, and mass murdering people. We can't assume someone's morality based on their level of education, is what I'm getting at.
Hahaha, that got a good chuckle out of me. Dude's an absolute asshat. And Farlander, I am glad you didn't end up working for this complete tool.
He had the gall to go after other developers, his own shit came out, and he dares to equate people who want more diversity with Nazis? It's always deflection, isn't it? Calling someone else the thing that they actually are... What a fuckhead.
Funny how he complains about cancel culture and compares black characters in a videogame to the fucking Holocaust, meanwhile one of his last posts in this forum was about now No Man's Sky wasn't cancelled enough and everyone should doxx Hello Games for betraying The Gamers or whatever.
That guy is fucked in the head. I never liked him even when he used to post here. Good riddance.
For some reason, the thing that always sticks out to me about him is his weird stunt hiring of the AM2R developer that never seemingly went anywhere other than allowing him to get attention on himself.
Zeus can be a swan, a cuckoo, a bull, a sexy ray of light, a woman but he MUST look no more deviated from whiteness than Liam Neeson!
Thanks for sharing, seems to be a common pattern. Him insulting developers in the recruiting and development process, not just other people in the industry he doesn't interact with, can't be sustainable.
Him being a shithead and Moon Studios being a toxic workplace isn't new info but a lot of people conveniently forgot about that stuff when No Rest for the Wicked dropped.
Thats so horrible and just disgusting, I hope you found a better place and are thriving Farlander!
Ick.
decided that years ago when he went on a crusade against other developers
This sounds in line with the idea that the dude was basing company decisions based around forum discourse.
*Posts vague bullshit statements without any evidence*
Ah but if you dispute my points, you better have some real hard evidence to back it up!
Ah but if you dispute my points, you better have some real hard evidence to back it up!
At some point in the future I will get PC game pass and smash through a bunch of games on there, the second Ori game included. But I've also been saying that for like three years and other shit keeps coming up, so maybe I never will. I certainly won't buy it unless it's £2 on sale or something
Feel bad for the genuinely cool people that probably work on this jerk's games and feel conflicted or attacked by his braindead diatribe.
imagine working for this person. imagine it. i reckon ori 1 and 2 were DESPITE him and his prick co-founder trying to mess everything up. assholes.