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'Anyone Who Doesn't Include Five Trans Characters...': Ori Studio CEO Defends Closure Comments (insider-gaming.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Mahler caught wind of the article and responded to it on social media, going on a rant against ‘the press’ and those who hate against him and his brand on social media because of past events and opinions.

He slipped a bit, making some inflammatory comments:

I’ve been hated on Twitter by a few crazies for years now, and I also saw the calls for review bombing because, according to those folks, I’m a ‘Nazi.’

These days, apparently anyone who doesn’t include five trans characters in their game and doesn’t let their products be influenced by political bullshit is a Nazi. What a world we live in.

When the Russia/Ukraine war broke out and I replied on Twitter saying that Moon Studios wouldn’t be taking a public stance—because we’re a video game company, not a journalistic outlet—the next day a threat letter with a picture of Putin was taped to my office door, full of insults from top to bottom.

Well that went from whiney to a bigoted WTF tangent in zero seconds flat.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

Looks like Ori has been added to the boycott list.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Hmm office door would imply it was an internal grievance

[–] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

My guess is the CEO himself put it there (if it happened at all).

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 9 points 17 hours ago

Urgh, I really like the Ori games and was looking forward to the new one once it came out of early access. Not anymore unfortunately. I don't even care about representation in games, but this is just blatant transphobia.

[–] StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine making a Souls-like and then spending all your time complaining about the tr*nnies. Pathetic bastard. What a way to eliminate half your audience. That said, I'm more of a New Vegas girlie myself so it's not like I'd ever buy it.

Go anti-woke go broke

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What's the connection between souls-like and trannies?

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

Dark Souls 2 had the gender change coffin.

I don't know what OP was going for but that came to mind.

[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes it's because you don't put five trans characters in games. Not because you complain about wokeness and cancel culture in a way that is not so much a dog whistle as it is a fucking foghorn of rightwing nutjobbery.

[–] yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

Oh thats some more info of this drama that I didn't knew... unsihlisted.

Thx for the news.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this all a weird ad for his game, to get eyes on it, or is he just like this?

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Honestly this sounds like a guerilla marketing campaign of sorts.

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The game is mostly positive? If it's getting review bombed, then it isn't a very effective review bombing.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

From what I can tell they recently got a few negatives that put them into "mixed" briefly because players were critical about QoL features, difficulty and whatnot, seemingly pretty valid types of reviews.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Is he purposefully trying to get the comoany shuttered for tax reasons? Maybe he owes a lot and wants to declare bankruptcy?

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago

"Everyone who is critical of me is woke."

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -4 points 20 hours ago

Wow fuck that guy. Drag is going to think about how to get Will of the Wisps refunded