favoredponchoJeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'
Huge empty map. Check. Base building. Check. Mining. Check. Fortifications. Check. Horses. Check. Guns. Check. Multiplayer. Check. Not giving a fuck about feedback from people about your tone deaf game. Check.
The spirit of highguard lives on
Where did they talk about the game aside from the mention at the beginning of the article? This isn’t a breakdown of the game they’re making.
It’s a breakdown of a guy leading the production of a shitty game complaining about people who speak negatively about shitty games without paying for them first.
The most generous interpretation is that he knows his game is going to get shit on from a great height and it’s already bothering him.
🔍🦘🛎This article is directed at you. Why have a strong opinion about it if it’s not your thing? I like survival crafting games, and I think Kaplan is an incredible game designer, but I probably won’t play this one because I’m not a fan of the setting. I even agree that the game looks uninspired. But I’d put money on the game feel being fantastic.
Jeff knows there will be outrage because there always is. Kaplan left Overwatch when Act-Bliz-King forced a lot of bad changes to the game, and he knows his reputation is tied to that game even after having no involvement in the worst aspects of it.
If you don’t like that guy’s opinion then why criticize it? Its not your thing so why have a strong opinion about it?
The point of Kaplan’s (offhand) comment is that there’s a social media environment constructed around posting outrage about games/movies/shows that you don’t actually care about. The point of these ‘criticisms’ is garnering attention and monetizing it. It’s devolved into slinging vitriol at anything deemed progressive, and was (no joke) pioneered by conservatives deeply involved in the current administration back during Gamergate.
The link in the article takes you to the steam page for the game, has a trailer and the rundown thereof
Only thing the game page doesn’t clarify about is PvP, makes it seem like the multiplayer is more coop than versus but I can’t speak to the availability or lack thereof
Not that I’d be enticed to go dig deeper if that’s what they want to tell the world before their game is even out.
Having read the article and watched the clip they linked, I agree with him.
People are way too free with their criticisms, even when they haven’t even interacted with what they’re criticizing in any way.
Yeah, for the people that read the article, it’s obvious he’s talking about trolls, not actual players of the game.
Kaplan was also the reason overwatch was ever any good, and he fought to keep 6v6 going and was fired for pushing back against the ceo
Yliaster
CerebralHawksHear that sound? It’s the sound of the other shoe dropping.
For years we’ve suspected that these executives have been making soulless games not for gamers, but for shareholders.
We suspected they didn’t give a fuck about gamers; here’s one actually saying it.
“We don’t need to hear that you weren’t into it” was also a common sentiment expressed on Epstein island, now that I think about it. Maybe someone should search the Trump-Epstein files for this guy’s name. And either way, pay close attention to him in the future. This guy may be going places. Hopefully cell block one.
MarshezezzHe probably isn’t wrong but when you present your work, it will be subject to criticism. Even if the criticism is annoying as fuck, it’s going to happen.
Yeah if you dont want criticism then you cant publish. Just play it by yourself with your dev team lol.
Like bröther you are trying to sell something, people will look at things before they buy them duh???
There is still a legitimate reason to debate about the tone and intention of criticism.
Problem is that enough people who receive fair criticism and can’t handle that, call it unreasonable and unfair and thereby muddle the debate massively.
Taste in games is subjctive. But there are 0 reasons not to voice personal concerns about the game. If we only accept positive feedback, it makes it super easy to control public opinion?
Eh, there’s plenty of feedback out there that just bad. Bad in a sense of being misinformed, wrong, or misleading. You ever open up the steam community comments for an update of a popular game? Most comments are just reaction bait, its really not worth reading through and masks any actual genuine feedback.
This has happened before and it will happen again. Jeff, just stop complaining and carry on with your life.
Either you are missing my point or I’m missing yours.
It’s an article about a single comment from a 10-hour stream and “news” outlets and people in this thread are acting like Jeff Kaplan emerged from hibernation to release a statement on signed letterhead complaining about complainers.
It’s funny how really good games somehow never have this problem.
Apparently the Principal Skinner meme is not well know enough still.
Are you high? This is especially prevalent in big releases of objectively good games. Ghosts of Tsushima is woke! Overwatch enshittified! Resident Evil isn’t catering to its core audience because the protagonist isn’t sexy!
Kaplan knows what he’s talking about when he pushes back against gamer outrage culture. Tigole Bitties used to be PART of it!
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Overwatch did enshittify, tho. Particularly after Kaplan left.
OW is honestly in a pretty good place at the moment as long as you don’t spend money on the super expensive crossovers. They backtracked on the worst changes with OW2, though they still won’t have a good PvE any time soon, if ever.
But about after Kaplan leaving: ABK was pushing to make a sequel and to make the game push monetization harder. Jeff knew that wouldn’t be good for the game and fought against it. He was told straight “If the game doesn’t make X million next quarter, we’re firing 1000 people, and it’ll be your fault.” So he made the correct decision and left. The game continued down that path but the last person you could blame is Kaplan.
But about after Kaplan leaving: ABK was pushing to make a sequel and to make the game push monetization harder. Jeff knew that wouldn’t be good for the game and fought against it. He was told straight “If the game doesn’t make X million next quarter, we’re firing 1000 people, and it’ll be your fault.” So he made the correct decision and left. The game continued down that path but the last person you could blame is Kaplan.
I specifically don’t blame Kaplan. He was the dyke holding back the sea of shit Blizzard execs were pushing.
Dyke is a ditch; like a barrow pit.
It’s also a type of rock.
artyom
UltraGiGaGiganticHaters gonna hate,
Lovers gonna love,
I dont even want none of the above,
I want to piss on you, yes I do I really do I’ll pee on you.
Drip drip drip
I Cast FistWhozzat?
former Blizzard vice president and game designer Jeff Kaplan made his first public appearance since leaving the World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer in 2021,
Oh. Anyway, we like to shit on games we won’t play because we like to expose our (sometimes lack of) reason to do so. Diablo Immoral? No, thanks, stick that shit up your ass. Pretty easy to ignore people that loudly declare “I’ll never play XYZ”, so no need to get worked up over that
“It’s not difficult to shit on something,” Ford said on-stream. “Apparently, it takes a ton of courage to say, ‘Hey, I actually like this thing. I don’t care that you don’t like it. I like it.’”
Yeah, because we have seen how brave people have to be to say that they loved Baldur’s Gate 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Elden Ring or Outer Wilds. Oh wait, no, people have praised those games to exhaustion.
Unnecessary roughness in internet discourse isn’t a new phenomenon by any means, but we’re now living alongside a media ecosystem that thrives on loudly, insistently, and often preemptively declaring that a game is dead and irredeemable instead of, you know, ignoring something you’re not interested in. While no single game developer’s frustration will do much to change it, it’s nice to know when your exhaustion is shared.
Fair point, the ragebait and engagement bait are fucking tiresome. Even the most civilized person becomes little more than an angry monkey with a keyboard when browsing the internet.
TrackinDaKrakenKaplan is a great admirer of the vaunted philosopher, Paris Hilton:
There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. — Paris Hilton