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'Anyone Who Doesn't Include Five Trans Characters...': Ori Studio CEO Defends Closure Comments (insider-gaming.com)
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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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[-] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They didn't include much race variation in the base game because doing so would require additional modeling and texturing for NPCs that would behave identically. For an indie studio, adding new characters, even NPCs, is costly to time and budget, so that work doesn't happen unless there's a need for that specific NPC to be that color.

This is why there's so little representation in older games. That shit used to be way more expensive to make happen.

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