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https://youtu.be/0vd2DGXp7TI
This game is also good though, but i was looking foward to Gamer Girl aswell.
100% Agree with you. They can't ignore stuff anymore or let other people decide what they want or think for themselves.
Some people just get a dopamine boost when they accomplish that a company changes its entire policy just because a guy/girl with few friends and a few random people decide to cancel something. Looks more like a hobby/habit for most of them these days than actually being offended.
Social media has become to powerful and we are seeing the effects in the gaming-industry getting bigger and bigger aswell. :(
They wanted to touch on harassment of streamers and I guess the balance between opening up and connecting with you fanbase and exposing yourself too much.
They interviewed streamers who had experienced harassment online to try to guide things and the main actress wrote a lot of her own dialogue.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-07-20-wales-interactive-pulls-announcement-for-fmv-game-about-female-streamer-abuse
However the trailer included things like the main character being scantily clad and asking the (presumed) male protagonist for advice on what to do.
This I think worried people it was going to push the narrative of followers saving the girl and the male white knight idea.
I think the idea has potential and I think a lot of the push back was misinterpretation.
It was mentioned you are a friend of the gamer girl who has been asked to be her moderator.
As part of that job I would expect you have decisions to make on censorship, what goes to far and part of your job and I would hope you place as a friend is protecting her.
But balancing that out against pulling in the views and helping build a successful channel and being overprotective could be quite interesting.
I expect it will return with a clearer trailer highlighting what they were hoping to cover.
It's a shame to watch ignorant people have so much control over what gets released when they are just outraged over something they know virtually nothing about.
I see two completely opposing view points. One is claiming crazy people online somehow magically caused it to go away. Seriously, the crazy people online are a very vocal minority that do not actually do that much, and are basically all hot air.
The other side is saying that the trailer was confusing, and wasn't quite the right way to go about explaining the game and giving good and valid reasons.
I know a lot of people like to blame cancel culture and SJWs for everything, but it's a little excessive.
If no one paid attention to them, they would go away.
Mind you, I just discovered this game and this forum, so I don't know exactly how any of this all worked.
"This game and this forum" ~ Do be aware that we're talking about another game entirely.
It's very simple: the trailers and information for Gamer Girl were released. There was backlash from the SJW crowd, the company tried to respond by explaining that this was about empowerment and not exploitation, they got louder. Within a couple of weeks the company had quietly removed all videos and press information about Gamer Girl and no longer talks about it.
Months later, this game Five Dates comes out, which is unrelated to Gamer Girl other than being from the same company.
Since the company isn't talking about it we can't do anything but speculate as to why Gamer Girl just went away after being in development for 4 years.
In the mean time the company has produced Five Dates in a relatively short amount of time during Covid-19 lockdowns having been started and released in less than a year.
This company has released several FMV choose your own adventure games before, in fact they are widely considered some of the best in the genre and Gamer Girl was to be their next big title, it's now just quietly missing and no longer talked about.
Instead we got a different game (Five Dates) with almost no hype or advertising prior to launch. Five Dates is good (perhaps not their best, but still good considering the conditions it was made under), but we simply have no idea what to think about what will happen with Gamer Girl.
Was it pulled due to the backlash? Well, that was the timing of when all information was removed, so draw your own conclusions.
Are they reworking it based on feedback? Maybe, but no one here can know that.
Will it get released next year during a more favorable window? We don't know.
Five Dates is certainly more relevant for the moment, it's a light hearted approach to dating online prior to meeting someone RL, which is very much a commentary on the state of the world right now.
I see now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/584980/Late_Shift/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/481110/The_Bunker/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/898650/The_Shapeshifting_Detective/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1107790/The_Complex/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1353270/Five_Dates/
My opinion about the canceling of the game is purely based on the fact that they defended the game once on Twitter but after that they deleted both the trailer on YouTube right away and completely erased the announcement page on their website. Which hasn't come back to this day.
Wales Interactive has gone in complete ignore/Silence mode about Gamer Girl, and even two months after the original release date we haven't heard a single word about the game, and then indeed Five dates came out of nowhere.