Bioware veteran calls out people celebrating layoffs

[gwwak]

https://www.thegamer.com/dragon-age-the-veilguard-haters-celebrate-bioware-layoffs-called-out-mark-darrah/

[Captain Westwind]

Looks like the kind of man who would celebrate blue collar working class middle aged men who lost their jobs in the coal industry and tell them "learn to code" even though they worked all time with manual labor. 0 sympathy. If is "just a game" then don't sell it for $ 70, make it free.

[Kethanid]

His complaint goes both ways.

[Maverick56]

Tried watching his 14min video, stopped at 19sec because he is already incorrect.

"The fact that you bought a game you didn't like doesn't give you the right to be cruel."

This is a pretty ridiculous argument for a few reasons:

1. Cruelty is subjective
2. You have the right to say whatever you want whenever you want, thats literally what the right of free speech is

There is no magical arbitration wizard dolling out moral rules at people. Are you a kinda a ♥♥♥♥ for laughing at people getting fired for doing a piss poor job? I mean I guess? Does Mark Darrah have the authority to condemn you for that? ♥♥♥♥ no.

Here is a suggestion Mark (if you ever see this) maybe instead of attempting to push your rule-book on how to critique video game creators with "First person in the credits and no lower" kinda stuff...

You push them to just...make good products in the first place, and this wouldn't happen.

[johnwick]

The perceived cruelty (subjective) manifests as a result of people trying to express valid concerns only to be met with an army of terminally online engagement addicts and professional working personas being disingenuous who refuse to allow normal and healthy debate to take place.

They are victims of their own fake personas. This Mike Darrah is a professional persona. A LinkedIn opinion post masquerading as a genuinely held personal opinion. An undeclared bias.

This is why there is a break down of communication between consumers who are expressing genuinely held personal opinions and a person who will defend their professional interests and disregard any attempt at engaging the consumer honestly.

These people should be banned from social media as they are just influencers who don't declare their bias/sponsorship. They are just fake personas representing their professional interests. Nothing they say can be considered a genuinely held personal opinion.

If the consumer hadn't been constantly gas lighted and manipulated by them, the media and the manufactured social communities, who are all essentially working for the same people, the consumer would not feel so vindicated and express the total lack of sympathy for the outcome of these professional liars.

They are victims of their own actions. There should be no sympathy and we should feel vindicated of the fair and valid outcome for them producing a mediocre and unsuccessful game.

No public facing retail industry could get away with delivering such mediocre products by blaming the consumer.

They tell you to eat ♥♥♥♥ and like it so they should not be surprised when we applaud them suffering the consequences.

[Scrubwave]

Layoffs will continue until games improve.

[Letterit]

Haters celebrating layoffs and you support it, that's what stinks.

You can have all bad behaviors and bad mentality you want, but except everybody is agree with such stinky haters behaviors... is wrong.

The point here is how pathetic is EA to be unable admit Bioware trademark is dead and it's nothing new and it's not related to dev.

It seems EA is going to make a next ME and be sure it will be another smash in their face, and that they recently cut ME team in half will change nothing to it.