If you have any dignity, then you will boycott PREY and Bethesda.

[MaximeMartyr]

Greeting players-mates!
Please allow me to show you something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKw_VUuZjCE

Okay, you understood?
Bethesda was so impressed by Prey 2 that they wanted to own its developer: Human Head Studio.
But Human Head Studio didn't want to belong to a publisher and wanted to remain free to work with any publisher that they feel like.
Then Bethesda reacted like a man who wants a woman but the woman doesn't want him so the man gets mad and does everything to make the woman suffer out of revenge.
That is exactly how Bethesda reacted to Human Head Studio declining to belong to Bethesda.
Bethesda has sabotaged a wonderful video game almost ready to release out of revenge.
Don't you find Bethesda lame and disgusting from this point?
Now that you know what Bethesda has done and if you have any sense of justice and love for video games, then you can't forgive Bethesda and you don't want to reward them.
Then you don't want to make Bethesda earn money and you shall boycott the incoming Prey masquerade and everything which would make Bethesda earn money from now on.
Because if you do buy something which makes Bethesda earn money, then you act as if you don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about what Bethesda has done and you reward them for their bad deeds.
So from player to player, for the sake of video games and for players' dignity, we shall all boycott Bethesda.
Thank you for listening to what a player-mate had to say and thank you if you do decide to participate at boycott for the sake of justice, dignity, and love of video games.
Thank you for feeling concerned and not let greedy publishers get away after wasting promising video games.

Think about it. Why everyone runs after money? Because money allows to do things. Money is power. The more we have money, the more we can do things, the more we have power. Think about it, each time that we spend money, we bring some power to someone. Each time that we boycott, we don't bring power to someone. Do you understand? Each time that we spend money or boycott, we kinda vote for who we want to make more or less powerful.

Knowing that, and not wanting to bring power to a publisher who wastes promising video games out of greed, you understand why you must boycott Bethesda and any other publisher that you know wastes promising video games.
Because that is our only way to us, players, to defend video games.

But, out of the topic but still kinda in, this applies to everything, not only video games.
In a society where the real power is money, our only real power is to choose what we do of our money.
We all are more powerful than the said powerful persons at the top of our society want to make us believe.
Because think about it, the said powerful persons at the top of our society need our money in order to remain powerful.
They can't remain powerful without our money.
So they need us all much more that they want to make us believe.
They want to make us believe that we are weak and meaningless, they want to make us believe that in order to remain over us, but the truth is, they are helpless without us.
Or more specifically, they are helpless without our money.
Think about it, every each of us is more powerful than they want to make us believe, we are not that meaningless. ;-)
So let's use our power well. Let's choose wisely who we give our money to, so who we bring some power to, and so, for what society we vote for. ;-)

Edit: Here is a demo of Prey 2 and I highly recommend to you to read its commentaries, they are pretty interesting...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPkHZfjK5z4

Moreover, I learned that Bethesda has not done this to only one developer.
It seems that such disgusting moves are usual by Bethesda.
Here is another story that I was told and that I share with you:
Bethesda has done exactly the same to Arkane and Dishonored 2 that they have done to Human Head Studio and Prey 2.
It's the same thing. Additional funding was given at each milestone reached in development. For a while everything was going fine, but with time Bethesda became more and more strict about acknowledging the milestones, forcing Arkane to go back and redo their work.
If I remember correctly there was a story about Bethesda complaining a level was too bright or something, the dev responsible was so fed up that they made no changes at all to it and resubmitted the same level a week later, at which point Bethesda complained it was too dark and they had to go back and make it brighter.
The funding from the last milestone would run out so they were forced to take out loans to pay for paychecks and expenses until the next milestone was reached. Eventually they had to go to Bethesda and say they were declaring bankruptcy and they wouldn't be finishing the game. Bethesda offered to pay off their loans in exchange to selling the studio to them for next to nothing. Arkane did, and apparently the milestones went back to being reached on schedule.

So Arkane has been victim of Bethesda's greed and dirty tricks to own a developer, pushed to bankruptcy and forced to accept to be bought by and to belong to Bethesda.
Right now, I see Bethesda as a man who doesn't accept to be said no when he wants a woman and who rapes women who don't want to offer themselve to him.
To sign a contract with Bethesda is the same as to sign your sentence to death or to slavery.
And I feel as if buying a video game published by Bethesda is the same as buying a product made by slaves and support slavery...

[nomadpad]

引用自 paulo：

引用自 A Mean Guy：

Prey failing wont crush Bethesda, only punish a good game and encourage more bad games.

And that is there is the reason why we need to flood Bethesda's emails and communication channels with mass complaints about everything wrong they are doing. They need to understand that their fans are tired of see them acting like jerks and producing (in the case of Bethesda Game Studios) bugged games.

引用自 Vapor Gator：

I get what you're trying to say and I'm aware of the backstory (in addition to a host of other shady practices from Zenimax), but what would boycotting Prey achieve really?
Would it get Prey 2 released? No.
Would it put Zenimax out of business? No.
Would it even send them a message of any kind? Maybe, but even if it did do you think they would actually care? They've got enough other IPs making them money that even if this one tanked it would hardly dent their profits.
The only things I think this would lead to are Arkane getting shafted and people missing out on what seems to be a good game.

Now don't get me wrong, I completely agree that disgusting practices that Zenimax, EA and a lot of other big publishers employ should be harshly criticized and ideally rooted out of the gaming industry. Unfortunately, however, the harsh truth is that we live in an era where corporations need not follow any rules, because so long as they're backed by enough fat stacks they'll never be held accountable for anything. And you can bet your ass that they have all this crap figured out far in advance, basically ensuring that regardless how things play out, they'll turn a profit.
That's just how it is. Money talks and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ walks. That's the society we in the western world have made for ourselves and we've got no choice but to live with it.
As stalwart as intentions might be when someone calls for a boycott, the harsh reality is that we've come to a point where your value as a consumer is more or less ♥♥♥♥ all. Gone are the days of "the customer is always right," because with globalism (not to mention the advent of digital platforms) corporations have more or less ensured that they'll ALWAYS have customers somewhere.
So in the end, even if you got thousands of people to boycott a product or a company, there's always thousands more out there that won't.

Feel free to agree or disagree with the points I raise, but the bottom line is this just isn't going to work, because no matter how you play your cards, the game's never set up in your favor, and the house ultimately always wins.

I agree. And its because of that we need to drown Bethesda's executives with Mass complaints demanding they stip acting liek jerks and start acting like the profissionals they believe be.

引用自 Excaliber The Slav：

now i want a sequel to this prey

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

引用自 nomadpad：

Nope New Prey does fallow the old themes of prey 2006.
You are a man who is being hunted by alines in a spaceship.

No. You are a idiot being hunted by India Ink Blots of Outer Space (aka: "aliens") aboard a generic human-built space station. Personally, I prefer to be an abducted human being hunted by aliens aboard a gigantic biomechanical alien starship.

mope prey 2016 you still being hunted by alines. please stop it with your biased statements.

[PJ]

引用自 MaximeMartyr：

Didn't you see the video? Didn't you see how awesome it was going to be?
Actually it is because it was so amazing that Bethesda wanted to own its developpers that much.
Are you not disgusted at Bethesda to have prevented you to play such a masterpiece?

No and I love the game I just bought from them so more power to them. Business is business my man, don't get so emotional 'bout it.

[nomadpad]

引用自 BurgerDaddy：

引用自 MaximeMartyr：

Didn't you see the video? Didn't you see how awesome it was going to be?
Actually it is because it was so amazing that Bethesda wanted to own its developpers that much.
Are you not disgusted at Bethesda to have prevented you to play such a masterpiece?

No and I love the game I just bought from them so more power to them. Business is business my man, don't get so emotional 'bout it.

+1

[Velber]

引用自 FatSageMcander：

引用自 ♥♥♥♥♥ Slayer 420：

"Anything that hrts my feelings should be deleted!"
Go back to Tumblr, ♥♥♥♥♥.

the cutie pie is back, gimme huggy plzzz

why does the cutie run away every time i try talking to it?

[Skelly Man]

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the worst of Paulo[imgur.com] for your viewing pleasure.

[𝔐𝔞𝔩]

引用自 SurrealSaxhleel：

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the worst of Paulo[i.imgur.com] for your viewing pleasure.

Bless your soul mate. That is some quality kek

[KaosReigns]

引用自 SurrealSaxhleel：

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the worst of Paulo[i.imgur.com] for your viewing pleasure.

I dunno man, that look an awful lot like the NPCs on Galactic Civilizations.....

[hwoodiwiss]

Bethesda don't own any company's. All of the "Bethesda Family" are owned by ZeniMax Media Inc.

[Skelly Man]

引用自 Excaliber The Slav：

引用自 SurrealSaxhleel：

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the worst of Paulo[i.imgur.com] for your viewing pleasure.

if you could you could remove my post from the pic, at least the reply tab

Unfortunately it's like 2am where I live and I can't get to my main computer with the actual .psd to edit it right now but I have updated the original post to contain a version with your name censored along with everyone else's. Sorry about that

[paulo]

引用自 nomadpad：

Nope prey 2016 you still being hunted by alines. please stop it with your biased statements.

I will stop with my "biased statements" when Fake Shock is under a new IP. Oh! and the correct is "Nope", not "mope".

引用自 BurgerDaddy：

引用自 MaximeMartyr：

Didn't you see the video? Didn't you see how awesome it was going to be?
Actually it is because it was so amazing that Bethesda wanted to own its developpers that much.
Are you not disgusted at Bethesda to have prevented you to play such a masterpiece?

No and I love the game I just bought from them so more power to them. Business is business my man, don't get so emotional 'bout it.

Business should always work in an ethical, honest way. And always giving priority to the consumer.

引用自 Excaliber The Slav：

you are an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dude, you try to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ force people to think your silly x ray bright neon lights shoot the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ with the trigger come back with the money simulator is better than this one. It was silly, and it didnt deserve a release

EDIT : sheesh the aliens arent ink blots, exposed arteries and organs

Errr... what?! oh, and I still seeying India Ink Blots of Outer Space in that game instead of aliens made of meat and bone.

[paulo]

引用自 hwoodiwiss：

Bethesda don't own any company's. All of the "Bethesda Family" are owned by ZeniMax Media Inc.

I read somewhere in the net that Bethesda and Zenimax Media are one and the same company.

[JamesF0790]

ACTUALLY companies should work in their shareholder's interest. It's literally the reason they exist.

[KaosReigns]

引用自 Moon Moon：

ACTUALLY companies should work in their shareholder's interest. It's literally the reason they exist.

How dare you bring logic into this equation sir.

[TakenStew22]

引用自 SurrealSaxhleel：

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the worst of Paulo[imgur.com] for your viewing pleasure.

LMFAO.

[Todd Coward]

引用自 paulo：

I read somewhere in the net that Bethesda and Zenimax Media are one and the same company.

Zenimax owns Bethesda, and uses them as their publishing arm. It's kind of like how Activision owns Blizzard but they still use Blizzard to publish titles. It obfuscates and allows you to have more flexibility. Bethesda has some free control but they're still beholden to Zenimax when it comes to publishing their own games. Welcome to the wonderful world of video game publishing, it's basically hell on earth.

Seriously though, nu-prey hasn't wow'd me in the slightest. They really should have just called it something else and used the prey license to make an actual ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ prey game. As a system shock wannabe it's alright, but the fact that they slapped a completely unrelated IP on it just to move units is pathetic.