The last of us part 2 Developer Naughty Dog released a statement over the weekend condemning the harassment and threats against those who worked on the game as director Neil Druckman and others shared some of the vile messages they received after the game’s release.
“You can love or hate the game and share your thoughts about it,” Druckman wrote on Twitter yesterday. “Unfortunately, many of the messages I have received are vile, hateful, and violent.” Based on screenshots, he shared messages that contained homophobic, transphobic, antisemetic comments and other hate comments. “Hopefully Covid 19 will kill all of its toxic feminist study,” said part of one of the messages.
However, Druckman was not alone. Last Friday, July 3, Laura Bailey, who voices one of the game’s main characters, Abby, tweeted screenshots of some of the horrible messages he received. “Man,” he wrote, “I try to post only positive things here … but sometimes this gets a little overwhelming.”
Abby’s character in particular seems to have become somewhat troublesome for reactionary fans who can’t seem to deal with the idea of a woman who has big muscles. Without spoiling, she does too important factors in one of the main points of the game plot. But The last of us part 2 as a whole it has been harassed and abused since Some of the game’s story rhythms leaked in April.
Since then, those seemingly unable to deal with disappointment as an adult have been busy filling the comment sections on top tweets about the game with spoilers, criticism, and sometimes abusive comments directed at the people who made The last of us part 2. In May, Druckman tweeted that he was already being inundated with death threats about the supposed content of the game. Before the game’s release, Naughty Dog’s Twitter account even occasionally used the new Twitter feature to limit comments. to prevent people from replying to your tweets with internet bile.
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The studio finally publicly responded to hate over the weekend. “Although we welcome critical discussion, we condemn any form of harassment or threats directed at our team and cast,” the study said. wrote yesterday. “Your safety is our top priority, but we must all work together to eradicate this type of behavior and maintain a constructive and compassionate speech.”
The whole thing has faint echoes of the i hate the mafia Mass effect 3‘sending, including ridiculous fan requests have parts of history changed. But in the eight years since Mass effect 3 came out, certain parts of the internet and games culture they have only gotten worse.
There is a lot of legitimate criticism be made of The last of us part 2, including how do you handle violence And it is representations of certain characters. I also have more than a few questions about what some of the game themes around hate means have their origin in Druckman’s response to a 2000 video apparently showing two Israeli soldiers being killed by a crowd in the West Bank. But of course, those are not the kinds of discussions that attempt to make ethnic insults against Druckman or make death threats against the people who worked on the game.
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