ArchivingLeftists (@ArchivingLeftists)

""indie" game owned by daughter of #Oracle founder somehow has the capital to fill their interactive nepobaby movie with licensed music and ship soycrates full of branded bullshit to the softest #reddit manchildren you've ever seen but dont you dare call this an industry plant" #Mixtape #IGN #corrupt #corruption #tabloid #propaganda #fraud #A_i #AnnapurnaInteractive https://archive.is/zNPAs re. #BlueThunderReal https://archive.is/d0V4E "Did you know Megan #Ellison, founder of #Annapurna, was one of Anita #Sarkeesian's and #FeministFrequency's biggest financial backers?" https://archive.is/nHCff "An important thing to remember is that the entire staff of Annapurna's game development studio resigned EN MASSE in September of 2024. This was not a lay off. They all resigned. Looking at what's coming out, I can't blame them either." https://archive.is/aSW2z "They could have used a reference. But why do that. Why care about any form of accuracy. Why put effort into anything. Why bother. Why bother when you can artificially inflate popularity online and get random accounts to spread it for a week while never breaking 5k players online. Why bother with gameplay for a game when you can just have no consequence timers and sequences. YEAH REAL 10/10 CONTENT. im glad theres loser materials for losers but after the pragmata bullshit, oh man. Seeing people rightfully mock this trash is a little cathartic." https://archive.is/TAUIL "#Mixtape is absolutely TERRIBLE. It isn’t even a video game. It literally plays itself. Do NOT buy." https://archive.is/8uTWP "We have reached the pont where these are #DSP mode games" https://archive.is/HOUwM "Were the journos paid to shill for Mixtape or simply sucking up to the daughter of a centibillionaire?" https://archive.is/XLyLx "One of the biggest shocks during our game’s development was realizing how few “successful indie games” are truly indie. One very successful indie (not self-published) title of the last decade presented itself as crowdfunded and low-budget, while already being backed behind the scenes by a major publisher. They were even filming a “making of” documentary around that image. Then, just weeks after the crowdfunding campaign launched, the publisher magically appeared and signed them. I will let you in on something: no serious publisher signs a project of that scale in two weeks. Even for a much smaller game like ours, negotiations can take months. Another publisher vanished the moment we said we didn’t want to include politics or representation. You see, they wanted to grab some of those sweet european taxpayer funds that reward those kind of games. And we have plenty more stories like this, going back to the days before (or early?) gamergate, when a journalist abruptly ended an interview with #realkoyima after he called out a well-known crowdfunding scammy tactic that a dev was doing. The indie scene is not always what it pretends to be." https://archive.is/Bgdog "tell me how an ~indy game~ that dropped out of nowhere, got perfect journo scores and can not only afford a fully licensed soundtrack but also fancy goodie sets for redditor "content creators" is anything but an industry plant" https://archive.is/9cISd ""Daddy why is the nostalgia-bait Reddit slop game getting literally perfect scores across the board, even outdoing some of the greatest regarded games of the past decade?" "Sit down son, it all started with someone called Zoe #Quinn..."" https://archive.is/T3bX8 "Mixtape | Reviews 10 - #IGN 10 - #VGC 10 - #DayOne 10 - #CGM 10 - #WellPlayed 10 - #ScreenHub 10 - #DualShockers 9 - #Stevivor 9 - #ConsoleCreatures 9 - #Gamespot 9 - #GameInformer Coming today to #Xbox Game Pass Ultimate as a Day One release. #Opencritic: 94" https://archive.is/zDaCf "For comparison here's what a bunch of these outlets scored Alien: Isolation #IGN: 5.9/10 #Gamespot: 6/10 #ame Informer: 7.75/10 #DualShockers: 7/10 #CGM (#CGMagazine): 8/10" https://archive.is/qY9sl re. https://archive.is/pLx5d "it's cause it got a 10/10 on ign, is made by a child of a billionaire and almost everyone praising it is doing so in a very snide "The Gamers don't get it because they don't Understand Art, hoho" way" https://archive.is/RucvX re. #michaelphuber stans https://archive.is/BDdYa https://archive.is/lGzJp https://archive.is/Mmy9s