Ex- Concord Dev in Defense of Marathon & Against "Lack of Compassion" & "Vitriol" Attached to Games

One former Concord dev defends Marathon and discusses the "vitriol" people have toward games in a statement shared with MP1st.

[Alos88]

Plenty of people are excited for Marathon- nobody was excited for Concord. That's the difference.

[Kornholic]

Not really. It's quite rare to see excitement for Marathon in comment sections. The only place where I've seen positive rhetoric for Marathon is the game's subreddit.

[TOTSUKO]

The marathon discord jumped up around 300k on reveal. Which is like what, triple of what concord sold lmao

[HyperMoused]

Didnt he call anyone who didnt like his game talentless losers..yeah...vitriol

[coolbeans]

Hold on! He may have been on the same team, but that wasn't this developer's words. The guy who made the "talentless freaks" comment was Xavier Farrell. I don't know if Stephan Williams shared the same attitude, but I think it's fair to not hold that over his head.

[thorstein]

He's not wrong. There are talented, great devs who made games then quit because of online vitriol from a tiny group of shitstirrers.

Wow, you hate a game you couldn't possibly have played yet. Or you hate a game that you couldn't possibly have played. How original.

Normal people (because you never hear from them) when they don't like a game, don't care and move on. They don't waste their time talking shit about it.

And the people who do just search for people they want to agree with their bias.

[Lightning77]

"There are talented, great devs who made games then quit because of online vitriol from a tiny group of shitstirrers."

I dunno about Tiny group of ppl. Hell ppl online made it collectively known they didn't want Concord.

If you were speaking as early as last gen. Yeah you could say it was a handful of small ppl online that talk down on certain games but ultimately had no impact on the games sales. Look at Destiny IP. Ppl Talk so much crap about that game post launch and the game still sold like crazy. Same with 2. These days there's a collective whole of ppl who are trying to tear down games by using platforms and followers to do it. Grummz is a perfect example of someone who has been terrorizing the game industry with his rhetoric of "anti-wokeness" and he's been doing this most of this gen along with his retarded followers. Doesn't matter the game he'll go after it if it doesn't fit his agenda and world. he's hurt this industry with fake outrage that spreads like a disease. It's definitely not a tiny amount of ppl anymore it's annoying movement that's hurting this industry. If a game doesn't get announced perfectly 10 outta 10 the with no "agendas" then "fans" will destroy said game.

[Eonjay]

Grummz is a scam artist and part of his thing is using anti-workness as a sheild to block out the criticism he has rightfully earned.

[Rancegamerx]

What does compassion have to do with this? This person needs to realize he’s not living in some fantasy world. This is the real world, and he was involved in a massive failure. No one is obligated to offer compassion for failure just to make others feel better about themselves. The so-called vitriol comes from deeply frustrated people who are tired of the industry producing low-quality content and then blaming gamers instead of the creators. It’s ridiculous.

[isarai]

People are allowed to be tired of the same formulas of an oversaturated genre, especially when you're asking for their money. Even with immense hatred going in, if a game is good it will succeed. Plenty of games were met with rolled eyes and dismissive opinions only to end up huge successes once they hit the market. A good game will always overcome, but i still feel it's a valid criticism to not want one of your favorite studios to risk it all by trend chasing

[Blad3runner00]

Don't want a lack of compassion? Then stop putting in a 'lack of effort' in your games.
Simple.

The lack of effort and creativity that are put into some games nowadays, is the equivalent of a person who is on social security because they are too lazy to work and are content with the bare minimum.

[anast]

I agree that some people are mentally ill, and something needs to be done about people threatening harm and cancelling people over games.

However, Gaming is extremely expensive. Do a better job and make better decisions. I don't see any compassion when you all are taking people's money for subpar products. Marathon is a dumb idea. So, was Concord. We as customers should not have to pay for dumb ideas.