IGN France Apologizes To Stellar Blade Developer Over Insulting Remarks

IGN France has issued an apology to Stellar Blade developer Shift Up for its insulting remarks over the depiction of the game's protagonist.

[CrashMania]

This reads like a 'sorey you were offended by what we said' rather than a sincere apology to me. That and apparently the same person then went on an unhinged about having to apologise afterwards.

[S2Killinit]

Its IGN, they are on MS payroll.

[Cacabunga]

IGN is merde

[itsmebryan]

@s2kill
Now that's funny.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

IGN is on MS payroll? Lmao now that’s funny.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I'm not sure if they're on the same payroll, but they certainly hired a lot of activists as journalists.

[babadivad]

Jesus Christ...

[S2Killinit]

Funny or not, they are. And its very evident. I followed these guys a a long time and yes they are a paid advertisement for xbox.

[Ironmike]

So what who cares that's meant as fig at ign they terrible reviewers

[senorfartcushion]

So the French way of apologising? Lol

[VenomUK]

When will these politicised ‘journalists’ and gaming websites stop looking down on their audience? All it does is push them away and then they go down the toilet, look at Vice Waypoint, Kotaku,etc.

Ironically what IGN doesn’t realise is that calling out attractive women who appear in the game, indirectly insulting the developer’s wife and gamers are all forms of misogyny as they are all defining women look or behave one specific way denying them of their agency to be who they are - which can include being attractive.

[senorfartcushion]

All humans are political, stop being weird VenomUK

[StormSnooper]

IGN is pretty shady.

[H9]

"IGN France clarified that it is an independent branch of IGN and that IGN’s editorial staff had no involvement with this incident"

Basically IGN Said: throw yourself under the bus for us please

[Profchaos]

Yeah they like to pull that card when it suits hey why did ign Japan give title x a 10 when we said 6 umm independent. Thing is that argument never held water because it's still under the parent company

[Knightofelemia]

She is a computer generate character who is not real. Did IGN create her not from what I have read. Does IGN own her and the ip nope. Shift Up can pretty much do what ever they want with her they own the character and the ip. And I would not be surprised if the cosplay is all ready getting fired up.

[Notsofast]

Supposedly she is modeled after someone just like Jill Valentine in resident evil 3 remake is a YouTuber

[GameBoyColor]

She is modeled but they definitely heavily changed her to be more korean manhwa like lol. Feels like they didnt even need a model at all with how much they changed imo.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

It's a 3D body scan of a real model, they did create the head from scratch (I assume so they didn't have to pay royalties to the model for her likeness). Other than that, they've done minimal changes to the character's body, I think that maybe they thickened up the thighs? Maybe.

[Skuletor]

I saw a video of a girl playing the demo yesterday, saying she was going to cosplay Eve but not her base costume, as it would conflict with the green screen she uses.

[gold_drake]

and continues to have a rant about it sonewhere else.

people really need to get out more.

[WolfSeed]

😂🤣

[Charlieboy333]

Well after this apology the editor had an even more retarded take, saying that women will now be beaten by their husbands and demeaned for not looking like Eve. Not only that, but Eve's beauty will apparently make women want to 'un-alive' themselves due to feeling inadequate. What a load of bullshit.

Wherever you look on social media like Instagram or tiktok you are bombarded with women that are artificially beautified beyond what is naturally achievable. I've never seen any effort by the media to get the Kardashians cancelled for example, despite their immoral behaviour and heavily augmented 'beauty'.

I am unaware of any spike in women offing themselves due to seeing some hot insta model or tiktokker, so how the hell is some FAKE GAME CHARACTER gonna cause this? Dumb c**t.

[rlow1]

I heard about this on YouTube. The video went on to talk about the main editor and after the apology, on a separate occasion. Trashed talked white men and blaming them for the stereotypes.

[CrimsonWing69]

Too late you scum bags. You all preach about tolerance and acceptance yet go and bully people that think different than you. Disgusting a**-holes. Reminds me of the whole Hogwarts debacle. Y’all don’t want equality, you want everything tipped in your favor and do the exact tactics you preach against being used on you.

[Crows90]

Nobody asked for them to apologize...you only apologize when you recognize you made a big mistake and have the mindset never to commit it again.

This is just PR repair.

[raWfodog]

I miss the days when games weren’t so controversial. I guess I’m showing my age because I’m too old for this crap. Glad I can just enjoy games without being concerned about all this other stuff.

[Gamingsince1981]

Games were controversial starting in the Atari era , when did you start gaming ? They just all complain about a different problem is all.

[raWfodog]

When I got my first Atari in ‘78, I was seven. What 7-year old kid you know worries about controversy? And what was so significantly controversial about the early gaming years then? The earliest time I remember when games became mainstream controversial was when Hilary Clinton went on her tirade against GTA and ‘Hot Coffee’. Nowadays, everybody is mainly up in arms about almost every game that comes out, from characters’ race/sex/identity both pro and con, what characters are wearing, and why devs are trying to sell you more stuff in-game, etc.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I was born in the late 80s, and I don't remember it being this bad in the 90s, this kind of thing was rare in comparison, as @raWfodog mentioned, the Hot Coffee mod was the most significant one I remember from my childhood.

[CrimsonWing69]

He meant more towards the titillation side of things. I mean, it’s funny how simulated murder and extreme mutilation is ok, but an attractive female character is what will harm women. I think they went full r*tard. Everyone knows you don’t go full r*tard.

[YourMommySpoils]

I never even paid attention to what they were saying, when I watched the preview.

[rlow1]

Back in the 70s,80, 90s no one in the mainstream cared about gaming. Hell people looked at you as though you were weird for being a hardcore player. Women were far a few apart. Now all this political crap is ruining games.

Honestly need to start a revolution among us gamers and start boycotting games that support the liberal and woke ideas. Hurt them in the sales department, because this has gotten out of hand.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Some of those games and developers are collapsing/falling hard anyway, people just need to be more selelctive with their money.

[raWfodog]

Both sides need to relax as neither extreme is sane. Forced inclusion and exclusion are two sides of the same coin.

[Lionsguard]

To some people if a woman doesn't posses the silhouette of a 43 year old man, they're not a real woman at all.

[Christopher]

I mean, both sides of this spectrum are quite ridiculous. You're trying to highlight just one to make a point that could be made about both sides.

[MrBaskerville]

This whole Stellar Blade thing is the single most idiotic thint thar has happened in gaming in years. It really shows how frail gamer snowflakes really are. Basically launched by a couple of comments from one of the guys from Digital Foundry. He said his opinion in a podcast and gamers got butthurt and the thing snowballed. It's stupid and embarrasing to witness.

Two people on the planet has critized the mc in Stellar Blade and now the game is the savior of videogames by the easily offended crowd. Though to be fair, it's quite obviously spearheaded by grifters who smell money.

[Fonsecap]

I thought ign was a gaming news site that talks and analyses video games, now they're what? A videogame politics analysing website? Why these people find so hard to talk only about the videogame itself and leave the politics to the ones who understands them. This would be like a sports commentator analysing a team playing a sport and say "well they suck, they're winning, but they suck because they don't have enough diversity on their team"

[MrBaskerville]

Because the character is a part of the game.

But you are only allowed to talk about some parts of the game, wouldn't want to hurt the feelings of snowflakes. It's an opinion piece, it's 1 persons opinion, turning this into a crusade is idiotic. Disagree and move on.

[Fonsecap]

I get your point but they don't even know the whole game and they don't know the character, if it's good or bad written, they're just judging by the look of the character and not by it's impact on the story, and on top of that the one who's making a crusade about this are the gaming journalists themselves, gamers are not complaining about the look of the character.

[Christopher]

How is the appearance of the MC a political thing? Why are we making peoples' views on how people are presented in games about politics and not just personal opinion?

[NEVMOR]

Stellar Blade is day one purchase for me, Loved that Demo!

Regarding the controversy and gaming controversy in general, people act like these issues are rare and not on going and somehow gaming has always been some bastion of freedom.
Notable controversies: All the bans on Pinball machines were not lifted till the late 70s.
Custer's Revenge was banned for sexual and demeaning content and those character's were made up of about 8 pixels, still pretty bad though!
Night Trap in the early 90s, terrible game and idea that stains gaming to this day with it being an impetus for the ESRB being applied to games

There is a million gaming controversies and there will be more! What I find interesting is the word WOKE again been used to assail our sensibilities and act like it was the start of all bad decisions. Sorry to inform you but general society makes all the rules, being WOKE makes up an extremely tiny proportion of it and I wouldn't give it that much credit to begin with. Gaming controversies are always there and if it get's quiet on that front, Gamers will make one up!

[SoloGamer1]

IGN is a cancer on the gaming industry. No journalistic integrity at all. Its all about sponsors. And they have to cater to them.
I bet behind closed doors, people at IGN will be the FIRST ones playing and loving Stellar Blade.. hypocrites.