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Muckraking Tabloid Journalist Jason Schreier upset at a new game studio "Lacking Diversity in 2021"

Stuart360

Member
Shcreiers a great journalist, but he’s the definition of a white knight. Something tells me that no one said “lets make sure we dont hire any women” when they were starting the studio. I mean shit maybe it was a group of buddies from college, maybe no women applied. I just think its shitty to assume immediatley that they were being sexist.
I was just going to say the same thing. I bet some of them are friends from uni etc, maybe knew each other through the Indie scene and started to join up and start a new studio.
I wouldnt be surprised, as stupid as it sounds, if it hasnet even crossed their minds that they are all white and men lol.

But we live in a checklist culture world, and hiring people on how they look, and what their gender is, will always be better than hiring on ability and skill.
 

Umbasaborne

Banned
I was just going to say the same thing. I bet some of them are friends from uni etc, maybe knew each other through the Indie scene and started to join up and start a new studio.
I wouldnt be surprised, as stupid as it sounds, if it hasnet even crossed their minds that they are all white and men lol.

But we live in a checklist culture world, and hiring people on how they look, and what their gender is, will always be better than hiring on ability and skill.
I think it would be shittier to hire someone just to fill out a diversity check list. That being said, people from all genders and backgrounds should have a shot to get a position, given that they are all qualified. I think jason is trying to get brownie points, and unfortanutley he is unleashing a twitter mob on this start up team before they can even defend themselves
 

Black_Stride

do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Those lads are going to make a good game. I’m going to buy it.

Schreier is a cunt.

They are making a sequel to Journey to the Savage Planet, atleast it seems that way considering they bought the license and are backed by Tencent.
Which is doubly funny because Savage Planet satirizes a future of mega corporations.....they were owned by Google and are now backed by Tencent.

Savage Planet wasnt a bad game, but it certainly wasnt great and got boring pretty damn quickly, Its quite clearly using the Ubisoft formula of there are bars to fill, do thing to fill bar.....but with really tedious combat spliced in, atleast Ubisoft gives you a plethora of weapons and cool ways to kill with some sort actual story elements in so you can ignore the bars and just do the story.

Considering its the same core team as their last studio im not quite sure why Jason saw the need to point out that the core talent is all white males they probably didnt do a recruitment run and just got all the core talent they had at Typhoon and started this studio.

H2x1_NSwitch_JourneyToTheSavagePlanet_image1600w.jpg
 

Godot25

Banned
Hire whatever you want. All that matters is good game.

But I find it pretty funny that guy complaining about lack of diversity is white male...
 

Bragr

Banned
Jaffe's the man. He's actually one of the best game commentators / journalists around.

When you look at professional sports, the journalists and courtside commentators are often star players and ex-coaches. In gaming that is never the case, until Jaffe.
 

catvonpee

Member
While I can agree with the sentiment of this thread, I don't agree with the personal attacks towards Schreier. We can discuss what he is saying without having to attack him personally. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

For example I fucking hate Donald Trump. But I have many friends that are Trump supporters. I don't feel the need to attack them personally to discredit what they are saying. I try to lead by example and be as kind to them as I possibly can be. We can still be friends even though we have a different opinion about politics.

I invite them to form their own opinions about what they believe and to not parrot what they are reading on social media.
 

Thabass

Member
I don't have a problem with him challenging game studios to be more diverse. What I do have a problem with is that when people have the tiniest bit of disagreement with him and then try to have an open discussion about it, it's an instablock.

He can dish it out, but he certainly can't take it.
 

OmegaSupreme

advanced basic bitch
I don't have a problem with him challenging game studios to be more diverse. What I do have a problem with is that when people have the tiniest bit of disagreement with him and then try to have an open discussion about it, it's an instablock.

He can dish it out, but he certainly can't take it.
Like all of his hive. They crumble like leaves at the slightest pushback.
 

Thabass

Member
Like all of his hive. They crumble like leaves at the slightest pushback.
It's funny though because I know plenty who side we Jason and are more vocal about it. It's that Jason is either too busy to deal with the people who want to have an open discussion or he's just doing this to weed out people to block. It's very strange.
 

Amory

Member
these people can swear all they want that equality of outcome isn't the end goal, but it's totally the end goal
 

Kamina

Golden Boy
What a pussy.

So I guess Japanese game companies are inferior for having majority Japanese developers?

Oh man BOTW was such a bad game cuz it lacked racial diversity!




Fucking phoney.
No no you are getting it wrong. It is only bad if the company is primarily consisting of white males.
If it is consisting of all women or all black people for example it‘s okay.
 

oagboghi2

Member
The bolded was especially funny. Game director of smash hits like God of War, twisted metal 2012 and that pen and paper shooter I don't even remember the name of. And author of hard hitting journalistic pieces like "All White People Are Racist."
Stop being a bitch
 

oagboghi2

Member
Black conservatives like hodgetwins, Candace Owens, etc, get called Uncle Toms so much, they use it to refer to themselves. So my post isn't a racial slur. If you're gonna try to call people out you need to at least keep up with your trigger terms.
This is a straight up lie. I've never heard any black conservative, less of all the hodge twins call themselves uncle toms.
 
How has Jason and his ilk not noticed the correlation between super diverse game studios and the decline in game quality?

That pic looks like Halo CE era Bungie or Redwood in their prime. Who are they? I'm interested in what they're making.

EDIT: Oh shit Typhoon. I loved Journey to a Savage Planet. It's obvious these people actually like being around each other on a personal level. Quality speaks for itself.
 
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Arimer

Member
If you have a game studio making AA or AAA core games, and open even a position that requires soft skills, e.g. writer or designer, you will get 100 applications.

Of those, 2 will be women.

Women are simply much less interested in games and gamedev than men, in general. It is what it is and no amount of social engineering and twitter pandering is going to change that.
I don't even see why you need to justify it with facts like that. If My friends and I decide to start a company why must we allow in outsiders to meet some arbitrary standard held by others?
 
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Jason is such a useless, whiney fuck. Start your own studio and hire who you want, you talentless, useless sack of potatoes.
Omg I wish he would do that. Because I'd love to see how a game made be people who only got hired because of how they look would turn out.
 

Hari Seldon

Member
You can hire women coders, but you better be prepared to outbid FANG salaries/benefits/stability. I doubt a 20 person indy studio can pay anywhere close to what they can.
 

Denton

Member
I don't even see why you need to justify it with facts like that. If My friends and I decide to start a company why must we allow in outsiders to meet some arbitrary standard held by others?
That's true too of course, freedom of association is and must be a thing.
 

WitchHunter

Banned
While I can agree with the sentiment of this thread, I don't agree with the personal attacks towards Schreier. We can discuss what he is saying without having to attack him personally. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

For example I fucking hate Donald Trump. But I have many friends that are Trump supporters. I don't feel the need to attack them personally to discredit what they are saying. I try to lead by example and be as kind to them as I possibly can be. We can still be friends even though we have a different opinion about politics.

I invite them to form their own opinions about what they believe and to not parrot what they are reading on social media.
Rare breed, tough to survive, if you are not willing to wave flags or side with one or another.
 

Thabass

Member
What's the betting this guys done some shady shit in the past and is virtue signalling to make up for it. I give it a couple of years before it all comes out.
I'd bet my entire year's worth of paychecks. He's at that point where I think he's done some incredibly shady stuff.
 

oagboghi2

Member
How has Jason and his ilk not noticed the correlation between super diverse game studios and the decline in game quality?

That pic looks like Halo CE era Bungie or Redwood in their prime. Who are they? I'm interested in what they're making.

EDIT: Oh shit Typhoon. I loved Journey to a Savage Planet. It's obvious these people actually like being around each other on a personal level. Quality speaks for itself.
I'm guessing becuase he doesn't know, or as he said in his tweet, he would excuse it as a product of its time.
 

Death Atlas

Neo Member
The idea that you can't have different perspectives despite not having a woman thrown in for good measure is silly to me.

Also, I really, really think this guy has lived too easy of a life if this is the kind of thing he's concerned with. What is his ultimate play here? Is he implying that the studio turned down female applicants simply because they were female, without offering any proof at all?
 

kruis

Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Off very embarrassing to be reading this.

It's weird that people just seeing everything in black and white skin now. It's really sad.

Imaging looking at a group of Guys and getting angry

But if the roles were reversed and all devs were women or minorities, Schreier wouldn't dare suggest that the devs would do exponentially better work if they'd had more white men in their team.
 

Evil Calvin

Afraid of Boobs
I think Jason is commenting on the 100% male roster not their race. The comparison to Japan is weird.
I really don't know, but do Japanese game studios employ a lot of women? I don't think China does, but the only Japanese developer I have heard of is a female composer.
 

oagboghi2

Member
I really don't know, but do Japanese game studios employ a lot of women? I don't think China does, but the only Japanese developer I have heard of is a female composer.
half of Animal crossing development team were women. Japanese studios don't seem to have a issue hiring women
 
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McCheese

Member
Shcreiers a great journalist,

No he's fucking not, he runs the same easy story over and over about how video-game companies are evil overwork people, he just changes the name every few months and re-hashs it whenever his boss wants some clickbait web traffic in, and when anybody else does dares steal his easy gig by running a similar story, or actually names names and has proper evidence rather than anonymous sources, he shuffles his papers and gets angry as he was "working on that scoop first!"

He's a grifter cunt.
 
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