I can't believe this. I never thought I'd see this reaction here on Gaf, I thought you guys would have known better.
How - How can anyone see this and conclude that the problem lies in the responses? I mean - sure, maybe you don't care about it, or you're resigned about the fact that crunches need to happen (in which case you'd be wrong, but whatever)... but surely you understand that the initial tweet and the concept it rests upon are the issue here? And that people who are getting angry over it have a reason to do so?
In a larger sense, when something happens on twitter and people don't like it, it's bound to seem like an outrage even if people are just expressing a slight annoyance, because everyone is doing so at the same time and twitter's format favors wit over nuance. No one is saying that this is the worst thing ever or that it only happens in the videogame industry or that employees should retire or whatever - people are just seeing this utterly oblivious and disrespectful tweet and are pointing out that, hey, it is actually kinda oblivious and disrespectful, and maybe this is not what needs to be done with regards to the issue of crunch hours in game development.
What other reaction can anyone have?!
I'm sick of seeing every single sociological issue being dismissed as yet another 'twitter outrage' when it comes to games. 'Why so serious' you ask? Because we're talking about people, ffs; the question that needs asking is, why can't anything be taken seriously! It's not because the discussion is related in some way to *games* that we should brush off anything that isn't instantly happy-fun! The least one can do is step out of their own self-interest bubble for a second and realize that the audience's carefree enjoyment isn't the only thing that needs talking about in a game or the games industry.
/rant, I'm outta here.
