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GAF Votes FOTY 2014 Thread: Fail Of The Year
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SargerusBR
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Ubisoft by far. The amount of fuck ups they made in a single year is astonishing.
Savantcore
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Gamers threaten women with death threats under the guise of campaigning for "ethics in journalism".
Angry Puppy
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the limp dicked manchildren of gamergate
Crimsonclaw111
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Gamegate.
If we're talking games alone, AssCreed Unity.
If we're talking games alone, AssCreed Unity.
Zombie James
Banned
Ubisoft, without question.
bananafactory
Banned
Welp.
Gamergate gets my vote then.
Edit: Holy shit I finally understand that Sephiroth/Aeris image meme now
Black Mantis
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100% agree with Gamergate being FOTY 2014, just shameful all round. just thinking of the vile rape/murder threats, driving people from their homes, nothing else in this industry has made me more angrier this year.
Driveclub - most broken big name game in a considerable time. Not just a little bit ropey either, full blown mess of missing core features and highly disruptive issues rendering much of it literally unplayable.
Can't say I follow anything much to do with gamergate, from what I gather it isn't really a fail of sorts.
Can't say I follow anything much to do with gamergate, from what I gather it isn't really a fail of sorts.
JumpJeff84
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GamerGate. There can be no other answer.
I can't say GamerGate because,tbh i don't have idea what they talking about,i just know there are people wanting to kill people because of ... reasons ? I'll call Watch_Dogs. Not only a terrible downgrade,but one of the worst games i play in a long time.
Sorry if i'm talking bs about gg,this is the only thing i read about it
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Gamergate was unbelievably offensive. Nothing even comes close. Just to reiterate, read this.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=134397896&postcount=12285
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=134397896&postcount=12285
Gamergate.
It was the final form of a disgusting trend that has been going on for awhile. It literally drove women away from the Industry. It could cause even more women to never even try writing about or making games in the first place. It also did a ton of damage to the perception of games in the wider culture. That is way more harmful than a broken game, though that general trend is certainly second place.
It was the final form of a disgusting trend that has been going on for awhile. It literally drove women away from the Industry. It could cause even more women to never even try writing about or making games in the first place. It also did a ton of damage to the perception of games in the wider culture. That is way more harmful than a broken game, though that general trend is certainly second place.
From my memory:
Woman who made games had sex with man who was a reporter while cheating on her then boyfriend.
Ex Boyfriend exposes this.
Woman gets all kinds of hate attacks, because reporter supposedly wrote positive articles about the games of the woman (which wasn't the case).
More attacks on Woman and other women in the glorious name of ethics in videogame journalism (which makes the women an odd choice to attack).
Nailed it.
It sort of seems trivial mentioning driveclub and MCC, but at least these have improved since launch, gamergate started badly and got exponentially worse.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Ivan A Nguyen
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Ubisoft.
I got really hyped for AC after AC4, but the lack of reviews before it came out made me too cautious to preorder it. The mess that was the launch made me never want to touch it. I did pick up a PS3 copy of Rogue that I am looking forward to, but it's still in it's packaging. I was also excited for FarCry 4, but the AC launch kept me from picking it up. Ubisoft has shown me that they are not ready for current gen hardware. Their actions show me they are not ready to be honest about it either. The constant sales of season passes as a way to get people to pay double for their game also turns my stomach. The microtransactions don't bother me that much. If you're scraping the bottom of the barrel then why not pick up pennies?
I got really hyped for AC after AC4, but the lack of reviews before it came out made me too cautious to preorder it. The mess that was the launch made me never want to touch it. I did pick up a PS3 copy of Rogue that I am looking forward to, but it's still in it's packaging. I was also excited for FarCry 4, but the AC launch kept me from picking it up. Ubisoft has shown me that they are not ready for current gen hardware. Their actions show me they are not ready to be honest about it either. The constant sales of season passes as a way to get people to pay double for their game also turns my stomach. The microtransactions don't bother me that much. If you're scraping the bottom of the barrel then why not pick up pennies?
Palette Swap
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If having the gaming community associated to harassment and death threats and as a result making national news all around the world and the front page of the New York Times isn't a failure for gaming, I honestly don't know what could qualify.
AAA disappointments this year for the general GAF opinion (ACU, WD, Destiny, Driveclub, broken games, pretty bad PR to the core gamers, all the delays, the real or dreamed "downgrades") etc), considering how much backslashs threads we got here.
And of course the reactionary movement that called himself "gamergate".
And of course the reactionary movement that called himself "gamergate".
RespectThySole
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Ubisoft and Destiny take the cake
lazybones18
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Destiny
Don't play Ubisoft games (had planned on getting Watch_Dogs but that ship had sailed long before it came out)
Don't care about GamerGate, although I find the whole thing was incredibly stupid to begin with
Don't play Ubisoft games (had planned on getting Watch_Dogs but that ship had sailed long before it came out)
Don't care about GamerGate, although I find the whole thing was incredibly stupid to begin with
John Harker
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my vote. this has made lot of friends this year in the industry have a rough time.
also, it's embarrassing... we've worked too hard for too long for mainstream acceptance, only to be set back so much by people's fear of change. save that for politics.
seriously, it took generations to get the image of players out of the basement and into the living room. and we're willingly trying to go back into the basement? it's dreadful.
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From what I remember what Destiny was supposed to be and what it has become in the end (don't care about ongoing construction), Destiny!
One could say the rushing out unfinished games could be the fail of the year in a broader sense.
Edit: I've seen the Gamergate thread on the front page a couple of times and always wondered what this was about, peeked inside and read something about a twitter campaign or something. I don't even have a twitter account and deem anything twitter related as noise, not important. Then again I'm pretty disconnected from everything social media.
One could say the rushing out unfinished games could be the fail of the year in a broader sense.
Edit: I've seen the Gamergate thread on the front page a couple of times and always wondered what this was about, peeked inside and read something about a twitter campaign or something. I don't even have a twitter account and deem anything twitter related as noise, not important. Then again I'm pretty disconnected from everything social media.
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Destiny
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Gamergate
GitarooMan
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Gamergate by a good margin.
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