Thomas Mahler, the CEO of Moon Studios, has clapped back against 'shutdown' comments in an awkward way on social media.
Mahler caught wind of the article and responded to it on social media, going on a rant against ‘the press’ and those who hate against him and his brand on social media because of past events and opinions.
He slipped a bit, making some inflammatory comments:
I’ve been hated on Twitter by a few crazies for years now, and I also saw the calls for review bombing because, according to those folks, I’m a ‘Nazi.’
These days, apparently anyone who doesn’t include five trans characters in their game and doesn’t let their products be influenced by political bullshit is a Nazi. What a world we live in.
When the Russia/Ukraine war broke out and I replied on Twitter saying that Moon Studios wouldn’t be taking a public stance—because we’re a video game company, not a journalistic outlet—the next day a threat letter with a picture of Putin was taped to my office door, full of insults from top to bottom.
Well that went from whiney to a bigoted WTF tangent in zero seconds flat.
Urgh, I really like the Ori games and was looking forward to the new one once it came out of early access. Not anymore unfortunately.
I don’t even care about representation in games, but this is just blatant transphobia.
Imagine making a Souls-like and then spending all your time complaining about the tr*nnies. Pathetic bastard. What a way to eliminate half your audience. That said, I’m more of a New Vegas girlie myself so it’s not like I’d ever buy it.
Just in case you didn’t know, if you are cis then you shouldn’t be saying tranny (otherwise ignore me). I thought I should reiterate that since I said it without making it particular clear.
From what I can tell they recently got a few negatives that put them into “mixed” briefly because players were critical about QoL features, difficulty and whatnot, seemingly pretty valid types of reviews.
No. Can’t tell if the transphobe is unwilling to give stuff to a trans person, or if it was just hot air the whole time. Either way, transphobes are losers
Yes it’s because you don’t put five trans characters in games. Not because you complain about wokeness and cancel culture in a way that is not so much a dog whistle as it is a fucking foghorn of rightwing nutjobbery.
They didn’t include much race variation in the base game because doing so would require additional modeling and texturing for NPCs that would behave identically. For an indie studio, adding new characters, even NPCs, is costly to time and budget, so that work doesn’t happen unless there’s a need for that specific NPC to be that color.
This is why there’s so little representation in older games. That shit used to be way more expensive to make happen.
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Urgh, I really like the Ori games and was looking forward to the new one once it came out of early access. Not anymore unfortunately. I don’t even care about representation in games, but this is just blatant transphobia.
Hmm office door would imply it was an internal grievance
My guess is the CEO himself put it there (if it happened at all).
We’ve been sayin’…
Imagine making a Souls-like and then spending all your time complaining about the tr*nnies. Pathetic bastard. What a way to eliminate half your audience. That said, I’m more of a New Vegas girlie myself so it’s not like I’d ever buy it.
Go anti-woke go broke
What’s the connection between souls-like and trannies?
Just in case you didn’t know, if you are cis then you shouldn’t be saying tranny (otherwise ignore me). I thought I should reiterate that since I said it without making it particular clear.
This reddit thread on /r/TransSouls seems to cover the different reasons. (Alternative Front End) I’m not into it myself so I can’t really say.
Dark Souls 2 had the gender change coffin.
I don’t know what OP was going for but that came to mind.
Gwyndolin in Dark Souls 1 is a semi major lore character and is trans(?)
The game is mostly positive? If it’s getting review bombed, then it isn’t a very effective review bombing.
From what I can tell they recently got a few negatives that put them into “mixed” briefly because players were critical about QoL features, difficulty and whatnot, seemingly pretty valid types of reviews.
Is he purposefully trying to get the comoany shuttered for tax reasons? Maybe he owes a lot and wants to declare bankruptcy?
“Everyone who is critical of me is woke.”
Buying their game and gifting 10 copies of it now.
Why announce to the world that you are a cunt?
Can drag please have a copy?
Did you ever get a copy?
No. Can’t tell if the transphobe is unwilling to give stuff to a trans person, or if it was just hot air the whole time. Either way, transphobes are losers
Shame to not see some good come from this.
Checks modlog, sees perma banned from blahaj.zone…
Is this all a weird ad for his game, to get eyes on it, or is he just like this?
Honestly this sounds like a guerilla marketing campaign of sorts.
Yes it’s because you don’t put five trans characters in games. Not because you complain about wokeness and cancel culture in a way that is not so much a dog whistle as it is a fucking foghorn of rightwing nutjobbery.
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The Witcher universe has dark skin people, CD Projekt choose to not include them in the base game, you have some in the Hearts of Stone DLC.
They didn’t include much race variation in the base game because doing so would require additional modeling and texturing for NPCs that would behave identically. For an indie studio, adding new characters, even NPCs, is costly to time and budget, so that work doesn’t happen unless there’s a need for that specific NPC to be that color.
This is why there’s so little representation in older games. That shit used to be way more expensive to make happen.
Wow fuck that guy. Drag is going to think about how to get Will of the Wisps refunded
Oh thats some more info of this drama that I didn’t knew… unsihlisted.
Thx for the news.
Looks like Ori has been added to the boycott list.