It was a joke-a hoary joke that pokes fun at intersectional feminists: “Did you just assume their gender?” Halliday was not responsible for the tweet, which was issued by CD Projekt Red’s independent public relations team, dedicated to promoting the game. Then a tweet appeared, on the topic of Cyberpunk 2077. Halliday weathered the storm, at least at the time, and the seas of outrage calmed as the games media moved on to the next outrage du jour. What they should have done, instead, is provide objective information about games. GamerGate was essentially a manifestation of gamers’ dissatisfaction with the gaming press, whose moralistic journalism attempted to socially manipulate its audience into the acceptance of an unsubstantiated and often radical ideology. Game journalists took issue with the promotional tweet, declaring GOG to be problematic because it offered what they saw as tacit support for a harassment movement. In one regrettable series of articles, the press declared itself irrelevant. You would be forgiven for not recognizing the importance of these details, minute as they are, as they correspond to the event of the Twitter hashtag GamerGate-which took place on 28 August 2014 and continues to reverberate through the gaming press. The promotional image for Postal 2, which he didn’t look at too closely (and who could blame him because the detail is so low), featured a tombstone inscribed with the words Game Journalism with a cause of death and date that accurately corresponds to reality. He made the mistake of tweeting out a promotional image for Postal 2, a game once decried by fundamentalist boomers as the worst video gaming had to offer. He was good at memes, and he was good at giving the otherwise faceless company a likeable image its audience could relate to.īut, overnight, his dream job turned into a nightmare. Halliday sparked gamers’ interest by lending the warmth of humanity to the company’s cold social presence and engaging in trending topics on Twitter. With his keen understanding of gamers, Halliday was able to clean up the derelict GOG forums and spark healthy interaction within the community.īy all accounts, Halliday was very good at his job, and he was swiftly promoted to managing the company’s public-facing social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook, where he drove interaction and attention to GOG’s social media profiles, which had previously been posting little more than out-of-touch PR snippets and announcements about new games, which no one would have had any interest in even checking out-were it not for his ability to make them sound interesting. Halliday, a part-time Twitch streamer and video game critic, thought he’d got his dream job when he was hired to work at Steam rival Good Old Games, which publishes classic video games, and forms an extension of the famous Polish studio responsible for The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. Now he’s been hounded out of a second job and is unlikely to find future work in the games industry, due to the obscene coverage surrounding his dismissal from the company. And I have a feeling you'll be glad we didn't spoil them for you.Sean Halliday, a community manager for Good Old Games, was fired after he accidentally tweeted under a hashtag with sociopolitical connotations. While I showed off some new, unique features-including a teaser for a pretty big encounter that Quill is about to face-I purposefully left out a lot of really cool things that we want you to experience on your own. To celebrate this announcement, I had the pleasure of sitting down with PlayStation's Justin Massongill and Tim Turi to record an episode of PlayStation Underground to give you a sneak peek at some of the environments, enemies, and challenges you'll encounter in this new adventure. New allies, old friends, and the very world around you will offer help along the way, but in the end, it is you alone who can lift Quill up to save this world, and together, rise to legend. In this continuation of the journey, the stakes are higher than ever as Quill works to save the world of Moss and end the merciless rule of the Arcane. As the next game in the franchise, Book II builds on the story you started with Quill in the original Moss. It's finally happening! On March 31 exactly two weeks from today, you'll be able to reunite with Quill in Moss: Book II.
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