Today's News:
* Staff from SEGA's SEGA of America offices recently filed paperwork to the National Labor Relations Board to hold a planned union election to officially determine if they will unionize or not. This potential new union would be called Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS) and they are partnering with Communications Workers of America (CWA) to help out their process. At least two employees spoken to stated that SoA management have not displayed any anti-union sentiments at this time.
Link:
https://www.destructoid.com/sega-of-...vine-industry/ ,
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/24/2...a-unionize-cwa
* Deep Silver recently announced that Dead Island 2 has already surpassed 1 million in sales since its launch last week.
Link:
https://twitter.com/deadislandgame/s...51266337075211
* In a recent official statement to Eurogamer, Metacritic stated that they are currently planning to "evolve" their moderation system for user reviews for games on their website. This decision is related to a recent user review bombing of the recently released Burning Shores DLC pack for Horizon Forbidden West that included a flood of users reviews containing hate speech, tonal abuse, and homophobia being posted. This issue revolved around the DLC pack featuring Aloy spending a lot of time with another woman through out the DLC story and players eventually being given the option of if they want Aloy to embrace and give a passionate kiss or not to this woman character.
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Originally Posted by Destructoid
The DLC, which was launched by Guerrilla Games on April 19, was generally well-received by critics and Horizon fans — And while some players were left understandably frustrated by Guerrilla’s decision to only publishing the DLC on PS5, (leaving the PS4 community behind), it seems that this is not the main point of contention for a portion of the players who left negative user reviews.
A lot of the negativity, (veiled or otherwise) is weighted toward the fact that, over the course of the story, Horizon hero Aloy meets another woman, Seyka, while on her journey through the new world. As the two characters spend time together over the course of the DLC, Aloy finds herself drawn to the Quen tribe warrior, ultimately resulting in a scene where the player can, should they choose to do so, bring the two characters together for a passionate kiss. And it seems that this, of course, is a cause for concern among the angriest and loudest of the gaming community.
Last week saw the User Review section inundated with both massively negative written and numerical reviews, leading the DLC to sit at a current score of 4.0 (actually higher than it has been previously). While most of the more homophobic of the site’s 254 negative reviews have since been removed, many remaining reviews choose to mask themselves a little better, simply claiming that the DLC is “poorly written” or that “the world is boring”, before following up with a flat score of zero out of ten — somewhat raising eyebrows.
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Link:
https://www.destructoid.com/metacrit...oy-moderation/ ,
https://www.eurogamer.net/metacritic...shores-reviews