Klei’s a cool dev studio, they’re supposedly pretty good about not doing intense crunch cycles, etc. Dont Starve is probably their most popular title.
I’ve been playing a ton of Oxygen Not Included lately (just started manufacturing liquid oxygen for the first time, gotta get those rockets going), so I’ve checked in on the reddit pretty regularly. They’re not doing well, folks:
People are whipping themselves into a frenzy about free Taiwan (Mao already did that smh), spyware (not sure what they think internet in the global north is financed by) and general yellow peril shit. The reddit threads link to posts on the Klei forums which are just as trash, but not as easy to browse as reddit imo.
Never change, reddit
I mean, the country of origin of the corporation doesn't matter. A corporation having that much power over a small cool indie company does not bode well.
Of course, but these are Gamers™, they're constantly looking for an excuse to be racist
On the other hand I want China to buy out everything redditors love for the lols.
I'm just sad a megacorp bought a majority share of one of the chillest indie studios around. i hope it doesn't drive off the talent and force the rest to crunch to death. don't care which megacorp it is. tencent just like any other is going to demand exponential growth at the expense of the worker.
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/126355-studio-announcement/
17 pages of China bad lmao
The reaction wouldn’t be the same. Any time tencent does anything the discourse is filled with yellow peril, “fuck china”, free taiwan shit. Yeah, these huge publishers all suck but there is a huge undercurrent of sinophobia with regard to tencent
Some of the most offensive shit about Indians and Chinese people I’ve ever seen has been on Reddit. What a profoundly racist shit hole site
Yeah people didn'tkmd EA buying Codemasters a while ago either
Ah fuck, got mixed up, yep. Though someone may have been screeching about Taiwan, I forget
Capitalist firms doing capitalist things.
Reddit: They targeted gamers! :rage-cry:
ive got a buddy who is a security guard for a power plant. Cant imagine a situation where that'd be cop-lite tbh.
I used to think niche games were relatively free from China hysterics but nope. System Shock 3 got acquired by Tencent and Chuds were ranting about the Spectre looming over their vidya.
Oxygen Not Included is my shit. Have been playing the hell out of it.
