(1/?) I'm just going to call this for what it is: A hit piece. While the belated honesty is good - albeit bordering on burying the lede - about the timeline of events in the article, there's absolutely nothing noteworthy here other than it involving VASG rather than a fan group.https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1380476925811032065 …
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The article mentions a number of salient and highly relevant points, but ultimately fails to convey the weight carried by those points, in its breathless attempt to portray Sony as this week's Big Bad™ within the gaming industry.
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First it's said the project was a Skunkworks-esque thing, then it's said that in fact the project was approved on a probationary basis. This is not altogether unlike a provanställning for employees in Sweden. Look, if it costs more to keep you on board than to fire you, get lost.
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And then, of all things, dragging
@HermenHulst into it, a great dude, and trying to portray him as some sort of befanged monster for, uh... *checks notes*... Letting the company that made a game, be in charge of its remake. Uh, okay.Näytä tämä ketju -
Absolutely none of this is in any way newsworthy, insofar as "yet another fan group tries to remake Super Metroid without thorough approval from Nintendo, gets told to get bent" isn't, either.
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Yet apparently everyone is expected to go fetch their nearest dedicated fainting-divan because in this case, the proverbial calls are coming from inside the house. Yeah, okay. Right.
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