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https://www.gamereactor.eu/intergalactic-the-heretic-prophet-drowns-in-dislikes-on-youtube-1469773/
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Naughty Dog's recently announced next big game Intergalactic is drowning in dislikes on YouTube. The game, which has been widely criticised since its trailer was unveiled at The Game Awards, now has over 221,000 'down' thumbs on PlayStation's official YouTube channel.
This surpasses the channel's previous record of 84,000 held by the megaflop Concord. Many gamers accuse Intergalactic of promoting diversity, equality and inclusion in a way they perceive as forced. This, in turn, has led PlayStation to switch off the comments feature on the clip. The seemingly overwhelming negative response is startling, especially given how little we actually know about the game at this point.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Dec 2024 17:48 Post subject: |
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| tonizito wrote: | Alleged plot appeared on 4chan:
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again idiots with 0 values shit on hundreds of people's work because studio's creative vision doesn't align with theirs ...
it's sad to see this really.
before jumping on the hate train, i don't defend the studio, the reveal isn't somethign to base an opinion on, it's too early for that.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Dec 2024 18:02 Post subject: |
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That 4chan leak sounds super fake.
It reads like somebody took clues from the trailer and just extrapolated the most generic B-movie plot imaginable. Had to laugh at "ND just read Heart of Darkness".
Of course anti-woke youtube mongs are jumping all over it 
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Dec 2024 19:49 Post subject: |
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| Danyutz wrote: | | tonizito wrote: | Alleged plot appeared on 4chan:
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again idiots with 0 values shit on hundreds of people's work because studio's creative vision doesn't align with theirs ...
it's sad to see this really.
before jumping on the hate train, i don't defend the studio, the reveal isn't somethign to base an opinion on, it's too early for that. |
Sounds good to me. Keep up the good fight people
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| Posted: Fri, 20th Dec 2024 00:40 Post subject: |
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| headshot wrote: | Geez Naughty Dog is unlucky with leaks! It’s like The Last of Us Part 2 all over again  |
Well, with that one the justification was the inhuman crunch, this time (according to the rumours at least) it's allegedly due do druckman's rise within the company, but not much clearer than that.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Dec 2025 16:44 Post subject: |
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| Danyutz wrote: | | tonizito wrote: | Alleged plot appeared on 4chan:
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again idiots with 0 values shit on hundreds of people's work because studio's creative vision |
"creative vision" give me a f'ing break. we know what this is, and that's why people are pissed off, and rightfully so. It's not like anyone doesn't know what they stand for, this is not their first game, or that they've never made interviews etc, we KNOW what they stand for. Marxist, commie roleplaying pieces of shits.
Call these idiots out, downvote this garbage to hell where it belongs.
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I heard it got scrapped and restarted from somewhere.
May the NFOrce be with you always.
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Dec 2025 23:50 Post subject: |
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| tonizito wrote: | | headshot wrote: | | Geez Naughty Dog is unlucky with leaks! It’s like The Last of Us Part 2 all over again |
Well, with that one the justification was the inhuman crunch, this time (according to the rumours at least) it's allegedly due do druckman's rise within the company, but not much clearer than that. |
Well well well...
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-last-of-us-studio-naughty-dog-reportedly-mandated-crunch-to-ready-a-demo-for-intergalactic-the-heretic-profit
| Quote: | The Last of Us studio Naughty Dog reportedly mandated crunch to ready a demo for Intergalactic: The Heretic Profit
Staff asked to work additional eight hours a week.
A new report claims that The Last of Us and Uncharted studio Naughty Dog recently ordered its employees to take on "mandatory" overtime, often known as 'crunch', in order to finalise a demo for its next game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
According to a report by Bloomberg, staff at Naughty Dog were asked to work a minimum of eight extra hours a week to get back on track after several missed deadlines, but no more than a total of 60 hours a week.
In addition to the extra hours, sources at Naughty Dog said developers were instructed to come into the office for five days a week. This was up from the previous three days a week office mandate.
A knock-on effect of this change left many employees needing to source extra child and pet care. According to the report, studio management has told employees its in-office mandate will return to three days a week for January. Sources added this period of additional mandatory overtime at Naughty Dog came to an end this week for many, having begun in late October, though some wonder if it will happen again.
Meanwhile, the demo for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which staff were crunching to finalise for parent company Sony, was apparently completed this week. Allegedly, Naughty Dog is aiming to release the game some time in mid-2027.
Neither Sony nor Naughty Dog has commented on the report's claims.
Naughty Dog was previously the subject of a damning report in 2020, again regarding crunch at the studio. At this time, it was said development on its then-upcoming The Last of Us Part 2 resulted in burnout which caused several members of Naughty Dog's staff to leave.
In 2021, the studio's then co-presidents Evan Wells and Neil Druckmann addressed crunch at the studio. At this time, Wells said: "I have definitely personally worked very hard over the years. I think some of that has helped me get to where I am in my career."
Druckmann, who remains at the studio, added: "We're looking at quality of life for preventing burnout, to employ the brain power we have in our studio, and we started coming up with working groups to talk about the areas in the studio where we can improve… Everybody has a different definition of what crunch means. And I guess for us, we think of it as, how do we look out for the well-being of our colleagues and everyone that works at Naughty Dog, which is some combination of how many hours you work and how much stress you're feeling, whether that’s something that's going on in the office or at home.
"We find that there is no one solution that fits everybody. Everybody has a unique situation we might need to address."
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet was first announced at the end of last year, with a trailer featuring a retro futuristic energy that introduced us to Tati Gabrielle's bounty hunter, Jordan A Mun.
While we still don't know a huge amount about Naughty Dog's upcoming release, Druckmann revealed in March that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophecy explores the topics of "faith and religion". It will also be the studio's "most ambitious game" it's "ever made". |
Back to the crunch, Druckmann? Better hope that no pissed off employee starts leaking stuff again.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2025 00:02 Post subject: |
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People work OVERTIME all the time
What's the big deal? 
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2025 00:21 Post subject: |
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@tonizito That's a rehash of the actual article, which I posted "According to a report", where he is the actual report, rather than some derpa's take on it:
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2025 00:24 Post subject: |
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| Przepraszam wrote: | People work OVERTIME all the time
What's the big deal? |
Huh? The issue isn't that the employees choose to work overtime, it's that it is mandatory overtime, which is forbidden in many proper countries. Go ask your "good win for NY" Mamdani boyfriend what he thinks about this force labor. |
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Was so distracted by my beautiful and magnificent post from a year ago that I missed yours.
Yeah the source is schreier, and it's a bit funny since ND was championing for the end of the crunch era a few years back:
https://www.gamesradar.com/the-last-of-us-part-2-studio-admits-we-have-a-reputation-for-crunching-and-pledges-that-its-something-were-not-going-to-do-anymore/
But it's still hilarious to read the eurosocjus article and then check the soyny fanboys defending it in the comments; I have this hunch if this news came from the myso and raycis pigs from lords of the fallen 2 the reaction would be slightly different
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2025 00:32 Post subject: |
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Yeah, ND has been the darling of the woke Loltaku, but they are just as bad and as opportunistic as everybody else. And it's just for a demo!
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2025 19:38 Post subject: |
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As long as they get properly compensated. I don't really see the issue.
But each to his own I suppose 
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2025 20:56 Post subject: |
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| mortis4321 wrote: | | LeoNatan wrote: | | Przepraszam wrote: | People work OVERTIME all the time
What's the big deal? |
Huh? The issue isn't that the employees choose to work overtime, it's that it is mandatory overtime, which is forbidden in many proper countries. Go ask your "good win for NY" Mamdani boyfriend what he thinks about this force labor. |
It all depends from the labor law in a given country. But even if the law allows things like that, it usually defines for how many hours a week and a year and in what circumstances they can do that, and I think "pushing the demo on time" might not pass the "urgency test" in most cases 
But if we are talking US, corpo can probably squeeze the employees as much as they want |
The irony is that ND is considered a woke darling of the community, These are the ones pushing for stricter labor laws
Like I said, everyone is worke until it hits their own wallet, then they are ultra capitalists. |
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2025 20:59 Post subject: |
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| Przepraszam wrote: | As long as they get properly compensated. I don't really see the issue.
But each to his own I suppose |
So sweatshops are OK too if there is no work where the shop is and this is the only "proper" compensation?
Not the same here, but in a macro scale, it is. They are abusing their power to overwork people, while giving them scraps. The bosses and the shareholders will get all the revenues and bonuses if this project turns out profitable, not the overworked employees.
If this was a coop (or a startup with equal ownership between employees), and people chose to overwork themselves with the promise of shared revenue, that's a different thing entirely. |
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2025 21:09 Post subject: |
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I think sweatshops argument you are trying to fit your agenda is in bad faith.
Can't quite compare the two.
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Dec 2025 21:27 Post subject: |
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And yet, here we are. Why are they not leaving after so many stories of forced crunch (not just by this company)? If I was told to work overtime in a consistent manner, I'd just leave my company. And for the most part in our industry here, almost nobody does. The only exception is for startups that abuse their young employees, who don't know better and feel "obligated". The term "work-life balance” is very developed here in Israel, while still maintaining a "startup nation" status. Do you want to know why? Because crunch doesn't work; not for companies' short term benefit, or the employees' mental or physical health.
So are they in a sweatshop? No. They have air conditioning. But the fact they are not leaving tells me two things; one, probably some young kids in there that don't know better; two, there just aren't that many places to work in the games industry and so they are locked in into that toxic ecosystem. The latter is the macro definition of "sweatshops", even if they don't sweat.
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| Posted: Sun, 21st Dec 2025 16:37 Post subject: |
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Lmao, "We're never going to do it again" - until the numbers aren't as planned, then management pulls out the whips - this is old and common in most businesses.
this is something i don't get "people needing to source child/pet care because of the RTO"- i mean, cmon, why do people thought the home office thingo will last forever? we've been going to the workplace for ages, we've always had to source out child/pet care, spend shitty time on the commutes and whatnot, but HO was too good to last forever.
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| Posted: Sun, 21st Dec 2025 19:35 Post subject: |
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Imagine giving a shit about a company working its drones. I honestly couldn't give less of a shit. More healthy that way
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