You Have to See This Video

[@SideScrollersPodcast]

Thanks to Laura for the great video. Check out her channel & let her know I sent you: www.youtube.com/@laurafryer6321 Hit the thumbs up & sub if you're new!

[@shinian6523]

maybe you can get her on your podcast. She's awesome

[@Sidewinderwreck]

I so glad you shared this video with everybody,I don't know if I was the only one who shared this video with you but that doesn't matter. I hope the community finds more people Like Laura cuz I will certainly keep my eye out! Thanks Craig 😊

[@croncorcen]

small typo: Laura not Lara

[@mraltoid19]

Thank you for actually putting a link to the channel below, when you said "I'll put a like to the channel below". Most people who say that fail to put any link whatsoever, and when they do, it's for a sponsor. Bless you.

[@avalonjustin]

I've watched some her videos before, she is incredibly educated about the gaming industry.

[@ohsweetmystery]

As an older techie woman, I miss the pre-DEI days when we knew that you were hired on merit and talent. This woman is simply all-around excellent.

[@JonathanJoestarJuicefest]

I miss the old days of uncensored racism. Now I have to feel bad about tooling up some soyguzzler who thinks he can fight me over saying the n word.

[@Slitheringpeanut]

And that's proof you've never been a 'older techie woman'. No one has EVER been hired on merit. There's a reason they force you to 'network'. The only way in is by KNOWING someone. Any skill you have is meaningless.

[@avalonjustin]

I miss that too and want that meritocracy back. The intersectionality and politically-biased narratives should go.

[@T-Ball-o]

​@@WhiskeyPatriotnever happened

[@LloydChristmas-vx2wh]

@@Slitheringpeanut your absolutism is frail.

[@laurafryer6321]

@SideScrollersPodcast Craig it's cool that you were at E3 at the time this footage was captured! You know what it was like and I think it's hard to imagine for people that weren't there. Thank you for watching my video! I appreciate your support!!

[@ruinerblodsinn6648]

Keep the great videos coming Laura!

[@zorkatron986]

Your videos are a breath of fresh air. Please continue!

[@SideScrollersPodcast]

You are truly amazing and someone everyone in the industry should look at as the example of doing it the right way. As I said in the video, I would love to find a way to work together!

[@Fyrecide]

Thank you for speaking out about this. We all appreciate you getting the truth out there.

[@gnarlyrayjepsen5085]

Thank you for your unique perspective and please don't let the detractors bully you into silence or make you feel as though sharing the truth is somehow wrong. They're blinded by ideology and sunken cost fallacy. When what they've based their lives around is exposed to be clearly flawed they'll lash out in anyway possible to silence the truth but we need veteran industry members like you to show people what is really happening

[@RealDevastatia]

The problem in the social media age is that no matter how many skilled PR people you throw at it, one employee with a Twitter account and zero social skills can derail it.

[@simonebernacchia5724]

What happened to accountability? I remember when i was working in $radioStationCluster there were rules that what are accountable of you say about your employer

[@ultimateDOOMPOOL]

Non-disparagement clauses would solve that

[@jarvistech7408]

Zero social skills would sell a lot more games than leftist propaganda.

[@travismcnasty51]

I have a fake name for online interactions. I'd have another account with my real name that's entirely for professional usage.

[@MunchieLuknight]

thats why most companies have rules for social media and can terminate you. Obisidian and most of these companies for sure do. that just proves the heads of these companies agree with them

[@ThatKidTony]

Wonder if David Jaffe is going to call her a mental lightweight too. Lol

[@patrickriarchy6054]

Probably dude has lost the plot.

[@The_Primary_Axiom]

He’s just trying to get clicks and subscribers by attacking people who actually have clicks and subscribers. The moment he stops doing that no one is gonna listen to him. Dude literally has nothing to say.

[@ryanvacation7319]

The man is mentally ill. Best to ignore

[@jonathansoko1085]

It's working though for him. There are still a weird community of people like him, and it brings them to him. I want jaffe to keep going because it's pure entertainment. ​@@The_Primary_Axiom

[@doloresabernathy9809]

No because her hair isn’t pretty enough. Sorry Laura. :(

[@AppleInk]

It's been fantastic seeing all these devs and vets in the industry talk about this, defending their views, common sense and destroying the lunatics.

[@live2rock13]

All these devs are positioning themselves perfectly. When these companies are finally faced with either continuing on with their BS, or making money, these devs have their phones on and waiting.

[@AppleInk]

@live2rock13 Exactly, with consequences. They will finally learn what accountability means, and that's when real change will happen.

[@DeathsjesterKMNP]

I mean, I'd like to think that will be the case, but the people pushing the insane things that have been happening the last decade (funding companies like Blackrock/Vanguard)still have TRILLIONS of dollars to burn through to keep promoting it.​@AppleInk

He’s still not fired.

[@rightinthedome9973]

You can tell just by the tone of this ladies voice she doesn't look down on her audience and respects games intelligence

[@Mr.PR2000]

She probably understands that gamers are just looking for escape but that escape is being invaded by weird real world politics and disrespect by devs that either can’t read the room or are activists. She probably was a hardcore gamer back in the days and understands.

[@tokra1000]

Her analogy of platos cave is half right. They are fully aware of the things behind them and are attacking them to ensure the shadows are never disturbed.

[@boobah5643]

Still won't make the shadows more than shadows.

[@adamuadamu5081]

Plato's Basement

[@tkps]

Yep. I think initially some were shocked it didn't work but lately with the entire US entertainment industry and its spheres suffering the same issues, they can't be now. Those developers and access media mates insulting us and preferring we'd just shut up and accept what they want to sell us are refusing to turn around. Those types will have to be thrown out as they have no intention of pivoting. But if that happens the ones who didn't agree with it but kept silent to keep their jobs can.

[@PyromancerRift]

They know most gamers are anti woke but they push the message. She is dumb. She sees the old world, not the new one. The old world where companies seek profit. Today, they seek to push the message. She is the one in plato's cave.

[@StickySyrupEverywhere]

Incredibly you also are half-right. The delusion manifests as reality for far too many who have placed far too much of their essence into it. When such people fail upwards, everything under them is corrupted. The Matt Hansens of gaming, and far worse the corporate owner executive counterparts!

[@mr.melancholy4973]

It's a bubble created by people who don't games or gamers. Protected by their media friends who hate gamers just like them.

[@simonebernacchia5724]

They were here for the money, felt entitled to it, lost the cool when people said no

[@StickySyrupEverywhere]

In truth, they hate everything. The mind-rot infection affects all, and everything in view or mind must conform.

[@Sheriden.]

I games

[@datadavis]

@@Sheriden. Me games

[@christopherloyd8938]

Exactly ask them what twisted metal is? They'll say it's offensive that you're going around and killing people in a ice cream truck. But that's what we loved about that game. I'm getting the ps3 version soon. 😎💯

[@Sly_404]

I came across her channel a couple of weeks ago. Highly recommend her video called "Culture killed Concord" which explains how beloved development studios from our past became a shell of themselves.

[@jmass4207]

Sounds like a bit of a mismatch. Based on the language used by ProbablyMonsters, the parent company of Firewalk that basically put it together before it was sold to Sony, Concord was from beginning to end an organ of the DEI monster. Like the sociocultural movement that animated it, a fleeting shadow.

[@chadwickporter9662]

@@Sly_404 what’s the name of her channel?

[@Justsomethingsyearsago]

@@chadwickporter9662 pinned comment

[@Sly_404]

@@jmass4207 Concord was just the most recent example of a doa product, but the issues that lead to developers ignoring any negative feedback are similar to how long standing devs like Dice, BioWare or Bethesda lost the plot.

[@mogadeet6857]

This is why I take a deep dive into Steam reviews before I buy a game.

[@thegreendank1]

Whoch is why they want syram to censor the site. Has nothing to do with "hate speech" the big companies are paying the adl to silence valve and the customers.

[@Dhaghologh]

Someone called "SocialistGaming" wants to be taken serious?!? What a joke!

[@avalonjustin]

What a surprise that person has zero self-awareness and refuses to learn anything.

[@LordNithilus]

Socialists are the joke

[@boobah5643]

SocialistGaming is the subreddit; the author is presumably Havesh. Not that hanging in that subreddit is likely to add credibility, but accuracy is important.

[@wrongthinker843]

Gaming? It's the gulags for you, comrade.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Games don't exist in socialism.

[@Scruffynerfherder10]

I remember her from the GOW documentary, she definitely gets it, and she was someone who knew the industry and still gets it.

[@MsGhoulz]

Todd Howard lived long enough to see himself become the villain.

[@paganofthenorth448]

Todd Howard has always been the villain.

[@hunthell]

@paganofthenorth448 Not necessarily - he's the director for the absolutely amazing game called Morrowind.

[@ugib8377]

He has become, Hodd Toward. Destroyer of all that is innovative. Suppressor of Player Choice. Weaver of Railroads. "The Old Engine".

[@k3salieri]

I believe it's more the company has outgrown him. It's significantly harder to be a part of each development process when there are dozens of teams across hundreds of people.

[@SouthJerzyDude]

Wasn't JUST him. People MUCH better than him were there​@hunthell

[@FireHawkX]

She is absolutely spot on! Having worked for about 10 years in the industry as well for EA, Funcom, Square/Eidos -- I was very close to the lead designers and producers of every project since I was in charge of all video editing and cinematics... When "VIP" would come to our studio in Montreal (sorry), I was the one showing them the trailers and videos in my office...

[@Bill_Oddie_Face_Mask]

It just occurred to me that the Veilgard creature looks like the Wikipedia photo for tertiary syphilis…

[@Focal_Paradox]

I don't have a problem with 'DEI' games. By all means make them and see if the market adopts them. Start small/medium and see where it goes. Just don't hijack and change existing franchises, or hijack new 'AAA' top tier games and change them to fit a 'DEI' target.

[@CanaldoVoid]

I realize I've really started trusting Craig when I clicked this video. I never click clickbait titles and thumbnails like "you have to see this video", but when it's Craig saying it, it's different. I wasn't disappointed.

[@OgamiItto70]

Hear that, Craig? Don't go turning into a master clickbaiter.

[@richardrahl2685]

I concur! I may not always agree with Craig but atleast He's honest. 🎉❤

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

I definitely don't think he's flawless. Far from it. Even ignorant once in a while, but I am pretty sure that he's on my side in the gamer wars 2.

[@RealDevastatia]

Software developers are seldom beautiful, bubbly people. Hire some cosplayers to promote your stuff.

[@jmass4207]

I mean I'll settle for putting forth some remotely photogenic employees. I'm sure you've seen some of the recent decisions they've made in these 'tours of the office' they insert to pad their showcases.

[@carriebartkowiak]

Yes, with a caveat: the cosplayers need to actually BE players of the game and who can talk about what they liked and didn't like about their playthroughs. There's an entire industry of cosplayers who travel from show to show competing for the award money and who don't actually know a thing about their chosen character or the IP it came from; only that the character is popular and looks cool.

[@yesfredfredburger8008]

It’s about ethics in journalism

[@chronix7946]

Ganergate: Always has been

[@1_underthesun]

What ethics? Lol

[@danbauer3669]

She forgot to mention how many AAA games devs are more interested in finding new ways to extract wealth from you rather than finding new ways to entertain you. Modern gaming is trash.

[@Anomaly188]

More the executives forcing that in because they don't understand anything except dollar signs. Know why we never got Visceral's Star Wars Scoundrels when the license was with EA? Because the managers and executives are idiots. You say Star Wars to them and the only thing they know is "Jedi!"

[@Guinn355Fan]

And just remember if it’s going on in the video game industry it’s going on elsewhere. And that’s scary because that means we were right when we figured they were developing narratives instead of telling us the truth.

[@XXXX-yc6wv]

The games industry now looks exactly like the music industry: corporate/media collusion, payola and sleaze.

[@conductorcammon]

And jews! 😂

[@LaughingSkull451]

@@conductorcammon ???

[@snarevox]

@@conductorcammon lol steady rocking booty jams?

[@MisterMunkki]

well it is for all intents and purposes the same industry now, with movies as well

[@ti-lo5hy]

It's everywhere. I'm pretty sure it's seeping out of the cooperation of government and financial firms.

[@MsNellyuan]

I am glad you guys are promoting her vids , but pls also remember to protect her because the rabid woke crowds are literally going to destroy her.

[@CommanderRedEXE]

They can try but, much like Ape, Gamers together strong!

[@avalonjustin]

That's the saddest thing about this. Laura couldn't be more level-headed and impartial in her approach, but she will still be raked over the coals for speaking out.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

Sub to her channel.

[@NathanCassidy721]

No they won’t. They’ve tried but the Woke Crowd is finding out how much power they actually have. Which is turning out to be NONE WHATSOEVER.

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

I'm not sure if you've been in her comment section, but the only thing I've seen are woketurds still denying that wokeness and DEI has infected the gaming industry and that corporate greed is the only problem. Just look at her veilgard video in the replies for the pinned comment. I point out that she ignores the woke crap poisoning games and I get attacked by rabid woketurds defending her and wokeness together.

[@raijinmeister]

When the booth babes return, the world will be completely healed.

[@DaenaMichelle]

Hope she is able to make a change, Microsoft has been whistleblowed about pushing DEI to the max.

[@wonderfool9406]

Every bubble has a tendency to burst. The bubble of the game industry has already burst, they just deny the reality of it. Keep reality out of fantasy and politics out of escapism.

[@billbillinger2117]

Games went Hollywood, and much like Hollywood... began enjoying the smell of their own farts. So much so that those who don't enjoy the smell are blacklisted, harrassed, or just written off completely within their own industries. I would be really interested to see these multi hundred million dollar production budgets and see where the money actually went. I imagine it resembles Twitter pre Elon acquisition...

[@shadowdouglas450]

As a girl that plays games not all gamers are dudes but I like sexy men and woman in my games. But playing a game fun and gameplay the most important part and story. I still only buy physical media if i can than i can trade it in or sell it if i don't play it more digital is burning your money.

[@mogadeet6857]

'Return to form' Uncanny. It's almost like reporters are too lazy to investigate.

[@boobah5643]

Repeating the press briefing and pretending it's news is not a games journalist thing; it's a journalist thing. It's a success at the bush leagues (because access journalism pays) and why mess with a winning formula? Being a deniable mouthpiece for politicians, NGOs, and other political actors has many of the same access benefits you see with games. It has the same downsides, too, because the public doesn't get all their news filtered through the same few journalists. Though there will always be some few people who will prefer the stories told by favored journalists to what they see with their own eyes.

[@AgentGreyFox]

An eco chamber of toxic positivity infecting gaming.

[@NeoN-PeoN]

This is gonna be really arrogant of me, but, I want to push back on one thing. I don't think that these game devs are surprised when people don't like their games anymore. I don't think this is a result of being too insular. I believe that the devs are more than willing to lose money in order to push their gospel. They don't care. They HATE us. They will make the games they want to make until either we leave, or they go bankrupt.

[@ventzxX]

There's no day that passes where I don't miss pre 2016 E3.

[@vkermodekumav8949]

Laura's channel is amazing. I got hooked after her story about the first Gears game. So much information and things I didnt know about. And of course her experience and how she tells it how it is. Seriously one of my favorite people to watch on KZbin

[@astranger448]

And she made a whole video about Larian Studios and how they 'broke the industry' with BG3, to end with telling the industry to go look at how Larian did it. That was the story that hooked me (I admit, I am a most unrepentant Larian Fanboy, some day I will even play BG3)

[@erueka6]

The lady only has one problem she's too naive on these heathens ability to do anything human or selfless like reflection or accepting responsibility

[@joejoyce6371]

Entertainment used to be about escapism for the most part. I don't want real world problems injected into my entertainment. I want fun not a lecture.

[@Jankyville]

If she was involved in the first and second Gears, she must be listened to and respected.

[@xLuigi34x]

Gotham City Imposters was actually stupid fun to play. Great video Craig! Definitely shows that the tides are turning and you’re not alone in this fight

[@levibull6063]

Dude a very close friend of mine got me insanely addicted to that game It was genuinly a blast to play

[@doomtrigger]

its all the ESG and DEI money that they keep getting

[@MjollTheLioness-o4y]

Agree. National Review did a recent article that said that 8 billion dollars is spent annually in the US alone on DEI. It's one of the biggest grifts in corporate America, in my opinion.

[@xtlm]

The media quoting each other and what they are told. That's in everything, not just video games.

[@AVissie]

Please try and get Laura on SideScrollers

[@Slitheringpeanut]

I've been gaming since 1982, and I've literally played none of the games she's worked on as an executive producer (Which means she only paid into those projects) that have been listed. And played maybe three of her entire listed biography. *That doesn't mean she's wrong about anything she's said, though.* I repeat, I agree with everything she says. Bear in mind, most named devs are 'idea men' they don't actually help code any of their ideas, that's why they have the code monkeys that leave the moment the project is over. Also, Craig, every article is PAID for in Entertainment, that's ALL of it, gaming to Hollywood and everything in between, adjacent or otherwise close to Hollywood.

[@tbarnum6315]

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration. Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc. The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

[@TheVoiceintheWater]

There's a difference between innovation and intentionally antagonizing your customer base. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was innovative when it launched. So was Super Mario 64. Dragon Age TVG wasn't innovative. It was insulting.

[@GBlastMan]

the phrase you are looking for Craig is "Are we the baddies?"

[@BrunchPrincess]

But why skulls?!

[@daviddb1972]

For these conversations, I think we need to drop the "fan" tag. We are customers. PAYING CUSTOMERS. Fandom happens AFTER the purchase if it happens at all. These developers have fans, just not customers turned fans. Ideological support not financial support!

[@DuncanEvans-t7q]

Really freshing to watch after that dev who was calling women "mentality lightweight"

[@erueka6]

Exceptions to the rules doesn't mean it's not true without them this would have never happened

[@ello_verity7667]

That was Vara Dark specifically he was insulting.

[@unnf9971]

When the title is 0% clickbait and spitting hardcore facts from start to finish. Sublime job SS!

[@chrisandrew7577]

CRIMSON SKIES!!! She was involved in that gem?? Amazing Xbox game if you haven't played it you missed out

[@capt_c27]

Gamers are 50/50 men and women... My 70-year-old mom plays Bejeweled every day, that doesn't mean she's a gamer. And yet, she's counted in that statistic.

[@DarkForce2024]

My mom is 66 and plays the Legend of Zelda games, Animal Crossing, and a bunch of Switch indies. She's not into XBox/Playstation/PC though. I would call her a "casual" gamer I guess.

[@RaifSeverence]

That's why the 50/50 stat is misleading. The actual core gamer audience is probably closer to 70/30 slanted for dudes

[@prime-of-two3753]

@@RaifSeverenceVery much so, and it’s probably more skewed than that. I’ve seen actual surveys (with proper methodologies) that put the ratio closer to 85/15. In the west, it’s more like 90/10, while In Asia there’s more gaming women. I think the big Capcom survey Craig has mentioned before had similar numbers.

[@MarvinPowell1]

In reality, 88% of actual gamers (regular video game buyers and players who don't just play mobile puzzle games) are male and 11% are female, and 1% are "other." Growing up, most girls would make fun of you for being a gamer. In fact, I didn't see actual female gamers until 2009-2010 and even then, they only played The Sims, Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft. I didn't even see girls playing Pokemon until at least 2015.

[@prime-of-two3753]

@@MarvinPowell1 Sounds about right. I was born in the 80s; and until I played MMOs like FFXI and LotRO, I knew/met online less than a dozen girls who played games. And all of them nearly exclusively played big-name JRGs like Dragon Quest and Persona. Every now and then one of them would try a Zelda game lol. The only reason I even encountered that many is because back then I pretty much only played those kinds of games as well. Never knowingly met any girls in forums for anything like Doom or RTS games. (At least I think not… online back in the late 90s/early 2000s was much more anonymous lol.)

[@steelshepherd6843]

Just ten years ago, videogames, whether the game itself, development team, story, community, or in-game chat space felt like the last great bastions of freedom of expression, discussion and thought...

[@brandonnotsowise2640]

8:50 Great video, Craig! Really getting down to the brass tacks exposing how they maintain control over a large whole of media and push _The Message_

[@rikay325]

Man, she used to reply to most of the comments. I have a feeling its gonna be a lot harder for her now.

[@vallor8322]

I had the pleasure of working with Laura for many years. Your impression of her is right on. She's smart with great instincts. It is sad that people minimize her to "Executive Producer of Microsoft" instead of her more senior title as "Studio Head of WB Games." She really has seen it all, from mid-success with games like Zoo Tycoon to blockbusters like Gears of War to flops like War in the North.

[@astranger448]

Ans she is mightily impressed with what Larian Studios did with BG3.

[@FaolanHart]

Straight facts from a women with a lot of experience in the industry. Without any vitriol either, which is rare. Amazing video. I'm gonna have to sub to her channel.

[@DCYEAH]

I believe some studios are beyond saving though and thats the sad reality.

[@TheWaterdog6]

"Will they ever one day look at themselves and say 'I am the problem'?" No, there is a mental defense. Think about it, would you rather live in a delusion where you are important, you are doing things but you have to overcome the people holding you down, or would you be able to take the mental pain of recognizing you were wrong, you have been wrong and everything people said that you hated to hear was right?

[@Exile_Sky]

For the record Laura Fryer's history in games seems to lay mostly in Gears of War and Zoo Tycoon, which started with Microsoft Revenge of Arcade. She was in the industry from 1998 to 2015, which is during the time frame that the rot was being laid within the bones of the industry.

[@rpg_haven]

I love Laura's channel because you can tell she's super based but also wants to keep working in the industry. So she complains about all the stuff we do, yet in a corporate-speak way that's very effective

[@Python_Bacon]

This old school reporter is based.

[@Jimmy_wrangler]

Bro did you watch the video even? Homegirl isn't a reporter. Never was, she's a legend in the business. Tantamount to gaming royalty, in my eyes.

[@kingkarljfs7965]

Power to the people, dude! We don't want poison in our lives, be it our food, our entertainment, our society... if we stand together, we're all gonna make it!

[@sieg11ful]

Such a smart and well-spoken woman. Was a pleasure to listen to her thoughts.

[@MichaelBones]

20:23 the allegory of the cave is like the people becoming copper tops (blue pills) in the matrix. Back when the matrix was about the nature of reality and whether the real world was real or a simulation.

[@PuppyTeethVEVO69]

Oh man she worked on Gotham City Impostors! I really had fun with that one for a while. Underrated gem. Nothing special or crazy ambitious, just fun.

[@Marbeary]

I love her insights and realize she made several of my favorite games of all time.

[@erojzmmo2661]

I was at that E3 where Zachary Levi and Josh Gomez were at. I met them, got a pic with them, they were both awesome people. In fact I ran into Josh Gomez the next year and he was with his wife, he remembered me from the last year. E3 used to be fun, too bad those days and E3 are gone now.

[@jecasey222]

Always been my argument that payola was going on. Everything illegal in radio and tv was somehow ok for game companies and their reporters.

[@AbyssinianEmerald]

11:28 - That photo! The Red Eye, the Dead Eye, and the "What am i doing here?". Pretty wild.

[@Wulfnoff]

Remember Kids! If you don't watch it, and if you don't buy it, it goes away!

[@tariel1928]

I used to be an auditor with one of the big 4/5 firms. A huge amount of time and energy was spent attempting to ensure not only independence from clients but also *perceived* independence. Failures in this regard would end up in lawsuits and press scandals. It has always been striking to me how the symbiotic (or parasitic perhaps) relationship between game studios/creators and journalists was just accepted. The conflict of interest is striking and obvious.

[@Joonysuke]

Where's the link to video, Craig? Can't tell us she goes into more detail without directing us to the whole video. 🤔

[@SideScrollersPodcast]

BAM: www.youtube.com/@laurafryer6321

[@Joonysuke]

@SideScrollersPodcast Thanks, homie.

[@stashthevampede]

Pin it craig.

[@CCGamesceo]

Great video. As a e3 veteran, I can confirm all of this myself.

[@Oblithian]

Craig, I have to point out, your game company idea sounds more like a publisher than a development studio. Nothing wrong with that, the business model could be very successful as like a game 'launchpad' or 'accelerator'. Talent constantly comes in with fresh ideas, they collaborate, they improve, you move to the next thing, they stick around, or move on with their experience and renown.

[@Brainreaver79]

i can get behind the 50/50 dudes/women argument.. but only if you include mobile gaming. if you stick to console/pc... i dont think those two have a 50/50 split. hazarding a guess id think more around 80/20

[@gipgap4]

In a relatively recent Capcom survey when asking what games people wanted to see from them, 82% were male, 14% were female and 4% were “other”. Now, I’m going to guess that some of those female responders were traps, and some of the “others” were actually biological males too, therefore, I’d say it was closer to a 90/10 split biological males to females.

[@gipgap4]

I had my previous post deleted by KZbin but essentially I was saying that it’s probably closer to 90/10 if a recent Capcom survey is anything to go by.

[@MarvinPowell1]

It's nowhere near 50-50 with all extras added in. In North America, it's 88% male and 11% female (and 1% "other.") In Asia, it's 85% male, and 15% female. Someone's grandmother playing a lotto minigame app counts as a "gamer" to this misleading woke surveys.

[@ckaldariaq5904]

Why do people think anime games like ZZZ and WUWA are so popular? Beautiful characters!

[@KingSpectre844]

"Am I out of touch? No, it's the customers who are wrong." Many such cases.

[@Deegus25]

Loss of simplicity when it became all about the money. Too too many cooks in the kitchen will ALWAYS spoil the dish.

[@StickySyrupEverywhere]

I qualify as a senior now guys, but I'm still young, and have my eye on the prime entertainment format of the age and in the world. Big chunks of society have let that fact slip right on under their radar. Movies! Phtttt! Gaming is where the focus is at! The mind-rot has infected EVERYTHING, and that just won't do! Anti-gamer, and more broadly anti-consumer corporate business practices are a scourge on everything, but are easily solved when all of us simply say little more than "No," and turn away. Let those consumed rage on to the modern audience that isn't there!

[@Derknomicon]

Seeing someone that has experience in the industry speak out on the issues that have gotten out of hand and left unchecked is refreshing to see. Gives me some hope that we can eventually get back something similar to the younger years of gaming culture. When it was more "tech-punk" and less "crazy-corpo".

[@Shawn-eu1od]

I did a few years in game dev courses in college and they hated gamers back then too, and this was 2004

[@Kryosleep]

I don't trust reviews. Period. If something looks fun to me, I wait until it's so old it's cheap enough to not care about the cost and it's about as patched as it's going to get. I don't have the FOMO.

[@g36cvek]

This was a great walk down memory lane. So glad I got to live through it and play each of these games and sad to see what they have become.

[@ClarkKentai]

It'd be awesome if she teamed up with Amy Hennig.

[@MarvinPowell1]

Amy Hennig wrote Forspoken, FYI.

[@ClarkKentai]

She also wrote the best parts of the Legacy of Kain lore.

[@georgejones5019]

​@@MarvinPowell1 Probably wrote Dreadwolf, which then got heavily edited by the SBi squad.

[@KeyBladeMaster-Dan]

​@@MarvinPowell1 No she didn't she came up with a bit of the lore of the world and that's it the actual game was written by a Hollywood hack named Gary Whitta

[@Uzuhl]

@@MarvinPowell1 She didn’t she only did storyboard concept art it’s even in the credits she actually got replaced by SBI because there was some rumblings she had envisioned it to be like a darker grim American isekai. SBI did not approve.

[@scottball2796]

Laura Natural hair colour - check No nose ring - check Accountability - check Calm talker and not obnoxious - check My type of old school developer 😂

[@budthecyborg4575]

18:14 "I have no problem with game developers taking risks with their content" ... "Who doesn't love innovation" The great tragedy of the woke era of gaming is corporate investors have been pumping TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars into the gaming industry but ALL of that money has gone exclusively to political propaganda and NONE of that funding has resulted in even a shred of innovation.

[@dustysmoke4996]

Yes. Simply put, as you said, you are 'the wakeup call'. Helping gamers, and hopefully eventually the devs, wake up from the whoke/DEI BS ruining the industry. And you are endlessly appreciated by us.

[@lordsinister707]

It's like game developers nowadays simply want to be praised because they are game developers. Not because their work and accomplishments speak for themselves. I can understand the desire for diversity in the company but that should not come at the cost of quality

[@XcutAngel]

this the kinda fair, healthy discussion the video game industry needs.

[@leegaul2161]

The moment the classic art of critique was relegated to the "hate speech" category, that's when accountability and self improvement went into the toilet.

[@RollinShultz]

Game development WAS a business, then it became an industry. I always say "Once anything becomes and industry corruption ensues.".

[@CitroenC407]

This might be one of the best videos I've ever sat down to watch. Laura absolutely nails it.

[@Njordin2010]

not only do hot woman sell to dudes but also the atmosphere that whole thing creates is cool for women like my wife. women who are not that into female specific stuff and love to be around dudes / share their hobbies. people want to have fun, be free and escape their jobs and political stuff for some time. just like it was in the 90s / 2000s.

[@steelcurtain187]

Excellent video and recommendation. I would love to hear more of her thoughts

[@thelrdroca9412]

It’s not only the video game industry but the movie industry as well. Never in the history of business have companies not listened to the consumer and instead tell them what they should like and want to buy.

[@travismcnasty51]

I just had to renew my food handlers card and my alcohol service card. I absolutely adore this woman's voice. It has the welcoming comfort of educational software. She has the perfect cadance and inflection to inform people.

[@RedSkysAreOnFire]

the reporters are also in there own echo chamber and bubble

[@Valoric]

This is what intellectual honesty in the games industry genuinely looks like. The industry needs people like her to pull them out of this nosedive stall free fall.

[@LostChrisB]

I’ve seen other videos by her, she is very informative with her knowledge, experience and views.

[@CrazennCajunn]

A free media is both exceedingly important and one of the singular biggest threats to anything they involve themselves with

[@RevelationOne]

How did this happen to gaming? Communist under the guise of Foreign investors with evil intentions is how this happened.