🐏naz🐏

@blaccsheep.bsky.social

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🇹🇹🇧🇸hi i'm naz, AKA naomi blaccsheep. 30s. your cool auntie. unfortunately a very online sheep (θ∆?). black, pan, and nonbinary. they/she. 💖taken/open💖 🔞🔞🔞

two tweets that read:

PlatinumGames was established to make original IP. When we did some licensed games for ATVI, this became a point of contention in the studio. They even scrubbed these games from the website. So the irony of seeing those who opposed working on these games now leading and turning to the same licensed game as the way to keep the studio alive means Platinum has truly lost its luster.

The talent left. The IP isn’t even theirs anymore. The games are now derivative. Leadership wanted PG to be a publisher, now it’s just a work for hire shop. If I didn’t know so many awesome studios making amazing things with old PG talent, I’d be devastated.

Platinum is dead. Long live PlatinumGames.

This matters to me because in 2017 I predicted this. I wanted to stay and prevent it. I wanted to help the studio evolve. Technically. Creatively. I burnt myself out. I spent 80 hours a week of my life for 6 years trying to make Scalebound work. In the end, I was told Scalebound’s failure wasn’t a studio problem, it was a tech problem. (It wasn’t.) That’s why I left. I knew PG could only make one style of game because they had lost the ability to innovate. I knew I wasn’t going to be heard. But I remember the excitement of those early days. The passion of the staff. As someone who helped establish the legacy that now is used to bookend a trailer… I don’t care how good the game ends up being… it shouldn’t be this way.