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then we got a deal welcome to watch mojo
and today we'll be counting down our
picks for the top 10
video game controversies of 2020. i've
been able to prove to myself that
if i can do this i can do anything this
morning fortnite is gone from the apple
app store
i think there were great results i think
we had a good quarter
and for this list we're looking at the
biggest scandals that came from the game
industry in 2020
let us know in the comments which one
you were most outraged by
now let's get controversial
number 10 pay to stream games
a creative director working for google
stadia alex hutchins received immense
backlash when he posted a tweet saying
popular streamers ought to pay for the
right to stream
games and that game streams violated the
copy
of the publishers hutchinson's tweet was
so controversial
that google executives had to publicly
disagree with him
in fairness this is exactly the kind of
thing you'd expect from stadia
which only charges customers a monthly
subscription fee but also charges them
for purchasing games on the streaming
platform
suffice it to say publishers know
streamers are
actually providing a large amount of
free and effective advertising
and streaming doesn't harm game sales at
all
number nine pre-order mayhem
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the hotly anticipated releases of
next-gen consoles were
finally upon us in late 2020 but it
wasn't easy to get one
on launch day thanks to the events of
2020
drastically reducing production of the
new consoles there were far fewer units
available to pre-order
but the process was still a mess
regardless with websites crashing
transactions failing and even orders
getting cancelled just
days before release it started with the
disastrous ps5 pre-order system
which xbox made plenty of jokes about
before they fell victim to the exact
same issues days later
lots of people won't be able to get a
new console until early 2021
at least because of all the chaos
number eight the schindler's list of
video games
grab your gear i want to show you
something
what trust me the most controversial
release of the year was
easily the last of us part two but
things going on
in the real world were just as toxic as
anything that happened
in game including the critical response
when actor jeff kanata took to twitter
to say the last of us part two is the
schindler's list of video games the
backlash was
extraordinary this was both from people
who hated what naughty dog did with the
franchise
and people who thought it was ridiculous
to compare the game
or any game for that matter to
schindler's list
in the first place kanata was mocked far
and wide for his
bad and bizarre take this is our future
think of all the lives we'll save
number seven delays you could lose your
lunch
the lockdown has meant huge numbers of
developers are working from home
which has contributed to the myriad
delays we've seen
throughout 2020 but many are asking for
companies to
just not name specific release dates
until they're sure they can reach it
this year cyberpunk 2077 has been
delayed at least three times
with a release slated for december 10th
the last of us part 2
was also delayed until an enormous leak
forced naughty dog to bring the release
forward
while ubisoft has announced significant
delays for flagship franchises
namely far cry 6 and rainbow six
quarantine
it's definitely a frustrating time to be
a gamer
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number six tom clancy's elite squad
they clearly didn't want to leave
anything for us to find
we had little chance to find something
usable but it was worth a try
the black lives matter movement has
gained significant traction in 2020
with protests taking place in major
cities around the world
this was why ubisoft didn't have a
snowball's chance in hell
of getting away with what it pulled in
the elite squad trailer
the game is about a clandestine
terrorist sec named
umbra manipulating global politics from
the shadows
the problem was their logo just so
happened to be
the raised fist associated heavily with
black lives matter
and the civil rights movement ubisoft
was forced to apologize and remove the
tone death image from the final game
number five epic versus apple
in the summer of 2020 epic games brought
a lawsuit against apple to try and
prevent apple from placing
a 30 cut on microtransactions bought in
fortnite
on ios after they previously bypassed
the rules and got themselves blocked
from the app store
judges presiding over the case warned
that console platforms
do the exact same thing meaning this
lawsuit could have
serious anti-consumer repercussions
across the industry
to make matters even worse apple has
also filed a lawsuit against
epic for breach of contract and epic has
taken similar action against google
all this has done is stopped mobile
gamers from playing fortnite
number four underpaid employees
most of the history of our industry has
been about middle class customers
in very developed markets developers at
activision blizzard have repeatedly
suffered at the company
from mass layoffs in 2019 to a dispute
over salaries in 2020.
bobby kodak remains one of the most
overpaid ceos
in the world and after he wrote himself
a paycheck for 40 million
employees began questioning their low
wages despite the fact business was
booming
some devs were being paid so little they
were forced to skip meals to pay
rent they decided to rebel by
anonymously
sharing their salaries with one another
on a spreadsheet
when an internal study into pay didn't
grant a decent pay raise
revealing just how underpaid and
undervalued
they really are we have employees
working from home
and they'll continue to work from home
until we feel that it's
safe for them to not work at home any
longer
number three gamestop is essential
retail
in 2019 gamestop introduced new store
concepts and created space
in stores for competitive sessions to
attract gamers
in late march the united states entered
a national lockdown
with only essential retail allowed to
stay open
but people were pretty surprised when
gamestop declared itself
essential claiming that its products
were beneficial to those working
from home while it's true video games
have been vital for helping people
endure the times
you definitely don't need to go all the
way to gamestop to get one
gamestop managed to fight backlash just
long enough to see the releases of do
maternal
and animal crossing forcing its staff to
work during a virus outbreak
all the while number two cd project red
crunch they are members of the maelstrom
game
and their obsession with body
modification goes way beyond even this
world's standards
despite being one of the most popular
studios in the industry
cd projekt red yet again came under fire
for its toxic crunch culture
this was in stark contrast to
compromises made by company bosses a few
years ago
that there wouldn't be mandatory crunch
during the development of cyberpunk 2077
with frequent delays the so-called death
march has been continuing since
at least june of 2019 according to one
anonymous developer
and when one of those ceos claimed the
crunch wasn't that bad in october
he was quickly forced to apologize
despite this
people who criticized cdpr's crunch have
repeatedly
had death threats directed at them
making the whole situation
a nightmare hey mr dex get us that table
at the afterlife
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number one ubisoft harassment scandal
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the hashtag metoo movement has finally
reached the video games industry
with female employees blowing the
whistle on the internal sexism
and harassment endemic in ubisoft
numerous high-level directors at ubisoft
studios globally had
incredibly serious allegations levied at
them
according to whistleblowers complaints
were made internally with hr for years
but the men in question were too
powerful within the company
and never faced repercussions thanks to
victims publicly speaking out
ubisoft ceo eve guimo has promised to
make sweeping
changes at the company but only time
will tell if ubisoft's culture
changes for the better this summer we
learned that certain ubisoft employees
did not uphold our company's values and
that our systems
fail to protect the victims of their
behavior
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in fairness this is exactly the kind of
thing you'd expect from stadia
which only charges customers a monthly
subscription fee but also charges them
for purchasing games on the streaming
platform