Most of the same people screaming "Money hats!!" will the same ones fapping when more information comes out about the next Elder Scrolls or Fallout, because that is totally different.
I miss the NES/SNES/SMS/GENESIS days when yeah people would toss barbs about their system having a game and the other not but nobody would spend hours and hours bitching and whining about it on an internet. If you want all the games buy all the systems.
TBF there was no "internet" back then the way we have it now. They did have newsgroups where people sometimes did complain (Internet Archive has some of them still).
FWIW tho I don't consider the next ES or Fallout to be moneyhats, either, because it's the same thing there that Sony is doing here: they (MS) are funding production and curating/helping out in the development process. But that should be expected in their case since they own the studios now. Moneyhats to me are purely when a platform holder buys a game for a period of time to keep it off another console even if they funded none of the development and the game is published by a 3P, made by a 3P and was gonna most likely be multiplat anyway. Rise of the Tomb Raider is a moneyhat, for example. The recent VF5: Ultimate Showdown is another moneyhat situation.
WTF are you talking about?
WTF do the Star Wars movies have to do with a star-wars-hating wokester working on the game in a non-influential capacity?
At this point, I'm forced to assume you're either entirely delusional and need psychological help, or you're a salty Xbox fanboy/astroturfer trying to run interference because your daddy/employer xbox isn't getting this game.
I mean if she's a writer on the game then she already has some influence over some notable part of the game's design. Writing is kind of important in RPGs and all.
The correlation being made is that many of the modern Star Wars movies and projects, for a lot of people (including myself) have hired writers with similar depositions as Sam, and they've ended up writing pretty mediocre stuff. Just look at the High Republic, or the way a lot of things were written in The Last Jedi. There's something of a clear pattern there. Similarly, look at a couple of the writers that were on Mass Effect Andromeda; very similar behavior as Sam on Twitter, and the writing in Andromeda turned out to be pretty mediocre (as was the game itself).
Unfortunately it's because of the patterns why there's concern, you can't just wash that away as paranoia or console wars BS. There's now a potential risk here that the remake could be compromised in terms of its writing quality, even if the writer's politics aren't hamfisted into the script, because there's enough patterns in other media examples of people like them writing on projects that either end up with mediocre writing due to forced political messaging, poor utilization of writing techniques, or a mix of both.
Also I'm not saying "non-woke" (as much as I hate these culture war terms nowadays) are inherently any better of writers, we have a history of piss-poor comics, movies, games, shows etc. with people very far removed from extreme-leftists politics at the writing helm. However, at least in modern times there's not as much an obvious correlation with "non-woke" writers tending to be poor or mediocre writers. There's definitely some who are, and maybe it feels much less only because they aren't really getting a lot of these big writing positions on certain massive films, games etc., but the degree where that correlation tends to be true with them, is less.
That all said, there's not even word on if Sam is the head writer, and these games are written by a team of people, so folks honestly could be freaking out about much of nothing. We'll just have to wait and see I suppose.
yup, wouldn't expect anything else.
the game wasn’t announced for any platforms though just like star field. Also they don’t have to honor any contracts they can also buy them out hence outer worlds 2 being exclusive to Xbox. I’m sure Indian Jones will be exclusive.