Stellar Blade‘s flirtation with Kotaku was cut short when Grummz called them out, but does their folly point to internal strife? Sensation seekers at Kotaku, the sleaze rag posing as a gaming magazine that employs failed cam girls, couldn’t contain their glee at the censorship of Eve in Stellar Blade and dedicated an article to the game titled “Stellar Blade’s Eve Is Hottest When She’s Not Revealing Everything.” In what gamers believe was a traitorous and insulting move, the Stellar Blade Twitter account re-posted the Kotaku post that contained the article.
X user packergirl picked up on Stellar Blade’s re-post of Kotaku’s post, asking: “did @StellarBlade just admit the day 1 patch censored costumes or is this a coincidence?”
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Game developer and former team lead for OG World of Warcraft, and producer at Diablo 2 and Starcraft, Mark Kern (@Grummz) called out the Stellar Blade account manager’s flirtation with sleaze rag Kotaku: “Community Manager for @StellarBlade retweets Kotaku on outfits censorship justification. @helldivers2 CM, hold my beer. Really, these CMs are both terrible at their jobs. They are competing for worst crisis management in gaming.”
Grummz is right, it is bad enough that we have “gaming journalists” at sleaze rags like Kotaku who hates gamers, the last thing video game companies need are community managers who hate gamers too. This faux pas by the Stellar Blade X account manager could have costed them dearly, especially considering that Grummz have called on gamers to support Stellar Blade and not boycott it.
However, the Stellar Blade account deleted the re-post of the Kotaku sleaze rag article soon after the faux pas was noted by by Grummz. It could be that the Stellar Blade account manager genuinely made a mistake, or it could be that the Stellar Blade developer, Shift Up, was concerned about a backlash from gamers. X user packergirl noted: “UPDATE: Kotaku Senior Editor Alyssa Mercante confirmed @StellarBlade unretweeted the Kotaku article”
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It is hard to give the Stellar Blade community manager the benefit of the doubt and ascribe this faux pas to a genuine mistake on his or her part. No community manager of any game, let alone the community manager of Stellar Blade is unaware of the Stellar Blade censorship debacle and Kotaku’s pro-censorship stance. That leaves only two possibilities: either game developers Shift Up is pro-censorship, or the community manager went rogue, which could point to internal striving at Shift Up.
Either way, Shift Up needs to get its house in order; up to now, the gaming community has supported Stellar Blade, but if it turns out that Shift Up is aligning with gamer-hating and pr-censorship sleaze rag Kotaku, support for Stellar Blade could vaporize.
What do you think about this Kotaku tweet by Shift Up and Stellar Blade? Leave a comment and let us know.
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I believe the community manager went rogue, and got called out by Shift Up.