Michael Douse, the Director of Publishing of Larian Studiosreturned to the question of the arrival of Xbox exclusives on other platforms such as PS5, taking on the community's immoderate reaction head-on. According to him the problem is to be found in the prolonged use of techniques encouraging involvementwhich make purely economic choices feel like a betrayal.
Too personal
“This story should be the subject of a GDC talk on the dangers of prolonged use ofencouraging involvement and how it can negatively impact a community that has been nurtured by it for generations,” began Douse on increased engagement from people (not bots) who had really intense emotions, in the face of uniform requests, as if they had come from nowhere. Basically, some kind of massive port request. I traced back the source to a marketing agency. I won't name her. I asked him to stop; and so it was.”
Then Douse reiterated the point of his speech: “I understand the false engagement incentive initiatives that are used (but which I do not use) for short periods, but over time it is not possible to sustain a similar level (or desire) of emotional attachment and still maintain a dialogue sincere. Ultimately, the dialogue will end up completely erased.”
Let's translate: for Douse, involving the community in a prolonged way with artificial systems based on behavioral psychology alters the public's emotions by taking them to extremes. The reactions resulting from changes of direction such as the one that is predicted for Xbox would therefore be the result of this emotional exasperation.
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