What got him fired, and why they probably want to remove him as a hero figure in a game, is because he was involved in the gathering of women for Alex Afraisabi - one of the more well known abusers. The text records back that he knew exactly what was going on. I can’t quote the text referenced because it would get me a forum suspension.
Nobody said he committed a crime, but Blizzard does not want to keep him as an employee and does not want to have a hero named after him anymore. People get fired for things that are not crimes every single day. A company does not have to keep someone just because a court did not convict the person of a crime.
Imagine reading the Game of Thrones and suddenly a character by the name of George RR Martin appears.
How would you feel if they had named Luke Skywalker George Lucas?
If those’re not immersion-breaking, idk what to tell you.
D3’s story is already a piece of trash, but my immersion was further broken when I came across Yang’s Recurve. Yang is not even a character in the lore. Why is there a critical item piece named after a dev if the dev is not even part of the lore?
This sounds like either someone who walks George (e.g. dogwalker) or someone who’s walking on George (e.g. Skywalker). Either way, it sounds pretty f’ed up.
Exactly nothing. A name is a name, I know multiple persons with the same name, I have not once confused them with each other. Now if everyone in the story has names like “Xena” and “Zrti” and the protagonist is named “Frank” and they are from the same place it would annoy me, but as long as the name fits the narrative, I really wouldn’t be bothered.
Okay, just for the sake of topic… I’m fine with anagrams, nicknames and gig items named for pop culture. However, when you use gig items as a filler just to show off how geeky you are with no other useful item at the same type, it raises a few eyebrows.
There’s a huge credit section for whoever spent their time on making the game and you can set up small mentions at that screen about the personal tastes of writers, designers and developers. Tell us about how they love Star Trek, The Lost TV series, Marvel Universe, some obscene band nobody cared for 20 years ago, Dirty Harry jokes, Harry Potter movies or Game of Thrones too.
The Blacksmith have tons of crafting recipes which are named after pop culture references, and yet none of them comes into play at all. I mean, I’m fine with not being forced to wear any pop culture reference items but what utility do those items have besides being there for a silly gag?
Yet, if you gonna creata a crafted item, but use that opportunity to yell how geeky or nerdy you are, please don’t. Your game may see decades down the road with its fanbase following it actively, and your references will be outdated in a mere year when that head company you love so much stops paying attention to your favorite franchise or target generation moves on from your game to be replaced by new demographic.
Shortly; developers don’t need multimillion dollar game titles to be included in some Buzzfeed list of “top 2150 popculture references in gaming”. No. You don’t need that. You don’t need that kind of advertising, neither item names are something worth mentioning in a small talk with friends.
I can bear to see pop culture references in Diablo 4, sure but do you need to be lazy by throwing in a gag reference to justify it? There are more than one way to include such gag items in game or leveling up flow or progress without making things obvious.
What about he got that name for destroying a hotdog shaped Deathstar? Now I’m imagining Luke, I mean Lucas’ flight to exhaust port being awkwardly long…