MindsEye Co-CEO Claims There Is a 'Concerted Effort' by Some to 'Trash the Game and the Studio'

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MindsEye Co-CEO Claims There Is a 'Concerted Effort' by Some to 'Trash the Game and the Studio'

The co-CEO of the developer of MindsEye has claimed there exists a “concerted effort” to “trash the game and the studio,” and has even suggested people are being paid or using spam bots to post negative comments.

Mark Gerhard, who became co-CEO of Edinburgh, Scotland-based Build A Rocket Boy alongside former Rockstar North development chief Leslie Benzies last year, issued the claims on the official MindsEye Discord, sparking a number of shocked responses from fans.

During the Q&A session on Discord, reviewed by IGN, Gerhard, who goes by the username MMG on the platform, was asked: “Do you think that all the people who reacted negatively were financed by someone?”

“100%,” Gerhard responded, before adding: “Doesn't take much to guess who ”

This accusation sparked a number of shocked responses, including one who said: “A co-CEO for a studio implying another studio is paying previewers to talk negatively about your game is an absolutely wild comment to make in a public environment in any situation.”

Gerhard responded to that comment by saying: “Not wild when its [sic] true.....”

"I just said that there is a concerted effort by some people that don't want to see Leslie or Build A Rocket Boy to be successful that are making a concerted effort to trash the game and the studio. Its [sic] pretty easy to see the bots and the repeated replies to any content that we put out.”

Gerhard was then asked to clarify his comments by another user: “So just to clarify — you believe that individuals, be it content creators or otherwise, have been paid off to criticise MindsEye?”

Gerhard then appeared to walk back the initial accusation, responding: “No I never said that. I do KNOW that there are bot farms posting negative comments and dislikes.”

The comments, still live on the Discord at the time of this article’s publication, were subsequently picked up on social media and began to circulate online.

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not reading your blogpost

who

nuh yeh

I have never heard of these devs or their games so I don't think the slander is working.

I have never heard of this studio or these games OP.

Kek

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similarity is uncanny

If he was smart, he'd blame it on leftists as well. Say it's a concentrated effort to stop him cause he doesn't care about LGBTQ rights. Newbie mistake.

Literal who

Retard learns what guerilla marketing is

fucking duh. it's been going on forever.

Spoonfeed: it's a sci-fi open world game made by former Rockstar devs who were around in the PS2 era.
I didn't know any other news had come out beyond the review trailer, let alone whatever they're complaining about.

well yeah, it's the same actor.

Both things can be true.

I'm sure there are bot comments simply because there are bot comments everywhere on the Internet.

I'm also sure the game is going to be dogshit simply by looking at the footage they've put out and reports that they had to turn on God-mode just to get through a demonstration of the game for the press

I'm sure China could've made a better looking knock-off than this game.

Stop hacking the site you despicable villain.

Oh ok lmao didn't knew that
I hope the kid plays this game

Well, your marketing trick worked and made me look up your shit game, unfortunately

MC is shitskin

rest in piss.

I'm also sure the game is going to be dogshit simply by looking at the footage they've put out and reports that they had to turn on God-mode just to get through a demonstration of the game for the press

Well Deus Ex HR playable E3 demo was all smoke and mirrors (AI could only patrol and would not engage the players) and the game turned out fine.
Then again whenever the old guard of a game studio reunites to make an indie game it does not always pan out.
Hellgate London, Mighty Number 9 and that one game from the Socom devs.

The only "new" aspect to this is the China strategy. The one they've applied to other mediums for decades but have only started applying to vidya the past 10 years:

Buy stake in competitor

Force shit strategies with investment threats

Showcase turd

Fund guerilla groups to smear said turd they funded

Promote game they funded even more of, devoid of turdness

"Look, the communist dictatorship is your savrior!"

Hope for buy-in

*You are here*

Trojan Horse market and turdify literally everything with corporate/public backing

pubes for beard

At that point just shave it off ffs. Why do devs always insist on making stupid looking player characters?

This game looks factually better than Cybercuck 2077.
Still it is just a sandbox game but you can make your own levels.

Nobody cares for making their own content in games anymore do they? Meanwhile zoomies unrionically pay $9.99 for Nike shoes on fortnite, why is that?

Massive scandal regarding ridiculous crunch culture over at Rockstar

The company actually takes it seriously and makes a real effort to change working conditions

Part of that means removing Lezlie Benzies, who seemed to be one of the people pushing crunch and generally being a bully

He forms a new studio and starts making a platform called EVERYWHERE

It's essentially trying to be a grown up version of Roblox with NFTs thrown in

The NFT market prolapses and all the investment money disappears

Leslie's studio now has to cobble together the assets of EVERYWHERE into Mind's Eye to keep the studio afloat.

This game looks factually better than Cybercuck 2077.

Not a high bar, only Nvidia and now tendies are pretending it doesn't look like dogshit.

KWAB

Deus Ex had time to sort out it's problems before release. The previews for Mind's Eye came out last week and the game is out in another 2 weeks. The discs are probably already printed so unless they have some kind of magical day 1 patch that fixes everything the game is going to be a train wreck.

But I did nothing...

Walk me through this.
I place money on a company.
I force all sorts of nonsense or threat to retire funding
As I undermine my own investment.

Meanwhile I publish another game that competes with my other investment?
Look you don't have to work very hard to convince me that the bugmen are bad it is just that the way you laid out the plan, well it lacks a few steps no?

WHO?????

It looks competent, I would not buy it because all these sandbox games kind of blur together and personally I like sandbox games in the style of Red Faction Guerrilla or Crackdown. I liked SA and it was a novelty at the time, but GTA peaked at GTAIV if you ask me. I never actually bother to finish GTAV. Not my cup of tea.

As for this game I stand with what I said, it looks more finished than Cyberpunk 2077 but there is nothing to it here either. Bullet Sponge Enemies and 3rd person shooting. The drone seems fine but the game looks like a bunch of pre-made assets running on UE5.

jeets and niggers

people are paid to hate our game

nah it's just jeets and niggers. Smelly nigger dogshit game for nobody

I have never heard of this dev or the game they are making. But I do believe smear campaigns are real. I mean what's stopping big corpos from using bots, pajeets and paying autists some tendies to talk shit about competition on forums and social media?

It's basic bitch media manipulation.
When a government like the CCP is involved, there is no "product" budget to worry about. The government funding is meant to generate subversive propaganda for consensus control. The goal here being "All Western games are shit, embrace only Eastern games."
USAID was caught doing the same thing. It's not exclusive to the US. And most of their methods were taken directly from communist playbooks in the 40s-50s.
You attach the shorter, cheaper wick to the explosive. (Western subversion investments)
That's why there's a Dragon Age/Avowed/Marathon every year. The subversive funding keeps the runway short and the woke hiring stipulated in said investment does the rest.
The longer, more expensive wick (Genshin,BG3, Wukong etc.) gets the bulk of funding to counteract what they've invested against to skew public mindshare.

There's a billion articles with sources to the communist propaganda field guides these principles come from.

How do you not know Yuri Bezmenov without pretending you don't, Chang?

It looks like Saint’s Row: Cyberpunk Edition.

Usually doing those things costs some amount of money.
Have you ever heard of Mindseye?
No?
Why fund smear campaing against them especially when everything they have shown of their own game thus far does it for free?

No need to pay me to call it shit. It does look like shit.

youtube.com/watch?v=_185sXGmiok

so, what, they want your to build their game for them?

At least this mudblood usn't as ugly as the other mudbloods in videogames.

Le base building

Nope, I can omly fall for the same trick so many times. Fuck this garbage, not giving it a chance.

literally who

ive never even heard of this game, but I do know that its a total piece of shit and you shouldn't buy it.

Kys JIDF

It's the OTHER evil, not us!

Also part of the communist paybook, Chang. You fool no one. You're all the same.

Didn't you shills try to convince everyone for years Leslie Benzies was the reason Rockstar was good? His first game away from them is looking to be bad. Looks like Sam Houser was the talent.

They are treating it like a live service game with a Halo style forge, playlists and all that.

Series peaked at Mindsey 2.
We don't need a sequel.

cringe

I'm starting to believe all these old games were good due to some rogue non-name intern and never due to any of the named faggots.

Anyone who believes a game was made by a single dev OR a studio name is a fucking retard. A good game was made by the sheer luck of the right nerds in the right room at the right time.

a bunch of maoist

Pretending like they didnt all get purged once Mao died

This is pathetic. You're the BG3 schizo ain't you? Nice to know this game will be good considering you're shilling against it like you did with BG3 (a good game)

So how's Rockstar and Nintendo done it for 20+ years? Executive leader ship and director talent is key.

>Pretending like they didnt all get purged once Mao died

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You're the BG3 schizo ain't you?

Someone else is calling you out Chang? lol

Nice to know this game will be good considering you're shilling against it

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BG3 (a good game)

Zoomies first rpg is total garbage and you can't prove otherwise

no one likes player created shit except for crusty old boomers

I feel it is more likely that their game is shit.

So how's Rockstar and Nintendo done it for 20+ years?

Jewish and Yakuza money. Sometimes not exclusive.

Executive leader ship and director talent is key.

lol
lmao

Well, we know that Nintendo does it through lawsuits on competitors. Rockstar has been throwing increasing piles of money on ever worse multiplayer and campaigns. So, through momentum and trust built on their earlier days?

that Pic

Fucking figures a Wikipedia propagandist is behind these posts

and now tendies are pretending it doesn't look like dogshit.

We most certainly are not.
t. CEO of tendieChads

That isn't from wiki you massive retard

And Expedition peaked on 21 yet they made another 12

Ladies and gentlemen we got him
Pathetic failed propagandist

To be completely fair, right nerds in the right room at the right time can be the result of strong project leadership by a single dev.

we got him

You got yourself

From what I saw in the trailer I think the game will be good enough for my casual self.

Cite when this happened with clear examples or it's your own headcanon like every other retards. Don't say Carmack. Don't say Kojimbo. Don't say Miyamoto. None of those have sources other than "he's a nutjob."

The comic was upload to wikipedia so it's wikipedia cause i need it to be for my narrative

still no argument

get caught red handed lying

e-er u-um no you

I accept your concession. I'll be sure to screencap this and repost it everytime you spam so you'll forever be discredited and known as a fraud. No one will ever listen to you

Don't know, was not in the rooms. Probably people you've never heard of.

Speaking from personal, non gaming, experience.

The source is not wikipedia. That was the point of the post. Can you read? Are you ESL?
I declare the victor as a native english speaker.

The chief loser is:
Your loss is now signed and certified. All further replies shall be ignored.

literally was OC made by a Wikipedian and titled Wikipedian

Lol ofc he resorts to soijacks hes projecting his seething anger while looking like the soi irl
Lmao

but its you!

Sad!

GG no re.

Just keeps on proving he's ESL

holy moly, this one's a real schizo

ex gta devs make generic gta clone

absolutely no one cares because gta lives and dies on the backs of jeet shills and hasn't been exceptional since the PS2 era

devs try and stir up controversy

it's the first time this game has shown up in the news since it was announced

Take Two Ceo isn't Sam Houser. Who's job is to make sure Rockstar makes a quality product.

Solution: Recognize the existence of malicious investors (BlackRock and the western intelligence apparatus's war on anything that's not gay race communism and any westerner who doesn't like gay race communism is doing infinitely more damage than Tencent, BTW), be careful who you give power to, and compete with the Chinese for customer attention by catering to a male audience instead of treating them like a problem to be controlled and marginalized
Self-absorbed delusion: Expect customers to eat the slop and leave the anime titties because you've labeled the people who are giving your primary customer base the good time that you refuse to give them as foreign enemies

Well people who believe there is no such thing as bad publicity have admitted to paying for outrage reactions.

I watched the trailer for this and first minute consists entirely of a guy shooting vechicles with an assault rifle and them exploding after 8 bullets.