Sony and Microsoft remove Gamer Girl trailers after a storm of criticism - Igromania

London studio FMV Futureknown by The bunker, and publishing house Wales interactive announced an FMV game Gamer girl, and this turned out to be an unfortunate step. The project has faced a strong wave of criticism and discontent. Eventually Sony and Microsoft removed Gamer Girl trailers from their channels, and publishers followed suit.

As planned, they planned to tell us a chilling story with the participation of a girl conducting game broadcasts. The players are assigned the role of her close, trusted friend. And in the course of the story, we were required to monitor what was happening in chat and social networks and take care of the safety and good mood of Abicake99.

The video shown was criticized primarily for the stereotypical approach to the role of a streamer girl. In response, the publisher Wales Interactive tried to justify itself, indicating that the team had been interviewing girls from streaming channels for four years, and most of them had been persecuted one way or another.

Gamer Girl is about the impact user comments and actions have on a streamer’s mental health and wellbeing. The reason why FMV Future created the game was to raise the issue of the toxic environment which can often appear online behind the anonymity of a username …

– Wales Interactive (@WalesInter) July 16, 2023

Gamer Girl talks about how user comments and actions affect streamer’s mental health and wellbeing. FMV Future created the game to use it to address the toxic environment that often arises on the net due to anonymity

Gamer Girl is due out on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC in September.

Sony and Microsoft remove Gamer Girl trailers after a storm of criticism – Igromania

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