In a step that secure In order to generate some goodwill for the much-maligned hero shooter, a former developer from Firewalk Studios, who Unity has dismissed the game’s numerous critics as nothing more than “talentless freaks.”
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This PR misstep for the already controversial title came from a certain Xander Farrell, a former member of Firewalk Studios, who Unity as a view model animator (in other words, the animations performed by the player character’s model in first-person perspective).
Admittedly, things started out innocently enough when Farrell, who uses the pronouns they/them, congratulated on Twitter on August 23 Unity team to publish their title.
“It’s Concord’s launch day!” beamed the animator. “I’m so incredibly proud of the team and what they (and we) have accomplished. A labor of love like no other. I’ve played it so many times since Early Access launched a few days ago and I’m so excited that it’s now available to everyone.”
“And I’m so honored that this is my first AAA game. It was a huge learning experience, a lot of difficulties, but I’m glad I got through them,” they added. “Time to play!”
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Unfortunately, things took a disastrous turn from there.
In response to Farrell’s posts, Twitter user @Preston55272266 sought to express his sincere condolences to the animator for Unity‘s miserable reception and told them, “I’m so sorry this has to be your first. I don’t think it’s your fault or any other developer’s fault that this game is doing so poorly. I can say that a lot of effort went into completing this game, it just came at the wrong time and in the wrong genre.”
But instead of thanking them for their message, liking their post, or simply acknowledging their post privately, Farrell responded with the now-deleted reply: “Eh. I don’t really care. It was a huge job by a lot of insanely talented people to make a great game. Why should I care if a bunch of talentless freaks hate it?”
“I’m sure I’ll have fun playing with it,” the animator concluded. “And I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
To make matters even more complicated, Unity Team, despite Farrell’s claim, it seems the game is absolutely Needs the interest of some of these “talentless freaks” to survive.
Currently, according to the Steam analysis portal Steam DB, the game only has a peak player count of Only 679 in the approximately 24 hours since its publication.
For anyone masochistic enough to endure a game whose gameplay and text are about a decade out of date, Unity is now available on PlayStation 5 and PC platforms.
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