Mahler caught wind of the article and responded to it on social media, going on a rant against ‘the press’ and those who hate against him and his brand on social media because of past events and opinions.
He slipped a bit, making some inflammatory comments:
I’ve been hated on Twitter by a few crazies for years now, and I also saw the calls for review bombing because, according to those folks, I’m a ‘Nazi.’
These days, apparently anyone who doesn’t include five trans characters in their game and doesn’t let their products be influenced by political bullshit is a Nazi. What a world we live in.
When the Russia/Ukraine war broke out and I replied on Twitter saying that Moon Studios wouldn’t be taking a public stance—because we’re a video game company, not a journalistic outlet—the next day a threat letter with a picture of Putin was taped to my office door, full of insults from top to bottom.
Well that went from whiney to a bigoted WTF tangent in zero seconds flat.
The game is mostly positive? If it’s getting review bombed, then it isn’t a very effective review bombing.
From what I can tell they recently got a few negatives that put them into “mixed” briefly because players were critical about QoL features, difficulty and whatnot, seemingly pretty valid types of reviews.
Is he purposefully trying to get the comoany shuttered for tax reasons? Maybe he owes a lot and wants to declare bankruptcy?
“Everyone who is critical of me is woke.”