Asmongold on Gears of War studio future
The captain character is the whole problem, according to Asmongold. He says the reactions from BurntPeanut and the crew, all of them laughing at her, are proof that the audience for military games doesn't want this kind of figure. His read on it is blunt. Nobody ever wants to see a character like this in a military video game ever again, this is not for your target audience, and to the extent that you make these characters, you are going to get reactions like this. Knock it off. No one respects this, no one thinks it's cool, no one thinks she's bada*s. Everybody thinks that it's just some stupid feminist power fantasy. That gap, per Asmongold, is exactly why BurntPeanut and Nickmercs are some of the most popular gaming streamers of all time, because they represent most of the gamers. And from there it turns into a verdict on the studio itself. He doesn't see these people making another game. If the numbers don't go up over the weekend, he thinks you can almost assuredly expect a studio closure, if not massive layoffs. I really do think this is pretty much over. So the character design choice and the survival of the Gears of War team are being tied together as one story.
