A few days ago Playtonic began getting a lot of hate from a lot of their backers.
To an outsider it may not be clear exactly why and some are even pushing a false, revisionist
narrative.
But what caused this and why are people actually upset.
As a backer, I'd like to look into this scenario and clear some things up.
The controversy in part starts with Jontron a prominent and early Youtube personality
who was one of the first successes on the platform as well as a huge fan of Banjo-Kazooie
and Rare.
When the golden era Rare team split from Microsoft and Rare proper and announced they would be
kickstarting a
spiritual sucessor he donated a large sum of money and in exchange Playtonic created
the "be in the game" pledge tier and he became one of a handful of backers to voice a character.
Early this year, he was baited into debating a far-left streamer and made a number of racist
statements extremely heavily implying, but not explicitly saying that black crime is
genetic.
Following the debate, he stated that he didn't really mean those statements and just said
them in the heat of the moment.
There is evidence this may actually be the case, although it doesn't excuse saying what
he said.
The streamer's argument style is one heavily focused on intimidating and subtly leading
his opponents into making easy to counter statements; it's a common tactic
far-left and far-right pundits use and in this clip, Jon laughs before making this ridiculous
statement.
A laugh indicates he was feeling cocky or was very nervous and intimidated.
Another source of controversy came late last year when Playtonic announced the Wii U version
was cancelled and said wait until Nintendo's Switch presentation early next year
to learn about your options.
Playtonic then waited about a week after the presentation to say anymore and remained vague
on a lot of details.
Instead of having the default choice for Wii U backer be to move to Switch, they had it
default to PC instead and they refused to allow PC backers to change platforms.
They also refused to confirm the game would fulfill its simultaneous launch stretch goal;
all of these being somewhat controversial.
Back to Jon, a few days ago a radical pocket formed on NeoGaf, a site many consider to
be one of the most cancerous parts of the internet launched a very small witch hunt
against Jon to Playtonic.
Playtonic quickly released a statement to a third party that they had decided they would
remove Jon's role in the game via a presumably day one patch.
A small group on Jon's fans, those who felt it was a political statement for a project
they funded, and those who felt uneasy about a backer's pledge reward being pulled took
to the playtonic forums and the steam page to express their disapproval.
Playtonic and Team17 promptly began banning and locking any questioning of their decision
and some representatives of the company took to Twitter to mock and further antagonize
these backers.
This led to even more outrage over how Playtonic was treating those who financed Yooka-Laylee.
Later, mainstream media began reporting that everyone with objections was solely upset
Jontron was being removed and marginalizing the opposition
to Playtonic's actions.
Ok, that was kind of objective right?
Definitely more than Crave who put their opinion right into their article after generalizing
and flirting with strawmanning the opposition.
I do want to go full opinion now though, if you just wanted the context of the controversy,
you can leave, but if you want to hear my perspective, this is no longer objective at
all.
If you already have an opinion and are scared of a potentially different opinion, you probably
want to leave.
If you are openminded, I'd like to have a respectful discussion with you.
First though, I'm not a jon tron fan and never have been.
I know who he is and I've watched some of his videos, but I don't subscribe or watch
a lot of his videos.
I've never had a problem with him and I don't agree with the racist ideas he communicated
in his debate.
I'm also inclined to think he doesn't actually believe the things he said, to me
that seemed very much a nervous laugh, but nobody can say for sure and it does not excuse
what he said.
I wouldn't have had any issue if playtonic didn't maintain a business relationship going
forward, but given that the game released 2 months after his statements and he recorded
his voice years before, there was no reason to do anything besides making a political
statement.
Any rational, reasonable person who recognized him, would not come to the conclusion Playtonic
agreed with his recently public views; they would understand he recorded his part long
before making any offensive statements.
I do find it very troubling they decided to have their company take a political position
using a project made possible by over 70,000 individuals with their own feelings.
Playtonic is using their backer's money and support to make a stand not all of their backers
agree with.
If I was a millionaire and somebody pitched an idea to me and I invested in them and then
at some point they used their official account to condone pedophilia, I would want to pull
my funding because my money would be condoning pedophilia which was not something I agreed
to fund.
If say a pedophilia activism group endorsed them, i would not have a problem.
And as a quick note this is not equivalent to them distancing themselves from Jon, because
they didn't pay him, he paid them and it was a business relationship.
If I was doing a video collaboration with somebody and while a video was in editing
they endorsed pedophilia, I would complete the collaboration and not collaborate on anything
going forward.
This is kind of the thing about kickstarter, it is kind of a business relationship and
investing at the same time.
You can think of it like preordering a service or like you are investing in somebody.
If you try to make it both, it gets messy, but it is kind of both, you are paying for
a service in exchange for giving them money or you are being given a explicitly defined
gift in exchange for investing or both, you are being offered a service or good in exchange
for investing.
If you insist it is a business relationship,
they can't take back or cancel a service somebody paid for and preorders can be cancelled at
any time for any reason prior to release day.
If you insist it is strictly investing, they need to be very careful about breaking promises
and what they do with their investors' money or else be subject to the disapproval of their
investors and requests to have the lent money paid back since no equity is involved.
If it is a mix, then it becomes a somewhat subjective mess of what is business and what
is investing, in Playtonic's case their actions reflect it is more an investing situation
to them.
I also deeply oppose how they have treated backers by trying to silence any dissenting
opinions.
They are trying to censor those who supported them and gave them money.
It shows how much they value our money and our support; if we disagree with anything
they do they are just going to say
"Shut up, we know better."
I can't condone censorship; it directly clashes with my political and philosophical beliefs.
And from the inside looking out it is clear the media is out for all gamers and youtubers
and we need to call them out when they deliberately peddle false narratives and strawman situations,
not with violence and hatred, but with a refusal to let them misrepresent facts.
Saying or implying by doing nothing Playtonic would be endorsing his racist statements Everyone
who has a problem with playtonic does not automatically agree with Jon's statements
and it is not an open and shut matter because of Jon's racist statements; it is not about
agreeing with them or not; it is about how Playtonic has run their campaign over the
last few months.
If doing nothing meant Playtonic was racist, I suppose anyone who had anything to do with
Amy Schumer around the time she admitted to raping an extremely drunk man condones rape
if they didn't scrub anything to do with her, and anyone who has cast Wesley Snipes after
2005 supports tax evasion.
Are you a fellow backer and what do you think about the situation.
I'm really curious to try to have a mature discussion, that's not quite pitchfork burn
down England, cancel the game, assassinate Kirkope.
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