Naughty Dog Theory.

After having many discussions with different people about TLOU 2 and experiencing the division about Joel’s choices.

We don’t need to go over them again as we’ll never get a resolution to this…I’ve tried.

But this got me thinking about the rumors about people leaving Naughty Dog and the other problems in the games industry, some about crunch and others about toxic work enviroments.

So my theory is this game brought out the same division at Naughty Dog about Joel’s actions and Niel Druckman leading the charge to push others into accepting thier view that Joel took away humanity’s survival by rescuing Ellie, and when others didn’t fall in line they where ostracized and these people felt the pressure to leave the company, not sololy because of crunch culture but the emotion of a highly toxic work enviroment.

And than Niel Druckman wanted to force the players to hate Joel than take him away forever so we would fall in line also, each time someone tries to force you into believing a point of view many people will aggressively reject it.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Cerabelus.