God of War Ragnarok director slams horrific abuse sent to dev after game delay Santa Monica StudioOne of the writers\/devs at Sony Santa Monica Studio has shared the awful messages she received from a \u2018fan\u2019 who was angry about God of War Ragnarok being delayed. The highly-anticipated God of War sequel, Ragnarok, was originally scheduled for a 2021 release on PS5, but it was announced by Santa Monica Studio on June 2 that it\u2019s been pushed into 2022. It will also come out on the previous generation\u2019s PS4. While many people predicted this delay, it seems some simply couldn\u2019t handle the news, deciding to take their frustration out on the people working at Santa Monica Studio \u2013 including dev, writer, and streamer Alanah Pearce. In a tweet on June 4, Alanah shared a screenshot of a hateful message she received from a God of War \u2018fan\u2019 with the caption: \u201cAside from the ones I got for being hired in the first place, I think this is my first game-dev-related abusive message.\u201d Aside from the ones I got for being hired in the first place, I think this is my first game-dev-related abusive message. I\u2019VE FINALLY BEEN INITIATED, LOOK AT ME GO! \ud83c\udf89 pic.twitter.com\/17jNTGGvSx \u2014 Alanah Pearce (@Charalanahzard) June 4, 2021 In a later tweet, Alanah explained that messages like the one she shared \u201cdoesn\u2019t bother me in the slightest\u201d and even managed to find some humor in it, joking that she\u2019s \u201cfinally [been] initiated\u201d to her role at Santa Monica Studio by receiving hate mail. No one should have to receive messages like this, though. That\u2019s a view that was echoed by Santa Monica Studio Creative Director Cory Barlog, who called the situation \u201cbulls**t\u201d and told trolls to direct any negativity towards him instead. \u201cI made the calls. I did this,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cDon\u2019t bother the team, they are all very good people doing great work. Every single human at the studio is there specifically because they are fucking EXCEPTIONAL at what they do. We are better because of them.\u201d For real, y\u2019all, this is some BULLSHIT! You want to be mad at somebody for ANYTHING GOW related \u2013 the delay, ps4\/5, trolls, subtitle size, Sigrun, whatevs \u2013 be angry with me. I made the calls. I did this. Don\u2019t bother the team, they are all very good people doing great work. pic.twitter.com\/D5rsvzFmgV \u2014 golrab of the frost (@corybarlog) June 4, 2021 Alanah explained that she sadly expected the abuse when she took the job, tweeting: \u201cAnything people don\u2019t like that happens at SMS in any capacity going forward, regardless of my involvement, will be considered to be my fault to a significant portion of the public.\u201d With the highly-anticipated sequel now expected to arrive in 2022, here\u2019s everything we know about God of War Ragnarok so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
God of War Ragnarok director slams horrific abuse sent to dev after game delay Santa Monica StudioOne of the writers\/devs at Sony Santa Monica Studio has shared the awful messages she received from a \u2018fan\u2019 who was angry about God of War Ragnarok being delayed. The highly-anticipated God of War sequel, Ragnarok, was originally scheduled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}