11 Biggest Gaming Controversy in 2017

Each year the world is not in spite of the controversy, even something like a video game industry is always filled with a collection of controversies in each year. If the last year of the present controversy many developers errors like false promises in No Man's Sky and excessive detail on Watch Dogs 2. This year, the gaming industry is filled with controversy created by the publisher and EA became the first champion of this year.

Well, without any great length again, let us recall the controversies that exist for 12 months. Here are the 11 biggest controversy in 2017.

1. Animation embarrassing face of Mass Effect: Andromeda

After 5 years of development, Mass Effect: Andromeda was released on March 21, 2017. The game has been postponed several times so that it can be refined by Bioware Montreal, but the final product obtained gamer looks still far from perfect. The game instantly became a meme on the internet with a collection of animation in the game is bad, a lot of silly glitch, bad dialogue, and the faces of the main characters are so funny to watch continuously. All these problems are the result of a development process that is problematic.

Mass Effect: Andromeda was originally planned to have the features  procedurally generation style of No Man's Sky because Bioware Montreal wants the latest series to be an adventure in the extraordinary scale and full replaybility  for gamers. Having spent many years developing these features, they are aware if it is still impossible for enhanced because the technology is still limited. The idea was eventually discarded and they turned to the directors of the new game. Now the time has been close to the deadline, they have to finish the game as quickly as possible with the Frostbite Engine is optimized for FPS and not open-world RPGs like Mass Effect.

Even with money and a large team of developers, Bioware Montreal only able to create a Mass Effect: Andromeda now because little development time. And what you get gamers today are the result of such a little time.

2. Take-Two try to turn it off mod support Grand Theft Auto V PC

What does it mean Grand Theft Auto on PC without a mod? Mod has been a tradition in the GTA PC, and Take-Two tries to turn off the tradition of last June.

Open IV which is an important program to run the mod in GTA V suddenly can not be downloaded and can not be accessed after the developer announced a gamer if they get direct DMCA warning of Take-Two. Developer Open IV inevitably have to comply with the request of Take-Two to disable access mod.

After the news spread by the media, GTA V on Steam gamers directly from the game Steam page flooded with negative reviews. Steam Rating of GTA V suddenly dropped from the initial 90% upwards to 40% down within a few days. Petition to Take-Two to release immediately crowded Open IV also signed players on a daily basis.

Rockstar, the developer of the game is revealed if they fully support the modding community presence in their game and will soon resolve this issue with Take-Two. Several weeks later, the Open IV was finally free on one condition: Do not touch their multiplayer at all.

3. Atlus mass blacklist streamer and YouTuber that spoiler Persona 5 is not spread

It makes heartache when the game focused story like Persona 5 leaked parts of the importance of widely on the internet before you play the game. Atlus understand it and do as much as possible so that spoiler does not spread from the deadly feature in the Playstation share to commit copyright strike to each streamer or YouTuber who use footage of the game, especially in the later sections of the game.

This makes streamer livestreaming limited in this game. Each streamer livestream important part of the story in the game will immediately get copyright strike indiscriminately. This system actually hot criticized by gamers on the Internet, make Atlus shut down both systems and a public apology to gamers, especially victims of copyright strike.

4. Pay Mode revived by Bethesda via Creation Club

Still remember when Valve and Bethesda tried to make the program pay for Skyrim mod a few years ago? The plan immediately canceled in a few days after reaping a lot of criticism from the community Steam heat.

At E3 2017, Bethesda tried to restart the program by Creation Club. These programs have similar systems like mod paid, but the mod goes deeper selected again by Bethesda. Despite much criticism reap similar heat like a few years ago, Creation Club remains unrealized next few months.

4 Rating of Fallout and Skyrim: Special Edition on Steam instantly fell into mixed after the realization of the program. But until now, there was no sign of the program will be turned off by Bethesda. That there is even the program continued and expanded until now.

5. The theme of god in the Fight of Gods

If you want to find an easy Marketting in the video game business, the controversy may be the easiest way. Fight of Gods is an early-access games on the theme fight between the gods. From this brief description only seems obvious why this game became controversial in some countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Malaysia had blocked Steam for one night due to the existence of this game. This happens because Valve late response will demand the government there to immediately block the game in Malaysia. ,the game has been banned in some countries because of sensitive content loaded game.

6. Loot Box in game single-player

All players do not have much time to play games for long. Some people have an important job to be completed, making them can not always spend one sleepless night playing games like other gamers. This is exploited by some publishers to bring microtransaction into the single-player game that must be purchased AAA $ 60 to play.

Games like Shadow of War, Forza 7, Assassins' Creed Origins loot box have each created with the intention of "saving time gamer". Shadow of War even have  an end-game that requires a lot of grinding to be completed, making loot-box in the game more tempting for those who want a shortcut. The existence of loot box in the single-player game is a big controversy legislation in the gaming industry, creating websites OpenCritic subtly reject the existence of loot this box. But at least the loot-box owned games are not as bad on this further controversy.

7. Loot box pay-to-win Star Wars Battlefront II

Star Wars Battlefront II promised EA will not have any DLC season pass and, a miracle that makes the gamer asks "Do EA already repented now?" But these hopes disappear instantly when Open Beta released to gamers. Game turned out to have microtransaction via loot box as a replacement and the DLC season pass. But unlike the loot box as in other games such as Overwatch cosmetic in nature and optional. Loot Boxes are injected into Star Wars Battlefront II be a shortcut to get all the content in the game.

Players can spend thousands of hours to get all the content offered games or pay $ 2,000 more for loot box. Loot Boxes can also give certain bonus effect, bringing the impression of pay-to-win in the eyes of many gamers. After massive protests by gamers, EA decided to temporarily turn off microtransaction in the game. But of course it is not enough. Gamers want microtransaction is completely destroyed from the game, until the many petitions to the government to create a separate legal existence loot this box.

8. PUBG vs Fornite Battle Royale

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has become the most popular game this year with 3 million players remain when this article was written. Did not take long for the emergence of games that copycat  that treats big hype of this battle royale. Fortnite Battle Royale of Epic Games became one of the first into the game  copycat them. Fortnite Battle Royale offer gameplay similar to PUBG but with a cartoon visual and mechanical crafting / building. This attracted the attention of the creator of Bluehole particular game that Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene. In a nutshell is Bluehole feel Fortnite BR mimic the genre battle royale that carried PUBG and will take further action about it.

The irony is the battle royale has been around since H1Z1 and Arma 2 mod which are both made by PlayerUnknown, the genre is not more you could say "unique". And also the engine used for PUBG is Unreal Engine 4, Engine created by Epic Games. This controversy eventually be  free publicity for the Epic Games see Fortnite is now far more popular than ever after this existence Battle Royale mode

9. Marketing Wolfenstein II: The New Collosus with excessive Political Elements

Against the Nazis has become the DNA of Wolfenstein from generation to generation. In modern times where people are increasingly sensitive to the political perbicangan, may bring these elements as a  selling point for your latest game is not a good idea. From the outset introduced at E3, Bethesda and Machine Games continue to show the political aspect of the game is to show how the dark world if occupied by the Nazis. There's nothing wrong with it, but for a game that formerly was not too be taken seriously in politics, this sequel seem excessive now on that aspect. The closer to the release date, the marketing of this game is whole political getting to the point where the game's official Twitter wrote " Make the American Nazi-Free Again"Which is a parody of Donald Trump's expression during the campaign. Excessive political elements make the game viewed as  the Social Justice Warrior (SJW) propaganda and protest to Trump as president. On the bright side, Wolfenstein II: The New Collusus become one of the best action games of the year.

10. Pewdiepie's N-word Incident

PewDiePie is not a name familiar to you frequently access Youtube. Channel which had 58 million subscribers have made a lot of controversy because of jokes that are  offensive to some groups. These excesses jokes even made detachable from Maker's and Disney's Studio Season 2 of "Scare Pewdiepie" must be canceled by Youtube. Even with the two major consequences, Pewdiepie re-create controversy this year with a slip  N-word when livestreaming PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

Although the slip and there was no deliberate intent, direct Firewatch launches developer of  copyright strike to channel the Swedish man on let's play all videos uploaded Firewatch the channel. Sean Vanamman, co-founder of Santa Monica looked PewDiePie as racist after the incident and felt insulted see figure seemed to get money out of playing the game that he made an effort. Sean also menagajak other developers to do the same, making the channel PewDiePie threatened removed if the business of this Sean was successful. Ultimately  copyright strike Sean received by Youtube and all videos uploaded Firewatch PewDiePie been removed. The good news is PewDiePie channel is still safe, but he now had to be careful again on the content that he made to avoid something like this happening again.

11. Turn off the EA Visceral Games

This one is more like a tragedy rather than a controversy. Visceral Games is the studio behind the series of Dead Space, Dante's Inferno and even Nascar Rumble. Although the last game released two studio is relatively not very good, Visceral Games have still a good reputation in the eyes of gamers. Heard they're working on a single-player game Star Wars to be good news for gamers see their expertise in making a single-player game as well as the author of the series Uncharted - Amy Hennig involved in the project. Unfortunately, the project is now just so wasteful with deadly EA studio on the grounds of "gamer displeasure longer single-player game".

Game Star Wars undertaken by Visceral also will be changed completely later by a new studio to be adjusted to "what gamers want" according to EA. The project is no longer stretcher linear concept as before and will likely be the focus of multiplayer games like Battlefront. Death of Visceral Games this raises a big question mark "whether gamers unhappy single-player game again?" With a Wolfenstein II: The New Collosus, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nier Automata and other games be received positively by gamers and sold well, it seems EA opinion is far from true.