So there's this game I loved a lot as a kid, called Murder Miners. It's a really cool mix between halo PVP FPS gunplay and blocky Minecraft style maps that are destructible. For about a decade now, the original devs on the game have been making a sequel, titled Murder Miners X. Dev logs have been coming out about it, it's looking good and fun, until today.
Suddenly there's a dev log titled "Booba Evolved" today. For the last year or so they've been joking about "Booba" being in the roadmap for what they're developing, and I thought it wasnt very funny but was ignorable. That is until this hellish dev log was shown off. The general gist of the video is showing that they've added a new weapon which summons a woman who can make you sandwiches (you can slap her ass while she does it with a full on animation) and you can get her pregnant. Keep in mind, this is a fucking Halo style shooter that's never had anything like this lmao.
To make everything even lamer, the video starts with a Sweet Baby Inc joke, and the devs link to a new Rumble account they made in the description. It just really sucks. I've been an avid fan of what is a tiny project, and now it's extremely embarrassing and uncomfortable to be associated with it at all really. Overall very disappointed with the devs, even if they ended up removing this or anything of the sort, they've already been shitty people by making these jokes.
https://youtu.be/lhvzNa-xUYo?si=ifnGJgGbIpp9CFLl
Edit: Wanna clarify something, there's a discord server for the game called Murder Miners Hub that isn't owned and run by the two devs who are making this sequel. A group of fans were given the source code of the original to update it while JForce worked on the sequel here. The group running the server and updating the original game were unaware of any of this and seem very disappointed over all of it
Just for once, reading youtube comments makes me happy. Most of the people in the community are giving it the shit it deserves.Ā
Well if anything, the response in the youtube comments are surprisingly in line with the *opposite* of what I’d expect at this point; people actually saying this is stupid, gross, weird, will bring the wrong people to the game and make others leave it. There’s some people speaking in support of it but that number is clearly smaller than those against this shit.
Of course this doesn’t really excuse the awful, awful update but the community at least isn’t a fan of this at all. *Hopefully* they’ll rethink their update, for what good that will give.
Edit: Actually watching the video now instead of reading comments. Jfc this is actually even worse than I anticipated, it’s actually fucking disgusting. Spoiler tagging some shit included.
>!Having a character scale rating her ‘worth as a human’ by her breast size, making you have the option to marry her but this causes her to become overweight, having a ‘thou shalt woman’ command that makes her start cooking!<.
I’m pissed off *FOR* you, OP.
Wow this video is INSANE. I thought for sure it couldnāt be that bad but itās actually so much worse than OP could prepare you for. Multiple people worked on this and thought it was great? Iām genuinely shocked.
…………………………………… what fucking decade are we living in again
Wow.. It’s an actual insult. “We heard you want representation, so here it is.”
Now if they take it away, who’s going to get blamed. They just created a terrible environment.
Wtf!? Isnāt mm a ākids gameā I used to play it all the time as a kid/teen. Well I guess Iām taking that off my wish list. was hoping to replay it again on pc, but not anymore even if this is walked back š
I wonder what XBox thinks of this on their platform
I try hard to not be a man hating lesbian stereotype but they make it so hard..
The people in the comments saying theyād been hoping for a female playable model make me so sadā¦
Just the idea that they were excited to play the game and hoped to maybe one day have a character option that represented them only to be met with this.
Wow, after watching the video itās even worse than I thought. Honestly at a loss for words at how deeply misogynistic this is.
What the actual fuck. I was ready for the usual level of game industry shittery but this… oh well.
Damn. I hope this gets picked up on by the larger gaming community/news outlets, because yeah thatās not okay.
Jesus Christ what a way to murder your game instantly. Even everyone in the YT comments hates it which isnāt what I expected. This is something my ex would enjoy and thatās not a good thing. Theyāve severely limited their audience for this game now.
…What?
Really goes to show what kind of people are developing this game. Even if I try to see how this video might come across to guys, I honestly don’t see how this sort of ”feature” can come off as exciting to anyone, or as a reason to look forward to playing a game.
Weirdos.
What fucking year is what the hell? This is like something that might have happened a decade ago but it seems insane that it’s happening now.
I’m so sorry that one of your interests is ruined like this.
I guess the good news is there are lots of other indie devs out there that are way cooler than these chuds ā¤ļø
Fuck. I played so much murder miners as a teenager. Sad to see it go this way. Just pathetic.
Iāve said this before in this sub, but something is very, very wrong with too many men.
I am sorry this happened, OP. Itās just another reason why gaming needs more female developers.
Ew… I haven’t played Murder Miners, but I’m upset *for* you, OP. Gross and disappointing for sure.
This is the misogyny that we complained about that resulted in GamerGate hatred of women.
This is why more and more women are doing 4B movement. Who wants to associate with males that have such a low and demeaning opinion of them?
wow, nothing says “we value our female fans” by adding a slap-and-sandwich feature. like, how do you even go from a halo-style shooter to whatever that is? really committing to alienating half your player base, huh? absolutely wild.
The sexism and objectification was already gross, the fatphobic stereotype being thrown in too made me just feel disgusting as a plus size girl and that’s where I stopped watching the video.
Honestly, seeing the video I low-key hoped I slept through six months and it was April 1st… What a vile clip.
ETA: Also I’m waiting for the “It’s just a joke guys!” clip coming in tomorrow or so. Which thankfully majority of comments already preemptively said is not what’s happened.
The incel game devs strike once more…
Jesus Christ, I’ve seen a ton of passive aggressive misogynistic shit in gaming especially over the past decade, but this is just straight up mask off aggressively misogynistic
This is like transcendently cringe.
This is really disgusting and so dehumanizing
The mortal kombat theme… In a trailer for another game… Hmmmm dmca?
Good news is the most liked comments are all grossed out about this update and saying that they just lost all of their female fans
Was this developed by a 15 year old from 2008? Good Lord, this is embarrassing.
This is so gross! Iām so sorry op, thatās really disappointing. The start of the video too, with the whole āTheFutureIsFemaleā hashtag. And they set it up as a bait that you all will finally have āinclusivityā with female character models. Really shows what they think of women.
That video is actually insane, not only did they add that content but they made an introduction that mocks inclusion. There’s no possibility of playing ignorant here, this is misogyny.
This was not safe to watch in public and so much worse than I was expecting holy shit
This could have been a funny āfuck you Iām not putting in this extra workā deal, in a disrespectful South Park kinda way. But likeā¦too much effort was put into this to just be a joke. They could have just added female playable characters with this work. It looks like this is going to be an actual mechanic in this game?
Yeah OP youāre not going to be alone in this. This is a major fuckup. Theyāre going to get a major backlash from this, and I donāt think anyone is going to play it if this is something they see in it often.
Iām sorry that a little gem of yours was tarnished. I know how much that sucks.
Having looked into these devs back when the original game was on xbox indie games, this doesn’t surprise me in the least. Nice to know I can keep ignoring them.
That’s awful. If you wanted to be really petty you could report the video for using copyrighted music (the Mortal Kombat song) without permission…. It’s called Techno Syndrome by The Immortals and was originally released on Vernon Yard Recordings which was an imprint of Virgin Records btw. I assume they still own it! Maybe even bring it to the attention of some of the current Mortal Kombat team who are pretty easy to find online…
I’m honestly terrified a gaming drama channel will pick up this controversy and give this game the “bad press” the devs seem to want.
Report the video, flag the game on steam. Make sure these incels never get to make another game.
This is sick, I can only imagine just how terrible this feels as a long time player. I can tell just by watching that this is obviously out of complete nowhere from the rest of the game. The level of effort they put into it makes it even more unsettling. Itās not just a joke post, even if it was intended as one, because clearly many many many people were involved in the creation of this and that feels worrying. Iād like to know if even a single person has put up resistance in the dev team about this.
Iām glad that so many in the comments seem to be opposed to this, but I donāt think even if they walked this back if I could be convinced to play now knowing how the devs feel about women. Their ājokeā at the beginning definitely reads like a dog whistle for all the terrible misogyny you can imagine.
i actually felt myself shudder with how much secondhand embarrassment i felt watching that. or is it just regular embarrassment? either way.. ew. you can tell exactly what kind of person would find this funny/amusing too. eugh.
Stuff like this is why it’s so hard for me to expand my video game interest outside of games like the sims š
That is one of the most embarrassing videos I’ve ever seen. What the actual eff?
How badly as a dev do you have to cross the line when *the YouTube comments* are all calling you out for being awful?
The only thing missing from this video was the tagline “Uploaded using a CyberTruck”
Wtf