Oh yeah, definitely. Unless you know the real Sam Lake personally, all you get is social-media!Sam Lake, like with any person you don't know IRL - social-media!us is only a fragment of anyone and will never give you the whole of a person, even if what's on there isn't necessarily lies. Same goes for the rest of Remedy.
I think it's wise to not fully idolize and/or trust any maker of any form of media (unless it's a personal friend making the thing, of course). What does reassure me a bit with Remedy though is that they appear fandom savy. They've got rules about fanworks up on their website, they've mentioned fanfiction and other fanworks in interviews as something they find positive, etc etc.
Basically, I think they're a company who knows that a vibrant fandom is good for their games, so whatever their true motivations are (which we of course can't know seeing as A) we don't know these people, and B) Remedy is A Lot Of People so opinions surely differ within the company) I think they're not the kind of company that will go scourged earth on the fandom even if someone decides to be an asshole and send Things That Should Stay In Fandom to Remedy's employees. And I have hope all Remedy people know how to block assholes and screen tags.
That said, I do also hope the fandom decides to stay in our lane. We've got a good thing going here, there is peace between Creators and Fandom, and I'd love it if we could keep it that way!
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Date: 4/1/24 23:44 (UTC)I think it's wise to not fully idolize and/or trust any maker of any form of media (unless it's a personal friend making the thing, of course). What does reassure me a bit with Remedy though is that they appear fandom savy. They've got rules about fanworks up on their website, they've mentioned fanfiction and other fanworks in interviews as something they find positive, etc etc.
Basically, I think they're a company who knows that a vibrant fandom is good for their games, so whatever their true motivations are (which we of course can't know seeing as A) we don't know these people, and B) Remedy is A Lot Of People so opinions surely differ within the company) I think they're not the kind of company that will go scourged earth on the fandom even if someone decides to be an asshole and send Things That Should Stay In Fandom to Remedy's employees. And I have hope all Remedy people know how to block assholes and screen tags.
That said, I do also hope the fandom decides to stay in our lane. We've got a good thing going here, there is peace between Creators and Fandom, and I'd love it if we could keep it that way!