It's really fucked how companies in this industry can just baldfacely lie about what they're doing and everyone just goes with it. Like, no, Humble is not 'restructuring', and no, ongoing projects signed with them will not be unaffected, and to make those claims is just... lying to our faces about it. But there's no public pushback whatsoever.
I think the main problem is that there's no one left to do the pushing back. Who's supposed to investigate these bullshit claims? The games journalist pushing out twenty listicles and guides a day until they're replaced with AI slop? Or the TikTok personality who's looking for the next game to get angry about so they can sell more Angry Dave merch?
In a broad sense, yeah, but I really don't understand how we seemingly lost the capacity to push back even on obvious lying in the open like this. Nobody needs to 'investigate' to come to the conclusion that Ziff Davis is lying when they call firing the entire Humble publishing staff a 'restructuring', or when they claim that it won't affect ongoing publishing deals. Those kinds of statements are just obviously, facially not true.
