http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDSfUJBCj0

How exactly do you screw up this bad? after all that support from the fans? after receiving millions of dollars on Kickstarter?

They received millions of dollars and, instead of hiring someone with a background in PR, they hire a nobody
just because she knows some of the team. This does nothing but show that the entire team is incompetent, or just plain uncaring in order to allow this to happen.

Nothing against you or anything, but I had a feeling you or someone else was going to post about this. And...despite trying to stay professional in her AMA she lost a lot of trust with the community with her recent activity (from the "not that much of a megaman fan" and some other stuff). In the grand scheme of things I'm not really sure what to personally think of this.

Yeah, I'll most likely busy myself with other things and save judgement for when I get to play the game.

Mmm, I have little opinion on this situation but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that Roman5 was the one to post it. :P

Hang on, wait, all that's happened here is a game that's supposed to star a Megaman clone has MAYBE morphed into a Megaman / Ellen Ripley hybrid? Can someone explain to me how that isn't MORE awesome?

I think a bit of positive political message is actually just the thing a 2D platformer needs to stand out from the crowd these days - there seem to be about 100 more 2D indie platformers every week at the moment...

My opinion is that I hope this guy covers more disasters in gaming projects. The blatant sarcasm made it pretty entertaining.

It's pretty bullshit but I have a feeling that if it serves to hurt anything, it'll serve only to hurt communication between the devs and the backers, which will ultimately hurt certain peoples' opinions of Kickstarter but not much more than it's already been hurt by other, more mismanaged projects.

I mean, she's "designing robots" supposedly but ultimately, she's probably not the only one and if a little bit of her social agenda bleeds over and she really wants the main character kicking the crap out of obviously girly robots then meh, whatever. Let her have that ironic not-quite-victory.

Caveat emptor?

Darn, got excited there's finally a 9: The Last Resort sequel in the works.

What is there to complain about? Is she going to stab everyone else in the team and personally take control of the game and turn it into something terrible? I do admit, that example artwork was... less than satisfactory, and that name is all new levels of silly(BECK? CALL!?!?! GETTIT, CUZ BECK AND CALL!?!?) but otherwise I see no problems whatsoever with her being on the team. This is literally on the same level as people complaining about that BioWare writer...

The game is still going to be developed as Inafune wants it, even if she got in by nepotism, who actually cares? What changes can she make that is really that dramatic? The only issue I could possibly think of is that Beck is already a dang robot, and last time I checked, robots are genderless. Anybody who backed the game is still going to get the exact same spiritual successor to Mega Man that they paid for.

Stop treating her like she's the next Anita Sarkeesian, even if she did post a few tweets regarding some other sexualization-related issues, getting kicked out of your job because of your personal opinion and a few unjustifiably annoyed people on the internet is a really crappy thing to be done to, regardless of who you are or your personal stance on things.

Rock and Roll aren't that much better, really, and I doubt she had anything to do with naming the characters Beck and Call.

Who cares? Probably the backers and MegaMan fans who have been waiting for ages for a new MegaMan game. Even I'm not that big of a MegaMan fan (I find MM2 to be fun though) but even I know the fans have been kicked around for a while, with Capcom treating the series like Microsoft treats Banjo-Kazooie and been cancelling games for no reason at all. All the fans want is a decent, fun and enjoyable MegaMan game and they want it to succeed. Having someone who's first impression is of lying and having strong political opinions.

Let me make it clear before I'm accused of hating woman or not allowing free speech: I don't. In fact, I enjoy the fact that woman are taking an interest in gaming and succeeding at it and I have no problem what political views or any other views and beliefs one has. But there's a fine line between having a political opinion and having that opinion influence a game that people have spent their hard earned money on backing it and now someone who originally stated she never played a MegaMan game and has no known design or art qualifications that got in because "My friends and bf are working on it" is a reasonable and logical reason to be asking questions and getting upset.

This topic is hard to cover because maybe she does have a degree in game design or something and maybe I'm missing something. I'm not right and others aren't wrong. But it looks to me like shoddy decision making.

hopefully also nothing happens with Elite as well

The problem with putting these weird people in charge of anything is that they will force their insane agendas into everything. And yes, dropping personal pronouns like he or she is just plain insane. I doubt that any normal person would be against having some sort of girl robot as a choice of playable character, it would be just a model swap, and that's really where the whole thing should have ended. We don't need any political agenda in what was meant to be the MegaMan game people were hoping for.

That was in the project from the very beginning, complete with the "GETTIT". I remember, cuz I had a look at the project when it just launched, saw no mention of DRM-free but a fuckton of exclusivity, and never looked since.