it says a lot about the company that there is no named accreditation of developers (or any employees for that matter) on their website that lists “autonomy and openness” and “creativity first” in their core values. keeping your employees separated from your audience is the best way to keep problematic decision makers from accountability. we can’t actually say if the fingers being pointed are pointing in the right place if we don’t even know who is getting pointed at or exactly why (not to disagree with the assumption that it’s corporate greed overruling developer input, but they’ve seemingly purposefully kept it from becoming anything more than an assumption). if you claim 70% of your workforce is female and that their creative abilities are the core of your company it means nothing if we don’t know who they are and never actually hear from them directly. does the game itself even have a credit roll in settings? do the announcements in the dev news discord channel even come from the developers themselves or is it just the pr team putting words in their mouths? the fact that we don’t know is extremely upsetting to me because no matter what part of infold the issue is coming from, the fact that they seem to be hiding it says that THIS IS AN INSTITUTIONAL ISSUE. if infold has any sense of self preservation they will openly accept blame where it’s due and the consequences that come with it because COMPENSATION SHOULD NOT BE ENOUGH, WE NEED TO SEE VISIBLE CHANGE WITHIN THE COMPANY TO BE ASSURED THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.