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PlayStation's Jade Raymond Leaves Studio She Started - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.16.25
Fri, 16 May 2025
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Chapter 1: What are the major news stories discussed?
Today's stories include Fair Games loses its lead developer, Bungie's been caught stealing artwork for Marathon, and a bunch of Nintendo news. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily.
yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for friday may 16th 2025 i'm one of your hosts blessing addy elliott jr joining me is lacroix poppy tim ma boyan yetis oh man i don't like days like this bless where i look at the run of show and i'm just like can we just get to the good stuff at the end
Me and you are opposites, because as soon as I saw this news yesterday, I looked over at Roger, and I was like, who's on KHTD tomorrow?
I hope it's me. There's so much to talk about. There's so much to talk about. That is correct. That is correct. I just want things to get back on track. You know what I mean? I feel like story number one, story number two, this just is not good for PlayStation in particular.
Wait, you're telling me that PlayStation's multiplayer online live service strategy is off the rails?
Having some issues.
You're telling me that they're having some bumps in the road?
Well, you know, I mean, maybe they'll find the money somehow. Unless they lose the money. Unless they purposefully choose to get rid of the money. We'll get to it in a second.
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Chapter 2: Why did Jade Raymond leave Haven Studios?
I plugged one thing in. And then it's just like, I didn't want to figure out how to get it to the other side of the theater.
I get it.
And again, I started turning into Greg Miller. I started to get angry.
Yeah.
I started being mean to Roger. And I was like, I'm just going to go right. Story. Number one, PlayStation executive Jade Raymond leaves the studio. She founded. This is coming from Jason Schreier at Bloomberg. Jade Raymond, the founder and head of Sony's game developer Haven Studios, has left the company.
PlayStation leadership didn't give Haven staff a reason for her departure, but it came several weeks after an external test of Haven's first game, the online shooter Fair Games, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Some developers at Haven were concerned about how the game was received and its progress, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they aren't authorized to speak publicly. Quote, End quote. The spokesperson added that the company is committed to supporting Haven Studios and excited to continue the journey with new co-studio heads Marie-Yves Dany and Pierre-Francois Sapinski.
Fair Games, announced in 2023, is one of the few entries remaining in the slate of live service games greenlit by PlayStation several years ago. Fair Games was originally slated for release in fall 2025, but had been delayed to next spring, the people said. In addition to this. It's important here. It is very important. I'm pulling from Noble, who tweeted about this.
Fair Games has dropped the dollar sign, everybody. It's now just a regular S. This comes from, I believe this is Reset Era, where somebody responded to Jason's post saying, Jason, you keep misspelling fair games as fair games for some reason. And then Jason replies, I guess I buried the real scoop here, but they dropped the dollar sign.
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Chapter 3: What issues does Bungie face regarding artwork theft?
That's crazy.
Yeah. I mean, that's insane, man. Very, very, very not good. And here's the thing. What really sucks about this is at the end of the day, somebody chose to do this. And we don't know how many people were aware of the origins and this and this and this. But what we do know is at the very least, one person did this, claiming that it was theirs. And we are now talking about this on our news show.
Many, many other people are talking about this. People want this game to fail. People are out here like... And you're just giving them even more reason to tear down this project that... hundreds of people, if not a thousand people, are working on to some extent. And your stupid-ass, selfish-ass choice to steal is affecting those people.
It reminds me of the plagiarism at IGN, the Philip Mewson story and all that stuff. Forever, IGN will be associated with plagiarism because of your dumb-ass decisions. You get what I'm saying? This fucking sucks for so many people that could not have known.
Do you believe them when they say former employee? If I'm giving like the ultimate benefit of the doubt, if you wanted to explain this away as Bungie, you would say, yeah, former employee was using the assets as like stand-ins for other things. And when they left, we didn't realize that they were stand-ins and they just made it into the final game.
I could see you want, like, if you wanted to like, you know, make that argument, that's like the biggest benefit of the doubt here. It's the fact that this is like not the first time that this has happened where it becomes nefarious.
Our flow in the chat says, and I don't remember if it was in the article you read here, but I did see this earlier today that many people at Bungie follow her.
which is very bad yeah it's like yeah and again what i just said like all i know is that there's one person but however many people there are if you knew about this it's like dude you are making a bad call that's going to affect everyone around you that really freaking sucks yeah uh bringing in some more super chats again uh shout out to everybody writing in today a lot of people have a lot of opinions uh including a brown spot who writes in and says hashtag justice for mike i agree
It's fucked up. It's fucked up, man. Fucked up. Volk Dasher.
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Chapter 4: How does PlayStation's live service strategy affect its games?
Rick L says, calling it right now, Jason Schreier is going to cook with this next book, The Dark Days of PlayStation. Can't wait to see what he uncovers. I'm going to actually pair that with another super chat that I saw way earlier. Killian C writes in and says, I feel confident saying this could be one of the worst generations of PlayStation ever.
Tim, are we being too doom and gloom on PlayStation as a whole this time?
This is a very nuanced conversation. My personal opinion is that generations have just changed so much of what they are. And I've said this many times, but you'll look at the games that have come out on PlayStation 5. And if you're solely talking about exclusives, then yeah, compare this to PS4. It doesn't look that great.
But we're at a point that a generation is tech updates and better graphics and faster RAM and SSDs and all that stuff. And in that case, I've had an amazing generation with my PlayStation 5. But if you're looking at it for just exclusive experiences, it's like, yeah, this doesn't at all compare to PS4. I think it compares to PS3. And then you go back. PS2 is different as beast PS1.
Every generation just has its pros and cons and it's just different. But I think that to me, the biggest takeaway is that this is undeniably the most iterative generation split we've ever had. But the people playing on PS5 versus PS4 are having an infinitely better experience. And I'm saying that from experience.
Yeah. Yeah. It's, I think it's a weird thing to measure in terms of, is this like the dark era for PlayStation or whatever? Cause I don't think it like the PlayStation five is still selling. There's still great games happening on the platform.
If we're doing the game where we're ranking generations, it still gets weird in terms of, to your point, every generation is just different as far as what it brings to the table. PS one is special for a different reason than PS two is special for a different reason than PS three or PS four is special. Now, if I am ranking them,
ps5 might be at the bottom ps5 and ps3 are competing for that bottom spot right because for me number one ps2 followed by ps4 i guess in ps1 and the rest are like bottom three fighting it out but like i don't look at them as comparable as much and again it's we're all bringing different things to this but i feel like ranking them i would have to put ps4 on top because i think that it's playstation studios rise
And to me, there's so much value there where you're getting these unique exclusive experiences from PlayStation to define the generation, whereas PlayStation 1 was defined by third-party RPGs and Metal Gear, you know what I mean? And the PS2 was kind of just like a major hit in a lot of different ways, but that was kind of a little bit of everything.
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