Read from Pushsquare:
According to ex-Santa Monica Studio employee Alanah Pearace, Sony has imposed the “strictest social media guidelines” ever on its employees due to PS5’s disc debacle.
This has created one of the biggest and longest-running backlashes I’ve ever seen in almost two decades covering PlayStation, but the manufacturer is yet to say a word about any of it.
That’s because, according to the former God of War Laufey writer, it predicted the backlash and has told its staff to keep their mouths shut.
While Pearce explains the platform holder regularly enforces these kind of policies around new game announcements et al, she also stresses that these are some of the most forceful guidelines the company has ever implemented.
“Sony already knew everyone would be p*ssed off – they knew this. People working within PlayStation first-party studios told me Sony had the strictest social media guidelines for this particular thing they’ve ever seen issued.
Sony does somewhat regularly tell employees what they can or can’t say about certain things. I was under a lot of guidelines when I was working on God of War Laufey – I still am. And they did send me guidelines regarding what I could say on the day the game was announced.
But in this instance, it’s apparently the strictest the employees I spoke to have ever seen regarding public communications. They would only have done this if they knew it was going to be an enormous PR issue. This is no surprise to them.”
According to ex-Santa Monica Studio employee Alanah Pearace, Sony has imposed the “strictest social media guidelines” ever on its employees due to PS5’s disc debacle.
This has created one of the biggest and longest-running backlashes I’ve ever seen in almost two decades covering PlayStation, but the manufacturer is yet to say a word about any of it.
That’s because, according to the former God of War Laufey writer, it predicted the backlash and has told its staff to keep their mouths shut.
While Pearce explains the platform holder regularly enforces these kind of policies around new game announcements et al, she also stresses that these are some of the most forceful guidelines the company has ever implemented.
“Sony already knew everyone would be p*ssed off – they knew this. People working within PlayStation first-party studios told me Sony had the strictest social media guidelines for this particular thing they’ve ever seen issued.
Sony does somewhat regularly tell employees what they can or can’t say about certain things. I was under a lot of guidelines when I was working on God of War Laufey – I still am. And they did send me guidelines regarding what I could say on the day the game was announced.
But in this instance, it’s apparently the strictest the employees I spoke to have ever seen regarding public communications. They would only have done this if they knew it was going to be an enormous PR issue. This is no surprise to them.”
