There are real problems, but Jonathan Blow doesn't limit his criticism to those problems. He just indiscriminately criticizes everything. He's turned into the type of critic that is a broken clock that happens to right twice a day.
His criticism isn't limited to AAA game studies. He's a vaccine skeptic and is pretty heavy into far-right influencer garbage. All very surprising if you only know him from his games.
This Tweet is a classic https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1854708962462982465
Jonathan Blow:
> It doesn't help that all males currently under the age of 40 were raised to be supercucks
I started following him for his gaming work and talks. His influencer content is something else.
Anyone still following him after that needs to fundamentally reevaluate some life decisions.
Maybe he's right on gamedev and wrong on some other things
The interesting thing to consider is that it seems fairly obvious from the outside that big game studios are killing themselves. But somehow, on the inside, there are people, of extensive qualification given the nature of our society, who think they're doing the right thing, and that "we" are wrong.
So it leads to the issue of perspective. Somebody has to be right, and everybody thinks that person is themselves, or they obviously wouldn't think what they do think. So in this case he could well be right on both things, or perhaps neither.