So yeah, it's pretty goofy-but I don't think that's the only reason that these apologies have become a laughingstock. It's probably just to get around character limits on sites like Twitter (or X or whatever we're supposed to call it now), but the image of all the bigwigs in gaming getting around a table and colluding on something like this is never not going to be funny to me. The most glaringly is the strangeness of everyone using a pretty similar graphic. However, a couple of things about this trend stand out to me. Now obviously, there's nothing wrong with apologizing when you mess up-in fact, that's what you're meant to do. RELATED: The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Has One Redeeming Feature The trend of apologies with similar graphics and similar reasoning behind them is getting pretty comical. Hell, there are even a couple joke templates for this type of graphic, it's so widespread. It's gotten to the point of infamy where, when Redfall was floundering in its critical reception, some were making parody apologies in the exact same mode of the last examples. Just this year, we've seen apologies from the minds behind Jedi Survivor's PC port, Gollum, and Forspoken, all for not being all what they were cracked up to be, and all with the same graphic. Starting with Cyberpunk 2077 getting delayed in January 2020 (albeit for a delay rather than a bad launch), the format has spread like wildfire. All the same format (a li'l picture with an apology written on it to be passed around on social media) and almost all apologizing for the same thing: an underwhelming release. Sure, apologies in the gaming industry are nothing new-there was time when everyone was saying sorry for PR snafus, from THQ Nordic doing an 8Chan Q&A to a Division 2 marketing email joking about the government shutdown-but these are something different. I'm sure you've already noticed the flood of apologies coming out from publishers and studios recently.
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