Banrik

I’ll be honest & think between their tiny team, it almost certainly wasn’t much of a priority at all. Though from what I’ve seen of Ed, I don’t think he’d care enough to change it if he was made aware

The article itself seems to state that they were most likely asked before the people became problematic. Given the game has been in development for 12 years & Ed most likely asked a huge plethora of Internet personalities, I’m surprised there aren’t more.

Regardless of controversial meows, the escapist starting the article with “a backlash is rising” feels like they’re admitting they’re fanning the flames of Internet drama for traffic to their site.