After the firing of Ghost of Yotei developer Drew Harrison over a controversial "off-color joke" made regarding Charlie Kirk's death, Sony claimed that "making light of someone’s murder is a deal-breaker for us," full stop. The decision to let Harrison go was made after Sucker Punch and Sony began receiving waves of backlash, death threats, and more from Kirk supporters over the comments.
However, in an interview with Aftermath, Harrison claims that Sucker Punch and Sony "kowtowed" to pressures from an online campaign to cancel anyone who mocked Kirk's death, and made the decision to fire her with virtually no investigation.
Harrison argues that the studio's bottom line was more important to them than protecting their employees, stating that "studios don’t want to address toxicity against their employees because they see it as confronting the dark sides of their community, which they believe is a core demographic."
The situation around Harrison's firing and Ghost of Yotei's launch is a bit more complex than we previously thought. Harrison was fired before Sucker Punch's launch of Ghost of Yotei for a joke made over Charlie Kirk's assassination earlier this year. Allegedly, the studio made the decision after facing pressures from...
