The director of God of War Ragnarok is fed up with attacks on his team due to the delay and responds on social media.

“I’ve made the decisions, I’ve done this. Don’t bother the team,”

– says Cory Barlog.

God of War 2, known to fans as God of War Ragnarok, will no longer be coming to PS5 in 2021. This week, we learned that the Sony Santa Monica game is delayed to 2022 and will also be released on PS4. Facts that some fans have not finished liking, and as sadly is customary in the industry, a noisy minority has seen fit to insult and attack the members of the study for the delay and for the intergenerational nature of the title. Well, director Cory Barlog is fed up with these situations and has come out on the networks in defence of his team.

It all started after Alanah Pearce, a writer at Sony Santa Monica and a former journalist for IGN, shared on the networks the serious attacks she has been receiving since the last news of the game. At this, Barlog has not bitten his tongue: ” Seriously folks, this is sh * t! If you want to get mad at someone for anything related to GOW – the lag, PS4 / 5, trolls, the size of the subtitles, Sigrun, whatever- get mad at me. ” To this, the director adds that “I have made the decisions. I have done this. Do not bother the team, they are all good people doing a great job.”

“Every human being in the studio is there specifically because they’re fucking exceptional at what they do. We’re better because of them. Fuck, I’m lucky someone wants to lend their talent and intellect to my bullshit. For some reason they do it, and I love them for it. ” In just a few hours, crowds of fans and industry professionals have joined in support of Cory Barlog’s words, including the game’s art director, Raf Grassetti, who has been even more forthright in his response to the attacks on Alanah. Pearce.

“That doesn’t sound like an attack on the team, that looks like an attack on women,” says Grassetti. ” Fuck him and anyone who has any kind of hatred towards female developers .” It seems that Sony Santa Monica will not tolerate attacks of this type on its workers for something that, we remember, is still video games.

God of War Ragnarok, as fans know it, will arrive in 2022 on PS5 and PS4. Together with him, this week we learned that Gran Turismo 7 will also be intergenerational. For its part, and for those pending of this year’s games, last week we saw the first gameplay of Horizon: Forbidden West.