Most of the reactions I found are the outrage about:   using the term itself   ~"they use the term apartheid in a game about white dudes"   ~"white lady/people talked about the mechanical apartheid on E3".   Today I haven't found direct statements about the developers themselves, only implying from #3 and, maybe, #2. This article and links within talks about it. Also, the original thread on Reddit, archive Notice this paragraph:  So it makes me sad and angry that these ignorant people just ASSUME that everyone behind this game is ill-spirited, stupid, and more importantly for me, that they that they are all WHITE. (For them devs==white, gamers==white)  And this:  “They did not attacked me [as far as I know]. They attacked the game. ‘how dare white dev speak about apartheid!’ was their tactic”  Sadly, I didn't make an archive of https://twitter.com/search?q=mechanical%20apartheid yesterday. Now it's stuffed with ~"mechanical apartheid outcry is dumb". So you will need to scroll down and see other's people screenshots to see something about "white". Today's archive. Also, second image on this twit, archive (you will have to copy the image link and open it in other tab in the archived version: standard twitter's picture viewer breaks when archived). Examples:  "we call it a mechanical apartheid. we want you to empathize with oppressed people, so we made them white" i'm sorry i think i blacked out after the white lady said "mechanical apartheid" >Mechanical apartheid. White people come on. "mechanical apartheid" SIDE EYES WHITE PEOPLE ILLUMINATI AND MECHANICAL APARTHEID ARE NOT THINGS THAT SHOULD BE SAID BY A WHITE LADY TALKING ABOUT A CYBORG SHOOTMAN HACKER VIDEO GAME