Dr Disrespect defends Midnight Society’s development process after criticism from game devs
Streaming sensation Dr Disrespect has hit back at criticism after his game development studio, Midnight Society, launched its ambitious rollout plans — leaving some questioning how viable their approach is.
The Doc officially announced thelaunch of Midnight Societyin December 2021, with the plan to bring out a new FPS title to challenge the biggest AAA games in the world.
The game — which so far has only been codenamedProject Moon— has drawn criticism already for the use of NFTs in the game, but now the actual development process is being questioned, too.
After journalist Paul Tassi questioned whether theirfreshly-announced rollout plansare viable, putting out new verticals of content every six weeks and adapting to their players’ feedback, Destiny 2 dev Joe Blackburn said that the “cycles seem too fast for meaningful new changes.”
innovation comes from trying stuff that others think won’t work, so maybe they’ll discover something cool
My 2cents are the cycles seem too fast for meaningful new changes
games are bad for a long time, I’d worry most features get panned before they get a chance at iteration
— Joe Blackburn (@joegoroth)August 11, 2025
He did, however, add that “innovation comes from trying stuff that others think won’t work, so maybe they’ll discover something cool.”
Dr Disrespect himself responded to the original tweet, mocking the concerns and joking that he “hopes they [the “gamedev volks”] say it’s ok.”
Damn we forgot to run our plans by the “Gamedev folks”.
Hope they say it’s ok.
— Dr Disrespect (@DrDisrespect)June 27, 2025
Of course, as a game development studio, there are “gamedev folks” who work at Midnight Society, so it seems likely these plans would have been run past them at some point.
As pointed out, this is a unique approach, something most Doc fans would expect from him anyway, and it will be interesting to see how this affects the development of Project Moon.
The Two-Time didn’t respond to any more criticism or concerns regarding the game’s formative plans, but needless to say, he believes firmly in what they’re putting together at Midnight Society.
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