That seems like a shockingly foolish unforced error on their part.
When you’re in the business of being against things that the perpetrators are quick to insist didn’t actually happen doing anything that makes the “who are you going to believe: me or your lying eyes?” a more credible position seems like a terrible mistake.
On the game studio side it’s more of a dispute between labor and management among fictionmongers over how the fiction should be produced; so at least there aren’t really any epistemic stakes. That’s…less so…when your work includes a lot of having to insist that those people who were disappeared are in fact not alive and well and that that bad thing that was done was in fact committed; which seems like a bad place to get flexible about the distinction between actual and plausible photos.
