it’s honestly embarrassing @GearSolidMetal doesn’t know you can 100% begin a sentence w/ a conjunction. trying to dunk while peddling a false grammatical no-no like he’s still in middle school & writing his book report. classic.
Sure maybe they aren’t as hot but that doesn’t mean they’re bad games. You really going to turn down Returnal because the protagonist has short hair?
I'm not going to pretend to search failed games and try to back up my input because everything I'm saying is coming from the heart as a consumer.
Like what? Jesus Christ dude say something. It’s so frustrating reading your posts. “Umm like video games are being destroyed by the left but umm I can’t name any and well other people agree with me”. If it’s so prevalent it shouldn’t be this difficult
Most wouldn't given that the vast majority would be female or in their teens. It's like mma...sometimes you got to come to grips with the fact that you've aged out and we're no longer the target demographic for a product anymore.
What kind of data points are you looking for?
For sure. A man in his forties like me isn't the target demo for anyone besides life insurance sales people.
I mean...sure we can agree on some aspects of game design and quality getting worse due to changing business models mostly, but clearly the audience is there for a lot of games you'd probably consider woke or politically charged.
Clowned yourself and this is the best you can do
Definitely reads like this person “doesn’t care”
Thank you for some honesty and reality
Maybe if they spent less time on inserting political themes and more on hiring better people and focusing on good game play the other issues wouldn’t have arisen or would have been diminished.
He’s so incredibly angry on this thread all the time
Like movie and Tv they’ll find this supposed demographic they are chasing doesn’t exist.
I like how you think writing a side quest or two is a major use of resources for AAA game development. Every studio hires differently, it's rare that hires are flat out incompetent in this day and age given how many devs are on the job market.
And yet there are plenty of political games or games with liberal or "woke" or political themes doing great. Just like there are plenty of other games that do great or not great.
They're just in denial. It can't possibly that thing that they support that is turning people off. It just can't be. They're on the right side of history!
i don’t think any of us would deny that these things turn people off—our assertion is that those people aren’t in great enough numbers to be the root cause of financial ruin for these games & that shitty games will perform poorly because they’re shitty. i think a lot of you recognize this as being the case, so then the typical walking brain fart like @SuperAlly or @GearSolidMetal will try to claim that the company was so wrapped up in woke or DEI politics that they forgot to focus on making a good game, which is literally conjecture based on assertions that cannot be objectively proven.
These folks would have you believe that wokeness shaved off a couple million purchases for Dragon Age, as opposed to a far smaller slice. It's a bunch of older dudes who are so far in their echo chamber they think the entire gaming market -- much of it which is teens or guys and gals in their 20s -- share their views and obsessions.
But a lot of the shitty games are made by shitty woke developers. The Western gaming industry didn't go to shit just out of the blue for no reason. It's all tied to them getting caught up in #metoo and Gamergate. Studios overcorrected, got rid of a bunch of talented people, started consulting with morons to check certain boxes and eliminate "toxic" elements from gaming, hired morons to head development teams, and here we are.
How many whistle blowers do you need to hear from to admit that it's at least a large part of the problem? Nobody is pulling this shit out of there asses. You have scores of woke mission statements by these developers that are out there. You have many whistle blowers telling you exactly how ridiculous the environments are at these studios. Oh' and then the shitty woke games that nobody wants, and companies currently dissolving in front of our eyes due to very few purchasing them.
Given the current state of the industry and how young people are leaning these days, they would be correct. It's you guys that are in denial that people are rejecting the shit you want in games and entertainment in general. You refuse to believe it's the reason these industries are suffering, because you're a lefty who can't comprehend that your worldview is getting soundly rejected by the masses.
You mean how one of Ubisoft's main challenges has been retaining developers in part because they refused to fire/punish toxic employees?
Which of their leads do you think were untalented and hired for their ideology?
Right..Bioware...the company that has struggled to produce quality games that sell well for over decade, but somehow it's wokeness that's to blame. This is the kind of shitty inability to recognize nuance or context that comes from living in a rage-bait echo chamber.
Remind me again, how did GOW Ragnorak and TLOU2 do? Baldur's Gate? Or who could forget people claiming that Indian Jones would be woke and garbage because of how a dev looked or the trailer.
Oh gee, I don't know. The transgender development lead who, with the help of their thuper duper gay lead writer, infused transgender ideology into a high fantasy game. You know, the one that just "resigned", along with the entire team behind that game...
Yep, everyone is wrong but you lefties. Sorry, but the days of people putting their heads in sand about this destructive social virus, are long gone. Enjoy watching this shit go up in smoke, and the industry miraculously coming back to normalcy. The experiment is over.
