Re: How pathetic and cringey are some video games these days? Very

On 11/1/2024 7:12 AM, -hh wrote:

On 10/31/24 12:12 AM, DFS wrote:

On 10/30/2024 9:14 PM, Joel wrote:

DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQMcNpMww_I

>
>
Uh, you're watching phobe drivel on YouTube, man?  And you're what,
60?

>
61.

 Ah, so retirement next year then, right?

Likely.  But I'm not averse to contract programming jobs.

The only drivel is in the characters and stories of the sick woke games that are losing many $millions and tons of jobs.
>
The stupid game companies think people will put up with the DEI, wokeness, and transgender mental illness in their expensive games.

  Of course, it doesn't really matter what they do when you're not their primary customer audience with the IRL dollars being spent. Instead, its going to be mostly the college+ children of old Gen X'ers who're the ones they're interested in selling to.

Who would buy a game where one of the female characters had her tits lopped off, and now has "top surgery scars"?

Sony just shut down Firewalk Studios, which they purchased in 2023, after the grotesque game Concord failed to attract more than a few thousand purchasers.  This is a HUGE business failure, 100% attributable to wokeness (multiple black female characters, including a 300lb one in butch clothes, but no White male characters).
>
Fuck them.

 Perhaps they should have stayed better attuned to how the Market's sensibilities have aligned more with the Japanese Anime industry, which institutionally has a neoliberal (but not libertarian) angle.

Any strategy is better than the pursuit of wokeness, transgenderism and diversity.
They will learn this lesson quickly.  The latest fiasco is Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which will lose its developer Bioware big money and reputation.  I'm not exaggerating when I say it might put them out of business (though their successful Mass Effects series will help insulate them from financial ruin).