All hail our CCP overlords? The shop reset has come and gone, still no virtue signals.
A new female skin has come out though. Probably just a coincidence, or they would have said something on Twitter or on the item page. Another piss-poor reskin that nobody asked for.
3 Years, No Virtue Signals!
Among Us was close, but they did tweet it on the developer account. They also told us three of the five people working on the game are female. (Sidenote, is the reason that game became popular because women made it? Maybe it was astroturfed the whole time.)
Xbox went so far with the virtue signals. Honestly concerning, especially when Soyny dialled it back.
Epic's Fortnite had a BLM event where they set up a screen and broadcast BLM propaganda. They also had tomatoes nearby, but those were removed as the obvious happened.
Among Us also had some other election "malarky," where things like "Vote4Trump" wouldn't work, while "Vote4Biden" would.
I did acknowledge this.
But, they didn't double down and they haven't done anything since. It was probably just to appease people working there.
You're right that it was to appease employees. They got significant numbers of threats to quit if St Floyd wasn't honored.
Unfortunately, one of their responses was to create a diversity board. Now that they've paid him the Dane-geld, they'll never get rid of the Dane. It'll take some time before the infestation becomes lethal, though.
They should have just let those people quit. If I blackmailed somewhere I worked into refusing to acknowledge women's day, I'd be fired!
Maybe that board got shuffled off to Rocket League when that got bought up, because that game went so woke it gave the likes of EA a run for their money. Of course, the subversion will eventually get Fortnite, but I won't forget that they were one of the last holdouts.
I agree with you, but it's not an easy time when dozens of your mid level developers, AKA the guys who do most of the creative work, all quit at once. They miscalculated the long term costs of people like me quitting or not joining, while the activistic people leave anyway for woker ventures.
I'm only counting Epic themselves. They didn't replace the leadership in the subsidiaries.
But yeah, RL has gone hard left to die. Player base is down 10-15% since that stunt. I remember it used to get 1m~ players, same time today, 775k. (530k now, isn't this US peak? Suicide by virtue signal?)
I was expecting the whole of Epic to follow suit, but unless they do the latest and most badly timed tweet ever, it looks like they've stayed sane. The BLM thing was still bad though, I wish they'd acknowledge it was wrong rather than quietly wipe it from their website and pretend it never happened.
EpicHatesWomen
Well, they're probably still pissed at Polygon trying to make their workers go on strike to push that findom girl's union.
I find it so weird that Epic can get away with being non-political considering all the woke trash licences they've acquired. They even had a Soy Wars update.
Game Journos do not understand the industry at all. Very few AAA developers have any interest in a union. Most realize that doing so will be a fast track for them being replaced with south East Asian contractors. The only people in games who keep pushing for strikes and unions are journos, indie devs with 0-moderate success, and a handful of the dumbest AAA devs.
Did you catch anything from Valve/Steam? I kinda just want to laugh at them and play contrarian since I always get the idea that their fans love them as much as a tranny loves bitching about pronouns.
I didn't see anything, but I'm not the one that monitored all day.
Last thing of this nature I saw from them was that "Latinx" sale or event or whatever it was a few months ago. Nothing specifically about women's day as far as I'm aware.
I checked the steam store page and their twitter and didn't see anything. However stuff like that usually gets pushed in the client "news" popup which I have disabled, so who knows.
While at it, GOG apparently has nothing on their store page but a couple of posts on their twitter.
I would also like to see this. I tried doing a quick search, but it only turned up irrelevant bullshit.
Valve haven't made a game in like 7-8 years. But no, I don't believe I saw anything from them.
To be fair though, they aren't really a social media type company, all they ever talk about is sales on random bullshit. I don't have Steam so I don't know if they hosted some virtue signally sale.
$1000 dollars for a VR rig to play a glorified walking simulator based off of an unnecessary character. I dont think that's a game.
Artifact was more of a game and that was a complete shitshow from start to finish. I got a free copy and "beta access" (all of one week before launch) and I still want my money back.
Valve is dead as a game company
VR tech demos aren't games.
XY or XX?
Female is XX right? I never was much good at biology.
Yes. Bonus Lesson, since females only have the X chromosome, the father's sperm decides the sex, since it can carry either an X or Y chromosome.
You can remember it by laughing about how stupid women were when they tried spelling women/woman as "womyn," where the Y chromosome is what makes the baby male, highlighting their ignorance of genetics in a vain effort to detach themselves from "maleness."
Like 46% CCP overlord. 54% nerdy guy