The Coalition is part of that initiative as well, which is why Gears 5 was so feminist and why future Gears games will be all about feminist lesbianism. Here's the She Talks Gaming panel, where they discuss more about it and Gears 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvpOXaZxOo
Even Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed games -- full of wokeness these days -- have fallen off the cliff in terms of long term sales. They've been on a decline funnily enough ever since Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, where they let you play as a girl. All those cries about "Ubisoft is ignoring 50% of the market" was just that... cries. Actual sales data for Syndicate tanked compared to Assassin's Creed: Unity:
https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/publishing/assassins-creed-syndicate-is-no-1-but-sales-are-well-down-on-previous-years/
So while it had a hot start during the first week, sales tapered off real quick right after launch, so much so it was getting beat by Mario Kart 8 in the sales charts a couple months later. Assassin's Creed 3 didn't have a long tail end either, but it still managed to move 12 million units from November to December of 2012. Ubisoft has been mum on Valhalla's sales after touting the launch week numbers, same as they did with Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, which also didn't perform as well as past games.
If Microsoft were true believers, they'd have taken Five Nights at Freddy's off Game Pass when there was the big push to cancel the creator. There's a lot of times they could have gone full retard and chose not to, I still consider them the most sane of the big tech companies.
Nothing they've done there is more than the typical "we'll do this so you don't destroy us." attitude of all Nasdaq companies since the Nasdaq CEO threatened to delist companies that didn't bow to a feminist agenda.
Putting out a basic message is one thing, opening up entire divisions and joining a coalition with Facebook to displace male employees for female hires is a whole other thing.
Gears of War 4 was terrible, but adding in an "empowered" female sidekick is the kind of lip service you would expect to keep the harpies off your back.
Rebranding their most masculine franchise into a feminist power-trip and using it to promote the globohomo agenda is way beyond the pale.
It wouldn't matter if they weren't though, through work and prior purchases, I'm tied to Microsoft for life anyway.
Ah, so you're just a fanboy. I can understand that. I used to be one way back in the day, but I have more of a zero tolerance policy these days for any company openly supporting the globohomo agenda and advocating to replace skilled (male) workers with female diversity hires.
One of the worst games I ever played, why do people shit on Epic so much? They would have made something far better.
Nobody was shitting on Epic in the days of the original Gears. Nobody cared about Epic in general until the EGS, and if they did it was mostly positive regard.
Funny how a major controversy like that can 180 public opinion. And not even talk about their competency as a developer, just a company.
People shit on epic because some time after leaving the gears franchise they took a massive investment from tencent which is essentially a tech arm of the Chinese communist party. Despite the claims of others tencent is a minority stake holder with Tim Sweeney holding 50+% of the stock. Tim also frequently makes claims that Epic is doing “x” thing because they care about the consumer when in reality is it’s an excuse to weasel in on market share. And trying to take a competitors market share is fine but the we care about the consumer signaling screams bs.
Gotta disagree. Microsoft is full-on the woke train.
They aligned with Facebook's Women In Gaming initiative to displace men in the gaming industry with more female hires: https://twitter.com/womeningaming?lang=en
The Women In Gaming initiative is a $200 million upstart from Facebook. Here's the video message from Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/business/m/women-in-gaming
The Coalition is part of that initiative as well, which is why Gears 5 was so feminist and why future Gears games will be all about feminist lesbianism. Here's the She Talks Gaming panel, where they discuss more about it and Gears 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvpOXaZxOo
Here's some more info about it: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/03/21/gdc-2019-the-women-in-gaming-rally-2019-recap/
A List of companies who are part of Facebook's initiative (notice plenty of people from EA and Ubisoft are there): https://www.facebook.com/business/m/women-in-gaming/stories
Also, Microsoft is part of the whole globohomo agenda, again using Gears 5: https://www.ibtimes.com/gears-5-opens-doors-lgbtqpia-players-19-pride-flags-2823094
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/06/01/xbox-celebrates-pride/
How they're joining globohomo organizations to provide further "inclusion" of the homo agenda in their products: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/06/01/microsoft-celebrates-pride-by-centering-on-intersectionality-donating-to-lgbtqi-non-profits-and-releasing-the-largest-and-most-inclusive-product-lineup/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/default.aspx
And the proverbial diversity initiatives: https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2021/03/08/women-of-xbox-release-video-to-encourage-diversity-in-gaming/
https://news.microsoft.com/features/xbox-ambassadors-build-community-reinforce-inclusion-and-positive-gaming/
And Microsoft joining your favorite day of the year: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/03/08/xbox-celebrates-international-womens-day/
Also, there's no money in any of this.
That's always been a lie. Gears 5 performed so horribly they refuse to release the data on the actual product sales. Even Lefty-news outlets had to call them out for that: https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/borderlands-3-easily-outguns-gears-5-which-flops-at-uk-retail/
https://www.pcgamesn.com/gears-5/gears-5-sales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12W1_mT35NM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thH5yrx4ap8
Even Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed games -- full of wokeness these days -- have fallen off the cliff in terms of long term sales. They've been on a decline funnily enough ever since Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, where they let you play as a girl. All those cries about "Ubisoft is ignoring 50% of the market" was just that... cries. Actual sales data for Syndicate tanked compared to Assassin's Creed: Unity: https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/publishing/assassins-creed-syndicate-is-no-1-but-sales-are-well-down-on-previous-years/
They use a lot of wordplay to mask the fact that Assassin's Creed: Valhalla had a hot start of 3.5 million sales during the quarter, but they completely fail to talk about its tail end: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2020/12/21/ac-valhalla-sales-digital-uk-retail/
It had dropped into seventh place by March, 2021: https://wholesgame.com/news/best-selling-video-games-in-the-us-march-2021/
And by May, it was in 16th place: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2021/06/may_2021_npd_resident_evil_village_is_second_best-selling_game_of_2021
So while it had a hot start during the first week, sales tapered off real quick right after launch, so much so it was getting beat by Mario Kart 8 in the sales charts a couple months later. Assassin's Creed 3 didn't have a long tail end either, but it still managed to move 12 million units from November to December of 2012. Ubisoft has been mum on Valhalla's sales after touting the launch week numbers, same as they did with Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, which also didn't perform as well as past games.
Except they did bar Notch from attending an event for the game he created: https://www.businessinsider.com/minecraft-creator-markus-notch-persson-barred-from-10-year-anniversary-2019-4
Putting out a basic message is one thing, opening up entire divisions and joining a coalition with Facebook to displace male employees for female hires is a whole other thing.
Gears of War 4 was terrible, but adding in an "empowered" female sidekick is the kind of lip service you would expect to keep the harpies off your back. Rebranding their most masculine franchise into a feminist power-trip and using it to promote the globohomo agenda is way beyond the pale.
Ah, so you're just a fanboy. I can understand that. I used to be one way back in the day, but I have more of a zero tolerance policy these days for any company openly supporting the globohomo agenda and advocating to replace skilled (male) workers with female diversity hires.
Seriously, why?
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here you go, fren. I've yet to see the Office file it can't handle
Dude, 90% of what runs in windows can run in Linux without any tweaking, And since most of that is games and you'll
odds are you should be fine.
In the rare instance that something absolutely refuses to bend to your will and run under Linux, dual-booting/virtual machines are always options.
Nobody was shitting on Epic in the days of the original Gears. Nobody cared about Epic in general until the EGS, and if they did it was mostly positive regard.
Funny how a major controversy like that can 180 public opinion. And not even talk about their competency as a developer, just a company.
If you don't see why people have such an issue with it by this point, you never will.
However, they do have that issue with it, and that's why people shit on it so much.
People shit on epic because some time after leaving the gears franchise they took a massive investment from tencent which is essentially a tech arm of the Chinese communist party. Despite the claims of others tencent is a minority stake holder with Tim Sweeney holding 50+% of the stock. Tim also frequently makes claims that Epic is doing “x” thing because they care about the consumer when in reality is it’s an excuse to weasel in on market share. And trying to take a competitors market share is fine but the we care about the consumer signaling screams bs.