Except this isn't even true. I never cared at all about seeing myself "represented" in a game I was playing.
It's a case of confession through projection. They are racist sexists and just assume everyone else is.
Of course, now I actively avoid any game that prominently features a female or non-white protagonist, but it's not because I'm not "represented," it's because it's a constant reminder of all of the people who have told me that they hate me.
Yup. My favorite games as a kid features the following main characters:
A large anthropomorphic mouse. A velociraptor. A bunch of robots.
I am not rodent, dinosaur, or machine. "Representation" is BS, gamers don't care.
But I guess they're not catering to Gamers, Gamers Are Dead after all (on which note, an undead, also one of my childhood games), they're catering to horrible imagination-less mindless morons.
I’ve tried to explain this to people and they get upset. Just like these fake gamer girls (women who actually like games don’t whine endlessly about sexism in games) get upset if you say that males are the majority of gamers
Normally focusing on that woke crap would be breaking your duties
But now they can all point to ESG and the literature around it and get away with it.
ESG isn't just something forcing companies to act a certain way, its a reason and excuse for ideologues running companies into the ground to act that way. Its a two way street.
Yep. Look at the way Blackrock launders Fed funds into subversion of the housing market-- that's the ESG model moving forwards. Woke is going 'too big to fail.'
The people pushing this shit don't even play the games. Video games aren't reality. They're role playing. Plenty of men play games with female protagonists so why the fuck is it a problem for women or non-white people to play a character with a different gender/race from themselves?
The fuck. How does one person have more "ethnicity" than another. I mean I know the "answer" but these fuckfaces are so fucking retarded their ability score is 4.
Not even the most extreme white supremacist thinks that black and brown people have no right to exist anywhere at all, but the inverse - that white people do not deserve continued existence as a racial/ethnic cohort - is nearly a foundational belief among modern leftists.
The pic at the top is the new "diverse" and it's so un-diverse it might as well be putting a white dude in every game. They must all have a pink headed butch ambiguous lesbian/tranny and a black dude modeled off Bob Marley. I'm not sure what the dwarf is for, pedo or something I guess.
Well, the dwarf is white, which is unintentionally hilarious when you look at their radar chart on the left. The other two have the minimum value for "ability" and he is near the top.
I can't imagine anyone picking a character with high scores in "gender identity" or "ethnicity" in place of actual ability.
Its even funnier because Torb would just be labelled another straight while male by the woke pushers, but their own tool makes him far more diverse then either of the classically "diverse" stereotypes.
Almost like gender or race aren't nearly as all encompassing as they treat it.
Looking at the graph on the left seems to indicate diversity scores for the characters on the right.
In this case, the dwarf seems to have gotten points in body type (literally dwarfism), ability (replaced arm at least), and age ("old").
I played Phantasy Star 3 back in the day. Both second and third character you get? Artificial arms, legs, torsos, and heads... Since they're androids. They must get SUPER-disability bonuses.
My theory is that because no woke protagonist has succeeded in breaking through to mainstream appeal, all of the woke developers see it as a gap in the market that they can fill. So they continually produce the same woke content - to the point where virtually every new IP features the same cookie-cutter list characters - because they think the last ten attempts just didn’t nail it hard enough. It’s like “real communism has never been tried”, only in character design form.
How many diversity points is Literal Hamster worth for Body Type?
He's chubby so because of "body positivity" I'm guessing he'd earn quite a few "diversity" points there, skyrocketing obesity and overweight rates be damned.
We want to see ourselves represented in games, we want the barriers to access lowered, and we want games to be a welcoming environment for all. Just look at the 2019 International Game Developers Association (IGDA) “Developer Satisfaction Survey,” which asked developers what they considered to be the most important factor in the growth of the gaming industry. The most common response? “More diversity in content.” It’s not even a question anymore.
Y'know what is a pressing question though? Who the fuck taught you how to read if that's the only interpretation of the phrase "more diverse content" you can think of?
There are so many assumptions they've made here that drawing any conclusions is ridiculous.
As you point out, that's incredibly open to interpretation. But even "growth" is ambiguous. Does it mean a bigger market? More sales in general? It could even be taken to mean such bullshit as "moral growth" or as a synonym for a nebulous idea of "maturity" as we've seen some people try to push on games.
We're also assuming that the IGDA's sample is representative of the industry (and not, say, indie devs). And that developers have perfect knowledge of what players want.
And for fuck's sake, if "it’s not even a question anymore" it wouldn't be a question on the survey, would it?
The included Call of Duty screenshot showcasing its "diversity" is one of the stupidest looking things I've ever seen.
There's a reason that I haven't played a AAA release pretty much since they started being referred to as AAA releases. My only exceptions are a few main-series Nintendo games.
Triple AAA release quality has been especially abysmal for the last couple of years. I think I've picked up 2 or 3 games that are considered AAA in the last 2 years. You really aren't missing out. At least AA and indie games are pretty good these days.
Literally stripping the characters of personality, in game abilities, and playstyle right down to what superficial details they have. "To avoiding tokenism, stereotypes and exclusion... by doing tokenism, stereotypes, and exclusion!" Genius move Blizzard.
I’m dumber after reading this article. I wish I could fire everyone pushing this garbage in games. Anyone who talks about unconscious bias is someone that shouldn’t be in power.
Subscriptions to World of Warcraft are at possibly the lowest they've ever been, neither Cold War nor Vanguard did well in terms of sales, and the Overwatch playerbase has dwindled dramatically. Their focus on "diversity" and "inclusion" put them in this position. Doubling down is not going to get them out of it.
Overwatch 2 beta basically torpedoed interest in the game, and Diablo Immortal still has everyone's resentment after its reveal. They've also run out of games to remaster, and after Wrath nobody wants more Classic content.
Generally you need X amount of time or a new console to do it for. Considering their genres they are very limited to just PC, they really can't do much as all of them have been in the last few years already.
All that's really left is Warcraft 1 and 2, which they haven't yet touched for some reason and Warcraft 1 is basically a nothing game anyway.
Diablo 1 probably wouldn't be worth the money for them, because of how lacking it is in replayability compared to 2. They'd have to create a lot more content to justify it, because people expect more game for their money than they did back then.
Not to the extent it was with Vanguard, but yes. Activision touted a large number of pre-orders and initial sales, which was true, but they don't talk about the refunds issued because the game was a technical mess.
Yes, and since the majority of players are still white males, maybe you should take this into account.
I almost wish one of these CoD type games would make them see themselves in the game. Literally. Fat, slow, out of breath for walking a little bit.
Except this isn't even true. I never cared at all about seeing myself "represented" in a game I was playing.
It's a case of confession through projection. They are racist sexists and just assume everyone else is.
Of course, now I actively avoid any game that prominently features a female or non-white protagonist, but it's not because I'm not "represented," it's because it's a constant reminder of all of the people who have told me that they hate me.
Yup. My favorite games as a kid features the following main characters:
A large anthropomorphic mouse. A velociraptor. A bunch of robots.
I am not rodent, dinosaur, or machine. "Representation" is BS, gamers don't care.
But I guess they're not catering to Gamers, Gamers Are Dead after all (on which note, an undead, also one of my childhood games), they're catering to horrible imagination-less mindless morons.
They want to see themselves represented in your games. They aren’t gonna buy any of it, and they don’t give a shit about your representation.
I’ve tried to explain this to people and they get upset. Just like these fake gamer girls (women who actually like games don’t whine endlessly about sexism in games) get upset if you say that males are the majority of gamers
I believe that is called proof that any gaming company that does force diversity is failing fiduciary responsibility.
ESG and woke funding beg to differ.
Woke may lose money, but as long as bailouts continue, broke will never follow.
This right here is key
Normally focusing on that woke crap would be breaking your duties
But now they can all point to ESG and the literature around it and get away with it.
ESG isn't just something forcing companies to act a certain way, its a reason and excuse for ideologues running companies into the ground to act that way. Its a two way street.
Yep. Look at the way Blackrock launders Fed funds into subversion of the housing market-- that's the ESG model moving forwards. Woke is going 'too big to fail.'
Fortunately Woke is also losing popularity so their attacks on the bread and circuses will begin waking the complacent.
But in a majority white country in a hobby that skews male 80% shouldn’t be surprising
The people pushing this shit don't even play the games. Video games aren't reality. They're role playing. Plenty of men play games with female protagonists so why the fuck is it a problem for women or non-white people to play a character with a different gender/race from themselves?
What I’ve been saying for a while. I knew plenty of guys who played Tomb Raider and enjoyed it
The fuck. How does one person have more "ethnicity" than another. I mean I know the "answer" but these fuckfaces are so fucking retarded their ability score is 4.
The modern left is far more dehumanizing than anything the right does.
Not even the most extreme white supremacist thinks that black and brown people have no right to exist anywhere at all, but the inverse - that white people do not deserve continued existence as a racial/ethnic cohort - is nearly a foundational belief among modern leftists.
The pic at the top is the new "diverse" and it's so un-diverse it might as well be putting a white dude in every game. They must all have a pink headed butch ambiguous lesbian/tranny and a black dude modeled off Bob Marley. I'm not sure what the dwarf is for, pedo or something I guess.
Well, the dwarf is white, which is unintentionally hilarious when you look at their radar chart on the left. The other two have the minimum value for "ability" and he is near the top.
I can't imagine anyone picking a character with high scores in "gender identity" or "ethnicity" in place of actual ability.
"ability" means disability in true Orwellian style. He is missing an arm.
Its even funnier because Torb would just be labelled another straight while male by the woke pushers, but their own tool makes him far more diverse then either of the classically "diverse" stereotypes.
Almost like gender or race aren't nearly as all encompassing as they treat it.
Looking at the graph on the left seems to indicate diversity scores for the characters on the right.
In this case, the dwarf seems to have gotten points in body type (literally dwarfism), ability (replaced arm at least), and age ("old").
I played Phantasy Star 3 back in the day. Both second and third character you get? Artificial arms, legs, torsos, and heads... Since they're androids. They must get SUPER-disability bonuses.
My theory is that because no woke protagonist has succeeded in breaking through to mainstream appeal, all of the woke developers see it as a gap in the market that they can fill. So they continually produce the same woke content - to the point where virtually every new IP features the same cookie-cutter list characters - because they think the last ten attempts just didn’t nail it hard enough. It’s like “real communism has never been tried”, only in character design form.
Your optimism is noted, but the simplest solution is usually the best one, which in this case means assuming malice.
Algorithmic retardation
I guess artificial stupidity is one of the stepping stones to artificial intelligence so progress?
“Muh algorithm” is the new plausible deniability for all leftist idiocy.
What about Bastion, who may or may not be a demon from hell disguised as a robot?
He's chubby so because of "body positivity" I'm guessing he'd earn quite a few "diversity" points there, skyrocketing obesity and overweight rates be damned.
So is being white literally a zero on the ethnicity scale?
Overwatch actually does need more diversity of content because 99% of the time its either screwing around in custom or playing PvP.
Y'know what is a pressing question though? Who the fuck taught you how to read if that's the only interpretation of the phrase "more diverse content" you can think of?
There are so many assumptions they've made here that drawing any conclusions is ridiculous.
As you point out, that's incredibly open to interpretation. But even "growth" is ambiguous. Does it mean a bigger market? More sales in general? It could even be taken to mean such bullshit as "moral growth" or as a synonym for a nebulous idea of "maturity" as we've seen some people try to push on games.
We're also assuming that the IGDA's sample is representative of the industry (and not, say, indie devs). And that developers have perfect knowledge of what players want.
And for fuck's sake, if "it’s not even a question anymore" it wouldn't be a question on the survey, would it?
The included Call of Duty screenshot showcasing its "diversity" is one of the stupidest looking things I've ever seen.
There's a reason that I haven't played a AAA release pretty much since they started being referred to as AAA releases. My only exceptions are a few main-series Nintendo games.
And wholly unnecessary as WWII was a "World War". It's literally part of the name.
Rather than a fictional black British para, they could have a black character that represented an actual combatant.
3/8 of them being women- unexcusably inaccurate.
If they really cared, they could include for example such an important NPC:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/fuzzy-wuzzy-angel-1942/ (the article goes beyond the first paragraph, an early ad might be misleading)
Anyway, compare https://youtube.com/watch?v=WHHAcqZMlqA to https://youtube.com/watch?v=ljLBEbAKkvE
Triple AAA release quality has been especially abysmal for the last couple of years. I think I've picked up 2 or 3 games that are considered AAA in the last 2 years. You really aren't missing out. At least AA and indie games are pretty good these days.
Jesus Christ who gives a fuck about representation just give me a well written character be it gay or a darkie I don't care about relating to it.
And they used this gay ass tool on the new cod and look how that turned out that shit bombed.
Literally stripping the characters of personality, in game abilities, and playstyle right down to what superficial details they have. "To avoiding tokenism, stereotypes and exclusion... by doing tokenism, stereotypes, and exclusion!" Genius move Blizzard.
It's Overwatch, the characters never had personality to begin with.
I’m dumber after reading this article. I wish I could fire everyone pushing this garbage in games. Anyone who talks about unconscious bias is someone that shouldn’t be in power.
Subscriptions to World of Warcraft are at possibly the lowest they've ever been, neither Cold War nor Vanguard did well in terms of sales, and the Overwatch playerbase has dwindled dramatically. Their focus on "diversity" and "inclusion" put them in this position. Doubling down is not going to get them out of it.
Overwatch 2 beta basically torpedoed interest in the game, and Diablo Immortal still has everyone's resentment after its reveal. They've also run out of games to remaster, and after Wrath nobody wants more Classic content.
So even their future products are all DOA.
Final Fantasy 1 has been remastered 5 or so times. Don't assume just because everything's been remastered, that such is the end of it.
Generally you need X amount of time or a new console to do it for. Considering their genres they are very limited to just PC, they really can't do much as all of them have been in the last few years already.
All that's really left is Warcraft 1 and 2, which they haven't yet touched for some reason and Warcraft 1 is basically a nothing game anyway.
Well, they could always bloody well remaster the original Diablo, and give it a stash.
Diablo 1 probably wouldn't be worth the money for them, because of how lacking it is in replayability compared to 2. They'd have to create a lot more content to justify it, because people expect more game for their money than they did back then.
I just imagined nu-ActivBliz Dead or Alive games.
Is it really true about Cold War?
Not to the extent it was with Vanguard, but yes. Activision touted a large number of pre-orders and initial sales, which was true, but they don't talk about the refunds issued because the game was a technical mess.
This sounds like scary dystopian future stuff used to manipulate people
Not only stupid but a huge waste of money lol
Are there any MMorpg companies that don’t hate their players?
LOTRO? They restructured their premium subscription service earlier this year to give more free stuff to players, according to a friend that plays it.
Bobby Kotrick is one of (((them))), so Blizzard pushing shit like this isn't surprising.
Italians?!
lol. just make sure they are the right kind of diversity. cant have big tittied gothic girls.
Its microsoft.
Theyll double down.