Judging by what I've seen of the protag and the story, the game's target audience seems to be black Americans who nerdy enough to be playing a fantasy game.
Black Americans are 13% of the US population, and sufficiently nerdy blacks are probably 13% of that population.
What was the justification to make a game targetting a niche of a niche? This all comes back to arguments that were being had nearly ten years ago about 'Where are all the black characters!? This is RACISM!'
And just as we said then, it's not racism, it's demographics and economics. There aren't enough potential black customers in the market to bet the farm on selling to them.
You don't understand. Squeenix already has an audience. If they neglect their current fans and cater to the new phantom audience, they could gain tens of new fans!!! How is that not a licence to print money?!! (and by print, I mean burn, but Squeenix doesn't know that).
Videogame with an ugly unrelatable miserable cunt as protagonist doesn't sell.
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I mean, you can salvage a mediocre game with good storytelling and vice versa, but Forspoken failed at both, as far as i can tell
Judging by what I've seen of the protag and the story, the game's target audience seems to be black Americans who nerdy enough to be playing a fantasy game.
Black Americans are 13% of the US population, and sufficiently nerdy blacks are probably 13% of that population.
What was the justification to make a game targetting a niche of a niche? This all comes back to arguments that were being had nearly ten years ago about 'Where are all the black characters!? This is RACISM!'
And just as we said then, it's not racism, it's demographics and economics. There aren't enough potential black customers in the market to bet the farm on selling to them.
You don't understand. Squeenix already has an audience. If they neglect their current fans and cater to the new phantom audience, they could gain tens of new fans!!! How is that not a licence to print money?!! (and by print, I mean burn, but Squeenix doesn't know that).