Gamergate is a fraction of a fraction of an industry. Why would it be capable for taking down a titanic IP's sales? Think you can do more then dent it is your own main character syndrome giving you undue important and expectations more than a possibility.
This isn't some mid level Japanese game or a Western Indie title where the sheer word of mouth can sink it. Its an IP that thrives on people buying every game of it that comes out without a single bit of research or thought beyond "trailer looked cool."
You aren't going to reach these people through logic and reason. Any more than the dozens of reasons to hate CoD has stopped them. Battlefield only finally managed because it spent so much effort on the Woke elements that the gameplay itself suffered.
Given I've had multiple normie coworkers bring this game up excited about it and looked confused when I pointed out the dumbness of the black samurai, I think them asking questions about it is a stretch.
Even if you point out all the logical fallacies and embellishments of the Yasuke story they will simply laugh it off as something that doesn't matter and you the fool for caring so much. Not super Wokies, but regularly normies don't care enough about those things to be reached.
20+ years ago you might have been able to, but its lost ground now and standing on it just weakens your marketable position on anything else.
Price wise and inflation is one of the few things you can always rely on normies questioning, but video games still remain pretty good deals for their price even at 70 or 80 short of something really bad.
People will blame Big Grocery™ and Greedflation™ when their chicken tendies go up by 30 cents, but ass-suck gamers will rush to defend publishers with "muh inflation" for price hikes and dogshit business models despite negative industry improvement even with the extra cash.
The problem is that most people don't notice monetary things until its egregious. When they start having to budget different and can see noticable different amounts for the same prior prices.
10$ off their monthly or even every other month purchase isn't enough to really get people emotionally upset, even if its highway robbery in terms of what it should be giving for that price.
Because the people who play Cod or AC or most normie games only buy a few yearly games and then play them for hundreds of hours until the next one comes out. That price difference is a drop in the bucket to them. Compared to most people here who probably buy multiple games a month where that shit is noticeable quick.
Gamergate is a fraction of a fraction of an industry. Why would it be capable for taking down a titanic IP's sales? Think you can do more then dent it is your own main character syndrome giving you undue important and expectations more than a possibility.
This isn't some mid level Japanese game or a Western Indie title where the sheer word of mouth can sink it. Its an IP that thrives on people buying every game of it that comes out without a single bit of research or thought beyond "trailer looked cool."
You aren't going to reach these people through logic and reason. Any more than the dozens of reasons to hate CoD has stopped them. Battlefield only finally managed because it spent so much effort on the Woke elements that the gameplay itself suffered.
Given I've had multiple normie coworkers bring this game up excited about it and looked confused when I pointed out the dumbness of the black samurai, I think them asking questions about it is a stretch.
Even if you point out all the logical fallacies and embellishments of the Yasuke story they will simply laugh it off as something that doesn't matter and you the fool for caring so much. Not super Wokies, but regularly normies don't care enough about those things to be reached.
20+ years ago you might have been able to, but its lost ground now and standing on it just weakens your marketable position on anything else.
Price wise and inflation is one of the few things you can always rely on normies questioning, but video games still remain pretty good deals for their price even at 70 or 80 short of something really bad.
People will blame Big Grocery™ and Greedflation™ when their chicken tendies go up by 30 cents, but ass-suck gamers will rush to defend publishers with "muh inflation" for price hikes and dogshit business models despite negative industry improvement even with the extra cash.
The problem is that most people don't notice monetary things until its egregious. When they start having to budget different and can see noticable different amounts for the same prior prices.
10$ off their monthly or even every other month purchase isn't enough to really get people emotionally upset, even if its highway robbery in terms of what it should be giving for that price.
Because the people who play Cod or AC or most normie games only buy a few yearly games and then play them for hundreds of hours until the next one comes out. That price difference is a drop in the bucket to them. Compared to most people here who probably buy multiple games a month where that shit is noticeable quick.