"DEI wasn't the reason this game was bad / shut down / didn't sell well" etc
Especially from gaming journalists.
Y'know, let's say I believe you, (I don't) but for the sake of argument, I'll meet you half way there. A lot of games have come and gone this year, and I've noticed DEI at every single one of their funerals. It might not be the only cause, but when a game dies, there they are. That's a little suspect don't you think?
Secondly, if DEI wasn't an issue (it's totally not you guys) where the fuck is the audience this was for? Why make a 200 million dollar game (potentially 300 million with marketing and advertising) only for less than 25,000 people?
It's almost like the modern audience isn't there. And you're only making this to help kill big studios so we can't have nice things.
Yep, Forspoken, Hyenas, Concord, Suicide Squad, etc, all were heavily pushing leftist politics and were subsequently ignored by the vast majority of the gaming audience.
A paid Overwatch clone is a hard sell to start with, throw ugly ass DEI characters in it and you get an even tougher sell. It was a generic version of multiple free games, shit was fucked from the start.
Does $300 million down the drain really mean anything when the money is all fake and gay to begin with? If the entire budget for this disaster was just money laundered into the company's coffers directly from the money printer going brrr because evil people want this abomination made...would we even know and would it actually force the company to reconsider its actions? I don't think it would and I fear that scenario is more plausible than zero.
You know what I noticed a lot of?
"DEI wasn't the reason this game was bad / shut down / didn't sell well" etc
Especially from gaming journalists.
Y'know, let's say I believe you, (I don't) but for the sake of argument, I'll meet you half way there. A lot of games have come and gone this year, and I've noticed DEI at every single one of their funerals. It might not be the only cause, but when a game dies, there they are. That's a little suspect don't you think?
Secondly, if DEI wasn't an issue (it's totally not you guys) where the fuck is the audience this was for? Why make a 200 million dollar game (potentially 300 million with marketing and advertising) only for less than 25,000 people?
It's almost like the modern audience isn't there. And you're only making this to help kill big studios so we can't have nice things.
Overwatch and Apex already have the DEI shooter audience. And even Overwatch had to start with attractive characters.
Yeah, Overwatch morphed into the freakshow it is now over time, and the transition ;) was also spread over two games. Boiling frog for sure.
Yep, Forspoken, Hyenas, Concord, Suicide Squad, etc, all were heavily pushing leftist politics and were subsequently ignored by the vast majority of the gaming audience.
Dustborn and Flintlock come to mind as well.
All the games you mentioned and I mentioned had one thing in common.
And now we have Fairgame$ to look forward to.
A paid Overwatch clone is a hard sell to start with, throw ugly ass DEI characters in it and you get an even tougher sell. It was a generic version of multiple free games, shit was fucked from the start.
Does $300 million down the drain really mean anything when the money is all fake and gay to begin with? If the entire budget for this disaster was just money laundered into the company's coffers directly from the money printer going brrr because evil people want this abomination made...would we even know and would it actually force the company to reconsider its actions? I don't think it would and I fear that scenario is more plausible than zero.