catfishing is KILLING gaming | Dragon Age Veilguard Roast
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What the fuck. Catfishing is when someone pretends to be a hot girl to lure in (usually stupid YouTube personalities) desperate victims and extort them.
Sounds like it applies to me. The studios are pretending to still be the people that made that one game to lure in (usually stupid youtube personalities) desperate victims and extort them with MTX.
That's bait and switch. The bait is them selling it on expectation that it's the competent game devs that made it and is actually good, the switch is that it's made by retards.
Catfishing is literally a bait and switch though. The bait is the "hot chick" being presented and the switch is that its a completely different person baiting you in.
But "hot chick" isn't what they're advertising. These games are advertising mannish freaks.
Apparently the term is from a movie with an at least reasonably attractive catfish.
We used to call it the Gypsy switch. Hence the phrase "What a gyp!"
Every time they pump out a new Halo game, or a new Battlefield, or whatever CDPR puts out next, what do you think they are doing?
They are using the prestige of the brand's past (i.e., the hot girl) to lure people in who are desperate for good entertainment (i.e., the victims) to part from them their cash and infuse them with the woke mind virus.
It's the same concept, and we see it apply time and time and time over again. A really good example is Grand Theft Auto 6. Countless people will tell you that they cannot wait to play it, and that "Rockstar is anti-woke and only makes good games", though unbeknownst to the normies, almost all of the core Rockstar developers and producers who made all of the big sellers have either left the company or have been fired. It's a shell of its former self, yet people are convinced GTA 6 will be "peak Rockstar". It will not. They will be proverbially catfished into a woke game that may be mechanically competent.
The real question is: how many people lured into the trap will accept the woke mind virus and how many people will reject it?
While certainly what most are going to go with for the concept it's being used here regarding luring in unwitting customers.