For the past few years, western game industry as a whole was in decline, everything around the game industry was slowly losing profit margin including the game journalism but for me the real satisfaction comes from seeing Ubisoft in final death knell. Without gamergate 2 happening last year I'm not sure the ruination of triple A game industry would have come quicker like it had.
What helped the ruin come quicker was also the arrogance of western game developers. Even after seeing Nu-Saints Row, Starfield and Redfall fail very badly, most of them didn't still get the message. They still chose to release Suicide squad meets justice capeshit game, Concord, Dustborn, Star Wars girlboss game, Silent Hill 2 remake etc because they thought they were too big to fail or something. They probably didn't anticipate so much negative feedback from gamers as a whole.
Whether these western game devs deny or not, I do think some of them lurk KotakuinAction Reddit board to gauge what the public opinions are, what they think is acceptable. The reason they don't go to big Gaming sub-reddit is they probably already are aware it is far-left echo chamber, thus I think just peeking Kotakuinaction sub-reddit is informative to measure the opinion of average gamers. Because a year ago, some of them didn't seem to mind pronouns or body type option and mods dismissing consultancy group existing in game industry as bullshit story). I think this is why western game devs as a whole were so complacent and even confident they were infallible.
This is why I give huge credit to Kabrutus for creating the steam curator whether it has Sweet baby inc attached to the games. That curator got the ball rolling with Sweetbaby staff chimping about it and game journos reeing about it. It happened in a very convenient timing when Twitter was no longer heavily censoring any dissenting voices against the far-left and there were more normies using it and finally noticing the DEI. Without that steam curator I'm not sure if it would have snowballed to avalanche as quick as it did.
I don't think Ubisoft counted on gamers suddenly realising that modern games are crap because of DEI that's why Ubisoft was completely banking on Star wars game and we was samurai game without any quality control. Western game devs were pretty complacent and quite shameless even that their games are deserving of high price tag because they believed (and to a lesser extent I also believed) western gamers in general were like this. They were absolutely taken aback the gamers would reject their games with absolute disregard. Because I know even Kiwifarm had trouble accepting modern games are crap because of DEI. And once again give thanks to Kabrutus for creating that Steam Curator. Without his action I'm not sure if things would have gone the way it is now.
I've noticed that criticising troons or tumblr gender nonsense in general seems to be far more aggravating to the left that speaking out about crappy women protagonists or shoehorned black characters. It seems to be the most sacred of their cows.
Yes, I can understand the growing fear that KIA had about getting banned for wrongthink - especially with R/thedonald getting killed in 2020 after years of being worn down, along with several other subs getting purged. I remember r/KIA2 had, after it went public again, a post about a long list of things that one user discovered you were not allowed to speak about or you would get banned off 90% of the whole site (The election, ivermectin being banned, the word Groomer, ETC). I don't know if the streisand effect would have helped them out if they got banned or quarantined, though it does seem like the reddit site is starting to become more lax with that.
In Québec there is absolutely no pushback whatsoever in any mainstream media against trooning kids.
Only ''news'' about things like a family and their ''daughter's'' ''much needed lifesaving'' chemical castration ( they use the lie ''puberty blockers'' ), mandatory enabling by everyone under threat of prosecution and loss of employement, loss of costudy, and pro mutilation surgeries.
Exactly 0 arguing there could be such a thing as ''too young to troon'', that some parents and teachers push this onto their child by brainwashing and attention rewards, so of course no discussion that this is something that should never be done on minors.
My people is almost as non-confrontational as the Japanese, and this is abused to Hell and back by nefarious people.
Much like the natives, it was disappointing how little resistance the Quebecois put up against COVID and the alphabet mafia, the worst of the Anglosphere globohomo influences.
For being such insular and distinct cultures, they both swallowed the Western gay race communism Kool-aid more wholesale than even a lot of the usual English-speaking communities.
Extremely distressing. Our government hired the same consulting firm almost the whole world did : McKinsey. Why are they hiring a consulting firm? The used hundreds of millions of taxpayers money, done by government employee supposed top experts, over the decades, to set-up emergency plans, and they had a pandemic plan ( which they ignored ). Were they sitting on their ass the whole time? ( They weren't. The orders to hire McKinsey came from pressure from above ).
Told the same lies, said they wouldn't implement a vaccine passport but two weeks later said they would ( clearly the orders from the WEF came in ).
McKinsey consulting firm had the same society-destroying, pseudo-scientific guidelines for the whole planet : lockdowns, bans on visits to natural helpers in care facilities, masks, forced vaccination through vaccine passports and threats of layoffs.
ALL our major political parties were on-board with this. Only the Conservative Party of Québec, a marginal 4th party which has very little to do with the Conservative Party of Canada, opposed lockdowns to make a name for itself.
I have no doubt had they been in power, they would have hired the same consulting firm and done the same lockdowns.
(CPQ is basically a semi-libertarian, pro-immigration party )
Federal conservatives would have done the same too.
There was nowhere to GTFO to in Canada to escape the insanity. At least in the USA you had South Dakota early on, then several large states like Florida.
French speakers who don't want to lose their culture have even fewer options.