DEI was an outside influence making games worse, but half the reasons its failing would be happening regardless of that.
Microtransactions, ballooning costs, live service models, F2P, were all pure capitalism and would have happened regardless.
That's without getting into the more detailed failings, like the weakening of "role playing" aspects to instead tell a straight story, the yellow paint menace, and things like esport chasing and multiplayer focused games.
I think DEI just accelerated the enshittification of the gaming industry. It was the straw that finally broke the back of the gaming industry and showed us out fucking corrupt and out of touch it was.
They essentially pulled their own fucking accelerationism.
Now here's a counter black pill to add to all this: Monster Hunter Wilds sold. and you know how fucking screwed Capcom is when it comes to their DEI shit. Capcom is less Japanese and more Westernized now and it shows with their shitty designs.
Agreed, DEI is just a single factor that only worked to piss people off directly instead of boiling them slow, and made resistance that much stronger.
you know how fucking screwed Capcom is when it comes to their DEI shit
Capcom is completely schizophrenic. Somedays they are more Woke than Western companies and other times they release games that you cannot believe exist. Drawing a consistent line there is incredibly difficult because of how many counter examples exist, though that doesn't undo the fact that certain Woke things do exist if you have a harder stance on it.
As for Wilds, people barely can even see any problematic elements because the game barely functions for like half the player base due to shit optimization.
DEI was an outside influence making games worse, but half the reasons its failing would be happening regardless of that.
Microtransactions, ballooning costs, live service models, F2P, were all pure capitalism and would have happened regardless.
That's without getting into the more detailed failings, like the weakening of "role playing" aspects to instead tell a straight story, the yellow paint menace, and things like esport chasing and multiplayer focused games.
I think DEI just accelerated the enshittification of the gaming industry. It was the straw that finally broke the back of the gaming industry and showed us out fucking corrupt and out of touch it was.
They essentially pulled their own fucking accelerationism.
Now here's a counter black pill to add to all this: Monster Hunter Wilds sold. and you know how fucking screwed Capcom is when it comes to their DEI shit. Capcom is less Japanese and more Westernized now and it shows with their shitty designs.
Agreed, DEI is just a single factor that only worked to piss people off directly instead of boiling them slow, and made resistance that much stronger.
Capcom is completely schizophrenic. Somedays they are more Woke than Western companies and other times they release games that you cannot believe exist. Drawing a consistent line there is incredibly difficult because of how many counter examples exist, though that doesn't undo the fact that certain Woke things do exist if you have a harder stance on it.
As for Wilds, people barely can even see any problematic elements because the game barely functions for like half the player base due to shit optimization.