Straight from the gay horse's mouth, KCD2 was made to appease the left
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Fuck him.
Anymore words than those 2 would be a waste of finger energy.
Just another ticket taker.
You know he could have said that before release and many would have understood. Instead he purposely lied and antagonized his audience.
Let's be honest, nobody would have "understood" lol. It would be taken as a betrayal, probably just as bad as what he's doing now
yep. from a cold-hearted marketing perspective, he played it right. Anyone who bought it hoping for authenticity is the fool.
moreover, anyone who repeatedly complained about it is also the fool, as it created a free marketing via internet shitstorm.
It paid off in the short term, but his credibility is in the toilet, the bridge is burned with a majority of players.
His next project might suffer because of it. The industry is littered with the carcasses of hotshot directors who pissed off gamers.
Hmmm, I think some would understand that compromises are sometimes necessary. I agree the majority of those folks wouldn't populate this board.
Compromises are what got us here. Never Apologize to Libs is the mantra for a good reason.
It would have been taken as what it was? How unexpected.
Him shutting up and saying nothing would've been better.
Certainly would be better than antagonizing your base
I don't think so and I don't think I believe him here. Usually I am not one of those that points to the protected class of people but in this case he is of a Certain tribe that is known to lie even to their god... Just wanted to point that out there.
I highly doubt anyone would've understood anything he said before release why they added gays, girl bosses, ugly harpies and a nog for no reason.
Those people do that.
He's still lying. It's not self-censored it's woke. He and his team finally got to push the "Europe is far better today than in the past, just look how antisemitic we used to be" message they always wanted to push. This was very important to them. I'm tired of hearing this cope from people that "he's a sellout".
They had "religious" and racial minority consultants. I assume those consultants are just activists so makes sense.
You just know SBI were in the mix there somewhere, probably operating under a different name.
yeah.. KCD2 and Oblivion is why we gonna lose.. too many tourists and fairweathers. they can add trannies, make everyone be black and add pedo stuff in those games and people will buy it up just because of the name/brand.
They can add as much woke nonsense as they want as long as they ratchet it back just enough that on the fence reviewers can say "Hey it's not as bad as we thought! Guys it's not really woke!" Normies always fall back to the perceived center when they can, so you just have to legitimize the idea that your critics are going too extreme the other way. Also load all the woke virtue signaling into the 2nd half of the game so fewer people notice it. (most people never finish these games - see: BG3) Critics focused on the fictional black guy because he was low-hanging fruit, while ignoring problems with the main story itself.
yeah. its equivalent to trump's business deals and tactics. you make an outrageous offer. the opponent says no. then you offer the REAL offer, the one you wanted all along or expected. the opponent will think they are in control and accept it.
pricing too. model 2024 sells for 2,000usd. then you announce the new 2025 model that is almost same as the old model and that it will sell for 5,000usd. there will be backlash, then you reduce it to 3,000usd. majority will buy because "at least its not 5,000usd". it works so much in consumerism.
I'm just so fed up with this specific type of "gamer". If you actually loved the genre you'd want to go back to the roots, alas they do not and are at most tourists. I have become a bit of an anti woke absolutist when it comes to games. I don't want that shit in there, I am fine playing older games or games that don't do retarded BS like that.
There's a reason my game purchases have absolutely cratered over the last decade. Plenty of good masterpieces to revisit and nothing good coming out.
Don't forget new gems to discover! I played less Gamecube games back then because I just did not have a gamecube, now I can go there and play tons of classics from there.
Completely agree. People will complain while buying it.
That explains why you can't go full Deus Vult, but adding gay sex and a black ubermench was entirely on them.
He's the worst kind of milquetoast fucking retard, the kind who doesn't have any underlying principles and only starts to behave like he has them out of spite, when called out on something. He defended KCD1 to spite his bad faith critics, not because he really believed in the freedom to make a 99% all-white game about an all-white area in an all-white period, but just because it annoyed him to be criticised.
Since he gets annoyed at being criticised, he didn't want it to happen again, so like you said he took the criticism on board even though he knew it was in bad faith - he straight up refers to it as 'the stuff they pulled the first time.' Obviously he then gets criticism for being a fucking sellout. And his reaction is once again spite aimed at his critics, and talking as if the second bunch of critics (who supported Vavra and the first game despite the bad faith smears) are exactly the same kind of people as the first. To Vavra, they are the same kind of people: his enemies, anyone who criticises him. Fucking insect-brained moron.
Vavra sounds like he's up on his cross and also retarded. If he truly isn't covering for studio pressure, then he has an ego the size of an elephant's ballsack.
Wow, so basically he pozzed the game to try to appease liberal Czech actors.
He also said that he was afraid of getting fired because he was no longer the CEO. He did previously say that no one told him what he can or can't do but it seems that the fear was enough
No shit. Was pretty obvious when they not only added a bunch of diversity and faggotry where it didn't belong, they gaslit anyone who saw it in the early leaks and such.
So that image of the brown dude really did throw a wrench into the plan, huh?
All he had to do was just say nothing, and especially not antagonize the audience.
That was a dumb move, because it made people run through the game with a fine toothed comb and point out everything he said he didn't want in the game is now in the sequel, and then some.
Ultimately he could have stayed independent and kickstarted the sequel, then it could have been exactly like he wanted.
Now we all know that nothing good will come from any studio under the Deep Silver umbrella.
What's crazy to me is they did the complete opposite for Kingdom come Deliverance 1. They were like we're making a historical game. You will not see things in our game that wasn't part of Bohemia. But when that Black rock money rolls in...
Duh.
3 million copies.
I'm bad with numbers, is that good or bad in today's standards?
It's exceptionally good for a AA dev.
They’re claiming it was only 41 million to develop, that would be immaculate because the original was 36 million to develop. I’m betting they lied about cost or massively outsourced their production.
They made their budget back on the first millions but still half of the first game. Definitely a success but either not enough for investors or he just feels guilty for betraying the right.