It happened in 2014, bud. Of course the woke existed and were gaining power prior to that. Have a good day, and try to stop mocking your friends. They're having a fun time! You wouldn't want them to think of you as a joyless asshole!
This isn't like 2012
No you said it didn’t happen
Oh... oh God no. This is hard to read.
What year did Gamergate happen there, chief?
muh wizard troon
Meanwhile, the real ones have publicly self-immolated and have lost influence in the market.
You literally just said that didn’t happen…
No, I said their tantrum didn't work. (It didn't work with Gamergate, either; the journo outlets that we targeted are now widely regarded as dead, with YouTubers taking over as trusted reviewers, but that's a different discussion.) The game is bigger than it ever would have been without them, and they look like unmitigated jackasses to be ignored (or, to hear them tell it, actively mocked and LITERALLY GENOCIDED) on the road to obscene profit. Their next cancelation attempt will be weakened, perhaps dramatically, by this, and that's a good thing.
You apparently forgot how rampant psychotic the journos got during gamergate
And that's one of the things that lead to near total collapse in media trust. That trick has gotten old, and it didn't work on HL.
playing a game with a troon in it is “owning the enemies”
It is. They spoke it loudly into existence and made themselves the butt of the joke.
It's circumstance that made this game popular.
I thought it was the spiteful marketing campaign that makes the woke religion the butt of the joke for the first time ever. At any rate, even if you're correct, that isn't how the situation appears to most people.
Nobody with power is then.
Kind of true, if you don't count every gaming journo outlet, Wired, CNN...
idiot girls wanting to do it because of the male privilege they heard so much about.
Why would the people in power -- who again, use them as some of their most zealous stormtroopers -- care if some idiot peasant girl wants to become an indentured bearded lady to Big Pharma?
It's as popular as the Xbox
So, like I said...
No, I hate CDPR. Making the same game three times and getting it right on the third try is not an achievement.
Oh. I didn't get into the series until Witcher 3 was already on a discount. I was happy with my purchase.
It would be a shock if it didn't outsell the last pile of Harry Potter branded trash
You mean the one released at the height of the franchise's popularity? You'd pick the one released after a decade of diminished relevance and several movie flops? Why?
a marketing campaign to encourage people to buy it out of spite
Yes. And it worked. Whether they meant it that way or not, that's what happened. You tell me the last time wokies were the butt of a marketing campaign. This diminishes their next cancelation attempt.
I want you to know I'm not downvoting you.
So it had a better first week in irrelevant dead media than GTA San Andreas or Warcraft 3 had in their entire first weeks. It's still fair to say it's setting records.
Again, it's now #1 and #2 on Steam after weeks of sitting in the top 5. I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers, since they won't release hard sales numbers for some time.
Anything could become popular when every eSport is on off-season and there's no new games to gain hype.
Sure, and nothing ever has become this popular. What a coincidence.
Nobody is trying to cancel it.
Bullshit.
If anything, mainstream media are helping it.
True.
They know exactly what they're doing.
Do they? Do they know that they are throwing some of their most zealous stormtroopers -- ones that have now pushed thousands of men and boys into castration -- under the bus?
Because I don't use it or care about it.
I see, but I think it's considerably more popular than the Microsoft store.
The Witcher
Do you just hate open world adventures or something?
Cyberpunk 2077
Got roasted on launch, to the point that it was seen as a sales disappointment.
Also because console platforms don't have third party storefronts that can skew the results, like the Epic Store or Origin.
I guess. As sketchy as Epic is, and as sketchy as the others have the potential to become, I still think it's better to have some kind of competition rather than a megacorporate enforced monopoly.
Wait... so it sold more physical copies than any other game in UK history, despite physical copies being dead? In the UK, they sold more irrelevant dead versions of HL than total sales of, say, GTA Vice City or Kingdom Hearts? Then it went on to become the most concurrently viewed game in Twitch history, as well as the number one AND number two game on Steam for the week ending yesterday (up from #2 and #4 last week, so I am not sure where you're getting your numbers). Sorry, dude, but it's absolutely fair to say that it set records, and to enjoy the abject humiliation.
edit: the game examples, since I went too far back.
Fine, it's the best-selling game in UK history, the most-viewed game of all time on Twitch, and is sitting at number 1 AND number 2 on Steam for the week ending February 19th (up from #2 and #4). This is despite every click bait rag attempting to cancel it.
Atomic Heart will pass it in the sales chart this week on the Microsoft Store
a) sure, that would be fine with me, b) that's a weird qualifier. Why not Steam?
I mean, keep mocking your friends. That helps. And absolutely don't use our enemies' very public unforced humiliation against them. Let them turn the sales records into ACKSHUALLY them owning the chuds because glorious trans wizard utopia and also all of their boycott shit has been memory holed. Because it's done. The sales records are set, no matter how salty you want to be about it.
This isn't like 2012, where media was still seen as somewhat trustworthy, and gentle articles were coming out about how "we all need to do better." This was a full-blown, spittle flecked, psychotic public meltdown.
(Your guy is English, by the way, and can be white. Genuinely not sure where this "can't be Scottish" thing is coming from.)
Troons screamed not good enough
Yes. And that is going to be what those normies and corporates are going to take away from this. That it's okay -- no, richly rewarded -- to ignore whatever they're screaming about (and the ones that actually followed the game will know the woke elements got the devs nothing but an attempted boycott). The first time is always the hardest. It only gets easier and easier.
Reposting what I said elsewhere:
And yet, this is still the biggest rebuke cancel culture has suffered in quite a while. They took a product -- that was targeted at them, mind you -- and very publicly announced that they were taking it down and ruining anybody who so much as dared to play it.
The product went on to set sales records, despite the entire weight of the insane Left and journo-industrial complex doing everything they could to cancel it. Everybody saw them fail miserably. Instead of caving, everybody gave them a stiff middle finger. And everyone saw the money absolutely pouring in in response.
The game could literally be "Woke Simulator 2023" and, due to their foolish, colossal public blunder, the sheer runaway success of it would still be a huge slap in their faces.
They just randomly humilated themselves in front of every corpo (that isn't actively bought off), normie, and Harry Potter fan on the planet. Let them.
I'm not sure where you're from, but in America, it isn't happening. The WNBA has been hemorrhaging money, propped up by the NBA, since it was founded. Futurama dunked on them (0:14) years ago (which is good, because they cant dunk themselves). Soccer has a niche here, but I've never heard of anyone following the women's team besides a minor burst of interest during the World Cup. As far as I'm aware, there hasn't been a women's pro baseball league since 1954, when the AAGPBL closed up shop. About the only sports where enough people watch to pay them good salaries are tennis (which is also kind of niche, nowhere near the popularity of the other sports here) and MMA (where they benefit from being part of a scheduled, mixed fight card, even if they are not the headliners).
As you know if you've been following this sub, though, they are trying to push the whole "women in X" narrative with basically everything. What you're probably seeing is Americans rolling their eyes at yet another attempt to force this.
We exposed another health bar of perhaps the most significant "boss" in human history and y'all want to say that we failed? Before GG, the mainstream position was that the media was mostly trustworthy. Today, not only has trust in the media cratered and actually become a mainstream topic of conversation, but it's also become mainstream to believe that Epstein didn't kill himself and that a cabal of elites conspires to control world events.
Our initial, focused and agreed upon Operation Disrespectful Nod was a resounding success. Kotaku itself has been sold and resold for less and less each time. VICE has been written down (by Disney, who are having their own problems) into literal worthlessness. No one has thought about Leigh "I AM Games Journalism" Alexander (or really, any of the other Literally Whos) in years. Gaming websites are widely acknowledged as dead, with YouTubers taking over as credible reviewers. Massive layoffs are sweeping through not just gaming journalism, but the media at large. Frosk's infamous woke rant was met with the swift destruction of her entire network and her ignominious exit from the industry.
Woke project after woke project has bombed or badly disappointed. Off the top of my head: Ghostbusters 2016, Terminator, Charlie's Angels, Watchmen (HBO), She-Hulk, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Rings of Power, Bros, Lightyear, West Side Story, and on and on. Star Wars has been such a profound disappointment for Disney that there are no new movies in production. It is literally reduced to a streaming TV show.
If there hadn't been another health bar, this battle would have been decisively over years ago. But we helped expose the seemingly unlimited amount of money being poured into woke causes by a cabal of wealthy elites. We were instrumental in exposing that second health bar by easily crushing the first, and it's become a legitimately hot topic of conversation.
The lies have already started, and they have already had an effect. The "so-called" (by the media) "Don't Say Gay" bill happened under his watch. That's what inspired my comment. He will be painted as a "notorious homophobe" (and therefore transphobe nazi racist sexist) and he will suddenly be "shooting himself in the foot" constantly -- if you listen to the media. It's already happened.
doesn't give the media free ammo
Of course he will. At least if he would actually be a good president.
RON: I am signing an executive order making it illegal to discriminate based on race.
NYT: DESANTIS' SO-CALLED "CONTINUE THE OPPRESSION" ORDER IS TYRANNICAL, RACIST
RON: No mask mandates are allowed.
WAPO: DESANTIS' "PUBLIC NUDITY IN FRONT OF CHILDREN" ORDER IS RACIST, WOULD KILL 9,999,999,999 GRANDMAS OF COLOR
Don freaking Lemon in 2013 lmao