Companies are actively disassociating themselves from Sweet Baby Inc. The $400 million losses by Sony on projects like Concord and the tiny player population demonstrates what ways the winds are blowing.
Despite activists burning down the Lore to retcon Trans surgeries in 40K and such. People vote with their money - involvement and 3D printers.
Make things as Woke as you like. Does it sell? Will people willingly play it? Assuming you don’t have false manipulative marketing like Neil Druckmann’s Last of Us 2 putting Joel in an advert when they killed him off at the start of the game.
Activists doing activism and killing multi million $$$ franchises and intellectual properties. The paying customer - content consumer decides its value. Not the Woke activists.
i prolly should have said it more clear, there is an bigger information warfare campaign going on in here at the west to split us apart. And the hands are obviously even in play here.
just look at the timings when this “culture” started to pop up and compare it to other things what is happening in the world its no coincidence. But yeah im agreeing with the problem which it has caused cause so many franchises ive loved have died cause of all this
Obviously there is activism but its much more sinister things going behind all this just have to connect the dots to see the big picture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
It is no conspiracy. Something similar happened when multiple news channels reported the exact same message.
That DEI and ESG is everywhere. That they are using movies and tv shows to push preferred pronouns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbB0iowlT1I
these are not coincidences. There is pushback. The Budlight Boycott demonstrated that the paying custome actually matters. In the games Industry IGN is a joke. Their negative review of Black Myth Wukong contributed to its sales as it is seen more as a positive endorsement their “not enough diversity” review. 10 million sales in 5 days and counting.
So yes. They aim to use entertainment - industries with a global platform and reach for social engineering.
WoW is not exception.
If you’re going to peddle unsubstantiated right-wing propaganda garbage you could at least get the literal basic facts right. IGN gave Black Myth Wukong an 8/10.
There has been so much funneled money into this thing from certain country while they play even otherside of the politics. This is just an mass out all in to make us all fight each other literally so the country will have easier time with their main goal. this started already in 2010s the signs were there. We are all being literally being played
Activists in positions of power. PURPOSEFULLY gave Black Myth Wukong a negative review specifically mentioning a “Lack of Diversity” then going on to accuse the studio of sexism and misogyny.
There is a legal defition: Torturous interference. This is when someone interferes with your business or company that actively cause harm to your business.
So because they do not bow down to the ideology such as DEI and ESG that Black Myth Wukong rejected. Activists trying to harm their business and minimize sales of their games.
Twobare will never admit it. But you are a lying liar that lies.
Do your research first. It had a reverse effect. “Lacking diversity” translated to “Not Woke” for gamers and paying customers.
Disney Star Wars the Acolyte seems to have cost $230 million not the initial $180 million. Concord cost $400 million. Both of these titles and projects are rammed full with DEI and ESG political and ideological directives. Both of these cost hundreds of millions of $$$ with no return for their investors.
The Market rejected both titles.
2010s is the rise of Wokeness but 2020s seems to be where it is largely being rejected by respective audiences.
More and more people are asking: Where is the modern audience?
As things “adapted for the modern audience” consistently fails.
Literally go to the review of Black Myth Wukong and read it. They gave it an 8/10 and did not mention diversity. Another article on the site brought it up, but the review had nothing to do with it. These are basic verifiable facts.
IGN negatively reviewed Black Myth Wukong for it’s “Lack of diversity”.
Due to the backlash they might have tried to hide this. But you can not delete things from the internet. It was marked down based on ideological reasons. Not having DEI and ESG.
This is one of the many things that damage IGN’s credibility that is already waning.
The backlash was due to so many negative responses for marking the game for “lacking diversity”.
You seem to disagree with facts.
Lying to yourself still makes you a liar.
IGN tried to make Concord and Dustborn comparable to Black Myth Wukong. Since Concord and Dustborn aligned with the politics and ideology of the activists. But not in terms of player populations interests and sales.
I have seen the IGN reviews. You should look into it. I mention things that can be verified. Not bury my head in the sand.
These game of the year awards lost their credibility when The Last of Us 2 was selected. Especially when it was released in the same year of Ghosts of Tsushima.
IGN is ideologically driven. To pretend otherwise is just lying to yourselves.
IGN hasnt had credibility for over 14 years , they always gave better reviews for companies that paid more, and even were paid to say somethings. So this isnt anything new or big. But outrage causes more clicks too
No matter what evidence is provided. You reject facts and evidence.
That says more about you than anyone else.
Yes. However being an organisation full of activists ruins whatever shreds of credibility you once had.
Some might follow the like of IGN and then be mislead. It’s kind of why “games journalist” is a joke. They are either bought and paid for shills or Woke activists.
You are yet to actually provide the evidence in the form of the review where they mark the game down for not having diversity. The review does not mention this, and gives the game 8/10. The final quote of the review is:
As GameScience’s debut action game, Black Myth: Wukong is mostly a great success, despite some major technical black marks and localization issues that are likely to cause some frustrations at launch. Combat is fantastic thanks to a great balance of careful resource management and lightning-fast, twitch-reaction gameplay that tested my skills as much as Elden Ring ever has, despite being a more traditional action game than FromSoftware’s style. Not only that, but there are a ton of exciting boss battles, a great variety of enemies, and the world they inhabit is an absolute treat for the eyes and ears. Its story has its moments but relies a bit too much on having prior knowledge of the events of Journey to the West, and it really could have used a map to make its rewarding exploration measure up to the strength of its combat. That said, its strengths more than carry it through, making Black Myth: Wukong a great action game that could be even greater if GameScience can squash the bugs.
GO AND READ THE REVIEW. STOP REPEATING STUFF YOU HEARD ON YOUTUBE THROUGH A GAME OF TELEPHONE THAT’S TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU OF FAR RIGHT TALKING POINTS.
Game journalists were always a joke, even before all this. I still remember everyone joking about ign in early 2010s. It is hardly anything new in this department. This is kind of build outcry, as i said money talks
There was a backlash against their ideologically driven review. So naturally they will do damage control.
I have to call Uncle though.
Rejecting facts and evidence means there is no discourse that can be had.
They push for access - are adversarial to the paying customers - run damage control for bad games including bugs.
Yes they are a joke. But similar to mainstream media outlets. Some are still being misled.
You have Concord literally saying “there is no Woke mind virus” and what passes of for gameplay is removing “disinformation” directly from peoples brains.
You’re not supposed to notice things anymore. Even though feminine black women exist they are the scapegoat of DEI and ESG. Faerin is androgynous and masculine nothing feminine at all in appearance. Neve of DragonAge Veilguard is also masculine and disabled with only one leg.
Activists overdone it to the point that DragonAge Veilguard is blacklisted among various countries.
Can the intellectual property survive Woke Activism?
Disney Star Wars is dead. As is Doctor Who. Two very long running franchises that were taken over by activists.
Blizzard devs will continue alienating their players until they question what reason do they log in if at all.
Just to have the World of WokeCraft pushed on them.
As i said we are being played, it isnt anykind of culture war it is more complicated than that. Also i wouldnt trust these channels either that makes money from public outrage they tend to spin the narrative around. There is an issue obviously but it isnt at all what these people push. 2 truths one lie between em tactic
Social media is not 100% Trustworthy yet multiple sources and ones own research can secure information.
For example Kirsten Hines and Pamela Burges are two DEI officers employed by Blizzard. One Chief DEI officer another Global DEI officer.
So what people are getting is DEI characters and World of WokeCraft. Removed from the fantasy world that players once new and now inserted current year politics ideology and agendas.
My point was that activists in position of power are ideologically driven first. Even though feminine Black Woman exist. Offline and in gaming. Androgynous or masculine women are being pushed. For the quest of “Inclusivity” of ugly and or trans women (biological males) they Exclude attractive and or biological females.
Concord specifically EXCLUDED White Males. On another post I demonstrated how White Males are consistently being Excluded - Such as Google Gemini AI that produced images of Black and Indian Cathloic Popes - Black American founding fathers of the United States of America - The straw that broke the camels back and Google Gemini AI was pulled is 1943 German soldiers that were Black and Asian.
Yes there is an overall agenda being pushed and yes it is filtering through companies and industries.
This is why Saudi Arabia had to have a Woke and LGBT propaganda free version of Spiderman 2 which Insomniac remove. Brian Intihar is not the only activist in Insomniac. Dragon Age Veilguard is being blacklisted. Seemingly for pushing Trans Propaganda. Since the activists there does not permit curvy women with body sliders. But they do permit chest scars for post op Trans people. Remember Dragon Age has Transformation magic so there should be no reason for surgeons or “gender affirming” stuff.
With a wide roster of feminine Black female characters like Killer Instincts Orchid - Resident Evil’s Shiva Alomar - Street Fighters Elena.
Black women are targeted as the scapegoat for DEI.
Faerin is 100% a DEI character and looks like something from the roster of Concord. Captain Garrick appears to be a single mother which also leans into negative stereotypes about the Black family and some of them not having fathers.
Those that push Inclusivity do Exclude others on the basis of Skin Color and Ethnicity along other things as well.
Weak males and masculine girl bosses. This is the World of WokeCraft now.
So to be clear, you provide no evidence for your claims, continue to insist on them in the face of evidence to the contrary, then gesture conspiracy, and then turn around and say I’m the one that’s rejected facts and evidence.