Any industry insiders here? Why do they keep greenlighting those obviously wokeshit liveservice games that right wing grifters are going to dunk on?
>>733709772Its the equivalent of “every day until you like it”
>>733709772geoff keighley is a subhuman
>>733709816But Sakurafish got banned.
>>733709772I work in this industry in Paris and I have access to those who finance us. In short, the investors who put the money on the table don't want bad publicity and prefer to earn a steady million rather than five million with media scandals. They don't want to see feminists shouting, etc. They want stable, uncompromising income.
>>733709772I once saw some woman in the movie industry commenting/defending those kind of flops and she said that "it doesnt matter if it does well or not as long as it sends a message".So its just propaganda and possibly money laundering through those dogshit woke projects.Another theory is that someone is running these studios into the ground on purpose to devalue them and them buy them for garage sale prices.
>>733709772Making a good game is a risky bussiness.Selling out to government for guaranteed money is much saver. Thats why its popular. And you are paying for it anyway because government money is just tax money taken from you.If you want more look also at how loans work. We have now esg-linked loans where your loan cost depends on how much you sell out.
>>733709772>Why do they keep greenlighting those obviously wokeshit liveservice games that right wing grifters are going to dunk on?Because Overwatch was popular ten years ago
>>733710152But these games are exponentially expensive and more often than not don't make their money back.
>>733709772>>733710273https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwwN5kwjAtQ
All these games were greenlit during COVID when investor capital was flowing into the industry like crazy.
>>733710273>Another theory is that someone is running these studios into the ground on purpose to devalue them and them buy them for garage sale prices.I once saw a elite autist post a whole dissertation of dug up information here. He made a case of china having a "project hero" that aims to foster woke in western and japanese studios to sabotage their gaming industries with the goal of taking the market over as they continue to publish their own games without. Basically force gamers to buy chinese games as the only ones left not doing it.The recent highguard case reminded me of that again.
>>733710286>Selling out to government for guaranteed money is much saverIt safer for devs but it completely backfired on goverments that were supporting that shit. Turns out, nigger savages will be nigger savages no matter how much representation they have in the media or what % of them is employed in any field. Most niggers are still violent criminal subhumans, most Jeets dont know how to behave like human beings so they move to the west and shit in the street, and pollute rivers with their cancer ass statues of shit gods, most muzzies just form parallel communities and wait until its their time to stab you in the back, all while leeching off social programs. No amount of propaganda will ever correct subhuman behavior that every normal person sees in the streets.
>>733709772Games have been in development for awhile and far too costly to change them at this point. Have to release them and hope for the best. This what they get chasing 'the next big thing' instead of trying to make something innovative themselves
>>733710835>china having a "project hero" that aims to foster woke in western and japanese studios to sabotage their gaming industries with the goal of taking the market over as they continue to publish their own games withoutI dont know how can China take over anything when their own "goverment safe" games are boring as shit. And even Chinks dont like them. And when it comes to Japan, they shot themselves in the foot a long time ago. Their big business is pure cancer and their bureaucracyis pure hell.
>>733709772>The beatings will continue until morale improves
>>733709772They were all greenlit 6 years ago, when everyone was going crazy from COVID lockdown and SJW wokeism was at the peak of it's cultural power. They all thought Democratic Socialism and the modern audience was the future, because it looked like they were on the brink of winning the culture war.
>>733710286Its basically this, the government donors just see it as a propaganda investment, it doesn't matter if its a flop or not. You already paid for it. Also it doesn't affect the higher level positions at the companies when they go under because they just company hop for free using their resume and nepotism. For example the most reviled designer in recent memory, the concord character designer, already has another major character design gig.
>>733710991thats simply a lie the west tells.Try chinese google app store with VPN and you will see the same games are much less censored. So they are censoring games for our western market not for themself and we get told we have freedom and china is worse from our own propaganda outlets.
>>733710372Rich people have more money than sense. Its why they shouldnt have as much influence as they do, they inspire mediocrity
>>733710372but does it bring a million
its because if a live service game is successful it makes a gajillion dollars more than any other type of game. talking about propaanda and shit is schizo nonsense, the designs are like that because they are "safe diverse" which means reusing the same tropes for every poc character in every game. even the blacks hate the dei dreads style thats in every aaa game now
>>733709772Was Highguard even 'woke'?It had non-White characters in the marketing - I think that's it?
>>733711301China censors heavily, just in different ways.The CCP is as easily triggered as the average demisexual genderfluid hyper-leftist high school girl.
>>733711559it had the generic mulatto frontman but really that was never what broke its back.all characters were too generic and the game concept was extremely insulting.it looked like the blandest possible corporate product.
>>733709772Because making a takes takes time. These genes were all greenlit years ago
>>733711301I don't want a game who all talks about being "non-woke" I just want a good game
>>733711670>demisexual genderfluid hyper-leftist high school girl.you are still living a decade ago in your mind, this shit hasn't been the case in ages. high school girls are sluts who listen to sabrina carpenter and shit now
jews fund woke gamesit's that simple
Very few games have a life as long as a GTA V, and even then I'm sure nowadays 80% of GTA V sales are when it's on sale. I know nothing about the numbers, but what they think must be something like "a hit offline game would give us 20M in profit, but most of it would be during the first year. A hit gaas game can give us 20M in profit every year, look at Fortnite!" so they spend millions on trying to be the next Fortnite because in their mind it'll end up happening, they're big suits, they never fail.
>>733711763problem it ugly characters is what woke means. They literally have "not conventionally attractive" in their checkbox list.Ugly people producing ugly characters will always be worse than china pumping out big titty 10/10 marriage material characters. All they are doing is pumping out same games with hotter characters and thats gonna be enough to win.
>>733709772They live in a bubble. Games cost so much to make that the first priority is always "Make sure it appeals to as many people as possible." And that always leads to technically impressive graphics and Burger King Kids Club characters covered in MCU foil and doodads. They're so risk averse that they keep greenlighting shit that absolutely no one will give a fuck about, but looks fancy while all of its story and character content can be explained in a shotgun briefing over the demo. And that demo consists of nothing but "This game is X, Y and Z games that are already popular, but better, with our own flair!." They don't want to tell stories that reinforce the things we all agree are good. They don't want to tell stories of flawed people who redeem themselves, and they don't want to tell stories that make history or mythology feel a little bit more personal. All they want to do is take trendy cookie cutter progressive themes they don't actually believe in and sell them to people who aren't going to become slavish consumers no matter what their games are about. Really, they don't want to tell stories at all. They want to get people hooked on live services, constantly drip feeding money into the same product, being augmented with much smaller content drops forever.They want fanatics who obsess over aesthetics and pandering, not people who'll judge their creative decisions. And it never works. When players obviously aren't happy with that, they cry and whine about being brigaded by a minority of the audience ruining their reputation just for trying to make an impact on the world and set an example.They're going to take the wrong lessons like they do every time. Every big publisher is going to shit out a fake Silksong with no depth and insincere representation politics. They're going to shit out fake Mewgenics with faux 2000's art styles and soulless gross out humor that came from a copywriter's desk. Just like they did with TF2, Fortnite and Dark Souls.
>>733711930I don't give a fuck about the tits I want a fun game again, like Dawn of War or TF2
>>733711559Main character had zoomer hair.Turns out not even zoomers want to play zoomers, just like ugly people don't want to play ugly characters.
>>733711778According to the media, teenagers are barely having sex at all. They're all puriteens now.
>>733711965>Just like they did with TF2, Fortnite and Dark Souls.Examples (besides 'concordlikes')? Especially of Dark Souls since I like soulslikes and have played a bunch of them.
>>733711981who cares? People gonna buy goonhammer over troonhammer. They are copypasting games with hotter characters and winning.
>>733712107Have you not been paying attention the last few years? The last decade has been full of hero shooters no one plays, live services no one plays, and soulslikes no one plays. Established series including fucking Silent Hill have pivoted to a soulslike format. Every single Game Awards show has had at least one pitiful attempt at a Hero Shooter in it. And every single one has had trailers for live service games that never got off the ground. We just forget all the absolute garbage. It runs off into obscurity like rain into a storm drain. There's absolutely zero creativity, and they're all trying to sell their games based on aesthetics. Oh, this is a hero shooter, but with a weird science-fiction fantasy mashup. Oh, this is a soulslike, but it's Chinese. This is an extraction shooter but it's superficially connected to Rainbow Six. It's all made to be digestible by the lowest common denominator instead of trying to make a unique experience because they're all obsessed with usurping the leading position of a product that already exists. Instead of doing the smart thing and making games that appeal to different groups of people and hoping one of them gets big and has some crossover appeal, they're making garbage that no one actually gives a fuck about and dumping tens of millions of dollars and 5+ years of development time on it. It's like if every TV network each filled out their schedules with multiple knockoffs of Cheers, Friends and Seinfeld back in the day. Or if Cartoon Network and Disney cancelled all their other programming and dumped all their resources into multiple different rip offs of SpongeBob and Avatar.
>>733712697>Oh, this is a soulslike, but it's Chinese.Wo Long, Wu Chang, and Wukang have all been fine games.Still waiting on Soulslikes examples. I can't think of one that's been made in Grubhubian style.
>>733711757This makes sense. Everyone junped on the bandwagon years ago an but now that the market is over saturated and they're all bombing, they're in a different spot. Do they cancel the game and cut their losses or do they release it, have it bomb and look retarded?
>>733710372>Make thousands of bets every year>A few go belly up but the rest don't It just doesn't matter to them. Being an investor isn't about being hyperefficient, it's just about playing the odds. This is why poor people pool their funds into mutual funds, so it can be invested across a wide a diverse array of possibilities. Rich people have enough that they can do it all themselves, and if one of those ends up being a Concord it costs you way less than a few Marvel Rivals earn you.
>>733709772They're already in the pipeline. Like a lot of products that take time to make you have to project ahead to see if the damn thing will even be sellable when it done. They thought the whole industry would be a woke filled land of faggotry and rainbows by now and the audience would eat it all up. So now years in development they're nearing completion and see they severely misread the tea leaves. Their only choice is to still release the games and hope somehow they're successful. If they don't release them they bite the bullet of the entire cost to develop it and the time wasted
>>733713207the visual style can be changed within a month so thats a shitty excuse. They rather know they get their gibs removed if they dont release the game as it is and even if they tried to go marvel rivals it wouldnt save them because the base game is still worse.
>>733713207What game is the lady in your image talking about?
>>733709772The experts say that that's what people want and the degenerates at the studio are really excited about it as well. Even the highly recommended consulting firm said it was a good idea.
>>733713207It just proves that the investors are retards. I would just pull the plug and stop the bleeding.
>>733709772You aren't thinking long term about this like they are. The ones pushing this shit know damn well that oldfag gamers aren't going to buy their slop, but that isn't the objective.The objective is to make it so pervasive that it is the only thing the generations growing up now, they did the same thing with microtransactions and having to watch ads to progress in mobile games.
>>733709772Execs see that once all older gamers die out, the younger generations are only going to play a handful of live service games (they already kinda do) so they are going to keep throwing shit at the wall until something sticks to get a piece of that limited space
>>733713207>bragging about controversial/shit decisions>antagonizing possible customersI don't get it.
>>733713904Haven IIRC
>>733709772blackrock pays more from your tax dollars and with imaginary money
>>733709772>I want to make more money>only way to make more money is to either raise prices or increase the size of the audience>white boys hate price increases>white boys also already for the most part play video games so no point in trying to tap them more>but negros and women don't play as many games>potential growth opportunity>and negros and women don't care as much about price increases>potential growth opportunity>hire a bunch of college negros>follow the logic that negros will play games with other negros in it>repeatedly hit the stumbling block of having to make a good game>and because your game is fundamentally a commodity designed for mass appeal, making a good game is nearly impossible
>>733716621Thanks Anon. I'm surprised it wasn't a Concordlike.
>>733716485False sense of security created by the bubble they live in that tells them everyone in the world thinks the exact same way they do. Then they get a strong wake up call when the tidal wave of disgust hits them from the millions of people they just pissed off
