WE ARE THE HIGH GUA-ACK
>>734215447woke losed again
>>734215518The game wasn’t woke. It just wasn’t good.
OP NO FUCK THEY'RE RIGHT MY MY DOOR TOO GUAAAACK
>>734215447>we hope you jump in one final timeOk this part legit made me sad
>>734215447WOKERS BROKERS BROS WHERE WE AT
Well, it didn't last long, though it's not the first of it's kind as these happened a lot, the others didn't had as much coverage to say the least.I can't say I'm surprised because it was generic as hell, but I do still feel a little bad for it's team. They clearly have skilled people, so I hope they'll manage to make a new, better game instead of closing.So for how long was it playable? Two month?
>>734215447FAKE !!! AI FAKE NEWSSNO WAYYY WE ARE THE HIGH THE MOST HIGHEST OF GUUUAAARRDD
>>734215558main character was blatinxsian mystery meat
>>734215907Is that all it takes for something to be considered "woke"? A non-white character being used in marketing?
>>734216159if your blood deprived brain can't see the point then I guess it isn't woke that a "cool" minority with a "cool" haircut is the lead character
>>734215447No refunds for the people who paid for microtransactions? HHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA take that faggots who support live-service / online multiplayer focused games
Lol, what. Why? Dont give me that lack of players bullshit. It doesnt take that many players to keep a game afloat.
>>734216159Guess he wasn't cool OR non-woke enoughIf the MC looked like Chai from HFR it might've done a bit better
>>734215447>actual skill trees and account progression when the game is mere days from shutting downFucking kek
>>734215447sticky this mods
>>734215447What happened to them not needing loads of players?
>>734215704Press W to “Go woke, go broke”
>>734216473the dev studio was pretty big and tencent funded, tencent pulled the plug and told them to get the fuck out of the office so they can put some other studio in there probably.
>>734215447https://youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
Can the community gaslight them into rereleasing it after it gets shut down like they did with the whole I'm Morbin shit
>>734216384>>734215907Keep moving those goalposts.
>>734216159At this point? yes>brown non distinct features>women cant go higher than a cup>muscle mommy faggotry>midget badass>side cut hairstyles>women covered head to toeAnd thats just a tip of the icebergenstien
>>734216757HIGHGUARDIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANSIT'S TIME TO HAVE A BLAAAAAST!
>>734215447Why even release a new character for a week?I guess its like ‘fuck it, they’re done may as well’, but i think it’s closer to ‘why bother’ territory.
>>734215558>brown broccoli jeet>nigger man>nigger woman>nigger chink mutt>angry lesbian 1>angry lesbian 2>safe horny muscle mommy wow oc>gay albino wow oc with AIDS>not woke
>>734215907So half life alyx is woke, are you going to unistall steam or support a woke studio
Chat, is this real?
But I played it and it's amazing?
>>734215447BYEGUARD
Why did Geoff kill this game
>>734215518>losedgood morning saaaar
>>734216834You described deadlock
>>734216786nah daddy tencent cut off lifesupport
>new account level progressionFeels like it'd make the most sense to just have everything unlocked and free to use for its final week but I'm not the genius who made Highguard.
>>734216880I think that's on purpose nowlike boughted
>>734215447i thought player count didn't matter?What happened?
>>734216870lmao
>>734216928Deadlock is good altougheverbeit
>>734215558Intentionally unattractive female characters = woke
>>734215447So what happened that led it to be Concorded?
>>734217013So you like woke now?
I liked this second season of ConcordWhen's the 3rd season?
>>734217070zero players zero money
>>734216473The coffers were pretty much empty before release, either the game did crazy numbers that pulled in investors or they closed down.
>https://x.com/PlayHighguard/status/2028923492125819287It's real.Someone please check on Geoff. And I hope some asshole posts the 'It's over' line from Jurassic Park to troll him.
>>734216473AAA game budgets are so high these days that they typically have to make record breaking amounts of money just to break even.
>>734217113Deadlock
>>734215447But I thought the player count didn't matter?
Go woke go BROKE Happy that no one boughted this game ! lets get America back on track.
>Concord barely lasted two weeks>Highguard will last six weeksBets on Fairgame$?
First the kiss of death for Marathon from PC Gamer, and now the actual death of Highguard, all in the same afternoon. What a week so far.
>>734215558Perhaps not woke in that it wasn't doing any overt rainbow cult nonsense, but it was a victim of woke practices: outsourcing very important aspects of the game design to third party subcontractors and asset farms, resulting in something that had no cohesion, no uniqueness. Committee-decided inoffensiveness, very bland and "wider audience" focused designs, a genuine example of slop.A dev team that can't do almost everything in-house and bring the concept art into a mostly realized product is not going to make something interesting.>>734216473Besides the game being unappealing, they did something fucking stupid with their launch. All of the day one content was given for free with no way for anyone to give them money. Everyone was long gone before they actually started with the microtransactions, so they had no day one cushion of cash to keep the game running.
Highguarrivederci!
>>734217229How is it "woke"?
>>734217279>First the kiss of death for Marathon from PC Gamerexplain
>>734217079Only when its goodWhich 99% of the cases irl and in vydia it isntFuck the new character tho
>>734217269canceled...its no way they are gonna keep running into spikes over and overnone of these are even trying to be fun
This Year's Game Awards is going to be Awkward lol
>>734217014>Intentionally unattractive female characters = wokethis
>>734216384What is the point?
>TGAs burn Silksong so they can jerk off Highguard>Silksong one of the most critically acclaimed indie games of all time>Highguard dies faster than Concord and Battleborn combinedA man could not ask for greater revenge.
>>734217335Post some non-woke character design from the game bro.
>>734215447BUT I DINDU NUFFINI DINDU NUFFIN AND THEY BLAMING ME, A GAMER
It just sucks because game names are a finite resource and "Highguard" as a name is actually pretty cool. But now, no other game in the future can ever use that name again because it's copyright protected, but also the name's reputation is tainted by failure
Umm will I get a refund for the credits and skins I bought?
>>734216159...yes? Did you ever think it was a nuanced argument?
>>734217356Morgan Park, a writer at PC Gamer, has written a pre-launch glaze article for all of the major flops in the last year or two. Highguard, Concord, Veilguard, Avowed, and now Marathon.It's like having the grim reaper show up at your doorstep.
>>734215447>sustainable playerbase??? i thought player count was irrelevant to the games success
>>734217335Your a disingenuous leftist
>>734217412
>>734217279Marathon is gonna hara kiri twice once it releases
>>734215447rip. I wasn't big on the game because there were a ton of players cheating with controllers...but I didn't expect it to die.
>>734215447>account legel progression>game shuts down in 8 daysLMAO
>>734217113>When's the 3rd season?Marathon4-th - Horizon5-th - maaybe Deadlock (though Valvearmy will keep it alive)
>>734217448It's just "Overwatch".
>>734217269That one is even less relevant than those two. It's going to die in the cradle like Hyenas.
>>734217367>cluster mess is good guizFace it you only defend valve cause they OWN your game library, if highguard started with the valve logo you would suck it off
>>734215558It was both you dishonest cunt. Which is common because woke developers can't make good games. They're too focused on the message
>>734215447>Account level progressionThat WASN'T in launch???
GO WOKE, GO BROKE!
>>734217356
GET WOKE GOBUUUUUHUUUUUHHOOOOOROOOOOOOOOOKE~~~!
>>734217456Someone needs to do the edit with the headlines on the doors
>>734216159You lot truly are a waste of space
>Final reveal at Game Awards>Dies a few months after revealIs Geoff gonna try to not do the same shit again with revealing a game no one wants as the final reveal?
>>734215447This is proof that the game was a scam to begin with. They practically shut it down as fast as The Day Before kek
>>734217584Kek
kek
>>734217584Oh no no no no
Hopefully someone buys the game and retools it into a proper hero shooter. I think this raid sweatfest shit they did was a horrible idea.
>>734216848>>734217629
>>734216473They needed big numbers from the get go. It's obvious that they have no money left when they fired majority of their staff straight after launch. Someone fucked up with the spending
>>734217385How so? Geoff is very likely gonna forget it existed.
When do we get an apology from Geoff?
>>734217113Marathon next week
>>734217584Ah, the kiss of death. Right on time.
>>734217626There's definitely the 'Grim reaper knocking on Marathon's door next' edit, but not one where the grim reaper is Morgan Park himself. I'd do it now if I wasn't in bed sick
>>734215447>734215447
>>734217629Every valve employee is a leftist, you must get off your platform chudhttps://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/valve-corp/recipients?id=D000072028
>>734217629>if you aren't a brazilian obsessed with culture war garbage then you're a leftistdelusional
final reveal spot is now reserved exclusively for from soft titles. they were probably so fucked that they didn't have anything ready for them lmao.
>>734216928Only valvecucks like deadlock
>>734216928Maybe, but monsterfuckers don't get many games and they'll take whatever scraps are thrown their way, they have enough whales to keep deadlock alive
How many company-destroying, multi-million dollar failures for wokeshit have there been by now? I can't even keep track anymore, it's like one giant flop every 2 weeks or so by now.
>>734217496Good morning.
>>7342174923 out of 8 at best
Geoff MUST resign NOW
>>734217734Never. Highguard is just another victim of the big mean gamers as far as the industry is concerned. The only Geoff is ever going to talk about Highguard again is if the devs keep blaming him for announcing it early.
>>734215558>"the halfnigger mixed race mutt total isnt woke guys!"Actually kill yourself
>>734217765you are a retarded turd egs pajeet
>>734217626And who is that "someone" going to be? Hmm, anon?
>>734216473The classic game devs trying to run a business only ending up ruining the entire thing.
>>734215447Still having a blast
The left can't meme and also they cannot make games ?
>>734216834>every character needs to be a white man or it's wokestarting to think you guys are just closeted faggots lashing out
>>734217930Not an argument cultist
>>734215447NOOOOOOOOOOOONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWHY?WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE LIKE THIS?DEAR JESUS,PLEASE POUR OUT YOUR WRATH ON ALL OF THE RACIST BIGOTS ON THIS BOARD.THEY DID NOT SHOW LOVE TO ATTICUS, SO IT IS UNLIKELY THAT THEY SHOW LOVE TO REAL BROWN PEOPLE.THEY MUST REPENT.IN JESUS' NAME.AMEN.
>>734218005Go argue this bad faith shit elsewhere, you repugnant cuck. This is a thread laughing at Highguard.
>>734217765Steam store isn't woke so it's fine. See how people will put up with you if you behave properly? :)
>>734215447>shutting down on my mom's birthdayHoly fucking based.
>>734216834
>>734215558Woke was in its DNA and that is why the gameplay turned out bad.
>>734217991post hand
>spend 4 years of your life developing a game>hundreds of thousands of man hours working to get this game out the door>it's shut down and forgotten about a month after launchgut-wrenching. I have no idea how game devs do it, I'd be so pissed.
>>734218005you are a retarded turd egs pajeet
>>734217779I love how much anger I get out of the leftist rats when I whip out that image. Your fucking kryptonite
>>734217269It'll last for 10, 9, 8, 7...
>>734218102>nobody disliked black people and dikes before 2013
>>734218049>starts whining about leftists>post example of leftist devs>NOOOOO YOU CANT DO THAT, THIS THREAD IS ABOUT HIGHGUARD EVEN THOUGH I SPECIFICALLY MADE IT ABOUT LEFTISTS IN MY POSTlol the backtracking
>>734218124The thing is with how bad the industry is that most of those guys won't be able to land another gig.
>>734217991>Instantly thinks about fucking the charactersProjection me thinks
You’re laughing.A ton of really talented folks just lost their jobs, and you’re laughing.It’s okay if the game didn’t really resonate with you but to be celebrating over this is simply evil and really says a lot about you as a person.
>>734218141fucking paranoid freak
I knew it was finished when /ourguy/ DSP shit all over it and said it was pointless.
>>734218059>Steam store isn't wok-ACK
anyone have the conrdian timeline image?
>>734218209See>>734217629and>>734218059
>>734218237Make something good next time. Trash deserves to be taken out.
>>734218187A black person being in a video game wasn't a huge controversy back then, yes.
>>734218237Honestly, I kinda feel bad, not because they don't deserve it but because I'm tired of beating that dead horse.Can I just catch a break? I'm getting exhausted of winning so hard
>>734218209I'm not the anon you think you're replying to. I just despise you resetera fags who think you're being sly and smarmy but just come across at 60 IQ midwits with these stale talking points.
>>734217456Lmao
>>734218141Holy projection
>>734218187no one gave a fuck about minority groups being in media back then outside of fringe groups that no one payed attention to. we KNOW that epstein helped ignite the culture war to distract from the fact that he was raping children, and youre STILL engaging with it. quite sad, really.
Gays, you DO realize that concord and highguard are LOST MEDIA now, right?
>>734218237>just lost their jobsThey got sacked weeks ago, iirc
>>734218286Yea I filtered that tag. Also never seen that banner so the filter must work. What woke shop lets you do that?>>734218264>ParanoidYou don't know what that means, jeet
>>734215558It was woke, woke shit and apolitically shit as well.
>>734218430>Concord and Highguard are lost mediaGood.
>>734215447>to celebrate us going out of business we will be releasing basic systems that should have been in the game like account level! I wonder why it flopped
>>734218430>concord and highguardWho?
>>734218413>N-No UKeep going, I'm nearly there
>>734218459>everyone who disagrees with me on anything is secretly a leftist and if they say otherwise they're lyingparnaoid
This is becoming a pattern at this point, no?I honestly don't know what to think. One hand, it's REALLY funny. On the other hand, it's a really bad sign when the industry seems to be repeatedly burning so much money on guaranteed flops, over and over and over and over again.And Marathon isn't even fully released yet...
>>734215447>2millionWhy the lies?
>>734218237That eggplant on your head really says a lot about (YOU)!
>>734218459>ermmm how can it be woke when I close my eyes and dont look at the woke! Holy copium
>>734215558>the game wasn't bad, it just wasn't good
>>734215558
>>734218553Well it should pass once all the games developed during covid/Gfloyd era passes
>>734218343Name 5 games where they were the main star. I know you're a disingenuous faggot but you're missing the point which is that every time in these games it's not just >A black guyit's >everyone is a black mutt latinx trans gay femmefurry xir Again i don't expect you to understand because you're retarded
>>734218540Don't act like leftoid scum and you wont get called leftoid scum, seething leftoid scum
>>734218676>the main starlol "the main star" there was no main character, he was just a character they used in marketing
>>734218553The funny part is that those are the ones that didn't get cancelled. There are dozens of GaaS shit that get cancelled before release.Imagine the complete chaos if we had a new one every 2 weeks
>>734217556No one gives a fuck
>>734218594You didn't answer my question. So we're back to>>734217629
>>734218630Meanwhile steam box commercial.....is this the steam audience?
>>734218730How's life in your brazilian favela slum? Do you enjoy living with dirt floors?
Did they join the ACK
>>734218117I'm whiter than you, and 99% of the people in this thread>>734218232Ironic
>>734218416>payed>leftiemutt conspiracy theoryThey're not sending their best.
>>734218520lmao
>>734218553>it's a really bad sign when the industry seems to be repeatedly burning so much money on guaranteed flops, over and over and over and over again.Is it? Because for all the AAA companies that fail, there are still other guys picking up the slack and making good games. Every single AAA gaming company could "crash" and we'd still have tons of great games made, just from smaller scale developers.Maybe these giant teams with 6 gorillion dollar budgets should Idk, stop chasing live service slop and maybe make a regular game with a small team? but no, that would be too simple and not generate endless money!Let them burn themselves as many times as it takes for them to learn there can only be so many live service games competing for themselves at one time. It's extremely competitive and a risky business move so if you DO take that route you better have an amazing game on your hand. I'm hoping these people can learn after constant failures and finally pump out a game people want to play. I mostly blame executives and hiring managers. None of them have played games, none of them have passion for games, they have an idea and they force their devs to carry out there piss poor "vision", but that's not how game development works. You need the vision to be from a director that actually knows what kind of game he wants to make and is uncompromising on that vision. Every great game was made this way.
>>734215558You say this every time which confirms it was woke.
>>734218816just look at steam deck ownersit's all trannies and obese incels (most of which will become trannies)
>>734218745Name 5 games at all oh wait
>>734218854read the fucking files. this isnt conspiracy theory this is fact. i get that conservatives are allergic to reading but jesus christ at least attempt to read something that isnt a picture book.
>>734218797Your question is retarded, it doesn't stop being woke just cause you put a filter to hide some gamesAll valve employees voted for kamala even Gabe, thats woke and no mental gymnastics makes it ok
>>734218816you're a white guy so you just assume everyone else is? top picture could be me and my GF playing
>>734215447>>734216668>gamers are ove-ACK!They didn't want gamers, now they have chuds instead.They wanted us to care about politics and now we do.
>>734218824>No argument >You're brown! NOW who's paranoid?
>>734218967I wish my teeth were as white as this guy's
Friendly reminder highguard publisher spent over ONE MILLION DOLLARS to shill their woke trash on the game awards
>>734216757>yfw the Buck Breaker hits
>>734218416/pol/ was founded weeks before Moot met Epstein.
I should download it to test this thing become it goes away
>>734218847post hand nigger
>>734217629>can never actually give a straight answer
>>734215558fat characters means woke - the end
>>734218960>top picture could be me and my GF playingBoth are dudes
>>734215447Wait, I thought they didn't need players?
>>734218967>They wanted us to care about politics and now we do.Speak for yourself
It's honestly tragic that hate bandwagoning can lead to this. Geoff genuinely hyping it up and giving it the last slot does not warrant proportionate hate for the product itself if it's not your cup of tea, but g*mers can't help themselves from having 12 y.o. logic.>Inb4 it was paid/TencentNothing proven and even if it was the case, it still stands. It was idiotic and misguided mob mentality that's unable to distinguish between a product and the fucking slot it's being put in during a show.
The biggest unspoken issue is the death of focus testing. Companies either did away with it entirely, or have totally contaminated the process with "testers" compelled to give "yes man" responses.
>>734218950Conservative christians invented and popularized the printing press.
>>734219114and?
>>734219112Like coach in L4D2
Are these the dumbest motherfucks to ever have laid breath on the vidya gaming space?
>>734218950it's a picture book, the pictures are just redacted
>>734219056/pol/ was founded a day before the meeting, and epstein was the one that convinced moot to make the board what it is.
1.5 months after launch and i still haven't seen a single gameplay video of this game
>>734215447>WE DON'T NEED PLAY-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OH NNONOONONONONONONONONO HAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAH
>>734218847Then post your hand>>734218953How has woke affected me purchasing games that has nothing to do with woke shit? As I said earlier, if you mutts behave people will happily put up with your gay shit because it's out of sight. For a lot of people, it isn't the issue you are degenerates, the issue is you want everyone to know you are and join in.
>>734218950Which files are you specifically referring to? I have justice.gov/epstein/search open right now, so hit me with some numbers.
ANOTHER WOKE SLOP BITES THE DUST
>>734219209Post proof. I know you can't, because I've read the files you're talking about and it's almost 2 months between /pol/ being made and Moot meeting Epstein, not to mention that there are zero details in regards to /pol/ whatsoever in there.
>>734217113Next week
>>734215558>>734217335>Wasn't woke.Woke wasn't the obvious killer here. But lets not kid ourselves. Pic related.Also keep in mind bitching about woke from a hate squad didn't do it either.>>734216834"mommy"? Una's a man, baby. >>734217286Double check pic related.
>>734219215Kek, why the shart game developpers always open their mouth
>>734218553it should never have been an industry in the first place
>>734219101>do as I sayjust the knowledge is good enough for me actually
>>734216159Unironically and sincerely: Yes.You cater to me or you don't get my money.That's selling stuff 101.I have an unlimited backlog of games to play, the pressure is on the industry, not me.
>>734217959Happy for you, Anon. Enjoy it while it lasts.
>>734219109You don't want a straight answer. You never have. You have been given it tome and time again and continue to pretend to not understand. I'm here literally having to spell it out for you because you are doing EXACTLY what the image says you would.
I have literally never seen a thread about video games on /pol/.
https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/2028930472601108530
>>734218227NTA, but those faggots from trooncord prove you wrong.
>>734216928AAAIIIIEEE NO DEILOCK IS NOT WOKEGABEN PROVE XIM WRONG
>>734219270>>734219215>Morgan P-AAACCCKKKK..!!
>>734219215He could've just said "we don't need six figure player counts" and it would have been a factual statement and not cope
>>734217269Dr Gero was so lucky...
>>734215558Of course. It's not woke if it fails, but when the rare woke game succeeds it's suddenly proof woke works, right? That's your tactic after all...
>>734219147I didn’t do anything though
>>734215447OH NO blast sisters! At least we are having blasts in Marathon!
>>734219379
>>734215447Everybody should play it and get the figures up in the millions. Maybe they will reopen it.Then people can leave again =)
>>734219368I ask american republicans what woke is and I never get the same answer unless it's a non-answer like "it's obvious"
>>734219428>Had a 100/10 wife>But threw everything away because of GokuHe was focused.
>>734217675>concord2 Lmao
>>734215447But I did nothing. How did I win?
Subhumans trying to get refunds lmao
>>734219507Just play it on dedicate servers or offline with bots like every single game from the 90sOh wait
>>734216159Yes.
>>734218553>On the other hand, it's a really bad sign when the industry seems to be repeatedly burning so much money on guaranteed flops, over and over and over and over again.One, very stupid, and very expensive segment of the video game industry is losing a lot of money. The rest of the industry is doing just fine.
>>734219532>>734217629*taps sign*
I'm old enough to remember when microtransactions were universally hated by gamers. Now entire games are released and intended to hypnotize you with compulsion loops. The highest insult is when these games aren't even that good, because it shows how much contempt the creators have for you.
>>734219214>3v3 overwatch but with the most retardedly oversized map ever and you spend half the time clicking rocksI did, looked like shit and genuinely can’t believe anyone greenlit this let alone shipped it in it’s current state.
>>734217991>using gays to weaponise your opinionYou fags are so obvious.
>>734218141Yep, they are full of shit and they know it.
>>734219270Morgan Park is the Jim Cramer of gaming
>>734215447John Highguard, 2026-2026.
hi guardbye guard
>>734219585LMAO even Era doesn't believe it.
>>734219540>please godmodern overwatch players are giga trannies jfc
>>734215447>Another shitty multiplayer shooter is released then dies>Meanwhile, a couple of weeks ago Unreal Tournament is legally allowed to be released by a fansite who patch it and keep servers up>Highguard died while an ancient arena shooter revivedThe timeline is healing and I couldn't be happier!
>>734219540JEJ
>>734219685>>734219585based blast haver
>>734218553Well devs don't realize they're at war with China but will accept their yuan, but wonder why that complex and farmland nearby become owned by China. Which is then paired up with a spy prostitute to infiltrate all sorts of companies and agencies with bribes.
>>734217448You can't copyright titles.
>>734219215it's funnier when you realize that the reason they were so fucking cocky was because Tencent was funding them2 weeks after they made that bragging post Tencent pulled all funding and they started getting laid off
>>734218416Was this Epstein too? You've been at this bullshit for too long to just lie it away, retard.
>I am having a bl-ACK!
How possible is it to quickly rip the models for porn before they become lost media? Might as well right?
what do Concord and Highguard have in common?
honestly this makes me scared about my favorite game ffxiv getting shut down in the future. Guess I gotta enjoy it as much as I can while it lasts...
>>734216796Keep getting your studios shut down LMAO
post yfw its already dead
>>734219606another non-answer like usual
Nah, I feel bad for the devs this time.Concord was blatant corporate bullshit with no vision the entire time. It deserved the hate.Highguard was a bunch of shooter devs trying to break away from corporate bullshit and make just a fun game their own way for 90% of the dev time, then some idiot went to Geoff Keighly and he pumped their value WAY beyond what they were capable of delivering on.Like, if this got a smaller, slower release like they clearly intended it to have, it probably could have gotten rolling into something actually good. But instead, it got overhyped to hell and then shit on when it wasn't meant to be that big.
>Concord: 40 bucks>Marathon: 40 bucksuhh...guys?
Counting or not counting steam players?
blast havers.. return to formers.. is it over?
>>734219830>>734217629*taps it again*
>>734219147kill yourself
>>734217794Epic lost
>>734219803wokenessout of touch gameplaymade in calilacking so much content that it appears like a minigame exceedingly high budget
>>734219827
>>734219445>but when the rare woke game succeeds it's suddenly proof woke worksThe irony is most woke games succeed and chuds have to look for no name woke failures like dustborn or highguard. Go look up best seller games of 2025
>>734217584how many miles of corporate cock does that shilling unit take daily?
>>734219801enjoy it while it lasts anon
>>734219109>gets answer>acts like if he didn'tIs there any time or place this shit worked for you?
>>734219696Link for the Unreal Tournament revival?
>>734219901Sounds like deadlock and thats doing fine
>>734218018You left your trip on.
>>734215447C O N C O R D 2 B R O SWE WON
>>734219884are you too stupid to realize that you're just demonstrating what I said?
>>734219884In all fairness, there are so many *signs* you tap in your epic meme nobody ever know which one you're referring to.
>>734219812If WoW is somehow still alive after all these years XIV ain’t going anywhere.Shit, even TORtanic is still alive.
>>734217269Bets on Marathon?
What's he thinking?
>>734219995https://www.oldunreal.com/Yes the site looks like shit, but it's legit.
>>734219147Fuck retard, if they produce slop they deserve everything they get.
>>734220007He's been getting sloppy
>>734219997zero out of five of those criteria
>>734215447Go woke go broke
>>734220046Between a year or two because Bungie.
>>734217584Someone weaponize her curse plz.
>>734219859some of the overvaluing was happening from within like that faggot Josh Sobel who has since deleted his twitter accountI feel bad for the wagies who got roped into this nonsense but not the higher ups
Has any of the devs anon posted saying they knew the game would flop or was everyone in the studio *that* delusional?
>>734219987holy shit, the answer just flew over my house
THE KING OUTLASTS ANOTHER
>>734219859Correct take.It was a good game with a lot of potential, it's genuinely a shame that things happened this way.
>>734219913
Hyenas….Dustborners…..Concordians…..Marathoners…..Fairgamers……Today we stand united in solace for our Highguardian brethren.
>>734215558This but unironically.Apex Legends has the most disgusting brown mystery gender sludge as character and is boring as shit but it's still being played because at least some schizos like the gameplay.
>>734219859>Trying to break away from Corporate bullshit>They literally hid the fact they were funded by Tencent>Everything about them screams they were nothing more than CorporateWhat the fuck are you talking about?
It's time to have one last blast, bros...
be honest...did you actually play Highguard? did you have a blast?
>>734219901And expected to be the next big thing, Snoy genuinely believed it to be its multimedia giant, even made an episode on Netflix, aired after the game's death.
>>734217335I don't like it
>>734220105All thats true except made in cali
>>734220079You are sloppy.
>>734215447
>>734220158that's genuinely depressing
>>734219803At least they gave Highguard two months to die by its own merits. Concord was shut down after like 11 days.
>>734219827i cant even be happyi already knew this was gonna happeniam actually surpised it made it throu the entirety of februarywonder if anyone who purchased ingame skins is gonna get their money back
>>734220058>hehehe I love money :)
>>734219148Focus testing is definitely still a thing, but it isn't populated by real gamers. There may be a few in there, but those undesirable voices can be drowned out.
>>734220119Not post-release from what I've seen. 3 years ago one of the devs posted this.
>>734220108>up to 2 yearsNo way, 10 months max.
>>734215447should have put that masked bitch in a bikini
>>734216159Literally yes. Anyone who isn't a retarded faggot has black fatigue
>>734219901You're actually attempting to claim Concord and Highguard are equally "woke"?
Another GaaS slop funded by retarded boomer shareholders or chinks will pop up.Life goes on.
>>734219859Anon, the devs themselves admitted they were just chasing trend trying to catch lighting in a bottle again like with Apex.They spent 2 years making a shitty Rust clone before realising it was retarded and instead went to make a shitty hero shooterThey were spending at least 1 million dollar per month as well, they boasted about not needing players but they still needed to make at least 200 million dollar to just stop being in the red.
>>734220240Maybe, but none of them are woke. Corpo slop for sure though.
>>734215447>we hope you'll jump in to support us one last timeFuckers didn't even say they were making the shop free for the remainder of the time, how despicable
>>734220105Deadlock has a pretty high budgetRunning 6v6 multiplayer servers for a six digit number of players, with zero monetization, for two years, would bankrupt most studios
>>734219859> Highguard was a bunch of shooter devs trying to break away from corporate bullshit and make just a fun game their own way for 90% of the dev timeOkay, so what? Millions of people tried the game and very quickly stopped playing because they didn't like it. It may have been the game the devs wanted, but no one else did and that should have been obvious if they had done some alpha or beta testing.
>>734216159Would've been a lot better if it was Jane Highguard and not the final reveal at the TGS, endlessly shilled by Geoff afterwards.
>>734220119Why would they do that? That's career suicide. They want to get hired by the next start-up studio with too much money to burn. And they'll have to work with these people again.
>>734219749Yes you can. Specially when the case is in the same situation. You can´t make a game called, lets say, metal gear solid, even if the game is about structure buildings, because it would be linked to the games Kojimbo did. What you can´t copyright is real life words, "Windows", "apple", etc. The only way in those cases would be for the perpetrator to try to impersonate a company, or make people think of them while in yours. No one would be able to make a game named "Highguard", same as they can´t create one called "Unreal tournament".
>>734219859Have you seen some of the shit the ex-devs wrote?They were constantly huffing their own farts constantly saying between themselves that the game was this lightning in a bottle masterpiece that was going to be huge.Do you really feel sorry for people like this?
Titanfall bros, how are we feeling?
>>734216820there are cases of good muscle mommy faggotry omega strikers, but you can't expect those in modern western AAA slop
>bro it totally had great ideas bro it was a diamond in the rough it just needed more time in the oven bromondo cope
>>734219859>Highguard was a bunch of shooter devs trying to break away from corporate bullshitYea, that's why they were funded by the biggest video game company on the planet.
>>734219859>Highguard was a bunch of shooter devs trying to break away from corporate bullshit and make just a fun game.No, according to an interview, the devs were greedy and wanted all the money they made for Apex for themselves, so they quitted Respawn.They were "indie" devs with the greed of a corporation, with a backing of Tencent, and created a game optimized to make the most money, not a game to give out the most fun.They got what they deserved.It's a shame, they could have stayed at Respawn and made Titanfall 3. But then again, Titanfall 2 was released on the same day as a COD game because the devs wanted TF2 to surpass COD and get all the money and that's why TF2 flopped at launch despite how fun it was. Maybe it's better that they didn't stay.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-26/the-story-behind-the-failure-of-highguard
>>734216159If there's a woman or non white front and center on a game cover or trailer then yeah it's woke and I wont play it
Did AC Shadows actually flop sales wise? I thought it was the 1 kiss of death game that actually somehow didn’t when everyone suspected it would
Tortanicfags were right again
WELCOME....TO HIGHGONE
>>734215447how the fuck can these games die so quick? even with mmo's that have massive dev times, they will still give it at least a year to find an audience. but here they just pull the plug immediately.
>>734216757dont compare the KINO that is mystery of the druids to this DEI slop.
>>734220519Empty.Still not getting a new game and likely never will.
>>734215558no it was woke and also not goodif it wasn't woke it might've actually lived purely off porn and waifufags
>>734220519titanfall devs left during apex death
>>734220158Who the fuck is there paying for monopoly microtransactions?
>>734220451That's why he said "anon posted". There are many examples of anonymous sources from failed games where devs knew the game sucked but no one in management or the bosses would listen. Highguard though, everyone seemed to have their heads up their asses.
>>734215447bye felicia XD
>>734220510>generic hero shooter>lightning in a bottleDevs had pajeet tier self-awareness
>>734215447Legitimate question since i didn't follow this disaster too close, is WE ARE THE HIGHGUARDIANS an actual quote from the game/trailers or just something made up here, i'm legit dying to know because if it's real then it deserved to die.
>>734220519i will tell you, nobody who actually enjoyed titanfall wants to see "from the creators of titanfall". they've completely trampled all over us.
>>734219859>make just a fun game their own waythey fucking spent 2 years making a rust clone and judged its quality on whether it'd be a "mainstream hit"
What happened? Wasn't this supposed to be the lighting in a blast having whole day fun infallible mainstream bottle?
>>734220627It seems to have done okay, but given Ubisoft's stock price, the many rounds of layoffs, and the fact that Tencent has kind of bought a big chunk of Ubisoft's biggest IPs, things aren't great inside the French video game maker.
>>734220627not particularlyit did fine
>>734220643Tencent pulled all of their funding when they saw how bad the initial reception was.In Concord’s case the budget was beyond any MMO and history and player turnout was so bad that even breaking even was impossible.
>>734219147It was either everyone mocking it, or nobody even knowing it existed. A game has to stand on its own two feet. If it's so generic and disappointing that everyone just wants to make fun of it, maybe you need a better game to show off to the world. nobody was asking for yet another generic first person hero shooter live service bullshit game. Geoff did the game a favor, the buzz around it got people to try it out. They tried it out, nobody stuck around. Hate didn't kill the game. It was gonna fail regardless, they're lucky they got this many people to actually care about it.Geoff took the Tencent money like he always does and hyped it up to the best of his ability, but he is literally just a paid shill, that's his job. It's not his fault, it's not the fans fault. It's the developers and whichever retarded executive signed off on this thinking they had the next fortnite. They're so hilariously out of touch with their audience
>>734220469No, the other guy's right. You can't copyright names, but you can trademark them. Unlike copyrights, trademarks are use it or lose it.
KWAB>KWABKWAB>KWABKWAB>KWABKWAB>KWABKWAB>KWAB
>>734220791Get in line.
>>734215447Well deserved.I care nothing for this game, I'm just mad it was the "huge announcement" at the game awards.Because yeah, a shitty hero shooter that couldn't last TWO MONTHS is huuuuuge.Get fucked, devs.
>>734215447Hold up weren't they just saying player counts don't matter?
>>734219753crazy how they tried to push this as a game from an independent studio when it's literally just more tencent slop
>>734215447KWABOOTY
>>734220829
>>734220627It "floped" in the terms that they needed to be the smash hit of the century or else ubishit would be finished. It sold "mediocre" (still no real numbers, just player engagement, hours played, etc)
>>734220219if you are raped, sure
>>734220841I wouldn't even care if the show wasn't fucking 3 HOURS LONG.
>>734220627it did okay by most metrics but because of Ubisoft's financial situation they needed it to sell a ridiculous amount to even slightly pull them out of the mess they are in
>>734219859>>Highguard was a bunch of shooter devs trying to break away from corporate bullshit and make just a fun game their own wayWhat a load of horseshit. This doesn't match ANYTHING of the game. The real reason is the devs that worked on Apex saw how much money was made on the game and thought they should be sharing in that money, so went off to make their own "next Apex" with explicit deals to share in profits, and got funding from Tencent.And this was never meant to be "small", they thought shadowdropping would result in a huge success like Apex was. The only reason they got 100k players at all was because of the exposure at TGA. The inability to retain any of them lead to Tencent bailing on them.
>>734215447lasted longer than I thought!
/v/bros...we gotta save highguard somehow...we could all install it and spend tons of money on the ingame shop...come on guys...WE HAVE TO...SAVE....HIGU-ACKKKK
>>734220887What a retard lol
>>734220519Reminder that they had to edit that part out because gamers were constantly shitting on them and EA probably threatened them as well.
>>734217113Marathon probablyalso none of these are Concord-tier flops, just normal flops, Concord-tier flops require insane money laundering and blatant disillusionment and ignorance on the part of the dev/publisher and Highguard's biggest sin aside from being corporate slop is Geoff literally setting them up for failure
>>734219859
>>734220830Was this for marathon, right?
>>734220198I played it. It outright sucked as 3v3, as 5v5 it was tolerable but still too boring to play for more than another couple matches.
>>734220919Thats what your mom said!
>>734220936This reads like a cope post from one of the developers.
>>734220887
Geoff belongs in prison for this
>>734220950> vast uncharted lands3v3 shooter on maps as big, empty and boring as Kansas. great idea!
>>734219532If you're being genuine, I'll give you my explanation.My interpretation of "woke" is the injection of political or social issues into a media piece where often or not it is simply out of place, unnecessary or even a hindrance to said media.Now before you go 'is ____ woke?' like a skit from SpongeBob. There are most certainly different levels of what could be considered woke and what amounts different people are willing to out up with.Think of it like a person's spice tolerance. Some people will see as little as a black man as woke, depending on the situation.Another category I would compare it to, and would consider it nearly the same thing but on the other end of the spectrum, is fanservice in media. Where you have people seething over a titty
>>734220147If it was a good game, people would have stuck around to play it. They didnt. If there was no "hate" for it, nobody would even know this game existed because it's that forgetable. The fact they're pulling the plug already means this entire project was a complete mess and they have zero confidence in their product
Dorito Pope literally helped this game live longer.
>>734220936HIGHGUARDIANS LEND ME YOUR STRENGTHSAY IT WITH ME! HIGHGUA-ACK!
>>734221063i like how every time someone tries to blame geoff for this they just remove all agency from the studiothey didn't buy the ad, geoff "took" the money for it
TOTAL CHUD VICTORY
Dont worry highguardtrannies, you have Marathon just around to corner to shill and consume feces with!
>>734221023If something ends with those trailing ellipses it's just a giant lie written by some precious bitch
Where is Fairgame$?
>>734215558the devs sperging out and blaming gaming culture for the reason that it flopped is proof that the whole thing was woke, also the pretending to be indie while being funded by a conglomerate
>>734219859Anon, they didn't have funds to keep going. Someone fucked up. It's evident when they instantly fired half their staff after launch without giving it a chance. Geoff pushing their game was the only change they had. I'll agree they fucked up giving it the kast slot in the TGA's though
I love seeing game journos and redditors and smug industry insiders like Geoff eat shit.I don’t even think Highguard was particularly woke or that the controversy around this game was a political ideological thing.I think people are finally getting tired of listening to people constantly fellating the blandest corposhit ever conceived.
>>734216159"Inclusivity" is a manipulative way of saying "feminized and/or BLACKED and won't focus on white men". Gamers feel like they've been maliciously places on the backburner, because they have, because they don't want this shit. That's why everyone's laughs when games like Highguard that feature ugly mutts fail. True inclusivity is allowing everyone to have their space. That means when "Lizzie" screeches at you that she doesn't feel included by a male-oriented game, you remind her that the erotica section with books about women getting fucked by monsters is at the "feminist book store" around the corner.Also, if any of the talking points about "reaching the wider audience possible" were honest, the woke push would have ended when the comic industry imploded a decade ago. Instead they're making excuses and doubling down, because they want everything to be woke.
>>734215447Are we going to play it one last time for the content patch? They're adding 1 new character and skill trees!
>>734220717people think "toxic positivity" is a meme but it's a real part of culture these days. Nobody can handle criticism, nobody wants to be "mean" and say the truth that what they're working with actually sucks. So people keep their head low and dont bring up an issues so they can try and hold onto their job and not clash with anyone or start drama and honestly I don't really blame them. You can argue with the higher up executives in charge of decision making but they're extremely stubborn and often wont budget if their fart huffing "data" is telling them something else. It's the blind leading the blind. The devs are retarded but they need someone at the top who actually knows how to corral them, and that type of leadership just isn't there. So everyone becomes a bunch of yes men and they all start believing their own bullshit
HIGHGUARDIAAAAAAAANS LEND ME YOUR STRENGTHPRESS R TO ROARRAAAAAAAAAHHHH
>>734221023even worse, it's a gamestop employee
Geoff had friends of financial interest in this(well Tencent involvement in the game awards is a big red flag) or he just has such awful taste in games and is so out of touch with the industry he’s supposed to lead.
>>734219897I use steam daily and haven't touched epic in years. Doesn't mean valvecucks aren't any less pathetic
>>734219859Lies, these niggas was making a rust clone and then pivoted last minute because tencent egg foo young arrived at the door
Reggie sends his regards!
>>734215558It had jewish values that Larry Fink would have blushed at. It was also shit
>>734221296RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
>>734221307Lmao
>>734217915you need to go back to /pol/
>>734221249Nobody really "fucked up" outside of the devs making a shitty gameTencent saw the complete shitshow with the numbers falling off 90% in a few daysNobody was buying microtransactionsRather than throw good money after bad, they decided to stop funding the gameThat led to the 90% layoffs, with the last remaining money in the bank account funding the 10% through a couple weeksNow they've exhausted that
>>734221063How dare he....accept an advertising slot on his show?
Do you think the retards in these threads defending this sewage get paid to do it at least?It's funny living in a world where we are getting weekly TORtanics.
>>734220293Surely they would all talk to each other, or at least have an inkling what the others were doing?
So are they going to make Titanfall 3 now?
>>734217269>Fairgame$if Sony acquires braincells, it won't even launch>>734220046>MarathonGuaranteed 1 year of support minimum. Even if/when it fails to meet Sony's expectations, its active playerbase will still surpass/match Destiny 2's so they'll stick with it for as long as they can.
>>734215447How could this have happened??
>>734221417Not meI was having a blast
>>734221296With how popular ROCK AND STONE from Deep Rock Galactic is, you'd think more games would implement a button that makes your character yell a random cheer.
>>734215558If they lose they are woke, if they succeed they are chuddy. It's that simple, faggot.
>>734220627If Ubisoft wasn't in a dire situation, it would have been successful. But they're not and so Shadows didn't give them the funding they needed from it. I'll let you decide what that means
if sony has any sense they will eat the loss on Fairgames and just have it go the way of Hyenas where people barely remember it was a thingbut snoy is retarded so they will probably release it
I think I speak for a lot of posters here, especially the older, original 4chan audience, when I say that I have anti woke fatigue.
>>734221307>>734220936what zero inner monologue does to a mofo
>>734220936Bro, has probably played five games ever.
i dont know why Geoff gets shit when he just ran the trailer and got paid
>>734217915Skin color scares you lol
this one wasn't as fun to watch fail as concord but it was still alright
>>734219859>Highguard was a bunch of shooter devs trying to break away from corporate bullshitI wish lying caused humans to suffer immediate severe headaches and nausea.
>>734221620and hyped it up until it released
>>734221216Many such cases!
>>734221551i just have culture war fatigue in generalits all a ploy to make you die for i*raelthe big Stein himself was even responsible for /pol/ being made and getting trump into officeits all just a giant game of 4D chess and you are the pawnsinstead of fighting eachother we should fight the people that want us dead
>>734217915You can't ontologically prove why "woke" is bad, and you don't belong here.
>>734221269>InclusivityIt is, and allways has been, anti white-straight-male.You would never hear a complain from them about a show with a rooster full of blacks, gays, women, or any combination of them. Just when is predominant white men.
>>734221260It's just frustrating to watch years and millions of dollars be wasted on shit nobody asked for when they could have been making something people want to play.So when it fails, what happens? They blame US! the players! And then turn around and MAKE THE EXACT SAME TYPE OF GAME THAT CAUSED THEM TO FLOP HAVING LEARNED NOTHING!Then they blame us again! What the fuck do they expect? Gamers are tired of waiting and will take their business elsewhere as there's tons of other games being made by people who don't actively hate their audience. Imo this is because gaming got too big too fast and went from just being niche children's entertainment to something that was bigger than music, movies, television combined, and now EVERYONE wants to get that $$$ but it's actually really difficult to make a decent game that people actually want to play and none of them are treating the process with respect. Gaming isnt the only place this is happening but it's the newest one on the block compared to other older forms of entertainment.It's like Google and Amazon's foray into the gaming world. Stadia? And all the other forgetable crap these giant corpos pushed out. You would think with ALL that money and ALL those resources they could make something half decent, something people actually wanted to play but they're always thinking money first, experience last.
>>734215447CONCORD 2 BABY!
Is Marathon next? unlike Highguard IT ACTUALLY COST MONEY which make sit the actual Concord 2.0.
>>734221631Concord was like the fat girl at the party who thought she was getting some dickHighgaurd was like the ugly girl at the party who barfed in the punch bowl
>>734220519Absolutely insane that they took the raiding part of rust and tried to shove it into a completely different genre..like you can tell none of the devs/idea guys actually played rust despite them mentioning it ass the inspiration for "raid mode". So dumb, raiding in rust is high stakes with hours of prep/adventures required to get enough gear and boom for a successful raid...meanwhile in this game you uhhh...hit rocks for 3 minutes per round and collect shiny loot from boxes with zero risk....???? Like i cannot even comprehend how they made such a nonsensical dogshit game
>>734219859Fuck off tranny
nobody is ready for GTA6 to flop
>>734220830I think Sony wont let Marathon die. They can't afford to let >>734221625Not everyone is scared of things they simply don't like. That's woman behavior it
>>734221705Nobody is going to go sign up for the army because Tencent funded yet another failed live service game.People are calling it out as shit because that's what it is. People literally just want to play decent games and the people making games are more interested in pushing propaganda and lecturing their players, then shaming them when they dont show up to buy, making more propaganda hit pieces saying how it's actually our fault they suck. We're not fighting each other. People are taking a stand and not supporting these shit games because people have had enough. It's a simple boycott, it's not rocket science. The corporate media whittled away their trust with their audience and now everyone shits on them at every opportunity because they STILL wont deliver games people want to play.
>>734221746Marathon atleast paid all the streamer faggotshighgaurd just paid doc and called it a day
>>734221746Marathon will probably do fine due to all the Destiniggers with Stockholm syndrome
>>734221269Equal representation in a hobby where the userbase is mostly from one demographic is actually underrepresenting said demographic.
>>734221727>You can't ontologically prove why "woke" is badIt´s called pattern recognition. Can you prove in any tangible metric why woke is good?
>pay for an ad>sperg out at person who showed the ad when the product failsI know they claimed that it was him that reached out but I quite frankly just don't believe them after some of the other fucking nonsense some of the devs posted on social mediaI don't buy it at all that dewrito pope would give that slot away for free when the whole point of TGA is for him to make money
>>734215447>2 million players My ass, lying till the end LMAO
MARATHON CONCORD 3 FLOP SOON
>>734219379Fucking hell
>>734221889GTA 6 could launch as a 1/5 game and it will still make a billion in a day.
>>734221889I'll be impressed if it does. Normies will gobble that up regardless. It's too big, like sports games
>>734221889While I have no doubt that GTA 6 will be genuinely bad, it will definitely sell like hotcakes based on the name alone.
>>734221889Literally impossible, unfortunately. The game could not function at all and brick your console/pc and it would still sell gorillions on hype alone.
>>734215447Why did Geoff murder this game in cold blood?
>>734221889Dont get uppity chud, GTA6 will break records and you'll pretend you never called it woke
>>734221993Oh come on, you should be happy! It wasn't a bullet hell.
>>734221930>answering a question with another questionI accept your concession.
>>734221959
lol geoff
>>734221202Plus they're former-corpo shitheads bankrolled by Tencent. They're not real indies.
>>734221889See, hoping GTA will flop is like hoping Pokemon will flop. These live service games don't have that same kind of brand power that GTA has, it is unironically too big to fail.now if they REALLY charge $100 for it, maybe it will sell LESS, but it will still sell a lot because it's GTA and this is the most anticipated normie game for years
>>734221928These commies understand "equality" as equal output, not equal oportunities.
>>734219598A lot of this is allegedly retarded VC people behaving like degenerate gamblers with the hope that one of the bets hits, and they end up with the next Fortnite/Roblox/whatever.
I am now eating my food while waiting for a match.
>make a game where you shoot dudes>force the player to do a bunch of boring shit that isnt shooting dudes>cant even find any dudes to shoot when you get to the shooting dudes partHow could it have possibly failed
I don't get it.It didn't flop
>>734221475>you'd think more games would implement a button that makes your character yell a random cheer.space marine 2 does this
>>734221924This unironically. Somehow Bungie and Blizzard have a moderate but stable fanbase that will play literally anything they shit out. I don't quite understand it.
Okay, serious question: a lot of Wildlight's devs worked on Apex Legends. That game also has no voice chat, but it launched with a context-sensitive waypoint system, where a player could mark an object in-game, and not only would ir be marked for teammates as well, but their character would have a descriptive bark, like "armor here" or "enemy spotted."Does Highguard have anything like that? There's no voice chat, so obviously it would be a huge benefit.
>>734220572This. They were a bunch of greedy fucks. That's literally the whole reason why Wildlight Entertainment came to be.
>>734221889sadly its takes two (wink) bad installments for a game franchise with good rep to get shat onits why rocksaaaar is stalling so hard
>>734217584YOU MAKE ME AYOU MAKE ME ABELIEVERBELIEVER
>>734215447AIEEEE HELP ME STOP KILLING GAMESI SPENT MONEY ON THIS AND IM BEING ROBBED!!!jk lol
I'm so tired of us losing. All I want is horrible games to sell billions so I can come here and watch the human trash that calls this place home seethe horribly over it
>>734220394Deadlock's budget is infinite because Valve is a bank and doesn't care about money.
>>734222089That's what you do when you have money. You make investments (bets) on the next big thing. Sometimes you get it right. Sometimes you get it wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGGZWa6pUCI
>>734217629>>734219606>>734219884I like how culture warriors will constantly repost this and then never actually make their own arguments and need to use some quippy shit someone else said ad nauseum as some gotcha. Almost like that whole "evil cannot create" spam really applies most of all to them.
is fairgames still coming out?(oops, accidentally posted this in a re9 thread before kek)
>>734222110Are you playing on a tablet??
>>734222253But that already happens often. You're just a retard and assume those are good games.
>>734221283I don't think its a meme. I'm from an ex-commie country and judging from what my parents told me this same shit (okay, a less faggy version) was present baci then. Everything was fine, every quota surprassed, every worker joyful, glorious communism was reaching for the stars...until it wasnt and collapsed. Noone questioned it, because noone wanted/dared to even tho many knew it was BS.
>>734222186Well, TLOU 2 made the 3rd installent for the franchise and that multiplayer spinoff to be cancelled, right?
>>734221727Woke is bad for many a reasons. Reason I hate it is people who inject it into media tend to put their effort into that rather than make the media good. It's more of a red flag for bad quality these days if anything. It's also why old stuff that "would be considered woke if released today" got away with it. The media was still good. Now days you would have this character and a shit game because of it.
>>734215447I feel bad for them, because SO much of the hate really is manufactured. There's definitely a culture now of people delighting in games or other media failing. It doesn't even have to be explicitly woke stuff; Highguard had some ugly women, which is about as woke as it got I think. I love sending the message that ugly women for the sake of ugliness will not be tolerated. I love sending the message that catering to the modern audience WILL get your studio shuttered and your entire staff will be looking for new jobs within months of product release. I love that. That needs to happen. But I still find myself empathizing here just because the developers became Concord 2 through almost entirely bad luck. My hope is that Marathon and Bungie get the same treatment. I hope Horizon Hunters Gathering gets the same treatment as well. Any game that injects weird gender shit, or ugly women, or mystery meat racemixing garbage deserves to go out of business forever. I'm excited to see that happen.
>>734215447I thought this launched like two weeks ago. What do you mean it's shutting down?
>>734222186>stallingyou mean working on it so it doesn't have a bad installment? like they did all their games before? with huge success?
>>734221936hehehehe only hit 90k on steam, somehow hit 1.9 milly on console...this is why that marathon tranny was calling for steamchart ban
>>734217492chad thundercock
>>734221396But we are at /pol/
>>734222382It's also, you know, insufferable social propaganda where there shouldn't be any.
>>734222339it had another playtest recently and it was still badsnoy seems hellbent on frankenstein-ing it even though the studio leadership all left
>>734217584what the fuck are those titlesI hate millennial writing so much
>>734222339No idea. They had that reveal trailer last year at a State of Play and the response was...not great
>>734221991we already have an example of too big to fail, cyberpunk. the game can still get shat on relentlessly but a financial failure probably isnt gonna happen.
>>734221727You don't get to decide who belongs here tranny. And woke is bad because its lame and gay.
>>734222320You're underage.The culture war argument has been round longer than you. People got tired of playing the leftoids games and just simply post this now. It's like the whole>Wait a minute, I'm not blackWe just can't be bothered to deal with you and your disingenuous games anymore.
>Geoff believed it would be a smash hit>everyone in the studio believed it would be a smash hit>journalist outlets all believed it would be a smash hit>flops so bad that the studio is forced to pull the plugI’m being genuine here bros, I’m really curious.How is it even possible for there to be such a brutal disconnect between games studios and media and the audience they are supposedly trying to appeal to?I feel like you could’ve dragged any random video game enjoyer off the street and showed them the game and they would’ve been able to tell you it’s mid at best.
>>734222383You can't blame all the hate and want-it-to-fail-culture, because while that sucks _every_ game gets shit on these days. But that has never stopped a good game succeeding.
>>734222409The leak was in 2020 showing how playable it already wasthe game was past beta phase
>>734221727Woke is bad because I don't like it. Now get off my board, tourist.
>>734221889you are fucking insane if you think GTA6 has any chance of flopping, normgroids will buy it in droves no matter what solely based off the nameRockstar could make the game give 99% of people seizures on boot and they'd still defend it
Still lasted longer than Concord
>>734222458Correct, but the person I'm talking to wont see it that way, so there's no point bringing it up
>>734220572>>734222164It's not greedy to say 'Hey, I want a small bonus' if you make a game that sells gangbusters, because those kinds of hits are so rare. And publishers are notorious cunts about trying to weasel out of giving people bonuses even when they do have to, like with the CoD lawsuits.>>734221063If it wasn't for Geoff, they never would've gotten that 100k who tried the game when it launched.
Lmfao this is wokie 9/11
>>734221889that's like hoping for a mainline pokemon game to flop
>>734222393Why are chuds like this?
>>734222626no that was Concordthis is Geoff's 9/11
>>734222320>you are a culture warrior if you tell someone shoving propaganda in your face to fuck offI love this epic tactic where one side is extremist towards neutral parties and then claims that said neutral parties are extremists for resisting them.
>>734216880mornin' newfag
>>734222669You say this as though it isn't a tactic pushed by both sides.
>>734222617>but the person I'm talking to wont see it that wayThen you should not respond to them earnestly and just insult their disgusting whore mother for letting them live past infancy.
>>734218847If you actually were white, people wouldn't be asking to see your hand or even suspect you of being a nigger, nigger.
>>734222572lmao I played plenty betas and alphas in my life that I can tell you it was definitely not "past beta phase"
>>734222621>It's not greedy to say 'Hey, I want a small bonus' if you make a game that sells gangbusters, because those kinds of hits are so rare. And publishers are notorious cunts about trying to weasel out of giving people bonuses even when they do have to, like with the CoD lawsuits.Oh, it's not. But it is greedy to leave your job employed at an already successful game because you don't think you're getting your fair share, so you start up your own studio, take Chinese money to fund your own game, and bet maybe a hundred million bucks on it and then it fails spectacularly. Because it turns out you're terrible game developers who thought Highguard was actually a fucking good game. That is greed.
>>734222556When you have a bunch of yes men, you will believe anything you do is a good idea.
>>734222539Nice lie, but everyone knows /v/ doesn't play games. All you do is cry about how there are no games, and then anytime someone tries to suggest something everyone says "actually all of it is shit, I'm so tired".
>>734222074>now if they REALLY charge $100 for it, maybe it will sell LESSI think the opposite will happen and it'll instead be bad for other games releasing around GTA 6's time. Normies who only buy a game or two every month could skip a month to save up for GTA
>>734222556I can see 2 possibilityIn the first case every journo, streamer, family friend they got to try the game before launch or didn't tell the truth hoping to get more free vacations/hotel roomsAlternatively played with the devs behind their backs with them backseating on how to perform every single action, and so played the game in the "intended" way to "maximize fun"Or they're all paid shills incapable of actually understanding what they're playing
>>734222352funnily enough on the toxic positivity is pushed by people that live in commiefornia, want socialism to replace capitalism and so on.They seemed to get so offended over the idea that the free market can decide NOT to play their game if they don't like it. In the commie's mind, they put XYZ hours/money into it so they DESERVE XYZ in sales and players. It's this entitled, idealistic crap that's extremely out of touch with reality. When it doesn't work out they plug their ears and instead blame the market for not buying their game. They are at odds end with reality. They want their cake and eat it too. They want the lifestyle afforded by capitalism but they want all the benefits of socialism where there's no consequences for making poor decisions
Aww that fourth paragraph is so sad.
>>734215447I expect them to hand over all resources required to run private servers before the month is over
>>734222730I prefer to be the better man, give a logical and reasonable answer, then watch them not respond because they can't call me a chud/incel etc
>>734222669>making a game is shoving propaganda in my face!!!!!No one is forcing you to engage with the game, ironically you shove your own face into it
>>734222343That is my old Razer Blade 14 laptop and a Wacom tablet.My screen broke in 2022.
>>734222667Nothing will happen to Geoff. By next week everyone will have forgotten and he'll be ready for another paycheck #ad.
>>734221889Will never ever happen ever, normies go absolutely rabid for GTA for some reason and it will make billion in a day even if it's the worst shit ever made.
>>734222830>No but my narrative! Muh vee!As I said, underage. Pathetically so
>>734221396>opposing woke shit is /pol/ nowfuck off you faggot
>>734222883Stop killing ga--oof, we lost another one!
>>734222556They aren't market testing or at least aren't doing it properly. If you gave an honest review of character designs as soulless DEI creations for example you would be blacklisted and your feedback thrown out. So basically all the feedback they actually receive is 'oh um that obese lardass needs a different belt color' which obviously solves nothing.
>>734216159A black asian knight with a stupid haircut named Atticus? Please.Concept artists for video games are terrorists.
>>734222827What you described is entrepreneurship, not greed.It would be greed if they were making crazy demands of Tencent or having really bloated salaries or behaving like primadonnas, which they weren't. They took a risk, the risk didn't pay off, and now they're unemployed. I can respect that, since leaving a job you have now for one that might not last, especially in this economy, is damned dangerous. (Not that working for EA is any kind of guarantee of continued employment, though.)
>>734222809it was just GTAV and they panicked hard and started delaying it every year lmao
>>734222957anything slightly pushing towards centrism away from radical leftism is literally hitler, chud
>>734221991This. MH wilds is shit, but sold 10mil on hyoe before people caught on. GTAVI will probably perform below expectations on the long run, but will still sell a gorillion copies at launch because its GTA.
>>734220887the true beauty of this image is that he was wrong and everyone died in the movie
>>734223020PWNED
>>734222960Were people asking for this game to be shut down?
>>734222253Losers lose, thats how it is. Maybe its you who the trash is.
>>734215558The characters are ugly, and ugly means woke.
>>734219801Devs usually don't delete the depot contents, so as long as it's in your Steam library you can redownload it. A lot of pservers ask you to download the game from Steam instead of distributing the client files themselves.Taking a glance at the FModel Discord server, the game uses custom encryption so it's not super simple to rip, but somebody has been working on it.https://archive.org/details/Highguard-WorksNo character models, though.
>>734223110Racists were.
>>734223110Nobody was asking for it to stay up that's for sure
>>734222320I like how it still makes you faggots seethe no matter how many times it gets posted.
>>734222968This really has to be it because I thought the same thing about Concord.It’s like focus test groups and market research don’t exist anymore, or whatever methodology they use these days is so flawed it’s costing studios millions in losses and they’re still clueless as to why.
>>734222893>propaganda isn't propaganda because you can ignore itRetard alert
>>734223213Ironic shitposting is still shitposting, tripfag
>>734221770What will that make Marathon? Because we know Horizon: Hunters Gathering is the obese disabled girl at the party who shits themselves on the dance floor
>>734223020classic
>>734222713You are doing exactly what I said, lmfao
>>734215447i wanna feel bad but any studio STILL trying to break into the hero shooter genre deserves it
>>734222393>tryingI assure them that I did nothing
>>734223225It's because it destroys all engagement with them and they can't play their dirty, disingenuous, tactics
>>734222957>>734223046People here say that it's always the left pushing more left yet nowdays you will also see things that used to be enjoyed here get called out as woke too because it's not vanilla white bread.
>>734223040sounds like cope
>>734222893seething libtard. you can choose not to get involved in this celebration thread too KEK
>>734223361>I did nothingSo you admit you are an economic terrorist?
>>734222832When I say it will sell "less" I just mean it wont top GTA V's sales, which let's be real that was gonna be hard for them to top in general. GTA V came all the way back on PS3, hard to believe they've been milking it for this long without a new one. Expectations are high for GTA VI, it's unlikely the game will meet those expectations, but the game will still sell well even if they have the gall to charge $100. You're right that it will just hurt the industry more than help it. Anyone smart who has a game releasing near GTA is going to delay it to avoid getting their sales eaten up
>>734223312Weird (ugly) artsy girl patting the cat in the corner who doesn't like alcohol or socializing. The one you always think 'why the fuck are you here?'
>>734223427
>>734223312Marathon is the ugly purple haired autist sitting in the corner not talking to anyone who smell of cigarettes
>>734223427>economic terrorist>YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO JUST CONSOOM!!!!welcome to capitalism, commie libtard
>>734223312this has to be a parody
>>734217220die, riot-tranny
>>734222410do you understand how concurrent players works
>>734223373A lot of that is just shitposting though, people trying to stir up controversy. There's no real controversy over say, Streets of Rage 2 having a "DEI" cast, and it actually works for the setting and story anyways. Nobody is losing their mind because Barret was a black dude in Final Fantasy 7. It remains one of people's favorite games ever and the remakes are pretty popular as well. If the game is good, and the characters fit in the world rather than looking like they just were trying to meet some kind of checklist, where one character is gay, them them, has that horrible buzzcut haircut, and just otherwise shit designs, then people will like the game so long as the designs aren't so horrible on the eye.
Highguard is daidPoor Highguard is daidAll gather 'round its server now and cryIt had no price or soldAnd it wasn't very oldWhy did such a shooter have to die?Highguard is daidPoor Highguard is daidIt's lookin' oh so giant and empty (And empty)It's all laid out to restWith its lobbies without a guestIts players had never had such a blast
>>734215447Mid af, ong
>>734217503>5-th - maaybe Deadlock (though Valvearmy will keep it alive)If Deadlock dies it's 100% because valve just went "lol nope" and literally deletes the game on a whim, valvefags are willing to play literally anything (look at TF2 and its completely abandoned state)
>>734223017>entrepreneurshipA nice way to say greed. You know what wouldn't have been greedy? If they had made a start-up studio to make a game they wanted to make. They didn't care what kind of game Highguard was. All they wanted was to have a bigger piece of the pie of Apex Legends and they thought they could replicate it with Highguard. Who took home the $100M that Tencent gave them? They did. The studio did. The people there did. How rich did they get off of the whole enterprise and would they have gone if they weren't going to get paid? You see, entrepreneurship is motivated by greed. By profit. You don't see sensible people go out and try to start a business just because they want to. Because, as you say, there's a lot of risk. But there's also a lot of reward. Greed was the motivating factor. If they wanted a safer bet, it would have been with EA. Unless the people Wildlight pulled out of EA were so terrible they would've been the first to get laid off.
>>734223702https://youtu.be/ly7NtvaZd1k?si=YRKMQcm8uOZHJ-_T
>>734215447apple farmers in shambles
>>734223591>here's no real controversy over say, Streets of Rage 2 having a "DEI" castBecause that wasn't that case you gigantic disingenuous faggot. Intent matters. Skate and Barret are there because they are cool. Many bits of media would have hysterical flaming faggot characters played up for laughs. This doesn't even need to be said, because everyone already understands this, and the only people who claim they don't are lying to push propaganda on others.
>>734223250Yet youre ok with steam despite being purely woke company
>>734223769he has a point
>>734223549Oh even better !!! lets count the devs who sign in to 50 different accounts!!
>>734223769>Joshiepoo>bearded effeminate selfie taking faggot>defending actual dogshit using completely false argumentsevery single time
>>734223534lol deilock fags are obsessed with riot
WE'RE SO HAPPY BEING DEAD
>>734219001Money well-spent, because we all had a good laugh. Thanks Tencent!
>>734223840>eview bad product = review bombKEK kys corpo shill
>>734223824>Yet youre ok with steamStrawmanning shitsucking nigger.
>>734223769God awful analogy
>>734223809Well yeah thanks for agreeing with me, you're just reinforcing my point. It's disingenuous to say that people are picking apart old games because they're woke. if anything they're doing the opposite with old media and canceling it because it was problematic and made jokes that were too offensive for them now and have some kind of "troll remorse" over their edgy teenager days. I see a lot more of than the inverse of people digging up old titles and crying "WOKE"
>>734216880>good morning saaaar
>>734223769>JoshiepooAlso there is no such thing as a review bomb, if a game is really good and has overwhelmingly positive reviews is this a review bomb too?
>>734223952I apologize, I misread your post and jumped to conclusions in a bout of rage.
>>734223373Yes this is what happens when the pendulum swings too far one way for too long. It swings back and hard.
>>734223917How is that strawmanning, they are literally woke and donate exclusively to democrats who push woke policies
>>734220147No, the game wasn't good. That's why it failed. It had potential, sure, in the way that a giant block of stone has potential to be sculpted into a marvelous statue.The pacing of each match was terrible.Overwatch tried to shrink their match player count by 2 and it was almost unanimously recognized as a terrible move that made the game worse to play, it just took about a year or two of getting over the "5v5 is better!!!" copeposting and playercounts crashing down for them to backtrack on it. And the Highguard devs decided "nah, 3v3 is good"? The end result of the match being divided into phases with only 6 players on the field (also with a very low TTK) was that the game was abysmally slow resource gathering and moving about an unnecessarily large map 80% of the time, maybe 5% of it was shooting at players trying to find anyone in the raid phase and then 15% was just respawning or looking for players.
>>734223769People like this are why democracy is a broken system. They should not have the right to speak.
>>734216928deadlock does not have enough lesbians (yet)
>>734223878>observe that it's riot nigger trannies 100% of the time>make statement>'lol obsessed'Kill yourself right now.
I haven't played rust. What's so interesting about uts "raids" to turn them into a separate genre?
>>734223769>>>>>>food analogy
>>734219270morganbros...
>>734219859THE GAME AWARDS ARE A BUSINESSHIGHGUARD DIDN'T GET SHILLED BECAUSE GEOFF LIKED IT, IT GOT SHILLED BECAUSE THEY PAID OVER A MILLION DOLLARS TO SHILL THEIR GAME
>>734224058>Yet youre ok with steamI can pull shit out of my ass too. Why do you literally suck cock and eat your own shit?
>>734223769I like how he makes out how he didn't get to choose to plant the red apple tree
>>734224029Lol you're good man. You were right to lash out. I was just replying to bait anyways. It's better not to even give those people the time of day but sometimes I like to try and deconstruct these arguments. I could have probably worded things better
>>734224148That spot makes a lot more sense knowing tencent was behind highguard. "I saw potential in the game and gave them the closing spot for free" my ass
>>734223824You already got btfo earlier in the thread. Why are you back?
>>734224108>anyone who doesn't like my woke game likes this other studioObsessed
>>734224245You can't stop me. I can just ignore your post, wait a bit and continue again. You have no power here.
That was a good Highguard match.
>>734224225It's always been the shill awards and Tencent is ALWAYS funneling money into their shitty reveals without fail every year. Expect more Tencentslop again. That's why theres a dreadful feeling hanging over each awards. All this corposlop that nobody asked for and nobody wants to play. But they paid money so time to watch three hours of SLOP
>>734224128It's the 'shitting thoroughly on another real person's time investment' aspect. Advanced griefing, really; but Byeguard's got nothing to do with those raids because the bases are pre-made, not requiring hours of effort to set up.The developers were dumb and deserved to fail, in all honesty.
>>734224349Lmao you aite tripfag but your gimmick is shit. You remind me of the Gamefaqs days
>>734224329Just because you chose to ignore your failure doesn't mean everyone else will. Just makes you a laughing stock
>>734224353I know, I haven't watched the show in years now. Only know Highguard was the final spot thanks to all the shitposting here. Needless to say, I won't be watching this year's either.
>>734224326You won't prove me wrong, ergo I am correct.
>>734216159Nigger Fatigue is at all time high levels, and still rising...
>>734224349what's the performance/latency like on that setup?Admirable effort
>>734224401Is that what kind of game Arc Raiders is? I've never played any of these. What's the difference between Rust and Tarkov? Which ones of these genre are actually worth your time. I ask as someone doing it for research of my own. I try to play all kinds of games but I'm completely out of the loop with what's popular these days
>>734224448>He thinks laughter can stop us.
>>734218459>What woke shop lets you do that?I dunno, but I remember Nexus mods banning people for the Spiderman mod that changed the rainbow flagFiltering out that tag is akin to modding it out
>>734216159I mean... kinda. Why would I want niggers or jeets in my games? I go to games to have fun and escape the outside world. Why would I want to inject that with disgusting browns? Kind of eliminates the point, wouldn't you say?
>>734224578just like libtards tears didn't stop highguard dying KEK
>>734224529Rust is a survival crafting game. Tarkov and Arc are extraction shooters. Extraction shooters have you go into a map with gear, run around collecting as much loot on the map that you can carry and extract from extraction points scattered through the map. It's a pvp environment where if you die, you drop your shit and lose it forever. So high risk, high reward basically.
>>734224578At least you understand you are the clown in this scenario. We are making progress with your kind
>>734224476You can't prove me wrong that youre a valve shill thats why you are obsessed with another company unprovoked
>>734223527Picrel wasn't a parody. Western gaming devs are capable of any atrocity an anon could imagine.
>>734224529Rust is a survival crafting game with PVP and voice chat, so you can form tenuous alliances if you'd like.Tarkov is- if you've never played an extraction shooter, the best way I can describe it is as a roguelike PVP FPS where you load into levels to search for valuable loot then try to escape with it.I don't play either, personally; I play The Forever Winter because it works offline and is more of a military sci-fi survival horror game.
>>734224529Tarkov has no building and basically revolves around you entering areas that can be looted for upgrades and goodies with the threat of being killed by other players while trying to escape with whatever you managed to grab - the key gimmick being that death means anyone else can loot you too. Rust is like an open world survival game where you can build bases, craft shit and gather resources with the added caveat that there other players are free to help or harm you as you see fit. The end result is that 99% of Rust is other people desperately trying to kill you, steal your shit and burn your base to the ground because it is a griefer's paradise. This goes all the way back to Day Z, an Arma mod and later standalone game which had the same phenomenon - if you make a coop game but don't do anything to stop griefing, it rapidly degenerates into nothing but people desperately foaming at the mouth the moment they spot a weaker player to abuse.Imagine Minecraft but everyone is on the same server and friendly fire is always on, that's the best comparison I can think of.
>>734223312>Diabetic feet amputee
>>734224686cut off one head of the hydra and two more grow back>>734224764your laughter will not stop us
Do Nothing bros, we win again!
>>734224524Its limit seems to be Teardown, but it runs it a lot better than my previous laptop.I'm only able to get at least 24 fps on Teardown during gameplay.It lags during the menus, but is smoother during gameplay.It has an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU.
>>734224924your beloved game got stripped from you tho. OH THE IRONY LMAO retarded tranny
>>734224924No, but it's pushes more people away from your lot if you're willingly showing the world how unhinged you truely are. Basically digging your own graves. It's great
>>734224709>>734224854>>734224856I see, I see. Thanks for the replies, I feel so out of touch to get multiple genres mixed up like that. I'll stick to my archaic old games but I feel there might things to learn from these newfangled games as well.Are there any more games in the style of "raiding" other people's stuff? the real time griefing
>>734224828I had completely forgotten about this game. I guess it's good to be reminded how awful it was once in a while.
>>734220519>>734220950The game was doomed the moment they removed that lineThat was basically all the lead/senior devs going:>Let's distance ourselves from this flop and start looking for a cushy corporate job
>>734225121I play Synduality. It's a extraction shooter set in anime mechs. It's alright, though pretty dead so you wont see many people. I just like wandering round in a mech hoarding loot.
A thread that gets 640+ posts, incredible!
>>734217269Fairgame$ won't come out. Too ambitious, gameplay loop won't materialize, is vaporware. IF it comes out it'll last 2 months if that.
I just realized that these devs have been copying elements from aos/moba/dota/lol from the start, copying one nee aspect each time>titanfall: a shooter with ai creep/minions like dota/lol>apex legends: a shooter with heroes with cooldown skills, like dota/lol>highguard: a ahooter were you gear up through the map to become strong enough to assault the enemy baseI understand bots, classes, spells, bases exist before mobas but it is now evident to me they've just been slowly ripping aspects one by one
>>734225121EVE Online is famously all about that, and it's not exactly a new game by this point. It's slower, more like a massive strategy game where all the pieces are players; but the stakes are astronomically high due to how that game handles character deaths.
>>734225374Too much game discussion going on in here SHUT IT DOWN
>>734225468I'm not angry or anything, just surprised. This place is for *game discussion*, this is totally fine.
>>734225426Everything is gamefied with a billion gizmos and timers so that you're always going from one task to the next juggling a bunch of small progression systems, game resources, and what have you. Gacha games do the same thing, it's designed more around engagement than actual fun
