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>seeking partners
It's always funny when american libshits can't help themselves and always start talking about 'all dem awards' the game got (from other libshit publications), as if that matters to anyone but their bubble.The game is an unappealing mess that's pretty shallow and mediocre on a mechanical level. Imagine greenlighting any bigger project focused on negroe swamp fables.
>>743356919I'm sure they will find another publisher willing to burn some money.
>>743357692Honestly there're plenty of money from dumb investors for companies to continue making woke garbage for the next decade.
>>743357692BlackRock has got rid of their ESG funds. The gravy train is almost empty. Without US govt support I don’t see woke games being funded anymore. That doesn’t mean we won’t see woke games in the future, but they’ll just be from smaller devs who are ideologically committed leftists.
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>>743356919I unironically hope they get bought out by the Saudis. They deserve each other.
>>743358116Man this purge really is only happening because Larry Fink woke up and said "damn, this was a stupid idea", huh.
>>743356919Yeah, good luck with that.
>>743358471Prince bin Salman buys them out and turns them into an SNK support studio.
>>743358497He got demoted, had a significant reduction in his yearly bonus, and in the equity management world, he's kind of a dork now. A dork that is richer than god, but still a dork.
>>743357524>>743356919I just think it's funny they're getting censored. It's been 10 years of "Ban literally everyone who isn't a carbon copy of me" and it's finally come home to roost.Now, this hasn't resulted in me getting LESS censored, but it has resulted in the same retarded cultists finally realizing that when everyone told them 'It will come for you, eventually', that they were correct. Now they're begging people for relevance in an industry that refuses to fund their propaganda megaphone anymore.
>Compulsion Games was founded by former Arkane devsVery interesting, was not aware of this until now. They certainly carried on the Arkane legacy of producing absolute hot garbage (Arx Fatalis was nice).
>>743358116We'll still see them, from Europe. Europe will still fund woke games, but the money pool they have to offer is far, far less and it requires things like being a European studio. The era of going to XBox as an LLC, rubbing shoulders with a few execs, and pitching yourself as an up-and-coming studio who will make propaganda for cheap and will say anything they want for a fee is over.
>>743356919There's always Kickstarter. It worked for Double Fine.
>>743358497>woke upHe's still committed, what has happened is that his billionaire friends aren't the conductors of the gravy train anymore. When republicans are in, the war hawks run the gravy train, and everything else is shoved as coal into its engine. Now this is really bad in a different kind of way, but really good if all you care about are the quality of video games. If you're capable of just tuning the world out and pretending nothing outside muh vidya matters, then you have all sorts of reasons to be happy.
>>743356919Without looking it up can't name a single game from this company. They made South of Midnight but what else?
>>743358848We Happy Few
>>743357524>>743356919I don't want the world destroyed, or even the industry. They chose that they weren't going to fund the things I liked anymore, and even told me to stop playing their games. So I did, I started playing smaller games that weren't relevant to the industry like RTS games and spent my money elsewhere. Now, that they can't force me to pay themselves or fund their games through my taxes, they're oddly committed to pretending that I should care one bit about their dream industry coming to an end. They made a decision, they also must respect mine. It's extra, extra hard for developers of any software product right now, I hear. I hope they find employment, just not in something that will have Uncle Sam robbing some % of my paycheck to make sure they have busywork to keep them occupied.
>>743358759I'm going be laughing my ass off when you can't even use your own OS anymore. But whatever. Listen to this faggot, he's speed running the grave.
>>743358497Dunno about Fink, but Larry Ellison’s “come to God” moment was seeing all the leftists become anti-Zionist (basically anti-Jew) during the Gaza war. A lot of Jews are now right-wing because of Gaza.
>>743359113>seeing all the leftists become anti-Zionist (basically anti-Jew) during the Gaza warBound to happen once the Israelis went full mask off.They had been planning on purging the Palestineans for decades, and everyone knew it. There was no other solution they would countenance for a variety of reasons.Honestly, the only actual resolution would have been for the US to pay Egypt to take them in, but US somehow couldn't find the money back then, but now can find the billions to give Israel in a war that they started that, at best, they are holding even in.Most military analysts agree Israel would have already lost outright without US funding and munitionsIt's Ukraine all over again lol
>>743356919>game studio looks for projectHURR DURR
>>743356919>>743359004>We Happy FewWTF was phill's plan?
>>743359084>I'm going be laughing my ass off when you can't even use your own OS anymore. That was going to happen anyway, loser. The people in OP and the governments who funded them were the first ones to start censoring the internet loooooooooong before the current crop of politicians were in power. The most progressive governments on Earth right now, the same people who were trying to ruin video games, they already implemented OS level spying.I just want to play video games, so I'm winning. You wanted my taxes to fund these retards and also go toward censoring the internet, so you're losing. You're just realizing this was bad for you too, faggot.
>>743359113They sure don't vote like it.
>>743359084The only politician who is trying to stop people from using their own hardware is this guy. His party funded dozens of prog propaganda games, and he, himself, is King Prog. Warhawks are bad because they ruin societies for money like barbarous mercenaries, but how does this affect you, personally? Prog fags are bad because they ruin society for clout, and this does affect me and the things I like. Either ways, your getting your society ruined. Choose if you want video games and the internet spared, or if you want this faggot demanding your ID to even use your console. Because he's already done that. People like him were wanting you to be forced to give a percentage of your paycheck to fund devs like in the OP to make games you wouldn't play if they were the last game on Earth.
>>743359601It wouldn't be Mr. Scorpion if he didn't sting Mr Frog, now would it?
Asha Sharma is so based man
>>743359601How do you know? Hasn't been any national elections to tell, only local.
>>743356952BLACK partners
politics ruined this board
>>743360090Politics ruined video games. Blame the "everything is political" fags who did that, not us.
>>743360090>politics ruined this boardYou say that after 12 years of faggots trying to control video games and finally going bankrupt from running out of money from making products nobody wants to play. Curious!
>>743360164NTA but>talking about the board quality>immediately defends the rampant off topic culture war postingYou are part of the problem. There is a time and place, and people like you think it's all the time, everywhere.
>>743360257Did I fucking stutter? I said politics ruined this board. That includes both the left and right.
>>743360259>There is a time and placeSo, where have you been the last 12 years? Literally nobody was saying this when the angel investment gravy train was still rolling and most games had become bizarre political statements. You're only taking this stance this now, after the buck has stopped and the industry expects someone else to pay for it.
>>743360336>le ebin fencesitter ok cool but you're still trying to pretend 12 years of faggots trying to control video games from a certain political slant just didn't happen and no one should be allowed to comment on it crashing down.
>>743360259>There's a time and a place There WAS a time and a place. I wanted there to be a time and a place, where everyone could happily enjoy the things they like and have their own takeaways on media. But my voice didn't matter, so you have to put up with it being everywhere just like I do.
>>743359665>chunk of your paycheck going to themits been happening for a decade + at this pointits just one step removed, first the gov. gets the chunk and then it gets redistributed to churn woke shit no one buys
>>743360354>So, where have you been the last 12 years?You mean after 2016, when the culture war faggots showed up and never left?>>743360393You mean the time where the counter culture was ironically alright with gays in games, and that didn't change until after 2016?>>743360475>finally admits that he will actively ruin things for others because he doesn't get exactly what he wants, the way he wantsFinally went mask off, faggot? Fortunately, I had already assumed you were disingenuous from the start. It's about ruining something for someone else, and always was.
>>743360393I'm not the one pretending here. You're the one trying to twist this into an obvious "left bad, right good" agenda. Both are shit. You are shit for being a willing goyslave for the right who hates us just as much as the left does.
>>743360475
>>743360556>I'm not the one pretending here.yes you are, you're ignoring a decade of history like it didn't even happen, like all of this just 'happened for no reason' and it wasn't political motivated from one specific side. Notice I haven't said any specific side in any of my posts, but you just filled it in yourself because even YOU know you're full of shit and it's only one direction.
>>743358497>Larry Fink woke up and said "damn, this was a stupid idea", huh.wrong, he lost over a trillion dollars in investment funds and people started pulling their portfolios with the company. that's the only reason he did a 180.
>>743360543>>finally admits that he will actively ruin things for others because he doesn't get exactly what he wants, the way he wantsI love when fags like you just go full mask-off themselves. Projection is literally your only tool. Being "Better men" in your playbook is just synonymous for "Shut up and let me do what I want". It was never, 'let's sit down and try to understand and respect each other'. It's just an endless row of censorship and whiny demands from you to me. Now the industry is collapsing and you act like I'm not supposed to draw correlation to why it chased off its consumer base. Everyone knew this was coming. You can't demand your customers shut up and eat shit forever.
>>743360543>You mean after 2016, when the culture war faggots showed up and never left?You truly are an election tourist if you think 2016 is when this 'started'. We were having 1000+ post threads about this before Gamergate even started. You're just too much of an underaged nigger fresh off the reddit boat.
>>743360926You think he knows what Gamergate is? He thinks this started in 2016 with Boland Bump.
>>743360926Gamergate had nothing to do with companies and everything to do with a handful of video game writers.>>743360874>why it chased off its consumer baseIt didn't. What has actually happened is that the American economic downturn has made AAA video game production unviable the way it was before 2012.In the interceding time, companies bloated up by buying the small dev groups, but didn't have the time or money to finance them all. Shareholders are actually the issue you want to point at.
>>743360543>You mean the time where the counter culture was ironically alright with gays in games, and that didn't change until after 2016?No? What fucking alternate reality do you live in where these games wouldn't get laughed at pre-2016? We were BIGGER homophobes back then, who were calling people faggots on XBL and laughing at faggy looking games at E3 as early as 2003-2008.
Nigger of Midnight supposedly cost $100,000,000 and didnt even break 500,000 copies sold Kek
>>743361076>Gamergate had nothing to do with companiesIt was literally million-dollar gaming companies using gaming press outlets for PR damage control holy fucking lmao. Do you even know what Kotaku is? Silver String media? Gawker? Fuck off with this attempt to re-write the history books, newshit.
>>743361076>It didn't. They're literally begging companies to keep their destitute video game studios around now that they can't sponge government and investor money. You lost. >I-It's the economy! The tech economy is the only part of the economy that has seen any growth.
>>743360090You and your pals ruined entire hobbies. From video games to comics, card games like Magic to fucking Legos.
>>743361434and as you can see: >>743361076 He thinks it's a good thing, and he is trying to pretend he had no hand in it and it's purely economics when the only reason this was allowed was government contracting.
>>743361434Yep they did that, and you and your pals ruined this boardThanks a lot
>>743356919>make game>advertise it online>send to steamHow hard is it?
>>743361076>weeds weeds weeds fucking weedfags>>743361460>Yep they did that STOP TALKING ABOUT ITOk if they don't want me to talk about it, why did they do it? Why do you want me to suddenly stop talking about it now that it has resulted in their (your) humiliating defeat?
>>743361460Always rewriting....
>>743361460"ruined the board" isn't when you back a retarded political ideology and it ends up failing.
>if you don't agree with my extremist right wing politics you're clearly an extremist leftywhat's this fallacy called? I see it constantly
>>743356919this is studio is too useless to be closed outright
>>743361587yep yep
>>743361587>what's this fallacy called?being a dumb faggot
Incels still haven't mentioned what's woke about south of midnight besides black girl mc (who fits the setting mind you)
>>743361587What is extremist or right-wing about "I just wanted to play video games"? This is why you shitheads got rejected by everyone, because literally everything that isn't sucking banker dick 24/7 is naziism to you retards.
>>743361587>if you don't agree with my extremist right wing politics you're clearly an extremist leftyOkay but you're trying to pretend this all started with the 2016 election and nobody was against faggot games or their politics pre-2016 which is just being a revisionist faggot. So your fallacy would be 'strawman'.
>>743361332>devs>video game writers>these are the same people>>743361686see>>743361568>>743361509>>743361459>>743361434>>743361426You can't even be a dishonest faggot well.
>>743361686Who's stopping you from playing video games? The black female protagonists?
>>743361754I'm not playing games like >>743361639 no matter how much of the industry you flood it with. At one point, it was the majority of the industry. Too bad you never found that modern audience who would buy it.
>>743358497DEI is just a dead fad. Nobody will remember what it was about in 5 years.
>>743361271>same board that was cheering on Obama during his election>election tourist tries to pretend he is an oldfag>>743361686You were never here about video games, which is the problem.
>>743361740I'm >>743361509 and where the fuck did I mention right wing or politics you stupid queer? I'm way more leftist than you could ever dream. You tried to ruin an industry and it resulted in it crashing and burning. Take the L. All your game studios have.
>>743358116Ubisoft's newest financial report for their investors literally had a section about their ongoing commitment to diversity and how they are doubling down in fighting gamer toxicity. Wokeness will remain in industry for years to come until it is done.
>>743358497they're losing money so quickly on this shit that even normie investors have noticed.Ubisoft's most recent fiscal year came in. They lost 1.7 BILLION fucking dollars net. That's just last year mind you.
>>743361837>same board that was cheering on Obama during his electionWHAT FUCKING BOARD WAS THIS? LMAO, NO SERIOUSLY, NAME THE BOARD. It wasn't 4chan, /v/ or /news/.
>>743358714Xbox cut also made cuts to third parties. IOI had to do layoffs. The funds from governments aren't enough to launch AA games.
>>743361916It was /v/, tourist.
>>743361740>devs>video game writers>these are the same peopleThe game industry literally plants and supports the game journalism industry you fucking moron. That's why people were complaining about how shit game reviews are, they were just 'pay to have the best score'. >>743361837>cheering on Obama during his electionThis never fucking happened on the stormfront outpost that was 4chan or /b/ and you know it.
>>743361740I read all of these posts and none of them mentioned right-wing politics, leftism, or extremism. It seems you're mentally ill and have filled in most of the blanks yourself.
>>743361916You can search on the archives and see /v/ cheering on Hillary Clinton because she was a gamer and Biden because he was badass, newfag.
>>743361952>it was /v/In what fucking reality? lolWhy do you think /v/ called him king nigger?>>743362014Oh you're trolling, carry on. Be sure to mentioned how 'rustled' or 'jigglin' you made the chuds like what us oldfags used to say.
>>743361969>election tourists weren't around and don't know shitSurprising no one.>>743362013Okay, sar, we get it, your English isn't that good. Stop making it obvious.
>>743359459Buy a cheap, undercapitalized group of passionate, skilled devs. Boost their funding, and have them make a critical, and financial legend. Unfortunately, they spent the extra money hiring SBI instead of shoring up their gameplay, so they ended up making a critically aclaimed piece of shit. Same theory that Sony had when it bought Returnal, and ended up making Saaros.>>743360090>>743360164>>743360259>>743360556>>743360475They hired SBI to make this game. Political shit is in play.
>>743361076>It didn't. What has actually happened is that the American economic downturn has made AAA video game production unviable the way it was before 2012.>In the interceding time, companies bloated up by buying the small dev groups, but didn't have the time or money to finance them all. Shareholders are actually the issue you want to point at.Alright. I'll bite. What the fuck is the basis for your claim here?
>>743361823misrepresentativeDEI is getting folded into the company structue at a very granular level, what we're seeing isn't that DEI spending is being reduced it's that all spending is implicitly DEI
>>743362068Don't puss out now, you illiterate shitstain. Which of the posts you linked are right-wing? you listed a bunch of posts, but none of them mentioned anything about political alignment. You just made it up because they offended you, but I imagine lots of things offend you.
>>743362135Source: He was on neogaf and SRS at the time and was very angry at us 4chuds.
>>743361681Plenty of other threads have covered it anon. If you care, you can actually go to the shit SBI made themselves talking about it.
>>743361681undercranked animationsnothing more woke than this garbage technique loved by pseuds and hated by everyone with functional eyeballs
>>743362152>can't readOk, sar, stop engagement farming.>>743362135Venture capitalists out of America started investing in publicly traded game companies after 2010; you can see it when you had that first rash major companies buying out smaller companiesIt's one of the reasons why Sony moved their headquarters to the US, to get a hand of the money.That's where you started to get the bloated structure you see in modern companies, and everyone spending big money chasing whales, money they got from the investment companies.What has come up is that the investment companies are pulling out of the game, so to speak, so these bloated video game companies with billions in nonexistent money can't fund themselves by themselves, on top of these companies quietly adopting ai.They are making the same cuts the entire tech industry is making, for most of the same reasons, except the game companies are far worse due to having more 'money', more bloat, more overhead, more nepotism.The game companies that took investment dollars are peeling back to 00s numbers of employees, and shedding the indie dev groups they bought along the way.You've seen this before, actually, in Acclaim and EA, except writ large.
>>743356919their manager was insulting whites and asians
>>743361681The portrayal of white people as evil.
>>743361886So basically the money they gained from the asscreed remake will be negated.
>>743363000Show me where all the white people are evil?
>>743363168Have you played the game?
>>743362507This isn't even the same as your last statement, which said that the games were undercapitalized. And undercapitalized absolutely doesn't fucking apply to this game. Or ubisoft's woes. Or Sony's failures. Xbox's moves aren't related to VC flight at all. The studios had loads of money but were producing garbage or nothing. Or to asian publishers, including when they're using western developers.
>>743363208So you are saying in that game, the caucasian race is presented as 'evil', to the last member, without exception, in a manner we would expect to see orcs in LotR?Or are you being hyperbolic?
>>743363208He's just pretending to be retarded. I played this game to shitpost more accurately about it. It's the same goddam plot that unknown 9 used, magic negros and everything. Just swap in the tortured souls of dead slaves, and instead of white colonial man misusing black magic powers, it's your white grandma, Bunny.
>>743363343Yes, whites were comically evil slave owners.You see it in the memories of some ghosts.There is one old man who is not evil though.
>>743363343LOL. If you had played the game you'd know the answer to that, you dumb racist bitch. Fuck off with that.
>>743357524The biggest kick in the nuts is the story/world was inspired by the director's exploration of the swampy woods around his house...as a little white boy.
>>743363307>your last statement>sar thinks everyone on 4chan is one personTranslate the post in to shit runes and read it again.There are 3 main reasons this has happened, 2 major and 1 minor.
>>743363419>whites were comically evil slave owners.Can you read?>the caucasian race is presented as 'evil', to the last member, without exception, in a manner we would expect to see orcs in LotR
>>743363562No matter how much you are trying to deflect, the game flopped and the developers can't find a publisher who could fund more of their woke slop.
>>743363614I asked a straightforward question, and then you forget how to read English, jeet?
>>743361886That's because Ubisoft only exists thanks to government handouts. And guess what's the agenda for leaf and frog governments?
>>743356919swamp niggers ain't looking so tough now, huh?
>>743363465I did not imagine that there was more than one retard who held a similar position. I stand corrected. Both of you are fucking morons who can't even use the most basic of financial vocabulary to shitpost here. Simple example: If you had used VC to refer to Embracer, that would be one thing, but we're talking about MS/Xbox for this game, Sony, and Ubisoft here. Blaming VC moves for this about as sensical as talking about blowing into the cartridges of your PS5 games to make them download correctly. But even if we're generous, you haven't bothered to connect capital flight to the failures of well capitalized games. This game doesn't become a success with another 100 million. It's a complete non sequitor.Alright. I've heard enough from you two. I was curious on where the fuck you were coming from, and I got THAT answer. >>743363693They're only getting 150 million, and losing 1.7 billion. It's not looking like a smart move.
>>743359113He's falling for Esau Gambit, LMAO. Get a load of this goy.
>>743364242Alright, sar, since you are too stupid.>loss of buffer capital>introduction of ai>nepotismYou focused in on a single piece, and didn't ask why.Now go farm somewhere else, and work on your English comp.
>>743358116Trvke but they’re still getting money from the EU unfortunately. That needs to be dealt with.
>>743363614LOL. Looks like they're just going to try to derail by being racists. Unfortunately, they're not even good at being racists.
>>743362195Looks like it's way worse than Neogaf. It's more on the level of Bunkerchan economics.
>>743362507>Venture capitalists>investing in publicly traded game companieskek
>>743361434Magic was fucking gay and lame 30 years ago. It is one of the very few things that would have ended up being as bad as it is now without external help.
