Isn't it weird that in the last twelve years, the western games industry has been defined by layoffs, studio closures, and cancelled games?Maybe gamers do need to be your audience.
>fiscally illiterate anon makes assumption based on idpol for retardsLayoffs happen because they look good for the next financial quarter.
>>749641853
>>749641964Layoffs happen because games don't sell. That's the bottom line.And they're not selling because the vast majority of people don't want constant sociopolitical bullshit in their games.
>>749641853Layoffs happened due to covid over compensation
>>749642050I wonder what this guy is doing right now
video games could just be all fanservice all the time and make $100 more dollars an hour, but no, they have to trip up and think they're politicians with ideas beyond "make game fun"it's ridonkulus
>>749642106That's too bad, it's what corpos want.
>>749643078probably dead from the vaxxine
>>749643020>Economic downturn>Poor social engineering by equity management entities>Feckless stewardship of softpower assets
Do you post your schizo ramblings here because even /pol/ doesn't respond
Struck a nerve.
>>749643078probably hating himself for being a stupid cunt on the internet
>>749643078probably trooned out
>>749641853hey, everyone
>>749641853NEGRO THIS ARTICLE IS OVER 10 FUCKING YEARS OLD AND WRITTEN BY A FUCKING NOBODY.
>>749644240>NEGRO THIS ARTICLE IS OVER 10 FUCKING YEARS OLD AND WRITTEN BY A FUCKING NOBODY.Every major video game journalist website made near identical articles in the same week. Which is what really sparked the gamergate incident, because they revealed they were all conspiring with each other WAY too overtly.
>>749644345This.Remember DA: Veilguard's "return to form" shit and wolverine's "I'm having a blast!".
>>749644345they see it as a flex, they aren't even shy about itthe soviet union did the same thing
>>749643078Probably shanked and died from being a bongoid.
>>749643078Nothing
>>749641853funny how that worked out for concord
Its all because boomers wanted 0% interested rates. The free money is gone. No more fucking around with DEI hires or woke bullshit. There just isnt money to throw around anymore.
>>749644545Basically every modern game PR/Advertising budget goes towards "HAVIN A BLAST" and "RETURN TO FORM!" copy-paste quotes.Whenever I see either, I immediately discount anything the person says.
wokie floppers in the house tonighteverybody just never ever buyand we gon' make you lose your jobeverybody just ignore western flops
>>749644678*nods respectively towards him*
>>749643078he's still nodding his head respectfully towards women
>>749642106You're retarded.
>>749641853>in the last twelve years, the western games industry has been defined by layoffs, studio closures, and cancelled games?It's less about "not catering to gamers" (whatever that means) and more about the articles from 2009-2014 about how video games make more money than hollywood. Executives that don't give a shit about games moved into the industry to milk it for all it's worth.
>>749641853gamers don't want to be your audience anymore. there's a legit entertainment value in watching games flop and celebrating it because western game devs are mostly wretched bigotted pieces of shit if they aren't also in the bluewig cult.Imagine how much of a piece of shit industry you have to be for it to be entertainment to watch you get laid off.
>>749644748>only CHUDS don't like purplevomit
>>749644970Imagine being some shitty movie executive and seeing this article
>>749645030The dumbest thing is normalfags don't understand that once you notice a pattern, you can't un-notice it.Be subtle or someone will call out your bullshit forever. But they can't be subtle because it makes them horny if they're overt or something.
>>749645030Bisexual lighting is usually a dead giveaway but I can let it slide with games depicting Florida is lame like that. People where bright colors and flip flops even when they should wear shoes.
>>749641853Just remember>it could be worse
>>749644970>>749645083Wait, is that actually what you think that was about? Movie executives trying to move in to the games industry?
>>749641964Also gaming has a lot of contract roles that sort of come and go.
>>749645030gta 6 looks like cardboard tastesthe most bland shit imaginablefitting that it includes purplevomit lighting
>>749641853Sometimes natural correction after a major event takes a while. Sort of like how we're now seeing the downstream effects of the retarded COVID lockdowns that everyone who wasn't retarded predicted. Of course because retards who cause this shit have the memory span of a sand flea they'll never correlate their own behavior to the misfortune they're reaping and so they'll double down.
>>749641853Layoffs and studio closures are due to industry-wide factors, trying to blame it on some retarded journalists is idiotic. Right now, for example, look at the state of the gaming hardware market. Everything is through the roof expensive, brands like Micron are pulling out of the consumer RAM business entirely, and Nvidia cares so little about gaming that they don't even list gaming as a category in their financial reports now. Video games are now folded under "edge computing", a rounding error in their data center business. Yes, activist journalists are retarded. But they're not the reason for the entire industry committing mass suicide overnight.
>>749645167Yes
>>749645242>Sort of like how we're now seeing the downstream effects of the retarded COVID lockdowns that everyone who wasn't retarded predicted.This. It's crazy that the we re-elected the president who was in charge of the COVID lockdowns.
>>749645317Wow
>>749643190The vaccine worked, thankfully.It was an absolute ass to distribute due the cooling requirements if compared to regular vaccines, and was basically beta tested on everyone, but most people that got it got cured from covid just as well as people that got the regular thing.
>another episode of wokeoids trying to blame the collapse on everything up to space aliens just to avoid admitting that their ideology results in shit games that dont sell
>>749645406>cured from covidBut not inoculated
>>749645137What is ole Anthony up to these days?
>>749645440B-but the games were being made 20 years ago, why aren't being made now? And DON'T say "because society changes over 20 years"
>>749645496He tried becoming gay again but the guy he was dating dumped him.
>>749642106>layoffs happen because games don’t sellExplain the layoffs across every industry if this is a gaming specific problem
>>749645619>work in the automotive industry>don't sell games>get laid offChecks out.
>>749645619>Explain the layoffs across every industry if this is a gaming specific problemOther industries are not getting layoffs as aggressive as gaming studios.Ford didn't lay off 95% of it's staff in 3 months lmao.
>>749645440The fact that you used an ai-generated image for this post is so hilariously on the nose that I have to assume you're being sarcastic
>>749645531what?
>>749645619Leftists hollow out every company they infect, gradually getting rid of all the best talent (for being white) and replacing them with retarded browns and women, until the company becomes an adult daycare that can no longer produce anything good.This is a widespread competency crisis caused by leftist HR and anti-white hiring practices.
>>749642050i dont get why this virtue signal triggered so many chuds
>>749641853'Customers' don't have you be your audience. 'Customers' are over.
>>749645717>Ford didn't lay off 95% of it's staff in 3 months lmaoThat's because Ford already outsourced half its staff to Mexico and China 30+ years ago. The reason manufacturing isn't being gutted the way that services are being gutted is that manufacturing was *already* gutted before either of us were even born.
>>749645818They already outsourced gaming to india a decade ago. They aren't laying people off to hire yet more indians.
>>749645783>Leftists hollow out every company they infect, gradually getting rid of all the best talent (for being white) and replacing them with retarded browns and women>This is a widespread competency crisis caused by leftist HR and anti-white hiring practices.True. Famous leftist Elon Musk (who donated $250 million to Trump's re-election campaign, but that was surely a left-wing psyop) lays off his American workers and replaces them with H1B Indians. This is clearly evidence of his evil secret communist agenda, and not the simple fact that the ultra-wealthy who run these companies view us all as insects and don't care what race we are. Honestly I don't understand how you guys don't get this. To these white billionaires, their people are their fellow billionaires, not with normal whites. Elon has more in common with Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella than he does with you and me.
>>749645489It do train the body and all that.Believe me, you would know if it didn't, and you will know the next time tthey use the population for beta testing, and the shit fail.
>>749645735uh-oh! tranny got triggered by the ai bogeymanis the tranny gonna 41% itself?
>>749645783aka central planning
>>749646057Non-leftist billionaires replace White workers because they are greedy assholes.Leftist billionaires replace White workers because they're loxist zionist kikesThere's a subtle but obvious difference.
>>749646140Makes no difference to the people getting fucked over. White workers who now have no way to feed their family can't find comfort in the fact that their billionaire overlords eliminated their entire profession out of simple greed, and not some malicious racial plan.
>>749646071Are you retarded? AI is directly connected to the mass layoffs across the industry in the past few years. That's why I said you using an ai image was on the nose. What the fuck does that have to do with trannies?
>>749646214Greedy people can be taught to think different via pulling off their fingernails and threatening their family members.Literal 3000 year old blood cultists can never be taught a lesson.
>>749641853>he thinks games are funded by game salesLMAO
>>749646140Sounds like billionaires are problematic
>>749641853>Maybe gamers do need to be your audience.Blackrock, Vanguard, Visa & Mastercard disagree
>>749645783>yes goy blame the leftists, our loyal footmen. you'll never point the finger at usDid you know that rich billionaires bussed in the activists who sabotaged OWS with bullshit like the progressive stack, privilege and idpol?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a true return to form for BioWare!
>>749646309I disagree. Greedy people will fight to the death, and enlist poor people to fight for the death for them, before they give up even a fraction of their wealth. In a lot of ways they're even less pragmatic than the blood cultists, because at least the cultists are religious fanatics who might theoretically sacrifice short-term personal gain for imagined eternal reward.
>>749645574So, even if you are Anthony Burch, it could be worse?
>it's billionaires!>it's AI!>it's outsourcing!>it's the leftists!Such good goyim.
Gaming has never been more profitable. Now pay for you half a dozen battle passes and prepurchase the dlc for the game that’s not even out yet, like a good little gamer. Cause gamers are the only ones dumb enough to fall for this shit.
>>749645334>immediately goes for opportunistic partisan retardationyou're part of it btw
>>749646057It's so strange to me that the 300.000 H1B immigrants have become the scapegoat for you guys. It's mostly weird because they go back home after it runs out. There's like 14 million illegal immigrants in the US but the chinese and indian tech and college or uni workers that need to have a job to even get the visa are the real shit apparently.
>it's everyone's fault but the progresive activistsMind you the push back was so brutal via gg that the faggots have to dedicate whole departments to spam 4chan in hope to control the narative to this very day failing to understand that 2016-2020 ideas overtook the normalfag met making their gayops pretty much reduced into trying to out shart the sea of piss
>>749646815Tell me, what's the ethnicity of most of those evil, nefarious billionaires?>>749647039>they go back home after it runs out>t. retard doesn't know the visa is basically indentured servitude by any other name and that jeets try to get married or find some other anchor to keep them in the country
>>749644678What a brainlet. If the meme bothers him so much he should just change his handle and not use his full name. There are millions of bald men that look exactly like him. He's only got 33 followers anyway.
>>749647210Listen, I'm perfectly fine with kicking them out. But to me it's really funny when leftists that usually perfomatively bullshit about all that diversity shit can flip on a dime when it suits them. I'm guessing hating indians and chinks is fine with you because they have jobs or something and are therefore too high in the privilege pyramid.
>>749647496>t. worthless job-stealing jeet driving wages down for everyone
>>749642106to be this innocent and think the world actually functions like thisah
>>749641853Also, the thing about trust is once you break it, you probably won't get it back again no matter how you try. How many sales have been lost because people boycott a company or various games? It's hard to say, but I doubt it's insignificant because just look at the layoffs, studios closing and all the rest. One thing is for sure though, if anything, a lot of them really just exposed themselves as the pieces of shit they are.
>>749645783>these famously leftist billionaires are destroying everything .
>>749647871You'll survive
>>749647851Nigger buy concord and shut the fuck up
>>749644678>if you're here for the Meme shit fuck offWhy would you advertise the easiest way to get under your skin online?
>>749644678*turns respectfully from you*
>>749642050nodsman was surpassed early onand yes, this is a real quoteand no, he was not joking
>>749647871
>>749641853They'd sadly rather go out of business than let the Chuds win.Let them.
>>749647997But will the people making these games survive?
>>749648147>>749642050
Western civilization status: SAVEDKeep up the threads and we'll finally win the war!
>>749648303lol
>>749645496He hanged himself in a warehouse where nobody will find his body.
>>749645619anon, nothing fucking sells anymore and everything is too expensive to make. We've become a poor country.
>>749648147unreal levels of cringe
>>749646057Anon they're retards you won't convince them of anything
>>749646140Chuds are retarded holy shit
>>749647962Yes, corporate culture is leftist culture.Billionaires are overwhelmingly pushing leftist anti-white dogma.
>>749648343wait, Ray Peape voted Trump?
>>749642106idk it looks like things are selling to me
>>749645619Hardware and the electricity to fuel it got expensive and the median income is leaving less and less of a budget available for entertainment every year.
>>749648709Funny thing is, that guy, whoever he is, is less butthurt than you are at this thread.
>>749648747No one said that no games are selling. They're saying that the vast majority of AAA games are not.
Truly a mystery.
>>749648847Not as butthurt as you with that reply lol
>>749648856Do you even know about anything going on in the industry other than whatever culture war slop your social media algorithm feeds you?
>>749648732No, that's either a shitpost trying to parody chuds or an edit. Rapeape worshipped Kamala and Biden.
>>749648709Nobody won. They just fight for who's the biggest retard each and every year.>>749648847lmao gottem
>>749648960>N-No u
>>749648972lol cope
>>749649046He literally bragged about how many covid boosters he was taking and went on rant after rant on how only insecure men are against "open relationships".
>>749649194do you even know what this conversation is about?
>>749641964Cutting down fat to make the line go up looks good. Cutting like 70% of the entire workforce is apocalyptic.
>>749648961I know more than you, and you cannot tell me with a straight face that you haven't noticed all the studios closing and people getting laid off.
>>749648961>social mediawho the fuck uses that? only braindead cattle do>culture warno such thing. there's no war of cultures. you don't have any and only seek to destroy it for your satanic mammon-worshipping overlords
>>749649327>b-but my twitter and youtube feed...don't care
>>749648709>>749648343>>749649047>>749649346I think we upset a tranny.
>>749649428>heh what if i start screeching about trannies, i bet you've never seen that before!embarrassing
>>749641853Those guys' goal was to destroy the industry. A negro from Sweety Baby said this publicly. The corporations hired them anyway, and now many of them are getting exactly what the negro they paid said would happen.
>>749649423Nice assumption, dipshit.
>>749645242What was the best play then?Globally, supply chains still froze up because most of the important countries did lock down, so regardless some damage was dealtKnowledge was also limited at the time on what covid was capable of, not taking the proper precautions could very easily make the government lose a lot of favor of the people if they feel like they're throwing their lives in the incinerator for the sake of the economy
>>749649527i know for a fact that you're basing this entirely off of article headlines you see on social media
*coughs*
>>749641853>demonize your primary demographic
Reminder
>>749649572>stardew valleynot pozzed. you must be suffering from a severe degree of schizophrenia
>>749649569No. I'm basing it on knowledge of the industry. It's not a fucking secret that companies like Xbox are laying off people in droves and shuttering studios.They literally just did more last week.I don't know what the fuck you're going on about.
>>749641853The general idea was to create games that cater to a very broad audience that gamers would still consume as the coreTurns out it's way easier said than done since the normie audience is very fickle and the core of loyal gamers isn't nearly enough to fund their overpaid Californian workers
>>749649683List every AAA game released this year and see if the majority of them failed.
>>749649710Bingo. They wanted their cake and wanted to eat it too, and now they're cakeless and hungry.
>>749641853She got shit canned for that.She started her own website.Nobody went there.She had to close it.Then she had to quit writing about games entirely.Good fucking riddance. Her monthly column in Edge was the most pretentious load of bullshit i've ever seen (and i was a fan of Tim Rogers for a while)....
>>749649672>>749649683A troon started dilating hard ITT.It'll kill itself soon enough.
>>749649672Lol yeah the game where all the bachelorettes are used goods and best girl is married to Demetrius isn't wokeGaslighting retard
>>749641853This isn't that uncommon in American media. You might look up the Rural Purge.American entertainment industry loves diversity and absolutely hates flyovers.Maybe gaming started catering too much too the inbred inner Americans.
>>749643078Guarantee he's in prison for some kind of sex-pest related offense.
Why do troons worship companies so much?
I guess gcj had to start raiding again to cope with Gears flopping
>>749649826Im noootincing that whenever the left starts to lose any argument they suddenly start posting offtopic /pol/ shit.And yet they always complain about /pol/ invading other boards.Hmmm.
moid
>>749650059They always accuse you of what they are doing.
>>749641853I get the feeling that the current direction of those same cunts is >NOOO YOU FUCKING LUDDITE AI COMPANIES HAVE TO BE THE AUDIENCE GAMERS ARE OVER
>>749641964There's a difference between trimming the fat and firing 5% and firing 50%.
>>749650059>>749650104>one minute apartI'm noticing that whenever chuds start losing their own threads, they have to start samefag replying to their own posts as some kind of emotional cheerleader
>>749650141This is basically what Nvidia is doing, lol.
>>749650218>he doesn't know how to check for samefag
>leftists can't find a single way to argue that the left is ruining vidya so they start spamming xitter postsThis episode again?
>>749650283>inspect elementing after being called outYou'll convince someone next time sar
>>749642050I'd almost completely forgotten about this guy.
>>749650218Joke is on you, retard. I'm not even one of the people you replied to!
>>749650375Cant believe he did it like I said >>749650364
Phil Fish has just canceled another game!
>>749650408>being this schizophrenicBest part is that I legitimately have no idea what you two were arguing about.
>>749642050The face of the true enemy that destroyed everything we loved
The troon is seething.
>>749649641coincides directly with mohdi giving rural indians internet and cell phone access
>>749650218Retard.
His experience of camping in video games paid off.
>>749650829[brodyquest intensifies]
>>749645978It takes 1000+ Indians to do the job a couple dozen White and Asian nerds could do in a year or less. What a downgrade.
>>749643078posting on reddit about being a big burly man who is man enough to let his wife get banged by other mans
>>749641853>>749641964>wdym we need to make a product that sellsThe karma is free entertainment
>>749650140>lost>everybody shits on troons and leftist and are openly racist towards jeets and mudslimesYou lost reddit.
Postan in a retard thread.Turns out companies do actually, in fact, market their product to people who are likely to buy their product. The reasons the industry has gone to shit is entirely abstract from your retarded bullshit.
>>749645783TRVKERVKE
>>749651521Then why is no one buying their games if they're so good?
>>749644678Oh I am definitely gonna drive him into suicide.
>>749642050It's funny how this guy is literally northernlion who people watch now all the time.
>>749651554People are buying their gamesTheir games cost too fucking much and can't make enough return to justify their costThis is a AAA crash with an aftershock effect across the rest of the industry because of how many publishers own how many companies and how many studiosThis is also why Nintendo is totally ignoring the crash and none of its studios are on fire, Nintendo does not do AAA because Nintendo is not retarded
>>749641853Yeah, sure is strange that after abandoning your core audience you got abandoned by them in turn. I thought the modern audience was supposed to show up and buy all that gay slop. What happened?
>>749648147>anna anthropy>womanhahahahahahahaha
>>749643078He's a massive streamer now
>>749650829>this happened over 10 years agoWhere does time go?
>>749649672Anon, you don't realize how retarded you are, but you really should. You just looked at the most obvious bait image imaginable and decided to post "you are 95% right" as a response. Why would you do that? And don't do some gay "what I meant is" thing. It's important what you did and that was mostly agreeing with a lie.
>>749649641>wefuck off, newfag
>>749651982/pol/ defense is somewhat like /b/ defensein that people who pride their use of a large, useless, pretty dumb per-capita board deserve all the ridicule
>>749651939>implying I even eyeballed the list
>>749649710>>749649757You think that massive companies are just one guy, because that's easier for your brain to deal with. But 30000 people are not just one guy. They are 30000 people and they have very different motivations. The people who supported articles like that didn't give a fuck about making money, they wanted cultural influence for ideological reasons.
>>749649790>Then she had to quit writing about games entirely.She was the lead writer of Ape Helion just this year. She isn't gone. The studio behind that game might be, though.
>>749649710>and the core of loyal gamers isn't nearly enoughNo. They aimed to use video games as a vehicle to spread propaganda, influence public opinion and force behaviorsAnyone who disagrees is just a "lonely basement-dwelling virgin incel who needs to stop playing and go get laid"
>>749652072We know these companies are run by multiple people, anon. The people making these games answer to a lot of different people in a lot of different positions. That being said, those people can be wrong and have been for some time. The people that buy and support games are mostly men. It will always be this way, and there's no amount of force that will make women and faggots buy your games.Be happy with catering to 50% of the world rather than trying to appeal to 100%.
>>749650829Oh my god... he's about to level up!
>>749641853Failure does not have to be your business. Failure is over.'Corporate culture' as we know it is kinda embarrassing -- Its not even culture. Its crossing that bridge when we get there and circling back on teams. Its making crap products and getting mad and having a meltie when people dont buy them on social media. Then getting laid off as your studio closes so you have to move back in with your parents.
>>749651521>>749651730Anon, big western AAA games are flopping at unprecedented rates and the main reason is that those studios have been taken over by fags who hate the main audience of those games. That's why some parts of Europe, Japan and more and more China and Korea are doing fine with big titles. You know that this is true, but you feel an ideological need to pretend it isn't happening. It's not just the budgets, they are barely selling any copies, even though there are more people buying games than ever before.
>>749652318>those studios have been taken over by fagsOh for fuck's sake you imbecile it's because AAA hit peak cost/budget saturation. Grand Theft Auto 6 is heavily suggesting you buy it at $100 by scalping parts of itself out and selling them back to you as DLC. Your eyes are so crusted over with smegma you think it's culture war garbage when multi-million dollar games start becoming multi-billion dollar games and fail for getting too big to sustain. Hollywood's undergoing the same thing. American cultural hegemony is cooked if the country's entertainment industry doesn't SCALE DOWN.
>>749652439Games can cost more and more to make and also suffer from who they have making them. It's not just one factor.
>>749641853Gamers don't exist. Targeting "gamers" means targeting the lowest common denominator and you'll end up with Wolverine.
>>749652439Crust on smegma's helmet
>>749651179Layoffs happen after the launch despite the sales.
>>749652537It's the same publishers that were commissioning and making games ten, twenty years ago. They got bigger. Some of them were ALWAYS garbage like Activision.
>>749652538They were targeting super casuals with Wolverine.
>>749651521If that was the case, why didn’t faggots and women go out and mass buy Bud Lite, when the marketing department insisted they would because they made a whole campaign around them?
>>749652629because bud lite is a shit product and openly pandering to white trash and rednecks is utterly unpalatable to any other audience
>>749643078He works with children in the JewK, which....seems ill advised.
horizon zero dawn sold 40 million copies
>>749652797Most of them from being attached to PS4 sales as a bundle
>>749645489Covid is the bat vaccine is the inoculation..The common cold is cured.
>>749652810This.
>>749652797Cool... now, with those numbers, surely a sequel is in the way... right?
>>749652810>girl games sell so poorly sony had to literally fake sales numbers to prop up a series no one actually cares for.These companies are actually doomed to fail
>>749653052That live service Horizon game will surely be a hit.
>>749649641feetfags are the new furfags desu senpai
>>749649641I imagine a lot of those phone posters became meat sacks for Donbas.
>>749649641Shame we'll likely never see what the breakdown of humans vs bots has become.
>>749651521>Turns out companies do actually, in fact, market their product to people who are likely to buy their productwhere are you getting that idea from, because it isn't from the reality we're in
>>749652697So then why aren’t those same groups buying Gears of War, Halo, and all these formerly male oriented game IPs if there’s also been a concerted push to get them to buy into those as well?
>>749652538The average gamer has no interest in something like Wolverine.
>vidya used be just guys being dudes>making fun, cool and sexy stuff>vidya started to go mainstream in the 00s>feminists pick up on it>asks devs to stop sexualizing women>lmao fuck off, the tits must flow>occupy wallstreet happens>bankers press the culture war button to make peons focus on something else>anything that can stir shit up will get funded, as the feminists>feminists get powerful tools and force their way in to vidya >they start to get hired as consultants in the early 2010s>projects launch in mid 2010s>the woke era had begun
>>749655045has there been a concerted push or are we just playing "yes and"
>>749652187>gamers don't need to be your aufience girl wrote game without gameplayAnother one that failed in hollywood.
>>749655318>has there been a concerted pushyes, and you continuing to not understand things won't change that
>>749653758Agreed.
>>749641853"gamers" are the mouth breathing retards that consoom product and get excited for next productthey're doing fine at targeting "gamers"they're not targeting being best in the industry anymore which is what defined AAA titles: best technology, best gameplay, best story.now the technology is widely disseminated, gameplay is largely solved, and the stories are written by retards that don't know what they're doingso yes, "gamers" are over because what do you do with a largely solved medium? you have to make shit nobody's ever seen before and that's a huge risk to blow millions of dollars on what could be a flop
>>749655428halo was specified, we're playing "yes and"
>>749641853I find it funny that those statements could now perfectly describe modern game devs
>>749641853Didn't this kinda prove gamergate right when the entire gaming media decided to stand with some dumpy e-whore who just makes crowdfunding scams?
>>749648343leftists really looked at the fags posted in this thread and thought i wanna join their side lol
>>749641853I cant beleive woke has been going on for this long. A generation of gamers were robbed of great games.
>>749655808Gaming journalism was a "who gives a shit" affair both before and after Gamergate. Chanology but for /v/, really
>>749655808>have the most clear evidence of corporate greed and incels still find way to blame womenThere's a reason people write articles like OP's.
>>749645496>>749645574>>749648474>>749646597He worked on God of War Ragnarok and called out Alanah Pierce for taking writing credits, shit was hilarious.
>>749648303>kung-fu>black belt
>>749655570My knee-jerk solution to this is that they should stop making one single AAA blockbuster game every 5 years and instead break the company’s labor force into smaller teams with more modest budgets and see what they can do. How many teams do you think they could put together that could ship a game by deadline or get themselves shipped off to Siberia? 10? 20? Would all 20 of those games fail to sell as much as the one big 4.5/10 with the AAA budget?
>>749649572lol @ calling any game woke >>749649641he was told he was retarded in that thread btw
>>749656037>he was told he was retarded in that thread btwno shit, kek He was calling out an entire group of degenerate morons in a thread that likely featured a few of their ilk. It’s not like they were going to agree with him and mend their ways because of his post kek.
>>749647871Pretty much this, for me. I have a ton of disposable income and love video games but I won't spend money on western gaming at all anymore. I used to not care and consume. Was big into overwatch until 2017 when blizzard started making in game decisions and changing things solely for political reasons. I was playing like 30 hours a week and quit overwatch cold turkey and never looked back. I applied this to all western games. There's plenty of others like me out there. I might just be one stick but all of us together form a mighty faggot.But yeah, not buying western shit ever
>>749648303You would think all that martial arts would have given him the self discipline to step back and realise how retarded his cause was
>>749649572what gets me about this post is the clear desperation, even using a failed game that went free to be botted for the elections because of the main topic
>>749641853>>749642050Those were the times.Never let them forgot why they suffer.
"Gamers" are retarded normalfags and the sooner this industry collapses to a fraction of its size the better
>>749656392Wow that's bad.
>pc gamers talk about how elite they are>make shit like megabonk and mecha chameleon devs millionaire overnightlol
>>749650724The jeet menace started around 2015 with the ones living in Canada, complaining about the poo in the loo memes.
>>749641853was curious and went to her socials, what the fuck is she talking about????
>>749656392It’s a fucking single player game from 6 years ago that has 0 multiplayer or replayability. Having ~100+ people playing it at once is completely normal for a game like that.
>>749656938Sounds like the ramblings of a lunatic. She probably posts here.
>>749656938Typical feminist journalist ramblings about being a victim of online harassment but also flexing about predicting the enshittifaction of the industry (anyone could see this coming)
>>749641853>Maybe gamers do need to be your audience.Please delete this, i'm enjoying seeing them dying and suffering.
>>749641853shut the fuck up about culture war shit unrelated to vidya eyeballtank
>>749641853>your games don't have to have an audienceTheir life also doesn't need to have that job but they will complain about losing it
>>749657075Hindsight's 20/20
>>749649641I saw no meaningful change in the politics of the website in 2016, although at the time I was mostly on /b/The biggest change has been in the past year or so where previously unthinkable numbers of people have been making excuses for state efforts to control the internet.
>>749656037you are a retarded shit eater. see, now YOU are called a retard, and that proves you are wrong and he is right, by your logic.
>>749643078Guys like this took their humiliation so personally that they destroyed 4chan. In the end, they won
>>749644345>they were all conspiring with each other WAY too overtly97% of publications in Australia and the UK are owned by one guy who sets the narrative.
Internet meta has been established in the form of engagement bait. I should quit the internet cause that's literally all it's ever going to be forever until the end of time now is people trying to piss me off for attention.
>>749658561They call it the attention economy for a reason. Attention is more valuable than gold. But ragebait farming is just one method to get (You)s
Does anyone even care about game journalist opinions at all? no one reads articles anymore, their best hope is being allowed to leak insider info, or putting on a clown suit and posting ragebait on xitter
>>749642050
>>749642050>and try to cope the best you can
Covid truly was the best of times. Awesome time to be a gamer, since you were not expected to socialize or do anything else. Great time to work in healthcare too, made enough money in less than a year as a travel nurse to afford two houses and unlimited money for video games. Please Jews and chinks, engineer another pandemic.
>>749658561>Internet meta has been established in the form of engagement baitIt only works for so long before you reach the point of apathy and the people you tried baiting, just go 'meh'.When I see some faggot ragebait, I just ignore them or laugh at them. And it just makes them very very mad.
>>749641964ok what about the quarter after that when you have no production lol
>>749641964It is not working.
>>749651674Northernlion is a certified libshit dildo, but I won't deny he can be entertaining sometimes. The nods guy is just a wet fart from the 2010s era.
>>749642050What do you think this guy is doing now?
>>749645783Daily reminder that The Professor pissed away 500.000.000 sony dollars on Concord and at no point anyone dared to step it and tell >her to fucking stop.
>>749653052>>749652810>literally a cultural iconYou lost.
>>749642106>Layoffs happen because games don't sell.Been disproven, executive shill.
>>749650190Quite a few of tech positions in megacorps, vidya devs included, have stupidly high levels of churn. Their established bloat/trim cycle is yearly hirings and firings in the thousands, which is still not close to 50% but massive in absolute numbers. There is no difference, it's how they operate.Generally, that's where all the talk of loss of talent and lack of promotion prospects come from. Lower tier jobs are a revolving door, seniority is gained only after moving to a new place, no passion in an environment where there is no chance it will amount to anything. All the financial reports are so mired in corpospeak that both losses MONEY SAVED LOOK HOW EFFICIENT WE ARE and gains PLANNING TO EXPAND LOOK AT OUR PROMISING FUTURE of people are framed as positives PLEASE INVEST NOW NOW NOW.>tl;drThe business world is fake and gay, who woulda thunk.
>>749646057>Honestly I don't understand how you guys don't get this. To these white billionaires, their people are their fellow billionaires, not with normal whites.Right wingers have no in group bias.
>>749641853Fine with me. Western games have always sucked. The best western game ever made is Ms. Pac-Man.
>>749641853its weird that you have to resort to over a decade old necromancy
>>749660279Right wing pol users are too mentally retarded to understand that.
>>749641853What's weird is that desite your claims, woke games still sell millions. Remind me, how many units did Wolverine sell in its first week?
>>749660475Because they cannot let go like the little subhumans they are
>>749645783And they have the audacity to beg for pity when their asses get fired
>>749641853I can understand that one person would write such a retarded thing, I can almost understand that a news outlet would actually publish it. But what I can't understand is that publishers and developers then picked up this retarded idea and thought it would work.
>>749656938Are women video game writers the smartest people alive? I mean, miss Leigh here was using 4th grade vocabulary quiz cards in 1st gradeAlso remember /ourgirl/ Alanah, she's the main writer on the new God of War and she won multiple writing awards as a kid#RESPECTWOMEN
>>749659320Do you think they care about that? The only thing in their sights is next quarter. They even shut down studios that have successful games released.
>>749660732Because it did.>>749660697They beg fom people capable of pity. So, right wingers are out by default.
>>7496604952 million. BTW. Wolverine will be a month old tomorrow and Sony still hasn't released an official sales number.
>>749660748Right wingers can't understand this because it fundamentally shatters their warped worldview.
>>749660780>2 million.That is more than 99% of games that were released back when Gamers were their audience.
>>749660732>But what I can't understand is that publishers and developers then picked up this retarded idea and thought it would work.They took the job for a paycheck. They dont gaf if the game succeeds or not, it's all a contract to them in the end
>>749641853We are overdue for a major happening/global war so this shit is the least of da joos and normies concerns
>>749660817yeah what kind of budgets did those games have back then compared to now?
>>749660780>Sony still hasn't released an official sales number.They did though? You just said so yourself, 2 million in 3 days. That number came from Sony, it is as official as it gets
>>749660850So, basically, the issue is budget bloat and not rejecting Gamers as their audience?
>>749660850>what kind of budgets did those games have back then compared to now?Irrelevant. How many units did those games sell compared to wolverine?
>>749660830As long as Jews are in charge we won't have a major global war. That is a German/Austrian quality. And subversive kraut monarchies are basically dead.
>>749660867That 2 million was an estimation by a third party company.Sony hasn't said shit. >749660868Oh you're just going to argue in circles. Why not make your parents happy instead by getting a job, or just killing yourself?
>>749641853gamers dont need game studios anymore, people are just fixing games and merging them using superintelligence vibe coding. we are taking back our homeland
>>749641853gaming is only growing in popularity, the problem is that budgets are massively inflated and any game that doesn't sell one gajillion units is deemed a failure, and the studio is gutted. Covid overhiring and Xbox spending a shitton of money on studio acquisition with no real plan on re-making that money back is also causing loads of layoffs. If anything these massive AAAAA titles HAVE to aim for the most easily conned consumerbase on the planet
>>749645619You don' t need 500+ people to make video games.Oh, your game game didn' t SELL enough to make up for the cost? THEN FUCKING DON' T MAKE VIDEO GAMES WITH 500+ PEOPLE!!!
>>749660895>That 2 million was an estimation by a third party companyThe same third party that reports on Sony game sales constantly.But ok, if it's wrong, is it lower or higher?I just want to know how many MILLIONS the woke game sold.
>>749660948Why do studios still get shut down when they release a game that is successful?
>>749661025Because budgets are so overblown that a game can sell 6 million copies and still not break evenBut on that note, would you call a game that sold 6 million copies a failure nobody cares about?
>>749661096Are the budgets blown out, or are the higher ups looking to make the next financial quarter look good? Considering this happens in every industry, the latter adheres to the pattern. I know it’s appealing to you idpol position to say “the studios are shutting down because of bad games”, but really it’s “everything is shutting down because it makes the stocks look good.
>>749660756if you, a leftist, have so much pity then repudiate the charlie kirk assassination without stochastically deeming his death acceptable
>>749661425People like Kirk don't deserve pity. The people that were harmed by Kirk do.>AcceptableHis death was good. People like him don't belong in a democratic country.
>>749661217>Are the budgets blown out, or are the higher ups looking to make the next financial quarter look good?I'll say both It doesnt matter either way because neither option has anything to do with the fact that woke games (that supposedly nobody cares about) still sell several million copies It's a very strange mott'n'bailey because these two arguments have nothing to do with each other. Doubly so seeing how my earlier question made you very uncomfortable
>>749661463okay see now you can dispense with the mask and nobody has to be conflicted about lining you all up against a wall and gunning you down
>>749661708In a just world a person like Kirk would be locked up in a insane asylum. This isn't a just world, and democracy still has to be protected.
>>749641853asmongold won, this bitch is going back to the kitchen
>>749648303
Over the years, watching people who had no prior issues with and often favored the sociopolitical faggotry being shoved into AAA content grow indifferent, fatigued, annoyed then at last become openly resentful of that special kind of patronization has been truly sublime.What the fuck did they think forcing fake and gay on everyone with shit writing would achieve? Support? Yeah, good luck with that.
>>749661970Odd you are talking about people who don't exist.
We are like one or two years away from company CEOs and articles openly saying "FUCK THOSE STUPID GAMERS,GIVE US YOUR MONEY THEN CHOKE ON MY COCK,LOSERS"...I mean some are practically saying it but sideways
>>749662021Yeah, I'm sure no controversies have happened with recognizable IPs getting shit on, none at all lmao. GoW, Halo the games and TV show and Witcher aren't perfect examples or anything.
>>749660154Why are they pushing Nikocado so hard?
>>749641964Curious how it's only American companies engaging in this practice
>>749641853If you're a gamer, you're a fucking loser. Who cares what you think?
>>749641853was that the "baaawhaaaw grunge is fucking dead, I want grunge back" bitch
>>749661823in a just world you are raped BBC style for eternity
>>749643078>final postbecame a chuddie then died from covid
>>749641853Before that it was defined by brown and bloom non descript first person shooters.The west has never had a period of time where they had a deluge of great games. The closest you could say is that Rare during the SNES/N64 era were the singular western devs creating positive culture for western gaming.
>>749662492In a just world those kind of posts would get you send to a madhouse.
