I'm actually quite hopeful. The thing is that not only became the woke shit more egregious, now it's also attached to games that become less and less playable GaaS-bullshit. Look at the latest AAA releases. Gotham Knights flopped, Skull and Bones flopped, the Suicide Squad game fucking cratered. It's getting to a point that the normies started noticing, and when they look into why gaming is so bad right now, ESG and DEI is something that keeps coming up.
If publishers were smart they'd blame the DEI and ESG initiatives instead of how they run their companies. They can distract people from how bad their games are with pretty girls and handsome men, gachas do it all the time. They also got a bunch of other practices that probably wouldn't fly in the main industry, but still I don't see publishers changing strategies on how to develop games. Too cost effective as it is now. They can, however, change the content of the game to distract from just how bad it is. Skull and Bones would probably fair better if it wasn't such an obvious diatribe of why capitalism is evil -- even though it technically didn't exist at that point in history, what they're dealing with is mercantilism which is closer to socialism in that the corporations can only operate with the monarchy or government's blessings and even then typically are the only company operating in that region.
Some of these people are so pozzed they'd probably accept it and say it's for a worthy cause that they can't feed themselves.
This is a symptom of why gaming is bad - not the cause.
Anita Sarkeesian started grifting by being involved in a multi-level marketing scam.
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Hey, I loved Spider-Man 2. I can't deny it includes more progressive elements than both Miles and the first game.
Cruella DeVille in 101 Dalmatians was such a great character. She didn't particularly hate dalmatians, she just thought they'd make a great looking fur coat. She was indifferent to their suffering, all that mattered was the coat. Her name was just what her parents gave her. Her hair didn't need an explanation, it was fine for it to be natural or colored as a fashion statement given her personality. She dressed the way she did because she cared about looking fashionable and was vain.
Meanwhile Helldivers II, a game done by a small studio is blowing up. After banning woke shit complainers and releasing a finished product live service game with minimal micro transactions.
I wouldn't touch that game eve if I am given money.
I didn't say it was, it's just a piece of a larger puzzle that normies are finally really looking at.
What has happened in the game industry is what happened to Disney—Of which they're now currently seeing the consequences of. They utilize low quality but impossible to ignore (also known as being "fucking obnoxious") DEI/ESG inclusions to hit the checkboxes. They also feel like this shields them from criticism due to the climate of the political and media environment over the past 10 or so years.
They're not retarded. They know exactly what they're doing. Hollywood accounting works because of tax write-offs, money laundering and the "too big to fail" philosophy that banks big corporations under the Federal Reserve. The same thing is happening in the gaming industry.
This MO has been followed by a many of the socialist types (breadtubers in particular) for the last 10 years as well. All following the same formula.
I also think this thread should be moved to the main forums. It seems milk-worthy.
I take you weren't there back in the day. One of the driving factors of GG was that for the first time we saw wide-scale coordinated censorship on the internet. I began with some literally who whore sucking 5 dicks for publicity, literally shit nobody cared about, but then there was the massive damage control that caused a huge streissand effect. Mass deletions and bans on reddit, social media companies hiding and manipulating trends, takeover of wikipedia articles so its only the official story, and yes the wayback machine not letting you archive what some people are doing least anyone find out. In short the beginning of what's now considered "normal" every time something the woke don't like being discussed started there. Never saw that before GG, but when it happened it went from 0 to 60 in a second, even 4chan was deleting anything GG related because moot was simping for a chick that worked at gawker att.
Don't discount the ideological capture of some of the employees. Some of the lunatics working in this industry truly believe in this nonsense, its practically their religion, they were pushing for this shit way before DEI started, nobody was paying them to be woke back in the early 2010s and then many (but not all) games were already moving in that direction. The worst are the converts who have something to prove so they overdo it, like cliffyB who used to be a massive douchebag and borderline pedo then did a 180° around that time and has been a wokescold ever since.
