These people don't see minorities as real characters, they see them as DEI virtue signaling billboards. As soon as a character becomes a minority, they are no longer looked at by the studio as a person, but as a diversity checklist. It's genuine racism.
It's very well deserved. There are so many gems made by talented individuals or tiny teams there's really no need for AAA slop. Just off the top of my head we have:
I think the reason is that the same people pushing racial diversity are the ones pushing ugly people, so the majority of non-whites or non-asians you see in game come from them, and therefore they end up being fucking ugly.
How do devs not understand your characters need to be fuckable if you want your game to succeed?
How Naughty Dog has fallen, along with Insomniac Games, Bend Studio, and Sucker Punch Productions.
let’s be honest now, Claudette looks fuck ugly in DbD because all character do, those disabled Canadian retards can’t model a human face to save their lives
Slim nose, straight hair, and clear skin are evil western beauty standards, and athletic builds are unrealistic.
To be fair the present is already fat, ape-faced, unkempt, unwashed, and completely unathletic. I just came back from the Costco food court, it's like a jungle there
I just wanna add that all these games are cheap too. Stardew has been $15 USD forever. Cruelty is 20, Fear and Hunger is 7, Songs of Syx is 25, I could go on. They're also regularly on sale or sold in bundles.
that's not a bad design per se, in itself it's a blank slate. just let it constantly sling offensive slurs and it would instantly become best character.
there are unironically some r63 mods around, dunno if they still work.
weren't those games extremely mismanaged tho?
"You've been spotted. Its the Grineer."
I don't remember too much, so the best answer I can give is that they lost the plot. MNC seemed fine at launch, then Uberent cut their losses when it started failing. After "the rules have changed" the devs tried to listen to their playerbase, but after a while that fell off. Planetary Annihilation eclipsed SMNC in (dev) interest until they shut down SMNC's servers and the company's forum became PA forum entirely.
Agreed, in an actual free market society they would be forced to develop for an actual target audience instead of whatever the fuck these studios are doing right now, f2p and to a certain extent multiplayer in general exacerbated this issue as corporations believe they can just let their developers make a shitty overwatch clone with obese Black women and expect it to somehow do Call of Duty or Fortnite numbers. they are in for a rude awakening because the world doesn't actually work like that.
Aren't companies like Blackrock behind a lot of these DEI initiatives? They're designed to reward executives for failing, another example of glorified corporate welfare. Not to mention governments funding games like GVH and Dustborn. These organizations and governments in turn give money to colleges and firms like Sweet Baby Inc, so the problem is multipronged. This shit is coming in from multiple sides and it'll take another Atari-style crash to clear them out.
They are already if not now, the gravy train is running dry, again on multiple sides. Fewer people can afford to buy games, and these companies (though not governments apparently) aren't funding DEI initiatives as much anymore. Something has to give, and from the looks of it, it starts with games that can't even get 100 players at a given time.
Yes, it honestly needs to end, these games are just boring propaganda and even the upper echelons of BlackRock are probably starting to realize its useless to fund these publishers as the slop they get paid to produce are not bought therefore not seen, also theres barely any marketing of these games, I never once saw an ad for Concord and didn't even know of the games existence until like a month and a half ago, wouldnt be suprised if their starting to pull the plug, you look at the mass layoffs in the gaming industry, like Bungie had 2 of them in under a year, these executives are obviously losing their patience
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