Diversity isn't the problem. It's the wokeshit. Hero shooters should be diverse (lots of different characters with different goals, personalities etc.) but not woke.
I know you're trying to specify this concept of "variety and distinction" but do we need every fucking hero to be utterly devoid of cohesion? Do we need some fucker from "THE DEEP LAND OF AFRICA, WHERE WE EAT LIONS" in a game about some idiots pushing the payload? TF2 probably did it best, but that's because there was cohesion. The glue that held them together is so often missing in these works.
The word's been tainted, tarnished, absolutely stained by ideologues who would use your good will to justify making retrograde vomitbag cunts. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of beloved franchises being raped and left to ruin after just so we don't offend some fucking minority.
I would like to think that DEI is the reason this game failed, but then you see other DEI games doing relatively well, most notably games like Apex Legends.
Apex is actually quite a good case study for how far you can push players’ limits with DEI bullshit.
First let’s look at the general cast of characters. Lots of skin colors, but everyone looks like a normal human being, no off putting shenanigans.
They even did the unthinkable, a cute black woman who doesn’t look like a gender blob gorilla!
Let’s go back to the main cast. When you look at those characters, do any of them particularly scream faggot? Here’s a fun game to play: go back to the group photo and try to single out the three characters you think are DEI, then open the spoiler.
Firstly is probably the most obvious one, because she certainly looks like a butch lesbo. But IIRC she’s at least bi since I vaguely remember some lore blurbs about her dating men in the past. And her lesbian arc came way, way later into the storyline with two other characters. We’ll get to those characters later.
Secondly, this is your resident enby. Makes sense, they’re fully covered, you can’t really tell if it’s a man or a woman based on their physique and if you listen to their voice in game you could guess either way. Some hear a woman, some hear a man, in fact majority of players hear a man, which is interesting considering… the VA is a woman, just with heavy audio mixing. The enby shit is intertwined with the overall character theme of being a mysterious entity no one knows anything about, not even their sex, or if they’re even human. I cannot overstate how little even the most sweatiest of CSGO type bros cared about this, which might be a first in gaming history. And this will become even more obvious when we get to the character that ruined it all.
And finally, this guy is a full homo. The only way you’d even know he’s gay is if you read his backstory, and his lover could’ve easily been a woman, it’s that shallow. Pretty clear shoehorn DEI checkmark, but who cares, like I said if you only played the game without reading extensively about the lore you wouldn’t even know.
Those were the DEI characters at launch, let’s fast forward a few months later.
The 5th legend to be released is Loba, who is bisexual. Fine, whatever, she’s meant to be the sex symbol character. And aside from 1-2 cosmetic quips that only really allude to her fucking women, you wouldn’t be able to tell either. She becomes 1/3 of the lesbian love triangle later.
After Loba, we have Fuse, who is… pansexual. Again, not really any way you’d know this if you just played the game without reading the lore. And to be quite honest, I’ve always had the opinion that the sole reason they made him pansexual was so they can justify his relationship later on with the enby character. Because you know how these faggots are, you can’t have the bisexual character date the enby because bis are into only men and women an enby is neither you bigot! Straight and gay is then obviously out of the question, so you get pansexual, which is “attraction to everyone regardless of gender.” Genius!
After Fuse we get Valkyrie, and this is when things start to go downhill. She’s an exceptionally annoying character, and it doesn’t help she’s the daughter of one of the most beloved characters from Titanfall, essentially shitting on his legacy, which certainly didn’t help players’ perception on her. But moreover, she’s a lesbian, and a very fucking obnoxious one. Half of her dialogue somehow loops back to fucking women, and as you might’ve guessed she’s the final 1/3 of the lesbian love triangle in what was one of the worst season storylines in the game. IIRC, the writers said their intention with this character was to recreate the archetype of an 80s action hero who does badass stunts and gets all the women, only it’s a dyke.
Right after, is Seer, who is also pansexual I believe. He’s a faggot black man, that’s it. Unlike Valkyrie though he doesn’t really have any dialogue that alludes to it, if it wasn’t for his character design you probably wouldn’t tell he’s a DEI insert either. When he released, more players hated him for how broken and OP he was rather than any identity politics.
And now, to the straw that broke the camels back.
The tranny.
If we look back at all the previous DEI characters, what can we conclude? In my opinion, they’re, for the most part, not walking stereotypes, but believable characters who just happen to be alphabets. Kind of like what they insist queers in real life are. Just your average Joe who you couldn’t tell was going home after his shift at the office cubicle to fuck his husband in the ass.
Then we get this abomination. Could you guess this was a Hon just from looking at it? You did?! Amazing.
It’s a “witchy” TRANSBIAN whose dialogue is 90% “muh moon goddess and crystals!” I literally can’t for the life of me understand how they decided to go with such a stereotypical depiction, you’d almost think someone at Respawn was taking the piss.
When the cinematic trailer for the season dropped, literally the moment you first heard it speak, the live chat got spammed with train emojis. Everyone knew, and everyone immediately hated it. I’ve literally never witnessed something like that in all my time playing this game. Not when the lame soap opera lesbian love triangle happened, not when Fuse kissed the enby, never.
The players could only tolerate so much, and this character broke them. It was at that point when a lot of people quit the game, me included.
So what’s the conclusion? Gamers, despite what libtards think, aren’t raging racists and homophobes who burst a vein at the sight of a black character or the mention of a gay relationship. What they don’t like, and this isn’t exclusive to gamers, is having idpol shoved so far down their throat, it’s almost like it’s trying to force them to fag out themselves.
I see people begging AAA companies to get this point already, but I disagree. I for one love watching them burn their money then seethe when it all comes crashing down, just because they’re hellbent on owning the chuds or whatever.
No one cares about the game, not the people who play it, not the people who created it, or the people who laughed at it/ignored it. This game was basically a vote, and people were voting on if they were tolerable of tranny woke shit. It exposed that it is not popular by any means, and that a very small group of people in key positions pushing this nonsense. This exposed their whole agenda, and they are scared of the masses pushing back, which they are.
It’s a “witchy” TRANSBIAN whose dialogue is 90% “muh moon goddess and crystals!” I literally can’t for the life of me understand how they decided to go with such a stereotypical depiction, you’d almost think someone at Respawn was taking the piss.
It's always the fucking witch/Lilith archetype. You ever noticed that? They never want to emulate the more "true to life" aspects of a woman. It's always this corrupted vision of one. It's fucking repugnant.
It's part of the reason why people are so tired of it. It's in your face "I'm such an corrupted faggot"
No one cares about the game, not the people who play it, not the people who created it, or the people who laughed at it/ignored it. This game was basically a vote, and people were voting on if they were tolerable of tranny woke shit. It exposed that it is not popular by any means, and that a very small group of people in key positions pushing this nonsense. This exposed their whole agenda, and they are scared of the masses pushing back, which they are.
It's always the fucking witch/Lilith archetype. You ever noticed that? They never want to emulate the more "true to life" aspects of a woman. It's always this corrupted vision of one. It's fucking repugnant.
It's part of the reason why people are so tired of it. It's in your face "I'm such an corrupted faggot"
Randall hit the nail on the head too. Catalyst (the troon) is one of the most annoying characters in terms of voice lines and emotes; it screams self-fellating trans pride to a point of being obnoxious. Her voice is fucking hideous and she only rivals Valkyrie the lesbian in competition for most annoying character in the game.
With the diversity stuff- what market research did they do, exactly? Did they survey a bunch of black women as an untapped market and found that they really really wanted to play shooters but didn’t because a lack of representation? I doubt it.
Talk about donations, Soyn actually donated their money but it goes to immigrations with AIDS and LGBTQIAP+ folks not so long ago before this Costa CONDORDia shitshow.
I have over 3k hours and made it Pred when I had good internet. The game was always woke as shit but that just caused me to not pay for anything in this game. I only have 20$ on this(kinda wished I spent even less) for over 3k hours and I would have spent way more if not for that would mean I'm funding and rewarding leftist.
But the gameplay is supreme despite the server and audio issues so it's so easy to ignore all the gay shit. I didn't even know the details I just assumed every character is a faggot so I refused to finance the queer propaganda.
The game is legitimately the most mechanically rich game out there tho. It just a shame they really couldn't innovate much for years now.
Maybe its just me but does anyone else think that Concord should be open sourced? I mean you made the code, youre dumping it after hours of development and all of those characters, assets, and the engine itself are going to the wayside never to be used again.
Christ 7 years ago. I remember they had a f2p weekend for Lawbreakers and the characters were just unappealing as fuck. Functional game but cringy as fuck dialect. Also even during f2p it was almost impossible to find a match.
Oh of course Jim, because the executives who foot the bill to fund any of these projects have no say and are unqualified, but a guy who splurts his own semen over his face and takes selfie of it online is.
Maybe its just me but does anyone else think that Concord should be open sourced? I mean you made the code, youre dumping it after hours of development and all of those characters, assets, and the engine itself are going to the wayside never to be used again.
The bigger the budget, the harder the flop. And is it just me or are we seeing more and more multimillion dollar AAA titles crash and burn? I don't remember it being this bad 10 years ago.
Imagine if you will... taking the engine for a dei project, then flipping it on its head and changing all the assets to the most racist/offensive shit you can think of....imagine hitler as playable character in a hero shooter..
Or you could just re use the whole game to make a generic counter strike clone. Idk once that shit would get out the amount of things you could do with an engine made by a multi billion dollar company is similar to if valve released the source engine as foss.
Maybe its just me but does anyone else think that Concord should be open sourced? I mean you made the code, youre dumping it after hours of development and all of those characters, assets, and the engine itself are going to the wayside never to be used again.
With the diversity stuff- what market research did they do, exactly? Did they survey a bunch of black women as an untapped market and found that they really really wanted to play shooters but didn’t because a lack of representation? I doubt it.
There was a Management Consulting firm that came out with a "research paper" that Diversity was super duper profitable. Turns out they were full of shit, I would link the WSJ articles but WSJ are faggots and want you to be logged in to view shit.
Lessons learned (that won't be learned by those who should take more than a few hints): people who demand "more representation" don't actually buy video games, the "modern audience" is elusive to the point of not existing, live service games are a fad that can't fade away soon enough, and that Sony literally would have generated more sales and revenue with a 60FPS patch for Bloodborne
Do we need some fucker from "THE DEEP LAND OF AFRICA, WHERE WE EAT LIONS" in a game about some idiots pushing the payload? TF2 probably did it best, but that's because there was cohesion. The glue that held them together is so often missing in these works.
