Diseased #Comicsgate - The Culture Wars Hit The Funny Books!

Medicated said:
. Gamergate brought some attention to games industry cronyism, but until the majority decide they've had enough and the money stops flowing, nothing will really change.
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For the majority of casualish gamers who just play a few games every year (and I include myself in this) the problem simply won’t become big enough to bother fighting against. If all you buy every year is a few a-list titles who gives a shit that some chick banged her way into a good review?

Not saying it’s not a noble cause and all that, most people just won’t be affected enough to choose this as their cause over a thousand other things.
 
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Lol who the fuck thought collecting comics has been viable in the last 30 years.

You know why Superman 1 and amazing fantasy 15 are so goddamn valuable? Because almost no one kept the fuckers. They read em and tossed em. The second a bunch of spergs started vacuum sealing and storing them in dark rooms and shit the market died.

See also: baseball cards, Barbie dolls, star wars action figures.

Comicsgate has literally nothing to do with that. The comics collectors did it to themselves.
 
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gobbogobb said:
You know why Superman 1 and amazing fantasy 15 are so goddamn valuable? Because almost no one kept the fuckers. They read em and tossed em. The second a bunch of spergs started vacuum sealing and storing them in dark rooms and shit the market died.
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Well that and during the Seduction of the Innocent fiasco there were people burning comics left and right because they thought they were commie faggot propaganda.

Which given current comics I’m sure dear ol’ Werthem is having a good hearty laugh six feet under.
 
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gobbogobb said:
Lol who the fuck thought collecting comics has been viable in the last 30 years.

You know why Superman 1 and amazing fantasy 15 are so goddamn valuable? Because almost no one kept the fuckers. They read em and tossed em. The second a bunch of spergs started vacuum sealing and storing them in dark rooms and shit the market died.

See also: baseball cards, Barbie dolls, star wars action figures.

Comicsgate has literally nothing to do with that. The comics collectors did it to themselves.
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The last big "crash" of the industry in the mid 90's was a direct result of overproduction/overspeculation, pitching comics as an investment you could retire on if you had a vault of hermetically sealed #1's in your basement. Didn't take too long for people to notice, though, that when EVERYONE had a vacuum-sealed copy of Aardvark Man #1, with limited-edition hologram foil, it wasn't going up in value since anyone who wanted one could get it for a buck..... and the bottom fell out of the market since a lot of people who weren't fans had started buying, prompting the distribution network to grow, and then, overnight, they all stopped buying when they realized none of the books would ever be worth anything, leaving behind all that infrastructure that suddenly wasn't needed.... just like the .com boom.
 
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ProgKing of the North said:
For the majority of casualish gamers who just play a few games every year (and I include myself in this) the problem simply won’t become big enough to bother fighting against. If all you buy every year is a few a-list titles who gives a shit that some chick banged her way into a good review?

Not saying it’s not a noble cause and all that, most people just won’t be affected enough to choose this as their cause over a thousand other things.
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Yeah but it's usually a sign of the state of the industry, back in 2014 the games industry wasn't as bad. Now, even regular casuals are checking out. Bethesda's got a shitshow on it's hands with Fallout 76, Bungie left Activision with Destiny, someone leaked BFA is doing so badly WoW is at a mere 1.75million players and dropping. HotS had its esports shut down and its devs moved to other projects after they basically ignored the players and tried to chase Twitch viewers for advertising purposes. ME:A was a bomb of colossal proportions. People are so apathetic they can't get excited about Biowares Anthem.

It can all be traced back to people who don't actually give a crap about the gameplay, the community, even the lore. It's all personal enrichment, either for themselves, or because they need to please the boardroom execs.

I see a similar situation here.
 
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Medicated said:
Yeah but it's usually a sign of the state of the industry, back in 2014 the games industry wasn't as bad. Now, even regular casuals are checking out. Bethesda's got a shitshow on it's hands with Fallout 76, Bungie left Activision with Destiny, someone leaked BFA is doing so badly WoW is at a mere 1.75million players and dropping. HotS had its esports shut down and its devs moved to other projects after they basically ignored the players and tried to chase Twitch viewers for advertising purposes. ME:A was a bomb of colossal proportions. People are so apathetic they can't get excited about Biowares Anthem.

It can all be traced back to people who don't actually give a crap about the gameplay, the community, even the lore. It's all personal enrichment, either for themselves, or because they need to please the boardroom execs.

I see a similar situation here.
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That's great and all but FIFA and Madden are still gonna sell like crazy (along with loot boxes). CoD is still gonna sell like crazy. Fortnite is a money printing machine for the foreseeable future.

The thing we forget here, even those of us who don't buy many games, is we really aren't casuals. We pay attention to the industry and the real casuals don't.
 
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Just as I enjoy posting about this guys 'special days'.
And his autism is approaching top tier for CG drama.
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https://twitter.com/AllAmericanMaIe/status/1086064577022963713?s=19
 
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Medicated said:
HotS had its esports shut down and its devs moved to other projects after they basically ignored the players and tried to chase Twitch viewers for advertising purposes.
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I liked HotS's 2.0 reboot, but they royally fucked themselves over. Prior, I had bought a few skins. Post, I was given hundreds I never even wanted via lootboxes, and could never buy the skins I actually did want unless they were in a bundle or featured for a week. They literally stopped taking money. How the fuck was that a good monetization model?

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The fact it simply takes a meme saying Gail stole dolphin feed is all the more funnier. Ignoring bait that low effort must really be too hard for people that want likes and the ability to sound like they're above the trolls when taking the bait was enough to make the person behind it laugh their ass off.
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It was a chuckle-worthy, low-effort shoop that elicited several posts worth of responses from her and her sycophants, any memester would consider that a large net gain and worthwhile way to spend your time :story:
 
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