EricHiggin said:
So with the recent cross play news, Shawn sacrificed himself 4 the players ability to "play together", perhaps? |
More like shikamaru317 has it backwards. If there was a power struggle, the guy who gets ousted doesn't have his policies all of a sudden put in place.
VideoGameAccountant said:
You can disagree with it but I'm using it as it's a term everyone is familiar with. It's clear the the market rejects these types of games (again, see Battlefield). The inclusion of women and minorities often feels hamfisted and not genuine. Like it's done to make a political statement rather than being relevant to the game. In Battlefield's case, it was putting these things into a World War 2 games where fans felt they didn't belong. You may not like the term but its said because it describes a real world effect even if sometime it's over applied. |
Sometimes it is over applied. I mean sometimes it does happen where the offender goes broke. Like a comic store that refused to let a right-leaning customer shop there anymore, they eventually closed down because all the right-leaning customers, and those of other political beliefs who thought it was wrong, stopped going there. And really a lot of comics are getting cancelled as the industry seems to be trying to get woke. Of course, in most cases it's more "get woke, then underperform," especially for larger brands that decide to go down that path. Gilette has seen sales drop thanks to their woke ads. Battlefield V saw much lower sales than the previous game, and many of the sales they did get came thanks to a steep price cut shortly after its release. Mass Effect Andromeda hired much of its staff based on diversity instead of skill/experience, and the game performed poorly both gameplay-wise, with many glitches and wonky animations, and sales-wise. TLJ greatly underperformed to analysts expectations, $1.33B vs $1.8B+ and a big drop in merch sales.
