Concord is Sony's biggest failure in gaming history.

[Ryuu96]

JRPGfan said:

the-pi-guy said:

Black Myth Wukong doesn't have almost any of these things either, and yet someone earlier in the thread gave it as an example of a game that "rejected woke". 

Its not about the "lack of a white guy".
Its the going out of your way to almost yell "look we're doing DEI".  Its off putting to many.
People play games as escapism. They dont want to get force fed, agenda driven politically messageing, even if its just in the form of DEI characters.
Cuz usually when its one thing, its goes over the top.  They consult with these DEI firms, that then alter gameplay or story and such, and it effects the devs creative vision and sometimes just stands out too much (again its supposed to be escapism).

Devs from BLack Myth Wukong actually said they got coerced by DEI firms to pay them like $7million or they would review bomb it.
They didn't bother.... and to be honest... why should a chinese based games based around "a journey west" have anything to do with DEI?

This is also sometimes why theres big differnce between journalists that review games and score them, and players.
The avg person just does not care about these things, while DEI journalists that make up a large amount of game reviewers, do.
(either that, or journalists are scared to get cancelled, and thus all score things higher if DEI is there)

Most people would take one look at that guy in Concord and assume he's white, Lol.

None of the characters are confirmed as LGBTQ+ anywhere and only one has "they/them" pronouns.

There's literally more LGBTQ+ characters in both Overwatch and Valorant, a lot more.

There's zero evidence of Firewalk consulting with DEI firms, I have ran through their credits and found none, yes I Google Searched a bunch of damn companies and wasted my time, Lol. They would be listed because for example, SBI was listed in God of War Ragnarök, Alan Wake 2 and Spider-Man 2...Plus you kind of have to list them, Lol.

These firms are writing consultants for the most part, they have absolutely nothing to do with gameplay, a developer simply asks them for consultancy and tips on how best to implement something like a minority character, if they do not have the knowledge themselves, they will ask if this has been implemented with care, the firm will then give suggestions and such which the developer does not need to do if they don't want to, they're just a consultancy firm, Lol. It'd be like if I were to make a game based on lets say, Japan, I would ask a consultancy firm in Japan how best to represent Japanese people because I am not Japanese, Lol.

Developers from Black Myth didn't confirm that, it was a random blogger on a Chinese chat service thing (I think Weibo or something like that), it may be true, it may not be true, it isn't confirmed and anyone can claim to know a guy in a developer studio, I'm not about believing every person who claims to be an insider, I never have, I don't do that with western "insiders" either.

Pretty much everything in China is beholden to the CCP anyway. Good luck to SBI is all I'd say if they wanted to try and force a Chinese company to do something, Lol. China already enforces strict censorship on their industries, they sure as shit wouldn't allow a company like SBI force themselves onto a Chinese company in this manner, they'd get nowhere and they'd be stupid for trying (if they even did).

The review score for Concord currently sits at 64...Journalists heavily disliked it, Lol.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 08 September 2024