pokoko said:
Developers turned gaming political, gamers are providing the equal and opposite reaction. Games are expensive and require active participation. Political agreement isn't enough to make people buy and play a bad game. We literally just watched Concord crash and burn. The target audience might have "supported" it in articles and social media posts but they also kept their money in their pockets. |
Is that so? I can list a dozen of crappy games that manages to sell a lot. Quality is subjective, after all you can see people paying for porn games all the time. With Elon will be similar, if he gives something to satisfy his core audience they will buy it even if the game itself is crappy
About Concord, where exactly was the support form the target audience (read: Hero shooter players)? Certainly not on internet, the game received pretty bad reactions even in the first trailer way before people started inserting politics on it
If you want something that was make specifically to be political, it would be something like "The Post" movie. This was a 100% political movie, where the director intentions were made clear since the beginning, he wanted to tell a political story and everyone seemed fine with it (great movie btw), the target audience for the movie showed up in the theaters and the movie was a success, since it was advertised as such
Concord in other hand was made to be some kind of political statement, it was the target the same crowd who play other hero shooters
But people turned Concord political somehow. Like... it's a poorer version of Overwatch. This game barely even features a story. If it was something like Metaphor Refantazio which is literally a tale about politics in a semi-medieval fantasy world I would understand but... Concord really?
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