Well, looks like SBI's latest masterwork Unknown 9: Awakening is on trajectory to bomb
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StreetsofBeige
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It's also normal for small companies with contracts with big companies to promote them on their site. Consultant firms, marketing companies and advertising companies do this all the time. It helps build up their brand to sign up more companies. SBI got lucky they got away with it for years as it wasnt till 2024 where anti-DEI and dreadful sales really hit the fan. Maybe some in 2023 too. But this year has been a disaster. People had enough.
The fact they whipsawed changing their website pages to hide game companies and some of the games from their site shows they and the game company are embarrassed. The game company is shitty bricks hoping to avoid getting nailed by DEI detector gamers, and SBI gets frowned upon if companies are pressuring them to do this. So other companies will avoid them as they dont want bad exposure either.
Not a good look on both sides.
Silver Wattle
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Looks like generic DEI/ESG slop.
StreetsofBeige
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As a comparison, Robocop that came out last year sold 800+.50+ era members are buying this game
New games coming soon like Veilguard are 1000+, A Quiet place 300+, Farm Sim 2025 is 200+, and Poppy Playtime is 300+.
At 50+, Unknown 9 is selling as well as Empire of the Ants also in the 50+ tier, and released 6 months ago.
Soodanim
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GAF, tell me
DarkstarRising13
isn't an AI posting bot set to "Angry yet verbose anti-SBI" mode. It has nothing else to say.
Others are right, this is generic game #612 and doesn't draw much attention by itself. The only way their non-involvement would make a substantial difference is if the original.plan was for the character model to be of Anya's topless scenes in The Witcher.
DarkstarRising13
isn't an AI posting bot set to "Angry yet verbose anti-SBI" mode. It has nothing else to say.Others are right, this is generic game #612 and doesn't draw much attention by itself. The only way their non-involvement would make a substantial difference is if the original.plan was for the character model to be of Anya's topless scenes in The Witcher.
StreetsofBeige
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Wont make a difference as this game looks like it'll bomb. But at least they made it more budget friendly at $50. They could had gone balls deep trying to hook in gamers at $70.
Dr.Morris79
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I'm still not really sure where the disassociation comes from that these games actually need a paying customer to actually work in any justifiable form 
Are these up front utter woke fests a 'red herring'? Whilst they slip in generic shit into other, much bigger AAA games? Working in the background, slipping progressive norms into games?
Makes me wonder if all this drama IS the subversive form. Whilst they toil away digging deeper into the industry.
Are these up front utter woke fests a 'red herring'? Whilst they slip in generic shit into other, much bigger AAA games? Working in the background, slipping progressive norms into games?
Makes me wonder if all this drama IS the subversive form. Whilst they toil away digging deeper into the industry.
Dr.Morris79
Member
Maybe that's the point. These vultures aren't stupid. They know it'll flop
You have to ask why though.
I have a feeling there's a lot more to this that everyone is overlooking.
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It's China and Saudis grand plant to buy up the entertainment industry for pennies on the dollar
Cyberpunkd
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« Never attribute to malice something that can be explained by sheer stupidity »
Dr.Morris79
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Nonsense. It's project 2025..It's China and Saudis grand plant to buy up the entertainment industry for pennies on the dollar
Dr.Morris79
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Who knows at this point, but this is in no way sustainable by any metric.
Gandih42
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I remember being mildly intrigued by a trailer at one of the gaming showcases this year, but the Gameplay Overview actually makes it look kind of neat. Sure, the combat and stealth looks janky, the setting seems a bit generic (at least for someone not familiar with this "Unknown 9" setting), and the graphics are a bit dated. But all of that in a smaller, narratively driven, package is enticing. Especially being a new IP.
What really stands out is that "Step" mechanic though. It's probably not very in-depth, but at times it almost looks like you turn the game into a pseudo turn-based tactics affair. The idea of combining that with action combat is neat for sure.
Schmendrick
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SJRB
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We've had this
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and we've had this
Well, ladies and gentlemen, get ready to feast your eyes on this!
.... how long until we can seriously make one of those "gruff white male video game character" compilations for this tired, overused design template?
Ah yes, the diverse and inclusive character who is actually an insanely racist stereotype made by people who apparently have never seen a black woman in real life.
Sw0pDiller
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I miss the "over 9000!?" option.
GymWolf
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BbMajor7th
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I'm not sure why so many of these generic early-Modern fantasy games have been greenlit at the same time. Between this, Flintlock, Immortals of Aveum, Greedfall, Forspoken and God knows how many others... there clearly isn't a market for it.
LordBritish
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Yennifer actress is smoking hot... love that genie possessed scene... =)
pudel
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I dont know if anybody is still hiring them (i doubt it...unless you have complete idiots/activists in the management). But game development usually happens for several years and the backlash just happened this year. So I expect we will see a lot more games over the next two, three years where SBI was heavily involved....cause it cannot be undone anymore.
midnightAI
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By mentioning Veilguard as 1000+, that does prove that only a few care about SBI involvement as they are heavily involved in that game also.
A bad game is a bad game whether SBI are involved or not (they are a terrible company though regardless of this and they certainly don't make games better)
GymWolf
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Yeah, forspoken at least had fun traversal and decent combat, this thing looks boring as fuck.
GymWolf
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Fallen is WAY more action-y than this, it's decent overall.
That game is mostly focused on combat and traversal puzzles, no stealth at all.
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KungFucius
King Snowflake
Which is good. I like AA games and really don't give a shit what the character looks like.
Denton
Member
So many generic girl boss games lately, sporfoken, lintflock, borndust, literal unknown..
While it is funny to see these morons lose all their investments, it becomes less funny, when us taxpayers have to contribute to it (borndust). Plus so much effort going to waste that could be spent doing something useful, sad.
While it is funny to see these morons lose all their investments, it becomes less funny, when us taxpayers have to contribute to it (borndust). Plus so much effort going to waste that could be spent doing something useful, sad.
MayauMiao
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We want to destroy SBI, you know, burn them to the ground like what they want to do with the gaming industry.
duck_sauce
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Don't get me wrong—I'm definitely not a fan of woke ideology creeping into gaming. Not at all. But reading through the comments in this thread makes me cringe. Some of the things being said are just awful; there are truly some terrible people on GAF.
keefged4
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Most sane minded people are sick fed up with the way the industry is thesedays, and the only way that things will change is if we seriously start voting with our wallets. SBI and the like need to be monitered and rightfully called out so that we can enact change by avoiding products that are infested by them. So yes, we are still "obsessed" with them. A lot of us still care about the medium in general and wont sit by and ignore companies like this who are actively seeking to destroy it.
Angry_Megalodon
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In this particular case, we have a game made by the staff of a company that openly has stated their intentions to burn the industry,, a company that extorts devs to "make them fear us" , a company that doxxes Steam users, defames studios, and trash talk legends like Akira Toriyama on the day of his death.
Some of the above are criminal offenses. Rethink the whole thing before calling anyone terrible people.
finalflame
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Sane people do not give a fuck. You are unhinged.
Game looks mid af, will bomb on its own merits. Has nothing to do with the "DEI" boogeyman.
Some of y'all honestly need to commit
yourselves to an institution before you end up hurting yourselves or others. Holy shit.
Yah, it's a symptom I'm "okay" dealing with (the unhinged retarded lunatics) because at least here you can call them out for being retarded.
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Angry_Megalodon
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It's quite a show the SBI drones in this thread calling other people names. These are the ones that "don't care" about this.
Suuure, sir. Sure. You seem desperate and pathetic.
Suuure, sir. Sure. You seem desperate and pathetic.
keefged4
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The above comment was in regards to SBI, not this game in particular. The game itself will most likely bomb as it looks as you say "mid af", true, but the SBI involvement is nothing to disregard, and pretend that they have nothing to do with this.
Judging by the reply you've already sent, It's a shame that you've went straight to the insullts instead of opening an adult discussion about the topic, but then this is the norm for the kind of folk who advocate for SBI and the like, so not surprised.
Cakeboxer
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100%, but i bet we won't agree on who these people are.
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