You quoted two posts that corroborate one another and think it’s a gotcha. I don’t mean to laugh but, lol. Lmao even.
Hmmm. I guessssss you bringing up “culture war morons” completely on your own
What franchises specifically have been turned into watered down trash?
This is the crux of the argument that folks really don't seem to understand. Few people are upset that new demographics are being catered to, more so that in order to make these games appealing to attract a wider audience, they often times need to completely turn their back on many of what the original fans enjoyed in the first place, diluting the experience to try and bring in a new audience while alienating the existing one.
You probably think anyone that doesn’t agree with you automatically supports the other side.
In the context of this thread, those games are now watered down trash because they abandoned their core audience and instead chased a woke agenda?
Dude. Open your eyes to the world around you. This is happening in every facet of of society around the globe. Please don't feign ignorance. You know very well what's going on.
Nope. I’m just a pretty damn good educated guesser. Got a lot of experience to support my theory in this particular case.
Ok, let's pick something like Concord and make the female characters more attractive. The gameplay would still be exactly the same thing.
So there a no people complaining to get all that shit out of their entertainment just so they can enjoy their hobby? It's hard to ignore when it's stuffed in your face all the time whether you like or not. And when you speak up you are part of a war? Grey exists, but gets ignored for the sake of argument way to often.
Concord failed because they prioritized pushing an agenda over making a great game. The gameplay is bland, uninspired, and full of very poorly executed ideas stolen from other games. Instead of creating appealing characters, they went out of their way to make them ugly, weird, and unappealing. Gamers want cool or attractive characters. Period. They don't necessarily have to be attractive, but they certainly have have to look cool, and most of them don't. This isn’t an opinion, it’s a fact backed by decades of gaming history. If the gameplay had been rock solid, the characters had been cool, and the environments in general had been more creative, the game wouldn’t have flopped. They could have offered a mix of cool designs with optional skins to cater to everyone, but they didn’t. They made this game for a very specific crowd, which is a very small crowd that makes up a very small percentile of the gaming audience. You don't cater to the smallest common denominator if you want a product to succeed. Focusing on a small group is not catering to a "wider" audience. It is focusing on a much narrower audience. You can cater to everyone by having optional skins, among other things, for existing characters to make them look however you want. You can't alienate the 98% of your potential customer base. It's bad business. It's bad marketing. It's bad everything. And it's just plain stupid.
"Concord failed because they prioritized pushing an agenda over making a great game."
They worked on this game for 8 years. You can keep deflecting all you want, it doesn't change reality. Yes, there are plenty of bad games with cool/attractive characters. Games can still be bad. The gameplay still has to not suck. But none have sucked and failed as badly as this game. This may be the biggest failure in the history of big budget games.
In Battlefield 1 there was a mission where I flew a plane on top of a zeplin. This also never happened but I didn’t hear anyone crying about rewriting history then.
I see this silly argument used all the time by the other side.
When it’s something you agree with it’s “suspension of disbelief” and when you don’t like it it’s “ideological pandering”.
And that exact inflation applies to revenues of companies too, so using that as metric is ridiculous. That was exactly my point.
Yep just completely ignore the nuanced point I made and make a reductive post that ignores everything I just described.
My dude I can smell your farts through the screen.
Diversity isn’t the problem for the umpteenth time.
And why do you think that is?
Natural diversity to them is minority characters who are stereotypes and caricatures they are comfortable with.
Again, diversity itself isn't the issue. It's a fact of life. Don't be gaslit into thinking that the word 'diversity' in DEI makes it a good thing. DEI is rotten to the core. It's rooted in neo-Marxist identitarian ideology. It's a destructive force, not a noble cause. Equality is good. Equity is poison. Equity is a socialist fantasy that demands everyone ends up in the same place, no matter their effort or success. It's an attack on meritocracy and achievement, and it has no place in a society that values freedom and individual responsibility. You've been brainwashed. Open your eyes, please.
Nobody thinks this. That's racist and idiotic.
Are you seriously suggesting that ~30% of all humankind has been non-straight
Dude, cut the BS. Yes ... in the past ... many people hid their sexual orientation due to fear of violence and rejection. However, what we're seeing now with kids is not merely an evolution of self-expression. It's not a natural outcome of greater social acceptance. It's the result of a dangerous, systematic push to indoctrinate and confuse impressionable minds.
You sound deeply and disturbingly uneducated on this topic. You're not ready to discuss it until you do some actual research, starting with understanding Marxism and its current weaponized use in society. This isn't a conspiracy theory. It's happening at every level of government, education, media, etc..
The ~30% is an estimate of gen Z in 2024 who identify as non-straight.
