balls of snow
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Nope QD is only publishing this. They are in their own self made hell with a star wars game.
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Nope QD is only publishing this. They are in their own self made hell with a star wars game.
Holammer
Member
Just an FYI, lots of countries in Europe (and EU itself) offer grants to "culture projects". Like theatre, song, literature and such, past few years game developers also got eligible for such funding. The Norwegian Film Institute which gave a grant to Dustborn also supported Flåklypa Grand Prix & Captain Sabertooth.
Not only Europe, there's the Canada Media Fund which helped funding Goodbye Volcano High (GASP!), but also Chariot, Dead by Daylight, The Messenger and a bunch of other games.
Screenshot from Steamworld Dig 2.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Man just think how happy we’d all be, how much richness and meaning we’d have in our lives, if we just allowed these people to rebuild our society and culture to their specifications. Utopia awaits!
struggler_guts
Member
I usually don't look for the pedo conspiracies but having "our kind of newborn" right after "we're the new porn"
Is just a weird ass combo
{insert code here}
Member
More evidence that all this DEI crap is just one giant scam to make/take money.
Cyberpunkd
Member
What’s the issue? Ministries of Cukture exist in multiple Europe countries and are regularly charged with fostering artistic and cultural development. Nothing to do with DEI or Marxism.
Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Culture_(France)
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asker
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Frwrd
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Denton
Member
Just because it exists doesn't mean it should exist. It exists in my country too and it is a completely worthless god damn institution just existing so that incompetent "artists" can extract wealth from productive people against their will.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Ministries of Culture have a legitimate reason to exist (since Culture is as important as Economy, if not more) but their purpose has been subverted as nowadays they are just vehicles for propaganda.
Speaking with capital letters is an obvious micro aggression.It is when it's written all in capital letters
black
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You see the difference?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
How does this even work? Is it a government organization that gives out grants for various arts + entertainment projects?
I’d be pretty pissed if some government appointee was spending my tax dollars to fund some low quality propagandistic video game that literally nobody wants to play.
This is like the 2024 equivalent of “feces smeared on a picture of Jesus” art.
Cyberpunkd
Member
lol, true. French state subventions for whatever cultural shit are insane. Vast majority of stupid books here would not be published if not for government support.
Alebrije
Member
This is a very common practice on a Lot of countries and I agree this is Bad, goverments should no spend money to produce entertaiment. Here in México we have an entity that gives money to produce films...I can tell You that from every 10 movies just one is worth from a cultural/ indie point of view , the rest are romantic comedies. And usually the same directors /producers get the money from that entity and that smells corruption.
JCK75
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kiphalfton
Member
GymWolf
Gold Member
The fact that nobody would be suprised if this was true tells you anything you need to know about the game.Uhhhh...
ResilientBanana
Member
Rockstar is about to go ham.
JusticeForAll
Gold Member
Is this for real?Could be fake but I believe 100%
Denton
Member
Rockstar does not even know this exists.
U n i o n 0015
Member
Uhhhh...
Alright I may in fact ride the seas just to enjoy the laughs this game is serving up.
Sonik
Member
No one knows because no one has played it
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Left in the Dust is more like it.
What sane person would play this game, or associate themselves in real life with wacky people like this?
There's currently 52 people playing now as per SteamDB. A mahjong game from 2016 has the same CCU. And 83 max players is so low, it almost seems impossible any game can be that low on a Steam launch.
At 83 peak CCU, this is where the game sits.
What sane person would play this game, or associate themselves in real life with wacky people like this?
There's currently 52 people playing now as per SteamDB. A mahjong game from 2016 has the same CCU. And 83 max players is so low, it almost seems impossible any game can be that low on a Steam launch.
At 83 peak CCU, this is where the game sits.
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Barakov
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Schmendrick
Member
We've tried totalitarian regimes once ot twice already. Didn't work out.
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lmimmfn
Member
It's got to the stage where I actually consider this absolutely sick and disgusting propaganda by the far left.
"We're the refugees"
"We will eclipse you"
"Your time is past"
"Your kind wont last"
That pretty much sums up the intention, let refugees take over, while i would say its shocking that the EU funded this, i'm not surprised, but it is disgusting.
I've been thinking about this game's failure (as well as Concord's) and I've come to a realization.
Pretty much every game that people point to in order to disprove the saying "go woke go broke" is either part of a popular, pre-established game franchise (Like Baldur's Gate 3) or is a licensed game of a popular IP (like Insomniac's Spider-Man games). Those games already had a large built-in fanbase, and since most gamers don't closely follow gaming news, they would've bought it without knowing about whatever "woke" content it may have.
With Dustborn and Concord, however, it's different. Those are wholly original games, so they can't hide behind whatever popular IP they're part of. They had no built-in fanbase, so gamers could only judge those games on their own merits, and boy did they ever! Both games are some of the biggest failures ever in video game history. I'd even argue that Concord could become this generation's equivalent of Atari's E.T. game. For the first time, we got two games that wore wokeness on their sleeves and couldn't hide it behind an established franchise, and this is how gamers rewarded them.
Let's hope this proves once and for all to the industry that gamers don't want this.
Pretty much every game that people point to in order to disprove the saying "go woke go broke" is either part of a popular, pre-established game franchise (Like Baldur's Gate 3) or is a licensed game of a popular IP (like Insomniac's Spider-Man games). Those games already had a large built-in fanbase, and since most gamers don't closely follow gaming news, they would've bought it without knowing about whatever "woke" content it may have.
With Dustborn and Concord, however, it's different. Those are wholly original games, so they can't hide behind whatever popular IP they're part of. They had no built-in fanbase, so gamers could only judge those games on their own merits, and boy did they ever! Both games are some of the biggest failures ever in video game history. I'd even argue that Concord could become this generation's equivalent of Atari's E.T. game. For the first time, we got two games that wore wokeness on their sleeves and couldn't hide it behind an established franchise, and this is how gamers rewarded them.
Let's hope this proves once and for all to the industry that gamers don't want this.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Down to 37 players on Steam. Earlier today during off peak hours, the game bottomed out at 17 players.
17 people playing on steam now is so low, there's a good chance a single drug store down the street from your home has more people in it there compared to Dustborn - a new game that can be played from anywhere across the world.
17 people playing on steam now is so low, there's a good chance a single drug store down the street from your home has more people in it there compared to Dustborn - a new game that can be played from anywhere across the world.
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simpatico
Gold Member
They're going to tell themselves and their bosses that incel racists successfully review bombed it so well that it didn't sell. Zero bearing on how great the game is. The devs will believe it 100%. They delude themselves. The ones signing the checks however, might not.
Davey Cakes
Member
I want to say that this year will mark a sea change in game development. People aren’t buying these products, so they might soon disappear.
If "owning the chuds" keeps costing them tens of millions of dollars, they'll have to stop eventually.
bitbydeath
Member
And those hypocrites say they vote left.
Pure Orwell
Hawking Radiation
Member
Concord
We have a new challenger !!
We have a new challenger !!
lmimmfn
Member
Check the wording as we all know what cracker means to the left.
sharp weiner
Member
How is this game real?
I’m absolutely giddy seeing these posts
I’m absolutely giddy seeing these posts
Killer8
Member
Just an FYI, lots of countries in Europe (and EU itself) offer grants to "culture projects". Like theatre, song, literature and such, past few years game developers also got eligible for such funding. The Norwegian Film Institute which gave a grant to Dustborn also supported Flåklypa Grand Prix & Captain Sabertooth.
Not only Europe, there's the Canada Media Fund which helped funding Goodbye Volcano High (GASP!), but also Chariot, Dead by Daylight, The Messenger and a bunch of other games.
Screenshot from Steamworld Dig 2.
We need a total shut down on all cultural funding. Let the market decide and stop wasting people's tax money.