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[GutsOfThor]

I'm more disappointed that it's another souls like game.

 

[Valedix]

God bless community notes.

The only reason I use twitter lol

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I'm more disappointed that it's another souls like game.

I am too

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

It's not a Souls-like game. IGN can't get anything right, not even the gaming stuff.

 

[mitch1971]

What has happened to IGN over the years?

For one, they recently bought a load of gaming sites which no doubt will be closed so they can have a bigger monopoly and push more crap.

 

[mitch1971]

why do they deserve it? they don't deserve anything

If you want the game they deserved to be paid don't ya think?

 

[AJUMP23]

But did they get the clicks?

 

[ZehDon]

Apparently in several articles related to the game since, they keep tagging on this info about them having yet to respond to "sexist" allegations.
Serious "notice me" vibes from the Kotaku IGN writer.

Reminds me of when Anita Sarkeesian told CDPR they need to hire her for consulting before the industry attacks them for CP2077. CDPR didn't hire her for consulting. And wouldn't you know it, the media began a massive campaign against CP2077 for being "transphobic" for its in-game advertisements.
Or when Polygon ran the single largest piece in the history of their publication: a 10 year history of Anita Sarkeesian... only for it to help reveal that her organisation was basically out of money.

I usually sit this stuff out, but, I gotta be honest: it's hard to look at this stuff and not see a good-old-fashioned shakedown here.

 

[kiphalfton]

Nice try IGN.

 

[Varteras]

You don't hate the media enough.

 

[Gambit2483]

But did they get the clicks?

The West coast exists.

 

[tommyleelynn]

can this really be called an "indie" game?

Being their first major game, they can’t even afford to do physical copies upon launch. I think that would suffice.

 

[tmlDan]

If you want the game they deserved to be paid don't ya think?

they don't deserve a preorder, what pedigree do they have? none.

 

[Wishmaster92]

Apparently in several articles related to the game since, they keep tagging on this info about them having yet to respond to "sexist" allegations.
Serious "notice me" vibes from the Kotaku IGN writer.

Jfc!!! What’s wrong with these damn people? Fuck right out of my games. These companies need to go bankrupt

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I don't get why IGN are trying so hard to humiliate themselves with this game

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I don't get why IGN are trying so hard to humiliate themselves with this game

Rumor: Wukong devs reject $7 million ‘extortion’ from DEI consultants

According to a journalist on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, Black Myth: Wukong is experiencing a harassment campaign from western critics and journalists after rejecting offers from DEI…

nichegamer.com

Oh...this is why. LMAO this story goes even deeper than I could have guessed

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

I looked the meaning up. One was disgusting the other seemed relatable.

Now look up the “Double Dutch Rudder”

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I don't get why IGN are trying so hard to humiliate themselves with this game

It's gaming. It's media. It's a bunch of freelancers and joe slobs at a desk desperate for a click revenue article

So might as well post clickbait content for attention hoping it works.

 

[ahtlas7]

What has happened to IGN over the years?

Firstly it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch. He had no idea how to run it so lost a lot of $$$ value then sold it at a huge loss to Ziff Davis. Ziff is run by some clown named Vivek Shah. He purchased and closed a lot of your favorite mags/sites. Now he uses his sites to extort money from devs using purple haired goons evidently. He bought IGN for less than a million so how much of a journalist site could it be now.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Sweet Baby are terrorist extortionists.

It’s called grift.

IGN is just really bad at it, they should take notes from Robert Kiyosaki.

 

[RoadHazard]

I don’t know how if this story is real but I do know in other industries (like YA) you have to pay a diversity screener as basically cancel insurance. And I also know that IGN ran interference for Sweet Baby when the Steam group came out. And I do know that IGN lobbed these accusations at DontNod.

So they're mafia basically. "You wouldn't want to accidentally get cancelled, would you?"

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

The funny thing is, the main market for Wukong is mainland China and they don't give two shots for the likes of IGN because Sweet Baby is not a thing in CPC-land.

IGN is in pure delulu mode if they think they can influence a developer with a healthy and huge home market, lol.

 

[GymWolf]

You may like him or not, but Elon got a lot of "journalism" bullshit out of X

The fact that i can't tell if john dark is photoshopped or not is pretty damning.

 

[peish]

ign dont know chinese colloquialism

if they did as much work into researching china internet lingos, as they had with searching for DEI hit pieces...smh

 

[Moses85]

can this really be called an "indie" game?

Not anymore

 

[Fess]

The fact that i can't tell if john dark is photoshopped or not is pretty damning.

This is from the trailer. People are just being stupid like with Aloy.

Regarding Black Myth, IGN just put up their preview, everything was great, very positive impressions.
Then they had to put in some huge Reee like disclamer thing at the end talking about sexism…

 

[Schmendrick]

Get your pre-orders in on this 1, they deserve it.

never preorder!

 

[GymWolf]

This is from the trailer. People are just being stupid like with Aloy.

Regarding Black Myth, IGN just put up their preview, everything was great, very positive impressions.
Then they had to put in some huge Reee like disclamer thing at the end talking about sexism…

Still look like a john to me.

 

[{insert code here}]

First Stellar Blade and now Wukong. Is every big Eastern AAA game going to be capped by IGN now

 

[Z O N E]

At first, I was like maybe it's just a one-off article by IGN being IGN, but now with PC Gamer jumping in deciding to defend IGNs claims, it definitely does seem like an attempted smear campaign for rejecting DEI, especially when the news of them rejecting DEI came to light.

 

[Haint]

This is from the trailer. People are just being stupid like with Aloy.

Regarding Black Myth, IGN just put up their preview, everything was great, very positive impressions.
Then they had to put in some huge Reee like disclamer thing at the end talking about sexism…

The wokes really like the prominently square jawlines on "women" that give strong transtrender vibes. It's so blatantly over the top I'm not entirely convinced they're just not trolling the meme at this point.

 

[thief183]

I'm more disappointed that it's another souls like game.

As far as I understood is more similar to a DMC than a souls

 

[Barakov]

It's obviously not.

 

[Chukhopops]

At first, I was like maybe it's just a one-off article by IGN being IGN, but now with PC Gamer jumping in deciding to defend IGNs claims, it definitely does seem like an attempted smear campaign for rejecting DEI, especially when the news of them rejecting DEI came to light.

PCGamer has been on this train since Day 1, just look at how they framed the SBI Steam group story:

A company called Sweet Baby Inc. has become the target of 'anti-woke' gamers because it offers consultancy work, an industry-standard service that's been normal for years

Consultants, not tyrants.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[ManaByte]

PCGamer has been on this train since Day 1, just look at how they framed the SBI Steam group story:

A company called Sweet Baby Inc. has become the target of 'anti-woke' gamers because it offers consultancy work, an industry-standard service that's been normal for years

Consultants, not tyrants.

www.pcgamer.com

I'm pretty sure the people who run Sweet Baby have "dirt" on the writers of every major website and are threatening them with the cancellation mob unless they act as their PR firm.

 

[Goalus]

A company called Sweet Baby Inc. has become the target of 'anti-woke' gamers because it offers consultancy work, an industry-standard service that's been normal for years

Consultants, not tyrants.

www.pcgamer.com

"unbelievably pretty characters"?
Wait, does that include female ones? If so, that would be a tragedy - I've already given my opinion on this worrying trend elsewhere:

Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase Renew Agreement to Bring Beloved Titles Back to China

Previously: Netease and Blizzard suspended their games in China at the end of '22 and Netease even filed a lawsuit against Blizzard in April 2023. Now: Looks like they have come to an agreement again...

www.neogaf.com

 

[IAmRei]

can this really be called an "indie" game?

Budget aside, it might be.. no..

 

[Operations66]

Ah, here in my innocence, thought they paid devs to push their money killing junk.

No, they’re making you pay them to poison your game. It’s a double F-U. If you refuse, the “videogame press” will say mean things about you.

It’s no different than a Mafia protection/shakedown racket.

 

[NightmareFarm]

Not a fan of IGN or this tweet from them but community notes are one of the most petty, pointless and authoritarian concepts to ever exist on the internet. What gives the people who write those notes the authority to be the ultimate arbiters of objective truth? I thought they would become a thing of the past after COVID but it looks like they're here to stay unfortunately.

 

[Unknown?]

Not a fan of IGN or this tweet from them but community notes are one of the most petty, pointless and authoritarian concepts to ever exist on the internet. What gives the people who write those notes the authority to be the ultimate arbiters of objective truth? I thought they would become a thing of the past after COVID but it looks like they're here to stay unfortunately.

It gives the people power to correct information rather than "fact checkers" who are perpetual liars.

 

[NightmareFarm]

It gives the people power to correct information rather than "fact checkers" who are perpetual liars.

If you want to correct information then you reply to the comment. Both fact checkers and community notes are awful concepts.

 

[Sonik]

Goddamnit guys it's so fucking hot here today, I might go for a quick walk and then turn on the air condition and sit on my house all day. However I, Sonik, still haven't responded to reports of sexism. This has sparked criticism from a number of Chinese gamers IGN found randomly on the internet, especially women and their allies. You can't even imagine what these women and their allies say about me, neither can IGN because they're talking out of their ass but I digress, the point is that I haven't addressed the allegations and IGN is really sad

 

[Mediocre Arachno-Lad]

it definitely does seem like an attempted smear campaign for rejecting DEI

Nothing of this sort has ever happened, and now it's happening again.

 

[AmuroChan]

At first, I was like maybe it's just a one-off article by IGN being IGN, but now with PC Gamer jumping in deciding to defend IGNs claims, it definitely does seem like an attempted smear campaign for rejecting DEI, especially when the news of them rejecting DEI came to light.

It's a hive mind.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

I really want some group of white hat hackers to hack IGN and all the shitard sites like them, as well as ass-sultant groups like SBI, and wipe out all their internal HDD data---killing their business.

Fuck these outlets and the cunts that run them. They're ruining gaming.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

I looked the meaning up. One was disgusting the other seemed relatable.

Yea something picking up steam and becoming a big deal is disgusting. The other is definitely relatable.

 

[Jaybe]

Seems like a Hogwarts and Stellar Blade thing all over again. Game “journalists” clutching at they/their pearls while the game sells huge. Wukong is already the #1 wish listed and followed upcoming game on Steam by a massive margin and growing.

 

[nikos]

White Myth: IGN

 

[GutsOfThor]

As far as I understood is more similar to a DMC than a souls

Seriously!? I'm in if it's true

 

[lughnasadh123]

The wokes really like the prominently square jawlines on "women" that give strong transtrender vibes. It's so blatantly over the top I'm not entirely convinced they're just not trolling the meme at this point.

I'm actually starting to think some people are just so warped from anime that they think anything outside of that exaggerated feminine feature looks masculine.