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[MDSLKTR]

https://www.fastcompany.com/91198344/ubisoft-anti-dei-backlash-video-game-maker-assassins-creed

Perhaps a far right victory for AC Shadows next?

 

[HogIsland]

Skip Steam, get creamed

 

[LordCBH]

Wow. I’m not surprised he’s an ass.

 

[ThatOneGrunt]

Why does this have to be the narrative that people go so quickly to these days? Especially around Star Wars. The Acolyte cancellation also had a lot of claims like this. Who knew incels were so powerful?

 

[Azelover]

The late and not so great Michael Pachter.

 

[Sintoid]

Incel your ass

 

[Kurotri]

Why does this have to be the narrative that people go so quickly to these days? Especially around Star Wars. The Acolyte cancellation also had a lot of claims like this.

 

[INC]

Why does this have to be the narrative that people go so quickly to these days? Especially around Star Wars. The Acolyte cancellation also had a lot of claims like this.

The force is meant to be female, and the majority of SW fans being male, were like.......nah this is all shit

And there's your reason

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Or maybe it’s just more fallout from Episode 9? Just saying.

 

[VenomousCoffee]

People just wildly overestimating the power of a few onliners, same as they did with Acolyte. I bought and I like what I've played of it (I got sidetracked by NFL and Warhammer) but Star Wars isn't a guaranteed unit mover anymore.

 

[ap_puff]

or maybe the market isnt willing to tolerate mediocre products any more...

 

[ThatOneGrunt]

The force is meant to be female, and the majority of SW fans being male, were like.......nah this is all shit

And there's your reason

They've put so much emphasis on making Star Wars female driven for some reason. And now that all these Star Wars properties are failing, they're pointing the finger at men as the problem. How about don't genderize a franchise and just make good content without an agenda. Give Kathleen Kennedy the boot and try something else.

 

[SweetTooth]

Incel? What.. why..what is the link? Fuck him

 

[INC]

They've put so much emphasis on making Star Wars female driven for some reason. And now that all these Star Wars properties are failing, they're pointing the finger at men as the problem. How about don't genderize a franchise and just make good content without an agenda. Give Kathleen Kennedy the boot and try something else.

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

 

[Clear]

Wow, there are bad takes, and there are bad takes.

Here's the reality: There was no victory; you cannot engineer INDIFFERENCE.

It failed because the SW franchise has been run into the ground over the past decade and the game simply didn't look interesting or exciting.

 

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[AmuroChan]

Asinine take. The game didn't do well because it wasn't a good game. I don't care that the protagonist is female. I stopped playing after a few hours because the game just wasn't very fun. It controls poorly and some of the stealth gameplay was just boring.

 

[Complistic]

What a clown.

 

[Reaseru]

This dude has been leeching on gaming for the last 20 years, and practically failed his predictions every time he opened his foul mouth. Who cares?

 

[Holammer]

Someone inform Michael the correct term is Chud.

 

[Bernardougf]

Neogaf incel bros.. rejoice. We a "few trolls on the internet" alone made that game fail. Hooray!!!

 

[Banjo64]

Ubisoft make a bland by the numbers open world game, probably their 7th such title in the last 5 years, using an IP that is currently on the rocks following years of Disney mismanagement, headlining none of the iconic music or characters and starring an ugly main character who doesn’t use a lightsaber - no one wants to pay £70 for this, because incels?

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Why is a giga Boomer like Michael Patcher using the term incel?

Time for you to retire and go be a grand parent my guy.

 

[Alexios]

It'll probably sell 1000x on Steam in a month. Whether it deserves to or not as the IP is strong regardless of any ups or downs (that folks always attribute to this or that factor they personally hate with no evidence, guess what, the prequels were hated just as much in their day so it's not a new Disney DEI whatever thing that causes the IP's downfall, folks have hated it for decades now, lol). But I'm sure it's got nothing to do with vocal haters of a female protag and/or how the model turned out. As stupid things were said for Control but it's now accepted as good/folks are glad it's getting a sequel.

Btw, The Mandalorian is a thing folks (as was Solo, yikes, lol). It's getting a movie, too.

Please, even if you jack off to Darth Maul, Jar-Jar, whatever, the prequels are trash. They have about the same meh ratings as the sequels, about the same box office performance (adjusted for inflation). ALL TRASH. See above about attributing whatever to whatever by your likes with no evidence

 

[GoldenEye98]

Is this what he filed in his report about the game at Wedbush Morgan?

"I had estimated 5M units shipped but non-foreseeable incel factor impacted sales"

 

[Mister Wolf]

"Don't like it, don't buy it"

 

[winjer]

So we went from everyone that does not buy my game/movie/show is racist or misogynist, to is an incel.
This guy has the mentality of an underdeveloped teenager.

 

[Senua]

TBF alot of us are incels, since we're married

 

[diffusionx]

Chud-bros we just can't stop winning.

They've put so much emphasis on making Star Wars female driven for some reason. And now that all these Star Wars properties are failing, they're pointing the finger at men as the problem. How about don't genderize a franchise and just make good content without an agenda. Give Kathleen Kennedy the boot and try something else.

If you don't want to see "woke" stuff in games (whatever your definition of it is), take the credit for their shit stuff failing when they give it.

 

[lifa-cobex]

What a racist.

 

[Mister Wolf]

So we went from everyone that does not buy my game/movie/show is racist or misogynist, to is an incel.
This guy has the mentality of an underdeveloped teenager.

Shaming tactics and gaslighting. It's all they have.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

If we're "incels" then people like him are npc's, and we own this industry. Without regular gamers this industry is fucked.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

I knew my shit-posting could make a difference!

 

[LegendOfKage]

I always knew Patcher often made poor predictions and seems to get quite a lot of things wrong, but I didn't know he was the type of culture warrior to go throwing around words like "incel." Disappointing.

 

[GHound]

Mikey spread your asshole wider for the boys in the back to hear the echo chamber too.

 

[Bitstream]

So basically, if people don't immediately come and mindlessly consume any trash a company puts out, they're all incels. It has the star wars name and a blaster, go buy it. $70.

We 3d scanned a human actress and somehow ended up with a large jawed, dead in the eyes main character. Aren't we good at our jobs? $70.

You sneak up on a soldier wearing a helmet? One quick fist to the back of the helmet should render this person competely unconscious. $70. If not, you're an incel.

 

[hinch7]

About as brain dead as most western outlets that cry wolf about imaginary 'far right' groups whenever something is criticised and fails. What an idiot (no surprises there).

 

[PeteBull]

Incel? What.. why..what is the link? Fuck him

Thats how many rich mofos think of normal/avg person, we are basically subhumans incapable of independed thinking, pigs that should eat w/e shit they try to feed us.
Suddenly famous and pandered to all the time "modern audience" vanished and it all came down to that old trusty straight males to buy or not buy their terrible product, and since we knew its shit- we refused to buy it

When u see those entitled fucks calling us-normal ppl some names(this time it was incels, other times it was mysogonists, right wing extremists or w/e those clowns come up with ;p) it means only one thing- they lost their cool, they are in their emotions now, its low iq and low testosterone behaviour, which is not surprising at all coming from mr michael pachter-guy who is a meme for his wrong gaming predictions

 

[Bernardougf]

TBF alot of us are incels, since we're married

Truer words were never spoken....

Spoiler

divorced 4 years ago ... my dick really approved my decision.

 

[tommib]

Or gamers are very tired of generic branded third person open world bloat? Who knew?

 

[Jaybe]

Mikey boy reads like he’s terminally online and yet somehow he must have missed that Ubisoft released an unfinished product, their 3-month plan to get it ready for Steam was the admission that they brought it out 3 months too early. Funny enough, they probably pushed it out to give space between it and Shadows. Whoopsie.

 

[SJRB]

Pachter is a notorious retard who has been a laughing stock on this forum for 15+ years at this point.

Laughing at this professional amateur makes me feel all nostalgic.

 

[Bernardougf]

So we went from everyone that does not buy my game/movie/show is racist or misogynist, to is an incel.
This guy has the mentality of an underdeveloped teenager.

In fact we went from a few incel trolls on basements.. to a huge incel force capable of canceling a huge franchise game.

 

[killatopak]

Here are all the technical reasons why I held off on buying the game.

Pachter: You are an incel.

 

[Tams]

Neogaf incel bros.. rejoice. We a "few trolls on the internet" alone made that game fail. Hooray!!!

RISE, Incel Army! RISE!

 

[Shadowstar39]

It'll probably sell 1000x on Steam in a month. Whether it deserves to or not as the IP is strong regardless of any ups or downs (that folks always attribute to this or that factor they personally hate with no evidence, guess what, the prequels were hated just as much in their day so it's not a new Disney DEI whatever thing that causes the IP's downfall, folks have hated it for decades now, lol). But I'm sure it's got nothing to do with vocal haters of a female protag and/or how the model turned out. Such stupid things were said for Control but that's accepted as good/folks are glad it's getting a sequel.

The prequels were hated by a few but not the majority. I thought they were great and way better than the last 3 by Disney. I am in my 40s grew up on the first films, even seen empire and Jedi in theaters when they released. No Disney pushed feminism, and wanted men gone or sidelined. They got their wish. I felt disgust and sadness seeing the force awakens. Left the Theatre sad. Then seen the people gushing about whiz bang effects like that's not all star wars is about. It's the complete picture and it's been shit since Disney.

 

[RoboFu]

I like how gamers standing up against " agenda over gameplay " are automatically incels.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Hey man, at least call me a bigot.

 

[West Texas CEO]

Wow. I’m not surprised he’s an ass.

Ass to Ass!

 

[proandrad]

Yes, let’s ignore all criticism of the game because some people think the main character is busted.