Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 3 2024 05:11pm)

I firmly believe that if your video game is well made, fun and innovative, people will not give a shit about it having identity politics or not.
If its a AAA derivative live service model dead on arrival gigaflop, wokeness is just the excuse both detractors and apologists will latch onto.

The first thing a piece of entertainment needs to have is a hook. You write on a 2 by 6 notecard why anyone should care about your product. What is its unique selling point.
Concord feels like an AI model was asked how to create a profitable cash grab video game by some industry executives and spat out garbage about cartoony brightly colored live service team shooter with loot mechanics, and I say this as someone who has not even bothered to google what concord actually is or seen even a minute of footage, I'm so disinterested in it I don't even know exactly what it is, I just know why it flopped.

Name any successful piece of entertainment, I'll tell you its hook. But a gigaflop like this takes a special level of blandness

Quote (Tarisus @ Sep 4 2024 09:55am)

DEI= Didn’t Earn It.



Woke activist Valentine tried so hard to destroy Black Myth Wukong, this is terrible behavior from the group, even worse Sweet Baby Inc tried to blackmail them. Most of people dont do stuff like this.

Woke games will never be successful, only already popular games may incorporate woke ideas if they wished, but ideas like that is not needed nor it’s healthy.

Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 4 2024 10:33am)

they entered one of the most saturated markets in all of video games and brought nothing new but virtuous moral characters for people who are 1% of the population to connect with. and they didnt even do that well, that demographic historically cares a lot about aesthetics, they're the people who still play wow just to collect transmogs. and the skins in the concord game came across as lazy and bland.

its like someone saying "we're going to make a new spicy chicken sandwich, because every restaurant in our town is selling them like crazy. but ours is different, its gonna be so spicy that only a few people can handle it." then they deliver a mcchicken with a few slices of jalapeño.

Quote (blahaj @ Sep 4 2024 03:05pm)

I'd like to also add, being that I personally still haven't seen a gameplay footage, that the games advertisement was so poor that I only saw it mentioned as a commercial on twitch after it had come out, and it also was misleading I thought it was only on PlayStation at first because it was a PlayStation ad, before I even saw all the negative stuff I thought to myself "who cares" right there and I'm sure many other people did as well

Quote (blahaj @ Sep 4 2024 02:56pm)

I mean Stardew valley has alot of representation right? Without doing any research I know Stardew valley has been on and off incredibly popular, you really don't have a leg to stand on in this debate because and I cannot believe I'm saying this, to quote goomshill, inclusion of "woke" does not inherently cause a game to fail but rather the game being bad

Quote (Jupe @ Sep 4 2024 08:56pm)

stardew valley is based

Quote (Mondain @ Sep 4 2024 04:59pm)

Work Hard,
Grow Crops,
Sell Crops for Money,
Build a bigger home and garden.

min max based

Quote (Jupe @ Sep 4 2024 09:25pm)

reject modernity, embrace tradition

Quote (blahaj @ Sep 4 2024 03:56pm)

I mean Stardew valley has alot of representation right? Without doing any research I know Stardew valley has been on and off incredibly popular, you really don't have a leg to stand on in this debate because and I cannot believe I'm saying this, to quote goomshill, inclusion of "woke" does not inherently cause a game to fail but rather the game being bad