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Jul 22 2021 12:05pm
Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Jul 22 2021 08:02pm)
D3 on PC was very bad. D3 on consoles was acceptable. I bought it and I don't feel like I wasted my money at least.

If D4 doesn't get rave reviews I'm going to pass, becasue when I buy a game I expect more than "didn't feel like I wasted my money".

But I wouldn't say that any of the issues you listed were due to "wokeness". Just general corporate culture where they have to appeal to mass audiences to generate the most revenue. Ya know, general capitalism stuff.


General corporate culture has changed massively over the years. Political correctness and wokeness is now simply mandatory which was not the case a decade ago well it kind of started to be more or less mandatory around that time which is what we're debating.
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Jul 22 2021 12:08pm
Quote (SBD @ Jul 22 2021 12:38pm)
and I hate it. I am and always have been happy paying for a base game and a monthly subscription if the content is good and delivers. To me 15 a month is nothing if I am getting a good return of sunk hours into the game. And that used to be great return for companies but as you said its not even close to the return people sink into instant transactions. Its pretty unfortunate that monetization went that direction.

I would pay a subscription price that increases overtime as long as the development time went into deliverable content and not micro transactions.


yeah medium price tag with 10-20$ monthly sub is the best model, shame WoW sucks so bad these days. at least classic is decent.
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Jul 22 2021 12:09pm
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General corporate culture has changed massively over the years. Political correctness and wokeness is now simply mandatory which was not the case a decade ago well it kind of started to be more or less mandatory around that time which is what we're debating.


So anything corporate is now just called woke?
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It’s unfortunate how commonplace this type of behavior probably is

D3 still & will always suck for a myriad of reasons

I’m still buying / playing D2R with the boys & using locker-room vernacular to describe all the noobs we kill

We should get a pard squad together



The problem is that it almost always starts off as consensual joking and not a big deal, but somebody always goes too far and makes it weird. I see this all of the time - even in my office.

We have this beautiful Columbian woman who works our front desk and she is constantly toying with everybody - scratching our necks and thumbing our headphones out of our ears, little flirty things that seem inappropriate but don't really mean anything. She's also a heavy drinker and gets wild at office parties - she once called me a cock sucker in front of everyone for trying to leave early and play d2 instead.

The point is, she's married to a super successful dude who is quite handsome and probably gives her the hammer in bed every night - so her flirting means nothing. And that's what one guy learned the hard way when he took it too seriously, following up with an obsession over her that led to him getting fired. People just don't know how to read the room or often read too deep into playful gestures that aren't actually meant to be sexual or in any way engaging beyond fucking with you.
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Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Jul 22 2021 02:09pm)
So anything corporate is now just called woke?


It is best associated with the short sighted risk aversion of share-holder centric business practices.
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Jul 22 2021 12:12pm
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It is best associated with the short sighted risk aversion of share-holder centric business practices.


Not exactly what Id call woke lol

Seems like they're just slowly melding everything they don't like into "woke" because they're lazy thinkers.
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Jul 22 2021 12:13pm
Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Jul 22 2021 12:12pm)
Not exactly what Id call woke lol

Seems like they're just slowly melding everything they don't like into "woke" because they're lazy thinkers.


Blizzard's writers are definitely woke - at least the ones for WoW are.

Look at this insane bitch they hired to author wow's current plotline:

https://twitter.com/authoroux?lang=en



She literally outwardly promotes anti white male rhetoric and has all of the usual woke signals in her twitter bio.
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Not exactly what Id call woke lol

Seems like they're just slowly melding everything they don't like into "woke" because they're lazy thinkers.


How else do you explain multibillion dollar national corporations pretending to like Marxism?
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Jul 22 2021 12:14pm
Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Jul 22 2021 08:09pm)
So anything corporate is now just called woke?


Few easy examples:

Hollywood --> Massively woke
Gillette --> Yes
ActivisionBlizzard --> yes

It's clear isn't it? Obviously there are companies that don't feel the need to be part of this but you know what I mean.

I mean I would not believe you if stated that you cannot see what's happening around you.
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Jul 22 2021 12:15pm
Quote (EndlessSky @ Jul 22 2021 02:13pm)
How else do you explain multibillion dollar national corporations pretending to like Marxism?


Which corporation is pretending to like Marxism?
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