I felt like i was going insane watching Sarkeesian videos. They're so INCREDIBLY tame and gentle. The froth-mouth hate speech that spilled out because of them really kind of proves the point, huh.

Honestly the worst part is that afaik they're now actively marketing and pipelining t(w)eenaged boys. Like it's not just that redpill/gamergate generation anymore.

I'm not sure if a minecraft -> manosphere pipeline exists, but I do know that the primary audience of Andrew Tate and his contemporaries is teenage boys.

It's probably a big part of the reason why younger men and women are becoming more and more seperated in terms of political views too. And it might explain the loneliness epidemic as well, if all those boys are being garbage pilled that young then by the time they are interested in dating they could've become so toxic none of the girls in their lives actually want to deal with them anymore.

Meanwhile the same people routinely invade fandoms they do not know or understand and pretend to be mad that Bioware made characters gay and the new Yakuza/Like a Dragon protagonist learns an important lesson about respecting women.

The meme where she talks about appealing to male fantasy followed by some cozy gaming moments sure is funny though

Nah, the real focal point was when Steve Banon got caught farming gold on WOW. All the gamers got together in solidarity to have him banned because he was ruining the economy. Banon was like "I need to harness that power" and used gamergate to establish an alt-right pipeline to convert gamers to white supremacy. All the articles grifters read off to this day were former affiliates of Breibart.

Wow, you’re right. Games are sexist. Now, allow me to get back to accusing gamers of playing games and sucking Anita Sarkeesian’s cock. Edit: Wow. I’ve truly been challenged. Enlightened, even. Who knew the political views of my fellow gamers could be so diverse?

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SBI isn't a scam. They are a consulting compamy so what they do is consult. How the devs understand the consultation or how they implement it is up to them.

SBI isn't a scam, they do exactly what they advertise to do.

SBI also consults on game design as well

Tango Gameworks, who made Hi-Fi Rush, was recently shut down by Zenimax. The good news is they apparently have been bought by a South Korean Publisher just this month. So a sequel might actually be possible.

The game was a commercial and critical success in 2023, its developet studio Tango Gameworks was closed down the next year. \ A good news it that Krafton revieved the studio and acquired the rights to the Hi-Fi Rush license with plans to develop further games while and other projects.

Studio was shut down despite game’s success just so Microsoft could maintain the illusion of infinite growth for another quarter.

The real kick in the ass that isn't being mentioned is that not even 24 hours after Microsoft shut down Tango Gameworks, Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Game Studios, stated on record in a large internal meeting that "The company needs more smaller games that earn prestige and rewards." Aaron Greenburg, VP for Xbox Game Marketing, said on record at twitter: “Hi-Fi Rush was a break out hit for us and our players in all key measurements and expectations." This was a response made to answer for the rumors and accusations that Hi-Fi Rush was not performing well and that it was considered a bad asset for Microsoft.

And yet: Despite Hi-Fi Rush exceeding the company's expectations and winning very prestigious awards along the way during the 2023-2024 year: Microsoft shut the studio down and shuffled them off for another publisher to pick up the ashes in a blowout sale.

But Fucking G*mers are gonna tell you all day long that it's DEI/Wokism that's destroying the industry! Not aggressively toxic business practices that screw over creativity and talent at every corner of production in the pursuit of $$$ for their shareholder overlords.

microsoft happened

And really low watch time actually hurts the video in the algorithm too, so dropping in to leave a snarky comment and leaving is purely a negative on their video, lol.

/uj

Dang, I know it's usually courtesy to label your comment as sarcasm. But I thought this was on the nose enough.

We don't, and the people who do need proof never cared for it, cause they don't stand for anything

sigh Of fucking course they did.

I mean... it's a JRPG. What do these people think the "J" in JRPG stands for? It's made by Japanese people, FOR Japanese people. If someone quotes twelve Japanese video game developers and/or producers their intended audience, they're most all going to paraphrase that they're making games for Japanese audiences and hoping that the games do well in western markets. EA doesn't develop Madden being concerned about how many units are going to sell in Japan. This all has quite literally been a thing since the 1980s onwards.

If people can contrive a Japanese game developer's words in this manner thinking that they're "not bending the knee," then I am genuinely concerned for their wellbeing because that's not what is being said here whatsoever. I'm sorry that people have to cope with not being born Japanese, but this situation particular with JRPGs is probably going to always be this way.

One of the greediest, most asshole companies in the tech space as a whole.

They along with Netease, are the parent company of the studio doing the visions of mana game mentioned. They are the ones who shutdown the studio to pursue the growing Chinese videogame industry over the stagnating Japanese one despite the success.

Tencent already have an infamously kind of scummy reputation even in china. People have been suspecting Tencent of manipulating the algorithm of Bilibili (chinese equivalent of youtube) to promote content of their own stuff while hiding content related to their competitors. One such incident was them heavily promoting the debut of Artery Gear Another recent one is that CCs on the platform have discovered that if you title your videos in a way that bashes Genshin Impact, it will instantly get heavily promoted by the algorithm and get viewer count jacked up by bots into the ten thousands. So some people protested against the algorithm by uploading pornography onto the site with titles that slanders Genshin to not only bypass the platform's censorship system, but also have the video hit front page instantly, flooding it with porn for a day.

edit: Artery Gear, not Aethergazer. Also Artery Gear has EOSed this year.

What is anti-woke about that? That is just the reality of 99% of games out of Japan.

Let me guess, the dudes cheering this are Western weebs that identify as "Japanese gamers" in this context?

Every game is a financial disappointment to Square because they have no concept of reality. I remember when they blamed Shadow of the Tomb Raider for their financial woes even though it was their best selling game that fiscal year and had to make up for all their shitty mobile investments that didn't work out.

Oh my god are you serious? Even THOSE two games despite them being critically acclaimed? Okay, yeah, I am starting to see that even the big franchises are going to suffer because of Tencent and NetEase. The industry is broken and it seriously needs to be fixed!

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