Anyone else feel G*mergate 2 right around the corner? :marseysociety2:

I know it usually gets bad during an election year but this feels different.

It's a little over mid-2024 and we've had

>super-grifters like mangalawyer and grummz popping up

>massive diversity-stricken games flopping

>"chud" games like wukong :marseysunwukong: and helldivers :marseysuperearthflag: making bank

>divide between dev and player growing wider

>journos getting uppity

It feels like we're due for a major upheaval.

!g*mers thots?


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wingcucks when the election comes around and they get to act like the most insufferable peepee hemorrhoids since the homo sapien species existed: :#dayum: :#steamhappy::#cutelittledude: !grillers

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I just wanna lan Halo 2 with the boys again

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You can never go home again

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:#marseydeadinside2:

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Who is ian

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in order for there to be another G*MERGATE we would need another foid who whores herself out for rewards

so like 99% chance there's going to be another one

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Sadly, I feel as if there are no other prominent foids in the gaming sphere who has the same amount of SJW - or, well, "woke" these days - attitude, or with the threatening aura that creates deep-seated fear and rage in the heart of many a wingcucked g*mer than Queen Quinn did these days...lest there is one other case...

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Alyssa Mercante and to a lesser extent a few others would love to be the next 'I called all men incel fascist manbabies and now they're telling me to frick off and keep yourself safe, why are they all so misogynist?' superstar. She seems to be the one currently trying the hardest to be Queen Victim.

I think the Sweet Baby/DEI extortion groups are the closest thing to sparking off a second GG, but it's not like most people trust journ*lists in general any more, let alone gaming ones, and the highest profile DEI games have all been somewhere between a flop and an epic flop. The shrill complaints about being a good person will continue, but they've become so generic by now that they're easy to ignore.

Also, from what I see, g*mers felt there was something to lose in terms of good games in 2014, but nowadays they have no expectations of quality, at least from the biggest releases. I think there just aren't the right conditions for anything but an echo of the original.

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>Also, from what I see, g*mers felt there was something to lose in terms of good games in 2014, but nowadays they have no expectations of quality

This is the biggest thing. G*mers in 2014 were unironically shocked by the cronyism and corruption that social media was revealing. But 10 years later there is NO expectation of honesty or quality anymore. Everything that happens in the industry is met with cynicism.

GG was a comming-of-age moment for younger millenial g*mers and Gen Z is way too pre-jaded to have a moment like that.

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Yeah journos have less power now. The streamers are way bigger and most of them aren't woke. Asmongold pooping on concord was #1 trending on YouTube gaming when the news broke.

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I literally get my gaming news from Asmongold

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Maybe we've done exhausted all that there is to talk about ethics in vidya and journ*lism and how much vidya gets poll-eye-tick-all (and how much it should be)...to the point of not having anything new to add on (especially since a lot of what was important in the Goobergate debate eventually bled into modern-day politics and never let go, nor ceased in intensity)...

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It won't be exhausted, but it's been the same arguments repeated ad infinitum for years now. Changing 'equality' to 'equity' and adding 'DEI' was the last time any of the flavour text in these arguments altered, and that was 2020.

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I would also add that a lot of culture war nonsense has been played out to the point that whomever the victim/victim faction is will not get nearly as receptive an audience with publishers as they did the first go around. That and the high profile flops will get them responding to g*mers anyways.

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There was fricking Froskurin but she bitched out and retired.

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Well, she already helped sink an entire channel, and is also a rather unattractive lesbian which drives away male feminists because they know she will turn on them in a heartbeat without even the chance for a crumb. She got as high in gaming as she was going to get, and I'm guessing she twigged to that and decided she'd flounce so it looked like her choice rather than fade away.

Diversity hires. Never pick them over an actually qualified candidate.

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Yeah, GG 2.0 will kick off when there's some obviously corrupt/vile DEI-related grift that surfaces and tribalistic leftoids will feel forced to defend it, if only by just calling anyone who cares an incel nazi or whatever.

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They already/still do, but it's just so common now that it doesn't count. When everything is G*mergate, nothing is.

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I am very sure woke is actually dying because the generation that grew up with it failed to self actualize resulting in them looking pathetic the older they grow and thus discouraging the next generation to emulate them.

The reason woke went big in the first place is due to the fact that you cannot see the person you are talking to on a text chat so everybody's opinion seems to have some weight.

If the internet was based on only being able to message people with an image attachment of the person speaking, it is very likely the woke ideological movement wouldn't have gotten half as far as it did.

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All foids are whores

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right, that's the joke

:#marseybrainlet:

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We live in the golden age of neurodivergent video essays and 4 hour analysis videos. The ceiling of success for chuds hating on modern media is like 5x higher than it was in 2014.

But the people actually involved in this community are likely just passively consooming the chud content rather than actually getting into slapfights or harassing people

Eternal, low-intensity g*mergate. The internet is now too segregated and siloed for a real war to happen again

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What was the last real internet "war"?


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Khokols and Ziggers posting webms of each side killing each other on /pol/.

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Mid 2020-early 2021 on covid?

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G*mergate can never happen again because a huge factor that drove it was everyone's shock with how incestuous and r-slurred the gaming media was.

Nobody is surprised by journos being subhuman anymore.

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I think you're gonna see companies massively course correct. Pronoun devs and lead designers are getting chopped. Any game in the pipeline with stupid pandering is getting a makeover. Total chud victory incoming. Unless trump wins and jump-starts these investment firms again.


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It will never happen because these companies have been co opted from top to bottom, and every single one of them would rather bankrupt their company than move a single step away from leftoid nonsense. In fact they prefer it, because it gives them a chance to whine on twitter and own the chuds

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I think it's gonna be the opposite direction. Western corporations are going to stick to their losing formula, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, while eastern companies continue to eat their lunch.

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I still don't know what the heck a g*mergate is :luigidizzy:

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You know how the media lies?

Well everyone figures that out at a different point in their lives

G*merGate involved a lot of g*mers suddenly figuring it all out together as a large group because of a lying slutty foid(?) getting good coverage for her shit game

G*mers started lambasting journos (calling them lying scum), journos started lambasting g*mers (calling them sexual harrasers), everyone was just flinging shit everywhere

Also once people started looking harder at their reviews it turned out a lot of journos were putting hidden affiliate links into their positive reviews so there was a lot of reportmaxxing to the trading commission or whoever over that

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You ever had all five of your peepees sucked by your work-wife in front of the customers?

It wasn't like that at all.

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What are they going to be upset about this time? Women in games isn't going away. If they complain about micro transactions and p2w games, they are just going to sound poor; everyone is complaining about money. Can't complain about trans people in gayming when there is a distinct possibility the trans person in question will beat you in video games.

Morrowind has already been created so it's not like they are asking for the best game ever. !nwahs, imagine being upset about gaming when you can literally pick up the best game ever and run it on any pc now.


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No because normies can't be brown beat into buying games anymore. And all the game review sites are not trustworthy anymore.

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Finally people realized that you can vote with your wallet against garbage games. I also hope they will realize there is no reason to pre-order either.

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Alyssa Mercante has already declared g*mergate 2, but no one is buying it :marseyxd:

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If by g*mergate 2 you mean a cultural left wing offshoot developed that attempted to infiltrate every major movement to pander to their ideal of how things ought to be and made good progress simply due to being the loudest voices around but have now caused large enough financial losses as to make their whole ideology worthless due to it being the opposite of capital generating the yes g*mergate 2 is occurring right now and this time the g*mers are rising up and winning.

In every generation there are cultural offshoots that spring up, rise, and die out due to an inability to maintain coherence. G*mergate was one such offshoot whose consequences are now set to die out as well.

It's the same problem as women who want more action movies with women leads. They aren't filling the seats in the theater when a female led action movie comes out. In the same way the g*mergate liberal crowd failed to create anything enjoyable with their ideology. People only embrace change in the long term if it benefits them in some way.

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G*mergate 1 never ended, it's basically a forever war

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man i dont even know what the frick the first gaymergait was

actually im not sure if i even know what anything is, ive had daily dissociatives for a few weeks and i need a quick run down on what the frick g*mers have to do with american politics because clearly im not terminally online enough

anyway g*mergate is unrelated to the elsa-gate shit that was on youtube a few years back at least right???????

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Yeah, they're unrelared. G*mergate was fricking about jornos and g*mers hating each other and elsagate was fricking about youtube videos aimed at kids being full of torture and fetish shit.

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Anyone plugged in doesn't pay attention to reviews, anyone tuned out also doesn't pay attention to internet drama.

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Vidya is going to crash first, and g*mergate2 may be part of the background conversation. American entertainment is already going to crash, but vidya especially. It all costs too much for the payout and they've been making shit money on everything but mobile games for years. Changing player base and bloating costs will frick it all. It's not even woke shit necessarily, it was just always the trajectory things were going. I'd bet the big woke injection is just as much desperation as it is ESG and woke brain, because they know they NEED more of an audience, but Zoom zooms and gen alpha don't give a shit.

MAYBE AI cowtools can change things, but I'd gamble it'll only be a short boon to the big devs, because as soon as autismo Joe Schmo can make his epic passion project without having to hire a whole studio's worth of people and China Chin can pump out addictive garbage that looks and sounds good, there'll be trouble for big vidya.

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It aint gonna crash. Demand is bigger then ever. Demand outpaces suply. Only in pewpew games there is enough suply.

Just because companies dont know how to make games anymore. Dosent mean there isnt demand.

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Demand is bigger then ever.

For triple AAA classic games? And demand is going to crash up against those rising costs. It already is. Ubisoft game faces look like they were made 20 years ago because they stopped mocap for being too expensive. There's going to be a reformatting of how this is done. Maybe dipping into the Chinese market and thirdies, maybe a major scaling back, maybe something else, but the gradual change that's been happening is going to become more jarringly apparent.

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Bar for AAA games is what they have set up themselves. Audience still buy so long game is good.

Look at fromsoft games. Selling like crack. They recycle animations and models from way back when.

Newest yakuza game has sold over 2 million copies and they reuse assets from 2008.

Market is willing to buy games that arent up and up visually. So long game is good.

On top of that. Big companies suck at using their resources. This causes budget to balloon. Bioware for example. Form 2005 to 2020 at least. They would frick around during devlopment and do what what they thought was cool and fun. Then last 18months rush to put all that toghetor to make coherent game. Eventually they ran into situatio where they couldn't do that anymore and crashed hard.

That dosent change fact demand is still there. Bg3 has sold over 10 million copies. Budget is estimated to be +100 million. And even that game suffers from devs not knowing how to use their resources and fricking around.

For reference. Halo inffinite budget $500million

Elden ring $200million

Halo infinite sold copies estimate 20million

Elden ring 25 million.

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Yeah it's definitely theoretically possible for AAAs to just stop spunking their money away but the big question is whether they will, or can at this point. All the bloat and excess that led to this stuff isn't just going to disappear. All the project managers and middle management who pad the budget to pay their friends off aren't going to fire themselves. If the new GTA doesn't sell as well as hoped, Rockstar isn't going to suddenly remember how to NOT spend a billion dollars on horse balls.

Making a company more efficient, cutting out all the bloat, and focusing on core essentials requires someone with the intelligence and power to do so, and if such a person existed these companies wouldn't look how they look now.

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They wont becouse big companies suck and are run by out of touch idiots. Its same as hollywood.

But demand is there. And its massive. Stuff like manor lord can print millions becouse people are thirsty.

Pewpew games are only section where demand is met. Thats what makes concord and hyenas (and that bhetasda flop) so insane. You bet so much money on only part of video game market thats full.

As for how stupid these companies are. Bethesda fricked around until it got to point it had to sell themselves. Yet never they figured out to make another TES game. Or remake morrowind and oblivion.

And when ever TES 6 comes out. It will make shitload of money. And when ever new fallout game comes out. Even that will make money.

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TES6 will print money, but I suspect TES7 will bomb. At the moment the market is primed and desperate for a new Elder Scrolls, but Bethesda CANNOT deliver. It will be a really bad product, it will basically be Starfield with fireballs. Everyone will buy it because it is coasting off Skyrim nostalgia, but then after that the Elder Scrolls franchise will pop and Bethesda won't be able to get the hype back. GTA will go the same way. You can coast on name recognition for one really shitty game, it's after that that the trouble starts

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They will make tes6 that will print money. But people will be meh for it.

But they will remake morrowind, oblivion and skyrim using tes6 engine and those will print money. And then it will be 2035 allready.

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They will never remake Morrowind or do anything with Fallout 1 or 2 because Todd Howard has a seething hatred for those games for being considered truly good and beloved while people rip on the later stuff he had more aggressive control over. Remaking Morrowind would be admitting Morrowind has value, which would make Todd cry blood with rage. Instead expect an NPC in TES6 to run up to you out of nowhere to breathlessly rant about how if you like games from before 2010 you're a piece of shit

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don't forget the bud light fiasco emboldening chuds

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Grummz has been big for years

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Another "g*mergate" would require a conspiracy involving g*mer journ*lists and a whore using their platforms to tell off a bunch of neurodivergents.

Right now g*mer journ*list are dying to chatgpt and g*mer millennial devs are dying to burn out and a lack of market momentum for the shit they're making to sell.

Twitter is no longer left heavy in terms in visibility, so they no longer have the advantage of dominating headlines with their talking points.

2016 was their peak and its been going downhill for them since then.

So no, instead the next "culture war" I think is going to be g*mers vs corpos with the "stop killing games" campaign against GaaS. Will it succeed? I doubt it. :#marseysal:

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G*mergate 2 already happened dumbass

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I guess the next generation of shitty writers in games "journ*lism" are eager to make a name for themselves by being as r-slurred as possible.

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