Twitter is now chud central, Briahna Wu is on there talking about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria.
With the Concord flop, studios are gonna begin to think long and hard about who their audience is.
Just look at how silly this headline looks now:
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-g*mers-don-t-have-to-be-your-audience-g*mers-are-over-
Maybe they were on the right side of history after all
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This has been said for about a decade now, and still modern vidya slop is filled with minorities and uggo foids more and more each year.
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For some big studios and publishers, having that ugly weird mix of characters is less optional and more mandated by internal policy, which in turn is driven by certain large investors who demand not just corporate DEI, but the pozzing of whole products (be they TV shows, ads on tv, or video games).
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Which is why this shit has left a massive gap in the market. Korea has been filling that gap recently. Right now, if you were to make a decent rpg with attractive characters for the audience, you'd make bank. I don't know why people haven't taken advantage, this is blindingly obvious.
Which is why Korean coomer slop and coomer gacha slop is inhaling money.
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Absolutely. And thats why theres no end in sight. Shitty sales as a result of these decisions are ignored and blamed on anything else. DEI shit isnt included to get sales (thats just a fig leave to make the DEI slop palatable to the public) so declining sales dont detract from DEI inclusion.
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Imagine unironically being an r slurred goobergator.
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Yep, these things are loss leaders in a culture war, not ROI-based decisions.
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Then BlackRock causes them all to go bankrupt and BlackRock losses money too. We can play this game forever. Frick em. Woke capitalism will never win.
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Gaming journ*lists actually circled their wagons to defend terrible games im kinda suprised we arent seeing major studio flops on the regular
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