"Hate for no reason"? Yes, because we get mad at someone tweeting "Abort All The J***" like a SBI employee does, that totally means we're the "real bigots" and that we "hate for no reason". Just like how when we got mad at people deciding to insult Akira Toriyama RIGHT AFTER HE DIED, we're totally the "real bigots". Isn't that why we share memes hating on Italians and write stuff like "On God F*** White People" and-Oh wait, that was Kim Belair, the person in charge of SBI. ...Yes, Belair actually did all of that stuff. She even got called out for the latter by an artist that worked for her. Oh, by the way, did you know that John Walker once tweeted about hating "...the horror that is Dark Souls, and everything that bloody series did to ruin fun."?
I think Avowed and Kotaku, regardless of gaming expertise, are unnecessary and there are far better games out there to play with one's own opinions. Succinctly: Avowed stinks, Kotaku is irrelevant, let's find a game that we ourselves delight in. If we must resort to piracy, then let me hear an 'ahoy matey'!
Speaking of numbers we must keep in mind that these guys consider math as pure evil. That's how i'd explain why they suck at recognising majority or minority.
I can't comment on Avowed as a game, because I haven't seen anything about it myself. But I'm against funding people who hate me as a customer. I also believe that Kotaku will make a much bigger mess out of this, so I'm looking forward to content from you guys 😊
@@ItSaNaEnEmYwhat makes you think they didn’t? Even a cursory understanding of how everything has gone down this year paints a pretty clear picture that this is a definitely a potential scenario. We are pattern recognizing animals after all. Woke dev speaks out of turn. Backlash starts. Woke dev doubles down. Gaming “journalists” step in to be an “ally” for the devs, further angering consumers. Launch day comes. Game flops. Repeat the cycle. How many times has this happened this year alone? Obsidian asked or kotaku offered, to keep that sweet access deal. None of this is new. People aren’t even making a big deal for the woke, it’s the anti consumer rhetoric that really does the damage. They will never learn.
@@kennethhernandez9243 "what makes you think they didn’t?" The fact that I don't see everything as a conspiracy and start with unfounded presumptions generally? Kotaku never has to be asked to weigh in on crap like this.
@@kennethhernandez9243 Let me ask you something, what did the woke dev say that triggered your snowflake sensibilities so much that you decided to go full cancel culture anyway?
Let's not gloss over the fact that they claim that their critics are only mad because Obsidian is "excluding white men". Well, assuming that is why we're mad, so what?! Shouldn't we have a right to be mad for being excluded? Isn't that why so many other groups have claimed to be mad about representation, because they were excluded? If it's ok to be mad about the exclusion of other groups, then by God, it's ok to be mad about the exclusion of white males too. In fact, let's stop calling all of this the word of their choosing, "wokeness", and call it what it actually is: antiwhitism.
@wadenbeisser2491 The problem with that is that the left has already co-opted that word as well. There's already a whole generation that thinks you can't be racist against white people, and the dictionary definitions have been altered to reflect that. Better to start with a fresh term that accurately and unequivocally describes the behavior.
Some people literally “know” that WE are the minority, which is completely false. They know this while understanding that we need to buy the game in order for them to reach target sales. This applies to the woke gamers as well who think they are winning the culture war.
“We just look for every single game and just be negative about it.” So wtf are they doing with their consultant groups and sensitivity searching??? The irony is hilarious.
apparently everybody save for a few thousand accd to sales figures for things like dustborn, unknown 9, and a few others who's names escape me (i had to think to remember unknown 9)
I mean that's really the crux of it. DA:V still hasn't posted 1 million, and Ubisoft wants numbers removed from steam due to Outlaws. all the while every game that has everything the "chuds" want has sold millions upon millions of copies. Look at Path of Exile 2. Game comes out and under 24 hours that game sold over 1 million. No hamfisted politics, no twitter nonsense from the developer peanut gallery. Just a good deep gameplay game with fun mechanics at a reasonable price with options to pay more for extra character slots in a game with hundreds of potential builds in order to cover potential costs that a 30$ tag price might not cover. When will they learn that what they are doing is going to kill their companies and what they hate is what is profitable and liked.
Not necessarily, some activist shouting and jumping around created the myth of the modern audience and lot´s of companies are still searching for that group until today.
That’s the elephant foot… gets injured and goes to the fatally radioactive sludge that is Kotaku to save their feefees… (elephant foot -> fatally radioactive sludge beneath the Chernobyl reactor that had a melt down…)
I don't think Kotaku and the rest of them know that they've lost all of their credibility a long time ago. They are only here now to be farmed for content and laughed at.
Did they not tell all of their PAYING customers that their game is "not for them"? They have nothing to cry about, the advice was taken quite literally.
Hate campaign? Nah, normal people just don't care about their woke nonsense and pronouns. With real games like POE 2 and KCD 2 released, Avowed is dead in the water.
probably burns them too. Missing the days they could name random people without worries about lawsuits, but since lawsuits are now the name of the game, they can only seethe and cope about it.
IKR? Dude was crawling all over that chair like it was some random poc jumping into his DMs. Don't know if I've ever seen a man with so many effeminate affectations. Does he think they can't hear him or something if he doesn't lean in like that?
Remember when Obsidian on the box meant some of the best storytelling in gaming? Well-written and nuanced characters with complex and compelling motivations that might even drive the player in a direction they had not expected?
I'm so proud of the worldwide gaming community. We stand together! It's crazy that we don't have a "leader" or something, but we have a lot of fellow youtubers on our side, maybe Asmon is the biggest.With that said we have a LOT of power. Power is, where we put our money. If we keep our wallets closed, all DEI will go to hell.
I don't get it... what are they expecting us to do? buy games we don't want to play? I'm not necessarily "Anti-woke" but holy shit I am anti-shit-games.
They can call consumers bigots all the way. Look how well it worked out for all the other games this year that's done the same. DA:V has yet to break a million while Path of Exile 2 broke 1 million in under 24 hours. People want to play games not be lectured to, and if your game developers keep shoe horning in ham fisted person politics into your projects consider them dead on arrival. People are done. They want action, they want attractive character, they want compelling deep gameplay, and they don't want moralizing nonsense tucked into it. You can call them chuds all you want but the fact stays the same. Those chuds are the ones that keep companies in business in this industry and if you aren't making games for them you're dooming your product.
Well, some of them project their own bigotry onto others so there's that...And some of them openly hate gamers such as that SBI employee that wants the game industry to burn...But I guess we just "lack media literacy"...That's why game journalists keep getting shocked and furious when their assumptions about a character's sexuality gets proven wrong (especially when they ship a character with someone who is a horrible villain).
in thier :D no Game media is good anymore... They are the same page under company under bigger company under same Blackrock/Vanguard funding... So what else do they chose dosent matter anymore. they are the same after all
they can say what they want, their fates are already sealed, Fired, and working for Peanuts at some lowend job where they have to play nice to everyone or get fired again
Kotaku Article Guideline - Use Grifter - Blame Racism for failure of an IP that betrayed its old audience - Claim critics are Gooners - Insert as much cringe as possible into your article like your politics or sexual hangups - Project, Project, Project
I like your channel because you are honest in the Things you like and dislike that is important to me so keep it up like you do it and keep it that way
48 year old man here. I am old enough to have lived when we made fun of this type of crap and people. Now our society, entertainment and finally gaming entertainment is beholden to the 0.1-2% of the people that now run society. So sick of it.
They’re doing us a favor for letting us know before their woke games release. I do appreciate when it’s obvious I shouldn’t buy something. If nobody said/boasted anything about the woke stuff in their game, or shown anything woke from their game, this would be a different story. So I do appreciate the honesty on their part.. same goes for movies and shows. Thanks to them, I don’t have to even wonder that I shouldn’t buy their garbage.
No matter how much propaganda they unleash it won't make me rethink my pre order refund. I don't pay for or play woke garbage. I would even argue I won't play games that show clear bigotry against anyone, in this case people like me who don't agree withe the message.
"I'd rather die standing than live on my knees." Screw Obsidian and Kotaku. In an oversaturation of games nowadays, who's gonna miss a single company that fell to the dark side? Exactly, only the DEI activists.
THE GRIFTERS ARE TARGETTING DISAFFECTED YOUNG MEN Do they/them mean "aren't calling them names and telling them the content they make isn't for them"? Amazing that this would lead to popularity...
They just don't get it. We will never be silent about the woke stuff. We won't buy your games until it stops and that means replacing all the stupid people that you hired that ruined gaming. PERIOD....
keep in mynd , all those press try to focus on DEI polemic , best way to hide the flaws on this incoming project/game . some quick history , after the realasse of pillars of eternity 2 , the studio have a lot issues , thue Studio like as Bioware after Microst buy them , having their team splited on 2 sides : one side , new employers from Microsoft , one side from original background studio ( core team ) . Then Microsoft starting to direct all project , and we get the average Outers Worlds ( at this time many talented dev leave the company ) . Many years later , Ewowed , a project ( an other command from Microsoft ) its just an random open world , using the brand of "pillars of eternity " , many issues during the developpement ( many iterations like as Dragon age veilgaurd ) and become an "empty shell" . Awvowed isn't to be an rpg , just a random open world , with generic gameplay with no real deep histoty , option choice .. its again the very bar minimum gameplay .. were're on 2024 , players now 're more knowledge of quality on a game , speciaally when the price of game go up ^^
It's not a campaign against Avowed. It's just throwing out garbage out the door. The modern audience doesn't actually exist in any numbers outside of their tiny bubble. If you make your games for the modern audience, expect to sell to them, and them only.
Inside of 10 years, all these terms that I used to listen to and take time to soul search and self-evaluate have become meaningless and I’d rather add them to my email signature line at this point.
Notice they said "NO WHITE MAN" ... several times, who's the bigot... all that matters is what the customers who buy the games want, we don't want your woke games with your gamer-hating director and his... scarf? seriously? who does that anymore? 1990 called they want their style back.
IF they wanted to Do real Damage control PR they would come directly to Hypnotic , Smash, etc These group of people who lead the charge for us against the Message Trash
What do you all make of this?
"Hate for no reason"?
Yes, because we get mad at someone tweeting "Abort All The J***" like a SBI employee does, that totally means we're the "real bigots" and that we "hate for no reason".
Just like how when we got mad at people deciding to insult Akira Toriyama RIGHT AFTER HE DIED, we're totally the "real bigots".
Isn't that why we share memes hating on Italians and write stuff like "On God F*** White People" and-Oh wait, that was Kim Belair, the person in charge of SBI.
...Yes, Belair actually did all of that stuff. She even got called out for the latter by an artist that worked for her.
Oh, by the way, did you know that John Walker once tweeted about hating "...the horror that is Dark Souls, and everything that bloody series did to ruin fun."?
I think Avowed and Kotaku, regardless of gaming expertise, are unnecessary and there are far better games out there to play with one's own opinions.
Succinctly: Avowed stinks, Kotaku is irrelevant, let's find a game that we ourselves delight in. If we must resort to piracy, then let me hear an 'ahoy matey'!
Speaking of numbers we must keep in mind that these guys consider math as pure evil. That's how i'd explain why they suck at recognising majority or minority.
I can't comment on Avowed as a game, because I haven't seen anything about it myself. But I'm against funding people who hate me as a customer. I also believe that Kotaku will make a much bigger mess out of this, so I'm looking forward to content from you guys 😊
Continue to laugh at them.
I don’t know what’s more pitiful:
That Kotaku made this ridiculous article, or that Obsidian is asking them to defend them….
Both
What makes you think Obsidian asked Kotaku to do anything?
@@ItSaNaEnEmYwhat makes you think they didn’t?
Even a cursory understanding of how everything has gone down this year paints a pretty clear picture that this is a definitely a potential scenario. We are pattern recognizing animals after all.
Woke dev speaks out of turn. Backlash starts. Woke dev doubles down. Gaming “journalists” step in to be an “ally” for the devs, further angering consumers.
Launch day comes. Game flops. Repeat the cycle.
How many times has this happened this year alone? Obsidian asked or kotaku offered, to keep that sweet access deal.
None of this is new. People aren’t even making a big deal for the woke, it’s the anti consumer rhetoric that really does the damage. They will never learn.
@@kennethhernandez9243 "what makes you think they didn’t?"
The fact that I don't see everything as a conspiracy and start with unfounded presumptions generally? Kotaku never has to be asked to weigh in on crap like this.
@@kennethhernandez9243 Let me ask you something, what did the woke dev say that triggered your snowflake sensibilities so much that you decided to go full cancel culture anyway?
They don't think normies in the middle are tired of this shit too. They're so lost in the sauce that they don't realize they're extremists.
And their house of cards comes tumbling down
There is no middle. You either agree 100% with all the BS or your a bigot with the rest of us.
Projection at its finest. They're so deep in the extreme that everything that does not immediately agree is an enemy for them.
normies are woke too
My normie friends are sick of this BS too, and not just in gaming either.
They said the quiet part out loud. They've finally openly revealed the vitriol they have for us gamers. Don't fund woke y'all. It leads nowhere good.
Finally? "Gamers are dead" look that up, all of them, same title same narrative, all from different old mainstream game media.
Let's not gloss over the fact that they claim that their critics are only mad because Obsidian is "excluding white men".
Well, assuming that is why we're mad, so what?! Shouldn't we have a right to be mad for being excluded? Isn't that why so many other groups have claimed to be mad about representation, because they were excluded?
If it's ok to be mad about the exclusion of other groups, then by God, it's ok to be mad about the exclusion of white males too.
In fact, let's stop calling all of this the word of their choosing, "wokeness", and call it what it actually is: antiwhitism.
Don't make up new words. They are plain racists :)
It's a group claiming to fight for equality but what they actually want is superiority
@wadenbeisser2491 The problem with that is that the left has already co-opted that word as well. There's already a whole generation that thinks you can't be racist against white people, and the dictionary definitions have been altered to reflect that. Better to start with a fresh term that accurately and unequivocally describes the behavior.
just call it what it is - racism
For the longest time - since it's inception even - DEI has meant "less white males", nothing more. It's prejudice dressed up as moral superiority
Moral superiority from woke overlords detected.
Always.
The issue is gamers think this can be solved with ultimate moral neutrality and it cant.
Correction: Delusion of Moral Superiority detected from Racist Overlords.
It's not "negative" to want to be informed in the product you're buying.
We just want great games without modern day messaging.
Translation: Triggered Snowflakes need a safe space from pronouns in videogames after Baldurs Gate 3 went GOATed
The reddit page Banned me. Said I was a white supremacist. Cause I asked it we could skip the pronouns.
Reddit is a liberal echo chamber, so that’s not surprising 😂
White supremist? For asking to skip the pronouns?
Reddit is distilling itself into lefty extremism and creating radical left wing activists
@@MrNickpeck36 The only way I could make reddit account now is vpn. But I can’t be bothered. Got banned for stupid reasons saying “cis” is a slur.
Never insult the important majority.
Some people literally “know” that WE are the minority, which is completely false.
They know this while understanding that we need to buy the game in order for them to reach target sales.
This applies to the woke gamers as well who think they are winning the culture war.
Money saved, robbery prevented, bullet dodged.
then i am like neo from the matrix.
And enemy mocked.
“We just look for every single game and just be negative about it.” So wtf are they doing with their consultant groups and sensitivity searching??? The irony is hilarious.
Kotaku is also going the way of the dinosaur
they've been self-destructing for years, but are too busy virtue signaling to realize it.
"Anti-DEI mob." That's the entire customer base right?
apparently everybody save for a few thousand accd to sales figures for things like dustborn, unknown 9, and a few others who's names escape me (i had to think to remember unknown 9)
It's only a staggering majority of the people who might've been willing to pay money for the game.
That would be correct sir!
if the ANTI woke group was so small we would never hear anything about it and yet...
I mean that's really the crux of it. DA:V still hasn't posted 1 million, and Ubisoft wants numbers removed from steam due to Outlaws. all the while every game that has everything the "chuds" want has sold millions upon millions of copies. Look at Path of Exile 2. Game comes out and under 24 hours that game sold over 1 million. No hamfisted politics, no twitter nonsense from the developer peanut gallery. Just a good deep gameplay game with fun mechanics at a reasonable price with options to pay more for extra character slots in a game with hundreds of potential builds in order to cover potential costs that a 30$ tag price might not cover. When will they learn that what they are doing is going to kill their companies and what they hate is what is profitable and liked.
@@MVPUnlucky look at marvel rivals 3 days now and over 10 million players across all platforms
Not necessarily, some activist shouting and jumping around created the myth of the modern audience and lot´s of companies are still searching for that group until today.
@@schorsch5677wrong. Companies like Blackrock created the modern audience. Much easier to predict Markets if you control their behaviours.
@@schorsch5677it really just comes down to the fact that most people are severely brainwashed
Oh wow run to a company that’s reputation is ruined for being really stupid to save them from being stupid.🤦
As the saying goes : you can't fix stupid.
Monkey see. Monkey do
Probably couldnt convince thegamer or some other low tier journalist site to do it so they had to go to the bottom of the barrel.
"Avowed run damage control" lol. "Damage control with Kotaku" LOL!!!
That’s the elephant foot… gets injured and goes to the fatally radioactive sludge that is Kotaku to save their feefees… (elephant foot -> fatally radioactive sludge beneath the Chernobyl reactor that had a melt down…)
I don't think Kotaku and the rest of them know that they've lost all of their credibility a long time ago. They are only here now to be farmed for content and laughed at.
Did they not tell all of their PAYING customers that their game is "not for them"? They have nothing to cry about, the advice was taken quite literally.
They overuse words like “bigot” and “racist” and these terms have lost meaning.
The projection and hypocrisy know no boundaries to these ppl.
If it weren't for double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all.
I refuse to kneel to cowards, liars and swindlers.
They need to shut it down
Proud bigot here 🙋♂️😂🤣
Ought have a parade.
everyone is a bigot
Hate campaign? Nah, normal people just don't care about their woke nonsense and pronouns. With real games like POE 2 and KCD 2 released, Avowed is dead in the water.
Shout out to Daniel Penny for the not guilty verdict!
I’m here for the melty-melts 😢🤣🤣
What a compliment, to me a 56yo male to be called a “young man”. LOL
Ugh, how long is it going to take for Microsoft to even attempt to course correct?
It sucks that the onlyform of advertising these companies know is harvesting rage clicks
They are right we are bigots. We are bigoted against bad games.
give.them.nothing.
Why are they so worried? Won't the modern audience save them?
They sensor themselves when referring to someone because then it would be easy for defamation lawsuits.
probably burns them too. Missing the days they could name random people without worries about lawsuits, but since lawsuits are now the name of the game, they can only seethe and cope about it.
It’s really hard to take gamer journalists word on anything when they delete comments and ban people who disagree.
Everyone in that interview needs their Internet history looked at.
IKR? Dude was crawling all over that chair like it was some random poc jumping into his DMs. Don't know if I've ever seen a man with so many effeminate affectations. Does he think they can't hear him or something if he doesn't lean in like that?
Easily AVOIDED.
Being non-buynary makes my backlog SO HAPPY!
Remember when Obsidian on the box meant some of the best storytelling in gaming?
Well-written and nuanced characters with complex and compelling motivations that might even drive the player in a direction they had not expected?
not anymore the senior dev(most white dude) are replace with DEI hired. So Western Studio stay the same as they are back in 2010....
why do character pronouns exclude that? BG3 had them....
Grifters , bigotry, incels , these clowns need a larger vocabulary 😅
Man it feels good to be called a young man at 35. Thank you kotaku 😂
I've proudly accepted the title "problematic audience" forever a thorn in their asses til they finally get tf out of the industry
I'm so proud of the worldwide gaming community. We stand together! It's crazy that we don't have a "leader" or something, but we have a lot of fellow youtubers on our side, maybe Asmon is the biggest.With that said we have a LOT of power. Power is, where we put our money. If we keep our wallets closed, all DEI will go to hell.
Tell that to Xbox fanboys paying for gamepass, they still gonna be funding this garbage because they won't cancel out of pure bias
Man that headline was _so close_ to being right! If only it read "The Campaign Against _Avowed_ Reveals The Bigotry That Fuels The Woke"
Ain’t nobody gonna play that shit lmao
I don't get it... what are they expecting us to do? buy games we don't want to play? I'm not necessarily "Anti-woke" but holy shit I am anti-shit-games.
Ey remember, they said, "It ain't for us," so let the modern audience take care of it
Seems that modern audience is very small and broke 😂
@@MrNickpeck36 They ain't broke, they just don't want to pay for anything outside of their starbux and hair dyes. Big difference.
I despise the poor quality products and if that makes me all the buzzwords under-the-sun that have lost all true meaning then so be it :-)
They can call consumers bigots all the way. Look how well it worked out for all the other games this year that's done the same. DA:V has yet to break a million while Path of Exile 2 broke 1 million in under 24 hours. People want to play games not be lectured to, and if your game developers keep shoe horning in ham fisted person politics into your projects consider them dead on arrival. People are done. They want action, they want attractive character, they want compelling deep gameplay, and they don't want moralizing nonsense tucked into it. You can call them chuds all you want but the fact stays the same. Those chuds are the ones that keep companies in business in this industry and if you aren't making games for them you're dooming your product.
MY BROTHER THAT STEAM NOISE...I thought it was me for a few seconds XD
SAME!
38 years young 😂
You know what I make of it? I make that those steam notifications jumpscared me.
How do people still fall for this garbage ?
Well, some of them project their own bigotry onto others so there's that...And some of them openly hate gamers such as that SBI employee that wants the game industry to burn...But I guess we just "lack media literacy"...That's why game journalists keep getting shocked and furious when their assumptions about a character's sexuality gets proven wrong (especially when they ship a character with someone who is a horrible villain).
This 68 year old "feels" young. Mentally, at least. 😂
wait...what?????...if you want damage control, wouldn't you want somebody with GOOD pr and reputation?????
in thier :D no Game media is good anymore... They are the same page under company under bigger company under same Blackrock/Vanguard funding... So what else do they chose dosent matter anymore. they are the same after all
they can say what they want, their fates are already sealed, Fired, and working for Peanuts at some lowend job where they have to play nice to everyone or get fired again
Then one day, for no reason at all, gamers began to hate.
I'll stick to BG3 with mods. There's no need to waste my time/money on a game made by people who hate me. Happy gaming.
Kotaku Article Guideline
- Use Grifter
- Blame Racism for failure of an IP that betrayed its old audience
- Claim critics are Gooners
- Insert as much cringe as possible into your article like your politics or sexual hangups
- Project, Project, Project
Perfect description. I would add “doesn’t actually play videogames”
OMG they just can't change their ways.
They make it easy to spend less money on games.
And more money on GOOD GAMES.
I like your channel because you are honest in the Things you like and dislike that is important to me so keep it up like you do it and keep it that way
Imagine the clown running to the Circus Master to defend them XD
That article is just going to bring more awareness to Avowed and hurt that game's sales even more lol. Thank you Kotaku for the free publicity.
48 year old man here. I am old enough to have lived when we made fun of this type of crap and people. Now our society, entertainment and finally gaming entertainment is beholden to the 0.1-2% of the people that now run society. So sick of it.
And so it continues
Dodged a fuckin nuke cuz I was pretty hyped for this game but money has been saved!
Take it from a former business owner, your customers are always right. They fail to understand that simple concept and thus are doomed to failure.
"Damage control " yeah that's like dropping a entire oil well onto a blazing wildfire
I am just surprised he wasn't sitting in that African American gentlemans lap during that interview...😅
Gaslighting 101 + Anime villian levels of loathing - hope = 👎
If Avowed had a DLC, it’d be called ‘The Cope Chronicles.’ No one’s buying it, bro.
As if gamers care what Kotaku thinks about anything. They have no credibility. Kotaku's opinions are meaningless.
Because Kotaku is a legitimate website with unbiased journalists whom stick to the facts and leave their personal feelings outside the keyboard.
"A bit of a melty melt." LOL
They’re doing us a favor for letting us know before their woke games release. I do appreciate when it’s obvious I shouldn’t buy something. If nobody said/boasted anything about the woke stuff in their game, or shown anything woke from their game, this would be a different story. So I do appreciate the honesty on their part.. same goes for movies and shows. Thanks to them, I don’t have to even wonder that I shouldn’t buy their garbage.
A small vocal group is what ruined these games, woke troons on Twitter that no longer have influence to get opposing viewpoints banned.
It's my money and they can't taunt me into giving it to their friends.
Notice how they stopped saying far right and nazi and started saying "anti-woke"
Lol. The only clicks they'll get is the people reviewing their article, in a negative light.
They don't want to play games where "white dude saves the world and princess", but complain we don't want to play their scratch-and-sniff games?
No matter how much propaganda they unleash it won't make me rethink my pre order refund. I don't pay for or play woke garbage. I would even argue I won't play games that show clear bigotry against anyone, in this case people like me who don't agree withe the message.
That steam notification surprised me more than the article did lol
i thought kotaku said they were gonna stop writing dumb articles that criticize their readers
"I'd rather die standing than live on my knees."
Screw Obsidian and Kotaku.
In an oversaturation of games nowadays, who's gonna miss a single company that fell to the dark side?
Exactly, only the DEI activists.
THE GRIFTERS ARE TARGETTING DISAFFECTED YOUNG MEN
Do they/them mean "aren't calling them names and telling them the content they make isn't for them"? Amazing that this would lead to popularity...
They just don't get it. We will never be silent about the woke stuff. We won't buy your games until it stops and that means replacing all the stupid people that you hired that ruined gaming.
PERIOD....
When the chefs spits in your food before serving....
keep in mynd , all those press try to focus on DEI polemic , best way to hide the flaws on this incoming project/game .
some quick history , after the realasse of pillars of eternity 2 , the studio have a lot issues , thue Studio like as Bioware after Microst buy them , having their team splited on 2 sides : one side , new employers from Microsoft , one side from original background studio ( core team ) . Then Microsoft starting to direct all project , and we get the average Outers Worlds ( at this time many talented dev leave the company ) .
Many years later , Ewowed , a project ( an other command from Microsoft ) its just an random open world , using the brand of "pillars of eternity " , many issues during the developpement ( many iterations like as Dragon age veilgaurd ) and become an "empty shell" .
Awvowed isn't to be an rpg , just a random open world , with generic gameplay with no real deep histoty , option choice .. its again the very bar minimum gameplay ..
were're on 2024 , players now 're more knowledge of quality on a game , speciaally when the price of game go up ^^
Melty Melt is the new big grilled cheese sandwich at Carl's Jr, right? I'll have a large Melty Melt meal with extra cheese.
I'll take it with an extra large side of Whine.
I fear for the grim future of half life when they've finally decided to go "Full DIE" & claim it as "successor"
There is no anti woke. We don't care about you. We care about our beloved ones. Wokeness makes this personal!
It's not a campaign against Avowed. It's just throwing out garbage out the door. The modern audience doesn't actually exist in any numbers outside of their tiny bubble. If you make your games for the modern audience, expect to sell to them, and them only.
Inside of 10 years, all these terms that I used to listen to and take time to soul search and self-evaluate have become meaningless and I’d rather add them to my email signature line at this point.
Kotaku has NEVER made anything better.
Notice they said "NO WHITE MAN" ... several times, who's the bigot... all that matters is what the customers who buy the games want, we don't want your woke games with your gamer-hating director and his... scarf? seriously? who does that anymore? 1990 called they want their style back.
I wonder how many more hold my beer moments we’re going to have in 2025. This year has been crazy already.
people that play/buy games dont read Kotaku; this just puts more nails into the coffin of this studio
Until I started following Smash JT and Hypnotic about a month ago, I never heard of Kotaku either.... and I've been playing games since 1985.
Thank you for your service 🖖
Customers can't be grifters. Grifters are out for money and popularity. Customers are trying to spend money
IF they wanted to Do real Damage control PR they would come directly to Hypnotic , Smash, etc These group of people who lead the charge for us against the Message Trash
It's so sad that John Walker is going to the infinite torment plexus.
Truly a shame.