@@Jaws1375 They are from Quebec, which is basically super woke land in canada. Most non-french canadians hate the french canadians due to them being snobbish a-holes and woke as hell. Second I heard SBI is based out of quebec it all made sense why they are so woke and so worthless.
@@AlexD-os8hwnaa,they are just too idiots to notice how immoral they are probably that woman thinked she is doing for "the greater good" or some bullshit like that
Those guys get 7 million to ruin games and still keep their jobs and shitty livelihoods, ROM sites get barely any cash to preserve games nobody is selling (then get hit by corpos). Tell me, who's the villain: the pirates preserving dead games for peanuts or the thieves being paid millions to ruin live ones?
What is even worse is that companies like blackrock also funding them which makes no sense for them to demanding money from studios that refuses to comply with this nonsense.
Hell many ROM sites and other game piracy 'repositories' run at a loss many months depending on if they can get donations or not. These corpos are just pure evil
To be fair, and im not defending them, but yeah of course they would keep their jobs because they would get paid 7mil from scamming dumb companies that think they want that "modern audience" There is a reason telephone scam companies are still running to this day, it's because they kinda work.
Stuff like this is against the law when you call it by its real name: Extortion. If more devs stood up to and sued these criminals for the damage they did and brought them all to justice for it over the past however many years we wouldn't be here. and I don't just mean the activists pushing these things, but the legal firms offering to 'protect their brand' like what the pinkertons or Nintendo's lawyers do
SBI are not a bunch of mafias, they're a group of idiots. Mafias are much smarter. If you remember, one of them mocked Akira Toriyama's death, and it ended badly...
*"SBI is not what you think"* , says most of the bought out gaming media colluding together to work on the grift. Activists creating fake problems so they can "fix" them and demand money😂
I'm more surprised SBI tried to blackmail a Chinese game set in a beloved, venerated piece of their own literature into adding DEI. There's stupid, and then there's that.
Yep. It's a Chinese game, based on Chinese literature, made by (presumably) an all Chinese development team. What service exactly could a Canadian consultancy company even offer? ("put a gay diverse woman in it. Make it more lame."). LMAO.
@@graemevaughey7432 Wait till the CCP gets involved and expose this to the general public... Ooh boy, it will be a cause that even South Korea and Japan might get behind...
I believed that if the company bent the knee, the Chinese gamers and netizens would complain and sic the CCP after them. So I can see why they didn't. That and they fear the CCP more than any western hit piece from a bunch of Canadian extortionists. And also people need to remember that Chinese made games from China, their main target market is in China. Global comes last in their mind.
It's wild to me that this isn't illegal. I mean, Sweet Baby Inc. is committing literal extortion. "Pay me $7 million for my 'guidance' or my contacts in the game journalism sphere will launch hit-pieces and smear campaigns against you, purposefully give you negative reviews that will eat into your sales, and drive you into the dirt. Can you afford that? Cheaper to pay up, boi." It's the gaming equivalent of: "Nice shop. Be a shame if something happened to it." But what am I saying? SBI is backed by the Canadian government and has enough friends in high places to get away with all of this. Only thing that might break the cycle is game developers and corporate realizing that SBI Detected changes the value proposition. "Pay $7 million or get bad press that will cost you sales... but bear in mind that once people know we "guided" you, you'll face pseudo boycotts. 400k people not buying at $70 per is $28 million lost. So, you can lose $35 million going with us or lose an unknown amount from negative reviews and bad press coverage from increasingly irrelevant fake journalists with poor site traffic. The choice is yours!"
Because they never say the second part they just say "it could happen", of course it's a coincidence when it does. That said though nobody cares about IGN or Kotaku anymore and it seems to be quite effective at generating hype when a story comes out where the devs reveal that they were approached by some SBI adjacent consultancy and told them aggressively to take their grift somewhere else. Like this game just got so many more eyes on it *even if* the story isn't true.
so basically choosing woke consultants means they make you pay them millions, and they make your games worse or not have them at all, and they promote your game for free by making slander articles about your game
The difference between this and the mafia is that the mafia genuinely wants your business to succeed, because the better you do the more they can extort from you
The thing is when you're being extorted by an actual crook, eventually their greed will be sated and they'll leave you alone. Moral busybodies will never leave you alone, they are always spurred on by their conviction that they are doing the right thing.
‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.’ C. S. Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment.
7 million dollars? Is that why these companies want to charge $80+ for games+microtransactions? They aren't a consulting firm, they're an extorting racket mafia.
If a gaming company's employees are half as aware as the gamer community, they know to completely ignore idiots like SBI. Controversary is free marketing. Not bending the knee, to what the vast majority of the customer base you are selling too, absolutely despises, WILL GET YOU PROFIT! Kingdom Come ignored the woke morons who demanded black/diverse representation in a historically accurate depiction of Croatia, and ended up selling far more as a result. We are more than willing to do things to spite what we hate.
If I had a nickel every time a Western company is making an asian theme game, and it's involved with SBI's stench, I would have two nickels. but it's weird that it happened twice.
American: "Never thought I'd shitpost side by side with the chinese." Chinese: "What about side by side with a fellow gamer?" American: "Aye, I could do that."
It's insane that modern gaming journos don't wanna promote Hogwarts Legacy, a game full of diversity, characters from all sorts of countries, gay characters, and a trans character. This would be their dream game if they actually PLAYED it, rather than hate on it due to it's ties to Rowling. This is the only proof you ever need to see how gaming journos don't actually play games, they play social media and politics.
Remember that one Wired 'journo' who supposed to write the review of the game, only to become a full rant about something that has nothing to do with the game itself? Yeah, they're exist, unfortunately. I wonder why they're keeping that kind of jerk like that.
No, they are a group that demands money from companies for good reviews a terrorist group they don't care what is in the movie or game they just getting money for their company to get their cut of it.
"-Refusing to promote (Hogwards Legacy) due to its alleged lack of political correctness." Ah yes, the game with a trans barkeep, a korean groundskeep, teachers from other ethnicities and one with scoliocis wasn't politically correct.. because IP author draws a line on gender, which wasn't applied to the game itself
SBIs credibility is so low that by denouncing a game, they are giving it the best promotion they are capable of. Imagine paying money to be advised by a group of people that everyone hates, and who ruin everything they touch.
Damn I get it now: Most companies, whose games are made to be overly political correct, actually try to listen to fans' critics, but are held back by corruption schemes that force them to continue how they work! Naw man that shit is 1984 backstory level (get it? Because in the book 1984, the backstory mentioned politically correct "activists" that weren't actually politically correct but extremely oppressive)
Yeah...hopefully someone takes these people to court sooner rather than later because I'm really getting tired of seeing headlines like this. Extortion is a criminal offense...take their ass to court to make their life a living hell as karma...then be done with it.
I mean, what would they have expected? The team behind the Sun Wukong game is a small Chinese dev, and they aren't intimidated by this Western BS. Even the now-exposed smear campaign wouldn't work. Let this be a lesson to many developers and publishers: This screeching minority are a bunch of grifters that want to shake you down for money and push "the message" through your work to lose most of your interested fanbase, or will astroturf campaigns with 'allies' and/or bots to stir up controversy in order to get that kneel out of you. Do your thing your way, be authentic, do your best work, and gamers will reward you if the product is appealing and good.
Yeah to bad western devs seem unable to learn that lesson. fail after woke fail and they still keep trying to push it, like who are they even pushing the message for in the first place? Maybe the 1% of woke morons on twitter, meanwhile annoying the other 99% of normal people with their BS?
"Not intimidated by western BS" Didnt know that plain courtesy is western BS If they want game to be released to the west, they gonna play by their rules, otherwise might as well stick to Chinese market. "this screeching minority" Theres more woman in China than man, so according to this logic game company SHOULD cater to majority I guess. "Do your thing your way, be authentic" They carbon copy Dark Souls games, lmao, so authentic.
I wonder how well thats going to work for them now. SS lost literal millions of dollars. Even if they weren’t the sole reason, companies saw the backlash. Money is super tight right now and no studio can afford a loss like that
The more I hear about Black Myth Wukong, the more impressed I am. Not only is the game looking beautiful, but the people making it seem unusually upright. I really want them to succeed.
It's a shakedown, selling their sub-par product and threatening an advertisement blackout/backlash if they don't. It's absolutely disgusting what this medium has become.
Not only video games that have awesome characters, but movies and TV too. Ellen Ripley is a badass, one of the best female protagonists ever IMO. I love her to bits. Then you get characters like generic new york girl no.4 from Forspoken and you wonder how the hell they can get it so wrong. Diversity on games and other media is not a bad thing. But what SBI is pushing for isn't true diversity. Everything I've seen about them shows them to be horrible people.
By saying it'll cost them 14 million in sales if they don't. They are just one appendage of the games "journalist" wannabe taste making clique, so they can say pay us or we will loudly insult and shame your game and studio. Every large gaming media outlet will pick up our message and the lobotomites on Twitter will literally do it for free. This is all about their power and legitimacy being exercised and shown to others. "You saw what happened to that other game studio, you think you can weather the storm like they did?" Don't fail for the trap that this has anything to do with actual politics, this is about ideology which is just shared tribalistic power, that's why they all mimic each other and don't have any real diversity of thought. They are meant to evoke each other as powerful figures and they can't do that if they stand out.
Setting back the movement more and more lol what became a fight to be equal has been turned into this mess by people who are over zealous. All it does it hurt the people they are trying to protect.
It's not even "political corectness". This company seems to work against the interest of all the minorities coating it as "oh look we support you". Literally all possible sides loose besides them.
The issue isn’t that they’re female protagonists. It’s the way they’re presented as well as how they’re able to be Mary Sue’s with everything they do. Also, the insufferable activists that shill for them.
This is an organised extortion racket, and it is international. Find out how the consultancy firms funnel money to the gaming journos and this whole thing will end with them in prison.
Blackrock and Vanguard, two of the largest investment firms in the West whose leaders have been on record saying essentially, "if you want to see cultural change, you need to force it."
So wait - Either you give them 7 million bucks or they send people to call your game racist, sexist etc. .... Isn't blackmail supposed to have negative consequences and not providing POSITVE marketing for a product in case you don't pay?
I find it funny, cuz with mafia you at least had SOME semblance of benefit (protection from randos breaking in your shop/cafe). With these "consultants" you lose if you "work" with them AND you lose if you don't. (tho, at least if you don't you have better chances of getting profit by releasing... better game (than it could be)).
why would anyone pay a cold hard $7 mil to be less profitable? no wonder dev budgets are so much now. you could lose that change in the couch and have a more sound investment that SBI can we please just kick these firms to the curb and get cheaper games?
I joke all the time about these fre- -e IwascensredbyYT- aks never being able to mess with Chi -nocensihpforme- ne -triple- se franchises, but I didn't think they'd have to gall to even try. Seriously, may all the -things I counter YT cenship with seem- bad -but is even more anti senship- things -we_see- in the world -maybe it will get blocke again but- happen to -us and- them.
The best part about this is I don’t think SBI even realizes that they may have just stepped on a huge land mine! Game Science is connected to the Chinese government through Tenncent and I don’t think either will respond well to open extortion. So Sweet Baby Inc might end with more than they bargained for!
Federal racketerring law: 18 USC 1951 a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do...shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. (2) The term “extortion” means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, *or fear,* or under color of official right. That SBI woman admitted on video to promoting extortion through fear. And under the RICO Act, individuals can be prosecuted or sued for a "pattern" of extortion in business.
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Bible black, my dude
Boku no Pico
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Sweetbaby inc, proving they're just a bunch of thugs
They have been behaving as such for a while.
They should all be in jail for life.
You are quite harsh on the actual thugs. These people are much worse.
Let's call them by their real names, Racists.
@@MegaDarkness5000 dont disrespect racists like that man. SBI is much lower than that
So... They're essentially demanding protection money then...
No different than any other business
Just like Sarkeesian.
We already knew. SBI's CEO said it quite clearly.
Stop comparing them to mafia. The actual mafia doesn't deserve to be compared to these beings of pure evil.
@@konopce8506but the Mafias are evil too,this doesn't make any sense bruh
Someone needs to report sbi for extrotion, fruad and hate crimes. They all need to be put in prison
I definitely agree
I know this a joke but damn, you got no chill lmaooo
No they need the gulag and give each gamer 1 billion dollars
Who says it's a joke? @@DiaomBayet
Ever considered tipping off the FBI?
pretty fucking bad when I have to take the side of a gaming company in communist China over a gaming consulting company in U.S.A.
Sweet Baby is Canadian.
@@araarashinigamiIt all makes sense now
@@araarashinigamiwe don't claim them
USA is communist country now,so...
@@Jaws1375 They are from Quebec, which is basically super woke land in canada. Most non-french canadians hate the french canadians due to them being snobbish a-holes and woke as hell. Second I heard SBI is based out of quebec it all made sense why they are so woke and so worthless.
The CEO literally got up on stage and explained that they threaten people into hiring them.
And they've gone on record admitting it personally as well, as shown in the video. Nothing will get done though, SJWs are a protected class.
Once in a while, a guilty conscience will leak...
@@AlexD-os8hwnaa,they are just too idiots to notice how immoral they are probably that woman thinked she is doing for "the greater good" or some bullshit like that
@@AlexD-os8hw what do you mean by that?
Those guys get 7 million to ruin games and still keep their jobs and shitty livelihoods, ROM sites get barely any cash to preserve games nobody is selling (then get hit by corpos).
Tell me, who's the villain: the pirates preserving dead games for peanuts or the thieves being paid millions to ruin live ones?
What is even worse is that companies like blackrock also funding them which makes no sense for them to demanding money from studios that refuses to comply with this nonsense.
Hell many ROM sites and other game piracy 'repositories' run at a loss many months depending on if they can get donations or not. These corpos are just pure evil
To be fair, and im not defending them, but yeah of course they would keep their jobs because they would get paid 7mil from scamming dumb companies that think they want that "modern audience"
There is a reason telephone scam companies are still running to this day, it's because they kinda work.
The good guys are always the ones who farm Ls
bro WTF
It's the whole spiderman trope.
Black myth wukong would definitely sell more than Unalive Squad: mOdErn aUdIencE
Agreed
Potentially win game of the year if the awards aren't rigged or something.
@@emca1597those awards are irrelevant these days anyway. Just like Oscar
Finally, the REAL modern audience game.
Agreed. But some of us aren't cut out for a Soulsborne/Souls-Like, good luck playing this game/trying to.😁
Stuff like this is against the law when you call it by its real name: Extortion. If more devs stood up to and sued these criminals for the damage they did and brought them all to justice for it over the past however many years we wouldn't be here. and I don't just mean the activists pushing these things, but the legal firms offering to 'protect their brand' like what the pinkertons or Nintendo's lawyers do
The DHS is backing Sweet Baby. Devs can't do anything without getting disappeared.
@ca_kay True. The department of homeland security funds SBI and their network of like-minded companies.
Apparently SBI went from "treathen your crew" to ACTUAL blackmail.
I should be surprised, but I am not...
They learned with AIPAC
Its all they can do... They have no other talents, than to cheat their way in.
At least mafia's have standards and code of conduct.
SBI however?, no!!!.
The mafia had a sense of honor at least
SBI are not a bunch of mafias, they're a group of idiots. Mafias are much smarter.
If you remember, one of them mocked Akira Toriyama's death, and it ended badly...
The mafia had cool accents and Tommy guns at least
*"SBI is not what you think"* , says most of the bought out gaming media colluding together to work on the grift. Activists creating fake problems so they can "fix" them and demand money😂
*"SBI is a lot worse than you think"* would be a better quote
Sounds like how the government keeps the crime and other social problems ongoing, to keep the taxes flowing.
Evil cannot create something new, they will corrupt anything that has been existed.
They aren’t even activists, just another money hungry corporation.
I'm more surprised SBI tried to blackmail a Chinese game set in a beloved, venerated piece of their own literature into adding DEI. There's stupid, and then there's that.
Yep. It's a Chinese game, based on Chinese literature, made by (presumably) an all Chinese development team. What service exactly could a Canadian consultancy company even offer? ("put a gay diverse woman in it. Make it more lame."). LMAO.
@@graemevaughey7432 Wait till the CCP gets involved and expose this to the general public...
Ooh boy, it will be a cause that even South Korea and Japan might get behind...
I believed that if the company bent the knee, the Chinese gamers and netizens would complain and sic the CCP after them. So I can see why they didn't. That and they fear the CCP more than any western hit piece from a bunch of Canadian extortionists. And also people need to remember that Chinese made games from China, their main target market is in China. Global comes last in their mind.
@@graemevaughey7432 Not to mention that Chica also have strong opinions on black people and women, what SBI doing is literally a bad idea
"Not enough blacks."
It's wild to me that this isn't illegal. I mean, Sweet Baby Inc. is committing literal extortion. "Pay me $7 million for my 'guidance' or my contacts in the game journalism sphere will launch hit-pieces and smear campaigns against you, purposefully give you negative reviews that will eat into your sales, and drive you into the dirt. Can you afford that? Cheaper to pay up, boi."
It's the gaming equivalent of: "Nice shop. Be a shame if something happened to it."
But what am I saying? SBI is backed by the Canadian government and has enough friends in high places to get away with all of this.
Only thing that might break the cycle is game developers and corporate realizing that SBI Detected changes the value proposition. "Pay $7 million or get bad press that will cost you sales... but bear in mind that once people know we "guided" you, you'll face pseudo boycotts. 400k people not buying at $70 per is $28 million lost. So, you can lose $35 million going with us or lose an unknown amount from negative reviews and bad press coverage from increasingly irrelevant fake journalists with poor site traffic. The choice is yours!"
Because they never say the second part they just say "it could happen", of course it's a coincidence when it does.
That said though nobody cares about IGN or Kotaku anymore and it seems to be quite effective at generating hype when a story comes out where the devs reveal that they were approached by some SBI adjacent consultancy and told them aggressively to take their grift somewhere else. Like this game just got so many more eyes on it *even if* the story isn't true.
It is. Its just a matter of getting tangible proof that they are sending the attacks, but that's easier said than done.
I don't trust journalists and SBI
I'm tempted to try it now
There's always the Kyoto Animation method of dealing with them, if you know what I mean.
It's more than that. It's "pay or my contacts at Blackrock will cancel your funding"
so basically choosing woke consultants means they make you pay them millions, and they make your games worse
or not have them at all, and they promote your game for free by making slander articles about your game
Pretty much
Sounds like a no-brainer to me. Being on the cancel pigs' hit list is a badge of honor.
@@ThePopo543 unfortunately the western world has no brain or spine.
It's essentially protection money before they send their goons to burn down your restaurant.
Sweet Baby Inc.? More like Stink Adult Inc.
lmfao what
@@BobbyBasketball19999 Sorry I just woke up so I made random comments 😂
Inc is short for 'inclusive'
Feel Bad Inc.
Stinky Diaper Detected
The difference between this and the mafia is that the mafia genuinely wants your business to succeed, because the better you do the more they can extort from you
true dude🤣
When its better to be extorted by the literal mafia then woke activists virute signallers
Isn't it illegal to threaten others? They are basically aspiring to be loan sharks of public reputation.
The thing is when you're being extorted by an actual crook, eventually their greed will be sated and they'll leave you alone. Moral busybodies will never leave you alone, they are always spurred on by their conviction that they are doing the right thing.
‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.’
C. S. Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment.
SBI be like: "Ok I made all your characters women and they're all lesbian now. That'll be $7,000,000"
You forget to make them lame though
An then the company disappears because of the CCP
@@TotallyNotAFoxand ugly and black
7 million dollars? Is that why these companies want to charge $80+ for games+microtransactions?
They aren't a consulting firm, they're an extorting racket mafia.
If a gaming company's employees are half as aware as the gamer community, they know to completely ignore idiots like SBI.
Controversary is free marketing. Not bending the knee, to what the vast majority of the customer base you are selling too, absolutely despises, WILL GET YOU PROFIT!
Kingdom Come ignored the woke morons who demanded black/diverse representation in a historically accurate depiction of Croatia, and ended up selling far more as a result. We are more than willing to do things to spite what we hate.
I'd take the Italian Mafia over SBI anyday. The Italian mob has more class and definitely stronger.
If I had a nickel every time a Western company is making an asian theme game, and it's involved with SBI's stench, I would have two nickels. but it's weird that it happened twice.
black myth wukong isnt japanese themed, but themed after chinese folklore (i strongly recommend reading the "Journey to the West")
I know of AC shadows, but what is the other one?
@@azdful Shoot, you're right. My mistake. (I forgot it's chinese folk lore.)
@@SweetBaby2GT It's ok bro
Black Myth: Wukong 🤝 Ghost of Tsushima
They're almost like this other group that walks into each business down the street and asks for "protection fees". Yeah, makes you think.
Nah. Not nearly honest enough
American: "Never thought I'd shitpost side by side with the chinese."
Chinese: "What about side by side with a fellow gamer?"
American: "Aye, I could do that."
I understood the meme and the reference.
My hatred for the kinds of companies and people is on a crazy high level.
When SBI has me on the side of the Chinese media, you absolutely have screwed the pooch.
Ikr 😐
It's insane that modern gaming journos don't wanna promote Hogwarts Legacy, a game full of diversity, characters from all sorts of countries, gay characters, and a trans character.
This would be their dream game if they actually PLAYED it, rather than hate on it due to it's ties to Rowling. This is the only proof you ever need to see how gaming journos don't actually play games, they play social media and politics.
Remember that one Wired 'journo' who supposed to write the review of the game, only to become a full rant about something that has nothing to do with the game itself?
Yeah, they're exist, unfortunately. I wonder why they're keeping that kind of jerk like that.
No, they are a group that demands money from companies for good reviews a terrorist group they don't care what is in the movie or game they just getting money for their company to get their cut of it.
"-Refusing to promote (Hogwards Legacy) due to its alleged lack of political correctness."
Ah yes, the game with a trans barkeep, a korean groundskeep, teachers from other ethnicities and one with scoliocis wasn't politically correct.. because IP author draws a line on gender, which wasn't applied to the game itself
And yet they promoted the game far more than anyone else did by constantly complaining about it.
yea. that "company" needs to be banned. literarly criminals who need to be jailed
Can’t wait for these firms and any companies that defend them to go out of business
Imagine paying 7Mil just to kill your game and studio lmao
SBIs credibility is so low that by denouncing a game, they are giving it the best promotion they are capable of. Imagine paying money to be advised by a group of people that everyone hates, and who ruin everything they touch.
After seeing these news, I decided I won't be buying Black Myth WuKong at launch. Instead I decided I will pre order the Deluxe Edition today.
I decided I would buy the physical collectors edition m also a digital console edition
Damn I get it now: Most companies, whose games are made to be overly political correct, actually try to listen to fans' critics, but are held back by corruption schemes that force them to continue how they work!
Naw man that shit is 1984 backstory level (get it? Because in the book 1984, the backstory mentioned politically correct "activists" that weren't actually politically correct but extremely oppressive)
Yeah...hopefully someone takes these people to court sooner rather than later because I'm really getting tired of seeing headlines like this. Extortion is a criminal offense...take their ass to court to make their life a living hell as karma...then be done with it.
Getting threatened by SBI is equivalent to winning the advertisement lottery right now, so long as you don't fold.
I mean, what would they have expected? The team behind the Sun Wukong game is a small Chinese dev, and they aren't intimidated by this Western BS. Even the now-exposed smear campaign wouldn't work.
Let this be a lesson to many developers and publishers: This screeching minority are a bunch of grifters that want to shake you down for money and push "the message" through your work to lose most of your interested fanbase, or will astroturf campaigns with 'allies' and/or bots to stir up controversy in order to get that kneel out of you. Do your thing your way, be authentic, do your best work, and gamers will reward you if the product is appealing and good.
Yeah to bad western devs seem unable to learn that lesson. fail after woke fail and they still keep trying to push it, like who are they even pushing the message for in the first place? Maybe the 1% of woke morons on twitter, meanwhile annoying the other 99% of normal people with their BS?
"Not intimidated by western BS"
Didnt know that plain courtesy is western BS
If they want game to be released to the west, they gonna play by their rules, otherwise might as well stick to Chinese market.
"this screeching minority"
Theres more woman in China than man, so according to this logic game company SHOULD cater to majority I guess.
"Do your thing your way, be authentic"
They carbon copy Dark Souls games, lmao, so authentic.
@@markedoner1eford653don’t defend this terrible company 🤢
Well they fear the CCP more than a small western extortionist company. CCP >>> SBI
@@markedoner1eford653 Your comment is hilarious man, so you know that The West literally bows to China all the time?
Rèŧäřđ?
Remember the Sweet Baby threat ... "Terrify them of what would happen"!
I wonder how well thats going to work for them now. SS lost literal millions of dollars. Even if they weren’t the sole reason, companies saw the backlash. Money is super tight right now and no studio can afford a loss like that
The more I hear about Black Myth Wukong, the more impressed I am. Not only is the game looking beautiful, but the people making it seem unusually upright. I really want them to succeed.
Super Baby 2 is more popular than SBI.
Goated villain 🔥🔥
Definitely
Better than Omega Shenron and Super 17
Peter Parker's Uncle Ben used to tell me.
"With Great Power, Must Come Great Responsibility"
I think those words echo more true than ever before
Nowadays it's 'With Great Power, Come Great Insanity'.
Pretty sure Madame Web flipped that phrase on its head, just to show how incredibly backwards today's 'virtues' are now.
Probably "With Greate Power, Must Come More Money "
It's a shakedown, selling their sub-par product and threatening an advertisement blackout/backlash if they don't. It's absolutely disgusting what this medium has become.
Not only video games that have awesome characters, but movies and TV too. Ellen Ripley is a badass, one of the best female protagonists ever IMO. I love her to bits.
Then you get characters like generic new york girl no.4 from Forspoken and you wonder how the hell they can get it so wrong.
Diversity on games and other media is not a bad thing. But what SBI is pushing for isn't true diversity. Everything I've seen about them shows them to be horrible people.
How do they justify 7mil for their services?!
By saying it'll cost them 14 million in sales if they don't. They are just one appendage of the games "journalist" wannabe taste making clique, so they can say pay us or we will loudly insult and shame your game and studio. Every large gaming media outlet will pick up our message and the lobotomites on Twitter will literally do it for free. This is all about their power and legitimacy being exercised and shown to others. "You saw what happened to that other game studio, you think you can weather the storm like they did?" Don't fail for the trap that this has anything to do with actual politics, this is about ideology which is just shared tribalistic power, that's why they all mimic each other and don't have any real diversity of thought. They are meant to evoke each other as powerful figures and they can't do that if they stand out.
They want diversity in a Chinese mythical tale, wow.
They only want blacks in the games. Thats the only ”diversity” they care about
With a *monkey* as the lead character
Setting back the movement more and more lol what became a fight to be equal has been turned into this mess by people who are over zealous. All it does it hurt the people they are trying to protect.
Glad sour baby inc didn't buy the Sun wukong game. Political correctness sucks.
It's not even "political corectness".
This company seems to work against the interest of all the minorities coating it as "oh look we support you".
Literally all possible sides loose besides them.
I'm really excited for Black Myth: Wukong if any interference goes against this game I'll be really pissed off
The issue isn’t that they’re female protagonists. It’s the way they’re presented as well as how they’re able to be Mary Sue’s with everything they do. Also, the insufferable activists that shill for them.
It's also that it seems people can't have male protagonists if they want to.
This is an organised extortion racket, and it is international. Find out how the consultancy firms funnel money to the gaming journos and this whole thing will end with them in prison.
I'm still wondering how do Sweet Baby Inc. got their money from
what is that company called blackrock i think it's called (correct me if i'm wrong)
How come you still forgot about blackrock and vanguard?
Also the American government
Blackrock and Vanguard, two of the largest investment firms in the West whose leaders have been on record saying essentially, "if you want to see cultural change, you need to force it."
The tribe.
Going by what we're hearing, doesn't what they're doing sound like racketeering?
Absolutely. This has to be reported to Canadian authorities because this is highly illegal.
@@SleeplessTV-xe4wl Who do you think is bankrolling SBI?
SBI needs to be punished for extorsion, and blackmail.
So wait - Either you give them 7 million bucks or they send people to call your game racist, sexist etc. .... Isn't blackmail supposed to have negative consequences and not providing POSITVE marketing for a product in case you don't pay?
Why would a company pay millions to lose millions more??? Someone needs to send sbi a man with a bamboo stick and give them some real direction.
Why is everyone asking to get pinned instead of talking about the actual video?
running joke
I suppose you must be new here.
Grifting is a rampant issue across the board, not just video games.
Never forget what Kim Bellend said. The video of her should be played in every game studio before the day starts.
I find it funny, cuz with mafia you at least had SOME semblance of benefit (protection from randos breaking in your shop/cafe).
With these "consultants" you lose if you "work" with them AND you lose if you don't. (tho, at least if you don't you have better chances of getting profit by releasing... better game (than it could be)).
Suddenly I feel like checking their games
Actual protection racket
Somehow Sweet Baby Inc has a worse reputation than the Mafia. That's crazy.
I think from now on I'll call them bed bug baby. That's more fitting of a name for them than anything.
and now that everyone knows, that company is going AWOL.
Nothing beats creating a problem just to sell the solution.
Aaaand I'm 0.00% surprised
7 million times the games they already "consult" a truly shady business.
Even more excited about this game now
when terrorists fusion dance with gangsters
Looks like I'm gonna buy black myth to reward them for sticking with their guns.
why would anyone pay a cold hard $7 mil to be less profitable? no wonder dev budgets are so much now. you could lose that change in the couch and have a more sound investment that SBI
can we please just kick these firms to the curb and get cheaper games?
pay us so we can make your company bangkrup! XD
200 Million dollar loss on our last "success" Ruin your company TODAY!
Blackmailing companies like the human waste that they are. Shocking.😬
2B, A2, Kaine, Lara Croft, Samus Aran, Max Caufield, Alloy, Jill Valentine, Clair Redfield. Need I go on?
Sweet Baby probably has ties to the powers that be and they'll either cut them out or sweep it under the rug.
Looks like Gamergate 2 is now officially online, the DEI stuff earlier this year was just a prologue.
Whiny Racist baby Inc: *"HoW DaRe YoU NoT AlLoWiNg Us tO RuIn YoUr GaMe?!"*
I may have to pick up this game now, wasn't planning on it but now...
I just love how "it's not happening" but clearly is.
Corpo grifters gonna grift.
Grifters are lifting more Ls than Gifters.
Here for the banmilk.
“Showing someone something terrifying “ seems like a violent threat to me.
I didn't even realize that the thing I'd heard about SBI was A) from the CO-FOUNDER and B) Said Live at freaking GDC. What the actual hell??
Just make a good game and let the people decide.
absolute chads. preordered their game.
the thing with mafias is that they fear the most common payments to mankind: Taxes
The more support we give to this dev team, the more we can show the gaming companies out there that no one gives a F about SBI.
So is that’s a dev saying that in the Chinese tweet? Just making sure.
I Can read chinese, I can confirm the translation is pretty on the spot.
B-based?!
To be honest I’ve been trying to follow this game since its first trailer so at least I can keep a bit of hope/cope
Is it tho? Doesn’t seem different than an American company having to bend to china
@@npcimknot958 fair, but also I just really like souls games and don’t want to see it ruined yet
Daily reminder that Sarkeesian built the blueprints for Sweet Baby to follow in her footsteps.
SBI: "You're gonna suffer but you're going to be happy about it."
UA-cam has deleted my comment 5 times. I literally can't say what I think.
I joke all the time about these fre- -e IwascensredbyYT- aks never being able to mess with Chi -nocensihpforme- ne -triple- se franchises, but I didn't think they'd have to gall to even try. Seriously, may all the -things I counter YT cenship with seem- bad -but is even more anti senship- things -we_see- in the world -maybe it will get blocke again but- happen to -us and- them.
The best part about this is I don’t think SBI even realizes that they may have just stepped on a huge land mine! Game Science is connected to the Chinese government through Tenncent and I don’t think either will respond well to open extortion. So Sweet Baby Inc might end with more than they bargained for!
Federal racketerring law: 18 USC 1951
a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do...shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(2) The term “extortion” means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, *or fear,* or under color of official right.
That SBI woman admitted on video to promoting extortion through fear. And under the RICO Act, individuals can be prosecuted or sued for a "pattern" of extortion in business.
Pinruption
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Might just get this game on the principles of the devs to be honest
They(Wukong dev) can report that to Chinese Authorities too. If they do, imagine Chinese government will really mad about the extortion thingy.