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@@av_8596 I am not nervous at all. Stuff like this doesn’t faze me even a little. I also never get star struck either, I don’t know why. I’m just too level headed to let anything get to me I guess. Can’t explain it any other way. 🤷🏻♂️ not even bragging maybe I got brain damage or I’m missing that part of my brain idk lol
To be fair it takes a certain amount of creativity to come up with as much nonsense as they do. They're not bad fantasy writers; they just think their fantasy is real and want to make us all conform to it. This is what happens when we close the asylums and instead entertain these peoples' delusions.
Like when they brag about working on a lot of games like if they wrote the stories themselves when all they do is changing some stuff to make it more woke.
To be fair, as much as we dislike the rest of SBI, Chris Kindred was actually opening them up to lawsuits. He really should have gotten fired long before now.
That Kim Belair clip is literally one of the worst things my eyes and ears have ever been subjected to. Absolute parasite - admitting that they can't create anything, but have to inject themselves into world full of talent, just to get paid. Unbelievable.
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” J.R.R Tolkien. Seriosusly, wow, the fact that this phrase has aged very well today doesn't give me a good feeling.
I'll do you one worse. Watch Johnny C. Taylor Jr. CEO of SHRM at the SHRM 2024 intro. That's the most cringe shit I've ever seen. "Please clap", thunder sounds, shitty spoopy story and all.
The desperation in following the script to the letter is palpable. There's literally not a single genuine word in her entire speech, and if the teleprompter'd have shut down, she'd have pulled a kamala 110%, obviously. Disgusting to watch, honestly.
@@genin69 their writers are top tier, im still going to get the game, but still if they ruined the writing to promote an agenda... CDPR's team had not failed to make a good game yet. why would they start now. They need to have the Witcher be successful, they can't just ruin themselves financially. I mean look at the cyberpunk anime written by them. It's inclusive, and written well. and CDPR's team wrote that story. Not the anime studio. guys just wait for the game before making judgments.
That woman is really talking about those triple A titles like they hers and her company's alone, and acts like they aren't the ones that broke those experiences. What narcissists.
The CEO is a cowardly liar who can't stop gaslighting. I will boycott CDPR because all the good devs left. Names can be claimed and mean nothing on their own.
I foresee a EEOC lawsuit in their near future. I've been saying for about 3 years now "how are these companies not being federally sued for BLATANT sexual/race discrimination?!?! It's not hard to see when they're bragging about it and putting it in official documents."
@@kronho25the best part in all this is that it's also illegal to lie to investors about DEI and ESG. Even Blackrock is rebranding ESG so this is all too funny to me.
Kim saying that She never wanted to be known to gamers is really telling, we need to expose this type of consultant companies because they are ruining everything they touch
@@UnpopularGameGuy she is a narrative consultant she “helps” with story or character writing and maybe more. The problem is that she and the people she works with are not good writers
Theses people, they poison your water, mock you for finding the water funny and then gaslight you into thinking it was all in your head. Black Rock 101.
They’ve declared war on the rest of us, they take good faith and destroy it idk about everyone else but I’m done tolerating these people, no sympathy here they’re a great argument for people that simply hate God regardless of religious involvement they operate solely on that
She basically admits she doesn't like gamers. Would you hire someone who hates children to watch your kids or design products for them? So why do companies waste money hiring SBI?
they probably have no choice. Two scenarios: 1. Blackrock or similar asks them to hire the consultants for that sweet ESG money. 2. SBI and/or journalists bully them into hiring them not to be smeared
@@pepinlebref7585 second point is quickly becoming a moot seeing that Gaming "journalist" rep is in dog water right now and has lost any credibility to smear anyone but themselves
Social blackmail. Nowadays if you don't play nice, they threaten you with cancelling and shit. Doesn't matter if what they say is true or not, most people always go for the "there can't be smoke without fire" approach and will become suspicious anyway.
Spider-man 2 was the last straw. After that, I've been more aware, more vocal, and more frugal with my spending. I also make sure all fathers and parents in general know these predatory companies are after their kids. It's not innocent and it's absolutely disgusting. Thanks SBI, insomniac, ubisoft, ea, Capcom, squaresoft, and everyone else, we've now become hyper-vigilent.
this is only my observation but 99% of us could careless about skin color or gender, we just want an original badass character created and not erase a white guy/gal swapped with a black person or remove a male and add a female.
NEVER FORGET that she also said, and I quote directly, "put this stuff up to your higher ups, and if they don't see the value in what you're asking for when you ask for consultants go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen if they don't give you what you want." SBI is extortion.
yeah, and after they leave and game is shipped and not selling...who is to blame ?! LOL Off course they will blame us gamers, 'cos we do not have a "modern audience" open mind...fuk this shit!
what amazes me, is that there is a subreddit that defends sbi, and they say that she was just joking. This thing truly is a mind virus, the fact is their faces but they ignore it completly
They give the CEOs a choice...a shite sandwich, or a turd casserole...either they ignore the extortion, and are drug through an inquisition, or they ruin the game, and suffer another failure...
Idk man, people have been trying to define what a woman is for over a decade now...when I say "people" i mean leftists men and women that ACTUALLY are misogynistic(hatred of women). Been seeing that thrown around for years now and I NEVER actually saw it, until the games industry started intentionally ruining women. Here's the cleareat cut example I've seen. Nexus mods was banning beauty mods for shadowheart and literally at the same exact time, didn't ban the astarion glow up mod that sat in the top 10 bg3 mods for over a month. If that's not the clearest example idk what is and it was WOMEN who wanted the bans, not the men...sooooo, who are the real misogynistic in the room? All these studios are now predominantly white liberal women...women hate women, clear as day. It's also funny because it was women who pushed the trans agenda more than any other demographic. They were the ones that fought for trans in women's sports btw, called me a bigot in 2017 simply because I mentioned how it'll destroy female sports, oh well.
It's not . But their interest is not on making good games , it's on making good profit . It's not a small team anymore and a private company , they have a shit ton on investors to please now .
From the moment Alan Wake acknowledged Sagas greatness and told her that he couldn't finish the story without her I knew that some big shit is going on.
But to be fair he's been trying to finish the story by himself for years and every time he does it something bad happens The idea was they needed to work together someone to help him write and someone else to catch the mistakes to a point teamwork does make sense
I hope and am leaning towards "complete ignorance". Upper management rarely knows what's happening on the ground floor of their businesses. They only know what the numbers and middle management tell them.
These people don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. You can literally go to the CDPR youtube channel right now and watch the devs lying about cyberpunk(the devs who were supposedly pressured by executives) actively telling you the game will have xy and z and they'd never launch the game if it wasn't ready.
@@trajectoryunown I think having middle management is a mistake and companies are too big, they need to be trimmed down. Upper management is an entire class of parasites. Companies should be more like Apple was in 2000 when Steve Jobs returned, just 2 levels.
He spent a good chunk of past few years kissing up to progressive investors and liberal politicians. This tends to help in turning one's brain into salad nicely.
I have something you likely didn't hear about. So I had no idea this was going on, but Im so glad to see it finally is. I went after CDProjectRed a couple years ago for a different reason. I had a vacation planned to Poland to attend a licensed Witcher themed event. Essentially, you got to live in a castle for a entire week and you went through witcher school and followed one of multiple created storyline. Costumes, Sword fighting, Archery, Monster Hunts, Bards and long table dinners; the ultimate immersive event. Tickets bought and a month before leaving I receive an email saying that CDPR had revoke their licensing and would no longer be allowed to host a witcher event. So I go down the rabbit hole to find out what happened. Turns out, a wife of someone who worked their was conservative and made national news in Poland while speaking at a event. The cancel mob went after everyone even slightly connected to her and in the spirit of woke progressivism CDPR shut down the entire project and then went radio silent. Not a single reply to comments. No press release. Just took down the only licensed Witcher School and swept it under the rug. The irony was how many diverse cast members took the hit.
0:53 Our boycotts aren't about the devs and never have been, Endy. It's about hurting the people at the top. If the devs didn't want to be in the crossfire then they need to put their foot down and say no when their boss tells them to be racist against Whites and Asians. Would it risk their career? Yes, it would, but if they had any sense of self respect they'd choose having their dignity over having their job.
Have you considered that maybe they aren't hostages in their little pandering game. As far as I know, the devs working there could be all in on this nonsense.
100% agree, stand on your own ground. I got discharged from the service (Army) for not takin' the COVID Inocculation. I lost my job, and had to move states because of it. (I was stationed in Texas, and live in Missouri).
The fact that the Sweet Baby Inc. website scrubbed all the collaborations. The fact that these companies are now going to pretend to distance themselves from this cancer is all you need to hear. They know people don’t want this in their games. But they will push for it regardless which makes it clear this isn’t about monetary incentives. This is about ideology.
There could be monetary incentives behind the scenes. Corruption and wokeness go hand in hand, as these are the types with tremendous experience in justifying that it’s always ok for them to do it.
@@jmass4207 This could've been said honestly prior to 2024. However, Endymion said it himself, "What would 2024 gaming look like without Asian games?" The west only has 1.5 wins this entire year, not even a full 2 because Helldivers devs are idiots. Everything else failed because of the woke DIE BS they chose to inject. Concord AND Suicide Squad BOTH lost Hundred of Millions. Very arguable that while backroom deals may be happening, they still could make more money without the woke BS. They don't have ANY Principles to stand on, which is why the pandering will continue, for their own self-perceived guilt
delusional freaks...put poison in games, who is gonna buy them ? Their freaks friends ?! The majority of gamers are normal peoples, and these player will not buy those activist games ever ! I have such a big library of games, old and good that wait to be played or replayed, on GOG, Steam, Origin, Ubishit so me buy new games...lol....don't care anymore about new games.
You know it's a red flag when someone "writing narratives" for games says they care more about impressing developers than they do the gamers. She said it with such disdain like she hates gamers for ruining her fun. The fact she just wanted to hide in the shadows as a "creative" makes no sense unless she knew very well that she was destroying what she was touching. It's so upsetting that this has been going on for so long and explains why games went from good to complete trash the past 10 years.
@@lordkittenG it hurts to admit it, but I think you’re right. As an Assassin’s Creed fan, I’m hurt at seeing what they’ve done with the franchise, but if Ubisoft dies and takes all it’s IPs with it, so be it.
That's the reason Kabrutus made his websites. Some people think it's extreme. He's just trying to stand on business. His website is for people that want to support NO DEI WHATSOEVER on any level regardless of how small.
Victory is a a previlige... only for majorities. Wether it was good or ill intentions driving them, the moment they challenged a majority, their fate was sealed.
The CEO tried to lie his way out of saying that he’s not using DEI but on his own CDPR website you can see examples of the opposite. There’s even incentives for whamen and wanting to have more positions for minorities specifically even though that’s discriminatory.
Idk about Ragnorok and the assessment on Kratos. By the end of the 2018 game, he was trying to be a better loving father. I think his relationship development with his kid made some sense. 2 black giant chicks in a nordic game though felt very out of place.
The guy drops the ball in a couple of points here: kratos was fine in Ragnarok and his story made sense all things considered and Venom DID feel menacing. I mean he ATE Kraven’s head ffs haha.
Ever since they tried to close the Steam group about them and terminate the account of its creator, I'm following closely what games Sweet baby stink worked for and never buy them. 🙂 The more people do it, the faster companies will heal from this DEI cancer that stifles creativity.
Yeah, with you right there mate If we cant shoo them away, then at least we can avoid it with effort No matter how big something is, if it lost some power, other will fill the void I just hope it'll be less messy than what we experience now
They definitely feel threatened by the truth which is why they are coming after you. You said take it with a grain of salt and not speak it as fact. And they jump on like 'he's lying.'
Bandai Namco knew. They even said they're going to go harder into it. It won't be until they start posting consecutive 200 million yen losses (like Square Enix did) that they'll realize that DEI is an artistic poison.
We already got a awful p**ner in phanton liberty. Can't wait for them to fail again. I also think youtube doesn't save any of my comments because I got shadow banned.
We already got a awful p**ner in phanton liberty. Can't wait for them to fail again. I also think youtube doesn't save any of my comments because I got shadow banned.
@@CzerwonyForest I was a fan. Heck, I still have the 2007 unpatched retail version of the original Witcher. Really rooted for them. But they've changed, which is really unfortunate. I never would have imagined they would jump on the DEI bullshit. Poland is one of the last European bastion against western degeneracy. And yet, they've embraced it. Scum.
@@CzerwonyForestShut it, clown. I absolutely was a fan. I even have the original retail version of The Witcher. And their DEI bullshit is only part of the reason why I have dropped them. There is more to it, silencing dissident fans being one of them.
@@CzerwonyForest Sure and do you have any specifics? CDPR was a good company for about 10 years. If you played their games, you could see the point when something started turning to dust inside that company and I think it concluded with the CEO getting fired after Cyberpunk release.
It's almost common knowledge that outside of the North America, the International Release of Spider-Man 2 had almost all of the DEI removed from the game. No Pride flags, no gay romance side quests, etc etc. Which shows just how far Sony and Insomniac's virtual signalling goes, which is as far as it'll make them money. Anyways what I am curious about, are the Haley missions in the international versions, if so were they modified, or are they North American only? (Also I agree, they were the worst part of Spider-Man 2) As for Spider-Man: Miles Morales, that's how Marvel comic's sell his series "Miles Morales: Spider-Man" so it's basically just the brand name.
I've already added CDProjeckt Red to the ever growing list of Developers & Publishers to NEVER buy from again. And I tried warning people before Cyberpunk 2077 was released, that the CD Project Red that made the Witcher 3 is NOT the same as CDProject Red of modern day. And that Cyberpunk was going to be a mess. I was mocked & ridiculed.
I bought Cyberpunk 2077 and refunded it the same day when realising it was a shallow, repetitive experience further hampered by bad performance. CDPR can update it, but they’re polishing a turd at this point.
@@Christo_glenn I mean, speak for yourself. It's a single player that came out years ago that still manages tens of thousands concurrent players each day. Game was bad on release because of the performance and bugs, these days, it's a great game. I mean, if you ever managed something 1% as succesful as Cyberpunk 2077 you'd probably be set for life.
>I do not hate CDPR Well, i do You all know how it works; one tiny whiff smelled in these companies means there are deeper roots It is like mold on bread; you cant just cut the mold off, the mycelium runs deeper into the rest of the loaf
They borked it with cyberpunk. Yeah, the game is better now, years later, but what do you think will happen with their next release? How good will it be with the same investors pushing for launch, and even more ESG bs on top?
@@mason4354the issue I find is that diversity is a cover for incompetent people to gain positions they didn’t work towards over native candidates It usually means that the staff isn’t as coherent and has difficulty with retention thus making it impossible to realistically make a coherent product this is before consultants begin carving up levels and narratives at pivotal crunch times TLDR I can’t blame people when people say diversity hiring programs is gonna burn a house down it usually does
Even if you are often wrong and you go too far in your indignation, I still watch you because I fully agree with you 90%. In this case 100%. It was Endimion that I like to listen to. I think this one was different from the previous one. You had enough material for one "episode" so you didn't have to fill it with anything. Generally, please note that it was composed of two topics. I don't know if other people share my view, but maybe you should try this, instead of stretching one 10-minute topic into 12 minutes, try adding a smaller one, or combining two, or maybe publish less frequently and make longer episodes, for half an hour, like the issue messages and have 3-4 teams there. It's UA-cam, not chat... and I have no idea why I'm being rude, as I haven't even tried to post anything.
weird how she was talking about how good they are at their job but like 80% of the games they worked on got criticism specifically about their narrative/story and characters well before gg2 kicked off and everybody knew who they were, they were never good writers or consultants because the games they worked on were negatively effected by their influence. In the end the games industry does not treat their customers as just that customers, they treat them like ATMS believing that they have the rights to their money.
SBI are basically Kaneshiro from Persona 5: they are essentially the mafia, approach you all nice like, claiming you can make easy money, then once you start working with them, they threaten to blackmail you by telling everyone what's going on so that you can't back out, and they view everyone as just walking ATM's.
There's a misconception that Alan Wake 2 failed to sell because it was worse than the original or because of DEI stuff. I don't think people realize that Remedy's games pretty much never sell. The original Alan Wake didn't. Microsoft said Quantum Break exceeded their sales expectations but they also never greenlit a sequel, so it clearly wasn't enough for that to happen. Control has sold 4 million copies in 5 years. Not exactly a barn burner of a success for a game such as that one. Even when you go back to Max Payne, the original sold okay but the sequel didn't sell at all. This is a studio that has made very good AAA games over the years, but their sales numbers have always been very low in comparison to the industry. I was confused when they even announced a sequel to Alan Wake. Remedy is clearly still looking for that one AAA game that becomes a blockbuster hit and Alan Wake 2 was never going to be that game, regardless of quality or DEI.
Doesn't help that they added the DEI/woke agenda though. It's only going to make people stay clear even more now. That point cannot be ignored, regardless of how you look at it.
It also didn't help that the game was published by Epic, thus it never saw a Steam release. The game probably would have done much better without the exclusivity nonsense (though there was still no guarantee it would have succeeded... as you said, Remedy's games have never done particularly well).
@@hadlee73 Yeah, the lack of a Steam release certainly didn't help. But Remedy has always been a bit of a weird case. They make far more interesting games than their peers like Naughty Dog. And I'm not really talking about storytelling. I think Remedy has always done a much better job than most AAA studios on the gameplay aspect. The cinematic third person AAA game is a staple but only Remedy has ever seemed to care about pushing the gameplay elements. They tend to try new things and mechanics, even if sometimes it doesn't work out. For whatever reason though, their games just don't sell. At best, they do okay. I mean, they're still around making games so it's not like they've made complete flops. They probably break even on most of their games eventually and I'm assuming they will with Alan Wake 2 in the future. But considering the productions values, people might assume they've made huge hits in the past. That just hasn't been the case.
Alan wake 2 didn’t sell because 90% of the player base doesn’t want to play an entire game as a black female. Who was on the cover. That’s just facts. Plenty of companies don’t sell well, then finally get a barn burner. That could have been Alan Wake 2, but they decided to botch it with DEI
These developments point to a real shift in DEI communications strategy. The militantly Woke, out-and-proud, "if you don't like it don't watch/play it" phase appears to be over. Companies have lost too much money by pushing these things. I think what we're going to see increasingly are companies gaslighting their audiences by publicly distancing themselves from DEI while still inserting real-world identity politics into their products.
Don’t you think that can only work a few times before a company gets a reputation for doing that and the customers turn on them though? I mean look at Ubisoft’s rep. They were a sinking ship long before the Outlaws/AC Shadows thing ‘cause their rep was already in the toilet.
@@haleztrom2597 I don't think it will work, but I think this is where we're heading. The DEI ethos has burrowed deep into the management of many of these companies and they're not going to give it up easily. They still want ESG mutual funds buying their stock and they still want to be listed on exchanges that require DEI policies (see Nasdaq's board diversity rule). They're going to start downplaying it and maybe toning down the worst Woke excesses in the hopes that the casual fans they've driven away will come back to them.
This. They won’t have the balls to just sever ties. Some actually believe I it. They’ve overplayed their hand, believing they’d already won, so they’ll go back to a more subversive strategy rather than the blatantly hostile one we’ve been seeing. Until a few major companies are destroyed, I don’t think the vacuous virtue signallers will realise they can’t win.
People need to think carefully before outing themselves. There is a saying I often think about: 'Before spewing nonsense, spin your tongue in your mouth nine times.'
Gameranx has 8m subscribers, no wonder they sold out. But yeah, Asmon is a treasure and I think it's safe to say he will never change, just like his lifestyle lol
Kim spends half her Ted Talk talking about her haters. If they make that much of an impact in your life, you are probably doing something wrong. I also love how these people always refer to anyone who disagrees with them as a 4chaner.
They laugh at us and call us idiots with that sarcasm, she and the studios that use Sweet Baby, so think carefully before giving your money so easily to these people because they hate you.
Lol they tried to blackmail wukongs dev team into working on the game, that answers your question as to how. Personally, I wont be buying games going forward until after its been streamed and reviewed by a trust worthy streamer.
You know what’s so shockingly clear from that.. the sweet baby woman doesn’t like games. She’s not there for any fondness for gaming. She’s probably even old enough to have been part of the cinema generation. Clearly she only cares about activism and being a game devs game dev.
Made me think of the T-Shirt with 'Throat Punch' written on it. Literally listening to her talk made me angry and feel like somebody scratching a chalk board.
i dont know either bro, i skipped all the sections of this video when she was talkin , i cant stand to even see her face, let alone hear her voice, LOL.
Dude, thanks for gathering the information and getting it out to the people. Help us avoid woke games and giving money to people who lie to us and hate us!
I am shocked that at the 18:00 min mark when she said "We were a DEI company some kind of vaguely defined like sensor and that we were here to use all the Power we had amassed to force companies to go woke and obviously that's a very baffling understanding of what work for higher is. I'm not sure they imagined we did it or how the contracts would be drawn up for it." That would have been the best time to play the video where she says to get with the marketing team of a company and scare them into what will happen if they dont hire them. Yeah that would have been the best time to play that video.
Back before she knew people would scrutinize everything she said, Kim Bellair openly stated that her chief purpose in writing what's the change characters to things that she could see herself in, IE: a black woman.
The problem is now that EVERYTHING has to have “diversity” when we don’t want this. When “diversity” seeps into things like actual period series and black characters are stuck into “high society” like racism was never a thing before is jarring. Now we are purposely switching white legacy characters into black just for funzies or worse, they are purposely trolling to infuriate the fan base. Even worse, Ubisoft made a black/gay character a samurai in the next Assassins Creed and it is now known it was Tencent, a Chinese company, that pushed this idea. A CHINESE company made the main character in a game based on feudal JAPAN a BLACK and GAY samurai. This is trolling Japan and all parties involved knew what they were doing.
Oh aye, its VERY political now, itll never be the same. Gaming is going to be th exact same as Hollywood now and 2012 will be seen as the golden age of gaming, because we're never going back. Unfortunately. 😢
@@jubeaumont6305 Well, the silver lining is that the dollar is completely collapsing, and won't last a decade, because the mainstream left and right bankrupted the entire west. Meaning, the world's currency will be the Chinese Yuan soon. Without the weight of the dollar, companies like Blackrock won't be able to force their DEI agendas anymore. And China hates DEI.
It wasn't Tencent. Tencent hates DEI. It was Blackrock, as usual, and Blackrock isn't owned by the Chinese, it's owned by the Jews. Chinese don't use DEI, because they understand what it is. If they were to adopt DEI, that would leave their country vulnerable to 'refugee' invasion. DEI was invented by Israeli intelligence agencies to use as a weapon against enemy societies. Its purpose is to fracture community cohesion, and replace the native population of a country in the workforce with their new arrivals. The Chinese would never adopt that, as Israel is just itching to invade their nation with blacks and browns, to ethnically replace them with groups that are known for being easier to manipulate and control.
For someone who thought you were a nobody talking 'nonsense', it sure put him and his cronies on red-alert. If it was 'nonsense', why the volatile reaction?
Look at the CD Project Red DEI Video they uploaded on their channel. That will tell you all you need to know about their company. Hint. Prepare yourselves for lots of Rainbows and gay stuff. The comments are utterly destroying them.
POV: the gaming industry as a restaurant. Me: Man I'm hungry can I have the pork schnitzel? Server: OK, coming right up. (Gets on to the table and pulls down their pants and squats down) Me: Why are you shitting on my plate?! Server: How do you know it's shit? It isn't even out yet?!
And once it's out and you're unhappy with the finished product they offer to sprinkle some basil on top of it. Then they call it patched and fixed. The gaymer community hails it as GOTY and a certified banger, sales explode as the restaurant is considered redeemed. The journos tell you to get excited for the next course. The cycle repeats.
I truly admire your courage, Endymion. I'm even woman enough to admit we need speakers like you who shame the higher ups into using their heads. Change and progress are inevitable, but they occur natural. Plus, the main objective of a game is to be fun and at one point, this whole ticking of boxes in the name of representation and getting with the times became an ugly obsessed that did more bad than good. In the beginning, it had a point and for specific cases, but games are for play. I don't sit there thinking about the activist causes the Mario Bros support. As far as I know, they are kind and respectful to everyone indiscriminately and that says enough for me. They don't need to act like me, be like me, talk like me, live like me or love like me for me to like them or believe they would be nice to me if we met. They're fun, they're cool and they make me laugh. THAT is what matters.
What's funny about GoW: Ragnarok is played through about 60% of the game. It wasn't as fun as the first one, and the story seemed off. I couldn't put my finger on it, (this was before i found out about SBI) but it just wasn't enough to keep my interest so i never finished the game.
I love what you said; “I’ll come down you like the god damn fist of God on you!!” That was an epic way of ending the video!! I’m glad you will stand up to these companies and devs that try to denounce your integrity in any way shape or form.
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Just curious: what’s it like having so many eyes in you after gaining so much attention? How nervous are you?
You did it man!! Keep leading the charge of calling out their bull.
@@av_8596 I am not nervous at all. Stuff like this doesn’t faze me even a little. I also never get star struck either, I don’t know why.
I’m just too level headed to let anything get to me I guess. Can’t explain it any other way. 🤷🏻♂️ not even bragging maybe I got brain damage or I’m missing that part of my brain idk lol
@@EndymionTv you're doing great ❤
Bro clutched a 1v1000
As Gina Carano said, “Don’t try to ruin my life with lies when your life can be ruined with the truth.” Well done, Endymion.
Lol rapper Kendrick Lamar said that also in his fued with rival artist drake recently “don’t tell no lies about me and I won’t tell truths about you”
'Don't tell no lies about me, I won't tell truths about you...' Kendrick Lamar
Good line.
Based
Nince job
Keep up the good work 👌
The CEO of sweet baby Inc thinks she’s a “creative.” Best joke I’ve heard all day.
Best joke of the decade.
To be fair it takes a certain amount of creativity to come up with as much nonsense as they do.
They're not bad fantasy writers; they just think their fantasy is real and want to make us all conform to it. This is what happens when we close the asylums and instead entertain these peoples' delusions.
Like when they brag about working on a lot of games like if they wrote the stories themselves when all they do is changing some stuff to make it more woke.
the only creativity they show is inventing new reasons for their company to even exist 🤣
I mean, I've met people who think putting their favourite songs in their favourite order into a playlist is art. So I'm not surprised.
Things where more diverse back in the early 2000s
Anybody surprised that the SBI scapegoat they fired was male?
Was he also white? By chance heterosexual? Wouldn't shock me...
To be fair, as much as we dislike the rest of SBI, Chris Kindred was actually opening them up to lawsuits. He really should have gotten fired long before now.
A wannabe male
Yeah BUT he was literally the guy who started the kerfluffle. He was the correct scapegoat.
@@WildZephyrthey are all just like him and have done even worse
That Kim Belair clip is literally one of the worst things my eyes and ears have ever been subjected to.
Absolute parasite - admitting that they can't create anything, but have to inject themselves into world full of talent, just to get paid.
Unbelievable.
its like the pyramid scheme of gaming or some shit, eh?
People like this are on borrowed time, only a matter of time till nobody even listens to what they have to say
seven million dollar a pop grift.
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” J.R.R Tolkien.
Seriosusly, wow, the fact that this phrase has aged very well today doesn't give me a good feeling.
I'll do you one worse. Watch Johnny C. Taylor Jr. CEO of SHRM at the SHRM 2024 intro. That's the most cringe shit I've ever seen. "Please clap", thunder sounds, shitty spoopy story and all.
The fact that all these CEOs etc. keep lying - means they are freaking terrified.
Vote w/ your wallet.
Gameranx as well?
Damn! We can't trust anyone these days, right?
Gameranx always dances around the real issues. Very disappointing. I really used to like them.
@@Lol_Pig Many of these reviewers ignore the facts, Digital Foundry too
I swear there re some based people there but they are not allowed to show it.
@@j0hn288 never watching their content again they can go F themselves
I don’t think we can trust each other
She sounds like a politician. If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
The desperation in following the script to the letter is palpable. There's literally not a single genuine word in her entire speech, and if the teleprompter'd have shut down, she'd have pulled a kamala 110%, obviously. Disgusting to watch, honestly.
If you can't see past this facade you deserve everything that comes your way.
So Kim Belair is just a "we have kamala at home"?🤣🤣🤣
Kamala LOL, who's known for not answering direct questions and then cackling afterwards, textbook idiot politician.
that is an awesome quote :)
I’m gunna boycott them anyway.
Witcher 4 : Wakanda?….
No thanks
Witcher 3 is my fav game ever and it pains me that ill also be boycotting them. Being a pirate is gonna be fun
Woke-anda.
What in the echo chamber.
Just don’t play their game, if u pirate it you still are playing it and being disingenuous to your values
@@Bro-dot- you misunderstood, he was talking about being a butt pirate. 👍
@@genin69 their writers are top tier, im still going to get the game, but still if they ruined the writing to promote an agenda... CDPR's team had not failed to make a good game yet. why would they start now. They need to have the Witcher be successful, they can't just ruin themselves financially. I mean look at the cyberpunk anime written by them. It's inclusive, and written well. and CDPR's team wrote that story. Not the anime studio. guys just wait for the game before making judgments.
And the TRUTH… shall set you FREE!!!!
Keep digging, boys
Well said
If you mean my wallet, then yes. Have a lot more financial freedom after boycotting CDPR. Thanks!
amen
smash jt i wonder what you cooking up next
That woman is really talking about those triple A titles like they hers and her company's alone, and acts like they aren't the ones that broke those experiences. What narcissists.
Agreed lol.
The CEO is a cowardly liar who can't stop gaslighting. I will boycott CDPR because all the good devs left. Names can be claimed and mean nothing on their own.
Why are they not bragging about being woke? I don’t understand…
bcs what they are doing is basically illegal
I foresee a EEOC lawsuit in their near future. I've been saying for about 3 years now "how are these companies not being federally sued for BLATANT sexual/race discrimination?!?! It's not hard to see when they're bragging about it and putting it in official documents."
Indeed. They're liars. Saying one thing to gamers while doing the opposite.
Thankfully now it’s a kiss of death.
@@kronho25the best part in all this is that it's also illegal to lie to investors about DEI and ESG.
Even Blackrock is rebranding ESG so this is all too funny to me.
Kim saying that She never wanted to be known to gamers is really telling, we need to expose this type of consultant companies because they are ruining everything they touch
And she is the owner of a game development company? Or what is she
@@UnpopularGameGuyyou can’t read or listen or what? Even watch the video? When tf is your head
@@UnpopularGameGuy she is a narrative consultant she “helps” with story or character writing and maybe more. The problem is that she and the people she works with are not good writers
They have what I call "Rectal touch" because everything they touch turns to shit.
CDPR entered its Bud Light phase, now it's all damage control.
Theses people, they poison your water, mock you for finding the water funny and then gaslight you into thinking it was all in your head. Black Rock 101.
I really wonder if Blackrock trains these clowns and unleashes them to cause a pseudo-civil war
They’ve declared war on the rest of us, they take good faith and destroy it idk about everyone else but I’m done tolerating these people, no sympathy here they’re a great argument for people that simply hate God regardless of religious involvement they operate solely on that
international ziontology.
CIuster B personality disorder people swarmed into gaming and this is the result.
I thought my BIG NOSE was smelling something funny about black rock. Do jew know what I mean? 🤔
She basically admits she doesn't like gamers. Would you hire someone who hates children to watch your kids or design products for them? So why do companies waste money hiring SBI?
they probably have no choice.
Two scenarios:
1. Blackrock or similar asks them to hire the consultants for that sweet ESG money.
2. SBI and/or journalists bully them into hiring them not to be smeared
@@pepinlebref7585 second point is quickly becoming a moot seeing that Gaming "journalist" rep is in dog water right now and has lost any credibility to smear anyone but themselves
@@NovelVampire I agree, and for me it would even be a reason to raise my interest. I hope that the studios also understand it
Social blackmail. Nowadays if you don't play nice, they threaten you with cancelling and shit. Doesn't matter if what they say is true or not, most people always go for the "there can't be smoke without fire" approach and will become suspicious anyway.
@@pepinlebref7585 or 3. They sue you into the ground for civil rights charges.
Spider-man 2 was the last straw. After that, I've been more aware, more vocal, and more frugal with my spending. I also make sure all fathers and parents in general know these predatory companies are after their kids. It's not innocent and it's absolutely disgusting. Thanks SBI, insomniac, ubisoft, ea, Capcom, squaresoft, and everyone else, we've now become hyper-vigilent.
Square-Enix* don’t compare the great Squaresoft with this rabble.
@@ItsSVO you're right! I'm showing my age
i already saw it with GOW ragnarok
your doing great journalism that's why the gaming "journalist " are pissed.
I pray the day he becomes a bigger journalist than the media ones
Time we leave those big ones that used to be good in the dust and support guys like endy instead. Time for a change.
Fr journalism is a shameful field these days, but people like Endymion and Jobst are restoring the dignity of journalism one story at a time.
this is only my observation but 99% of us could careless about skin color or gender, we just want an original badass character created and not erase a white guy/gal swapped with a black person or remove a male and add a female.
Game review sites like IGN and Metacritic are bought and paid for too, and need to be boycotted.
NEVER FORGET that she also said, and I quote directly, "put this stuff up to your higher ups, and if they don't see the value in what you're asking for when you ask for consultants go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen if they don't give you what you want."
SBI is extortion.
yeah, and after they leave and game is shipped and not selling...who is to blame ?! LOL
Off course they will blame us gamers, 'cos we do not have a "modern audience" open mind...fuk this shit!
what amazes me, is that there is a subreddit that defends sbi, and they say that she was just joking. This thing truly is a mind virus, the fact is their faces but they ignore it completly
They give the CEOs a choice...a shite sandwich, or a turd casserole...either they ignore the extortion, and are drug through an inquisition, or they ruin the game, and suffer another failure...
@@allhopeabandon7831 SBI are mafia gangsters. They should be brought up on RICO charges, alas they are in Canada.
It's a shame what happened to CD Projekt Red, they will destroy the next Witcher game with DEI like Netflix did with its show.
Just played Witcher 3 and the Witcher is a simp for Yennefer. Also lgbt content on a side mission.
Who would of thought that making good games with no agenda attached would be such a complex process now
Idk man, people have been trying to define what a woman is for over a decade now...when I say "people" i mean leftists men and women that ACTUALLY are misogynistic(hatred of women). Been seeing that thrown around for years now and I NEVER actually saw it, until the games industry started intentionally ruining women.
Here's the cleareat cut example I've seen. Nexus mods was banning beauty mods for shadowheart and literally at the same exact time, didn't ban the astarion glow up mod that sat in the top 10 bg3 mods for over a month. If that's not the clearest example idk what is and it was WOMEN who wanted the bans, not the men...sooooo, who are the real misogynistic in the room? All these studios are now predominantly white liberal women...women hate women, clear as day. It's also funny because it was women who pushed the trans agenda more than any other demographic. They were the ones that fought for trans in women's sports btw, called me a bigot in 2017 simply because I mentioned how it'll destroy female sports, oh well.
It's not . But their interest is not on making good games , it's on making good profit . It's not a small team anymore and a private company , they have a shit ton on investors to please now .
you can have an agenda its just they dont know how to make fun games that is entertaining first and second sadly.
@@KimAlmighty1 A good example of it is the Metal Gear Solid games. It's anti war and how war is bad.
@@chuyeeyang9881 indeed
From the moment Alan Wake acknowledged Sagas greatness and told her that he couldn't finish the story without her I knew that some big shit is going on.
I mean kinda I think I know what happened with saga I think at least from this and other stuff
But to be fair he's been trying to finish the story by himself for years and every time he does it something bad happens The idea was they needed to work together someone to help him write and someone else to catch the mistakes to a point teamwork does make sense
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@ingamingpc1634oh. And it just happened to be a random black woman.
We wuz additional writers
Thanks for speaking the truth in this disgusting modern day world
Either the CEO is lying through his teeth, or he has no idea what's happening inside his own company. Both are really bad. 😐
I hope and am leaning towards "complete ignorance". Upper management rarely knows what's happening on the ground floor of their businesses.
They only know what the numbers and middle management tell them.
These people don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. You can literally go to the CDPR youtube channel right now and watch the devs lying about cyberpunk(the devs who were supposedly pressured by executives) actively telling you the game will have xy and z and they'd never launch the game if it wasn't ready.
@@trajectoryunown I think having middle management is a mistake and companies are too big, they need to be trimmed down. Upper management is an entire class of parasites.
Companies should be more like Apple was in 2000 when Steve Jobs returned, just 2 levels.
Known to lie given Cyberpunk 2077 at release and before it came out. So I am betting lie.
He spent a good chunk of past few years kissing up to progressive investors and liberal politicians. This tends to help in turning one's brain into salad nicely.
Rules for radicals. They accuse you of what they themselves are eoing.
And it works, because people are stupid.
Yup.
Those who don't care about the truth are easily led by lies. They become mindless lemmings.
The leftist playbook
Yup and Saul Alinsky, the idiot that wrote it... dedicated it to Satan. Yeah. Just... yeah.
I have something you likely didn't hear about. So I had no idea this was going on, but Im so glad to see it finally is. I went after CDProjectRed a couple years ago for a different reason. I had a vacation planned to Poland to attend a licensed Witcher themed event. Essentially, you got to live in a castle for a entire week and you went through witcher school and followed one of multiple created storyline. Costumes, Sword fighting, Archery, Monster Hunts, Bards and long table dinners; the ultimate immersive event. Tickets bought and a month before leaving I receive an email saying that CDPR had revoke their licensing and would no longer be allowed to host a witcher event. So I go down the rabbit hole to find out what happened. Turns out, a wife of someone who worked their was conservative and made national news in Poland while speaking at a event. The cancel mob went after everyone even slightly connected to her and in the spirit of woke progressivism CDPR shut down the entire project and then went radio silent. Not a single reply to comments. No press release. Just took down the only licensed Witcher School and swept it under the rug. The irony was how many diverse cast members took the hit.
0:53 Our boycotts aren't about the devs and never have been, Endy. It's about hurting the people at the top. If the devs didn't want to be in the crossfire then they need to put their foot down and say no when their boss tells them to be racist against Whites and Asians. Would it risk their career? Yes, it would, but if they had any sense of self respect they'd choose having their dignity over having their job.
CDPR lost almost all developers. The developers hate working for CDPR. CDPR is dead. CDPR will go bankrupt soon. So there is nothing to boycott for
Have you considered that maybe they aren't hostages in their little pandering game. As far as I know, the devs working there could be all in on this nonsense.
100% agree, stand on your own ground. I got discharged from the service (Army) for not takin' the COVID Inocculation. I lost my job, and had to move states because of it. (I was stationed in Texas, and live in Missouri).
@exysa2798 No, they never will. They are financially tied to Poland. So the only way CDPR will collapse is if Poland financially collapses.
@@queteimporta7262The managers and directors are yes
The fact that the Sweet Baby Inc. website scrubbed all the collaborations. The fact that these companies are now going to pretend to distance themselves from this cancer is all you need to hear.
They know people don’t want this in their games. But they will push for it regardless which makes it clear this isn’t about monetary incentives.
This is about ideology.
There could be monetary incentives behind the scenes. Corruption and wokeness go hand in hand, as these are the types with tremendous experience in justifying that it’s always ok for them to do it.
forcing change according to head ziontologist larry fink
@@jmass4207 This could've been said honestly prior to 2024. However, Endymion said it himself, "What would 2024 gaming look like without Asian games?" The west only has 1.5 wins this entire year, not even a full 2 because Helldivers devs are idiots. Everything else failed because of the woke DIE BS they chose to inject. Concord AND Suicide Squad BOTH lost Hundred of Millions. Very arguable that while backroom deals may be happening, they still could make more money without the woke BS. They don't have ANY Principles to stand on, which is why the pandering will continue, for their own self-perceived guilt
delusional freaks...put poison in games, who is gonna buy them ?
Their freaks friends ?!
The majority of gamers are normal peoples, and these player will not buy those activist games ever !
I have such a big library of games, old and good that wait to be played or replayed, on GOG, Steam, Origin, Ubishit so me buy new games...lol....don't care anymore about new games.
Nah, it wasn't about the money, it's about sending a message.
You know it's a red flag when someone "writing narratives" for games says they care more about impressing developers than they do the gamers. She said it with such disdain like she hates gamers for ruining her fun. The fact she just wanted to hide in the shadows as a "creative" makes no sense unless she knew very well that she was destroying what she was touching. It's so upsetting that this has been going on for so long and explains why games went from good to complete trash the past 10 years.
Your mistake is assuming game presstitutes will feel shame for being exposed for lying.
"Presstitutes" Haven't heard that one before 😆 You have my like!
CD better watch itself, unless they want to end up like Ubisoft.
CDPR is already worse. Everyone hates CDPR. Almost all developers left CDPR. CDPR is dead
they practically are like ubisoft but alive somehow
Sadly I think they'll need to end up like ubisoft to hopefully learn their lesson.
@@lordkittenG it hurts to admit it, but I think you’re right. As an Assassin’s Creed fan, I’m hurt at seeing what they’ve done with the franchise, but if Ubisoft dies and takes all it’s IPs with it, so be it.
@@JuanOrtiz-ke5wq, keep the woke trash aside, they should've stuck with AC's original formula instead of changing it into an RPG.
So SBI really thought it was necessary to narratively put in a totally pointless gay side quest in spider man 2.
"I don't hate CDPR and you shouldn't boycott them." Uh...yes, you should. For both.
indeed fuk em
Yep things only change when you stop giving them money.
Be smart. Ofc he has to say that. Most of us can quietly read between the line... Then there's you
@@MargotDobbie he doesn't have to say that lmao. He could've omitted saying it at all
@@MargotDobbie stay mad
This is EXACTLY why I call them EVIL. Aways lying and being deceitful.
Don't forget the gaslighting.....alright (you got me lol) that's just lying differently.
I stand with you EndymionTV, i do not endorse truth covering and hiding facts.
Sad to see CDPR cancelled like this but they brought it upon themselves
CDPR is cancelled since 2018. Everyone hates Cyberpunk and CDPR. CDPR will go bankrupt soon
this shit started with how ass CP77 was, possibly earlier, and then its only gotten worse
@@SporianSummitya; it’s so weird how much Norse-countries just beeline to Woke destruction.
it's not the same good ol' CDPR, a lot have changed since Witcher 3
@@SporianSummitnot true they obviously made a comeback after cyberpunks massive update
I won't spend any money on any game that has any DEI bs in it, ever.
I'm with ya bro! Buying AAA is like picking up the phone and talking to guy that might be a scammer, innit?
I agree. Wait to see what kind of woke garbage will GTA VI story will be.
That's the reason Kabrutus made his websites. Some people think it's extreme. He's just trying to stand on business. His website is for people that want to support NO DEI WHATSOEVER on any level regardless of how small.
Same here.
Same, i rather just play my guitar instead. im good on hobbies for the rest of my life. they aint getting my money
Kim: "I never wanted to be known by gamers lol"
Audience: "lol we hate our customers too! Lol"
They deserve this boycott. All of them.
The weakness of Demons are usually their names, so they try to hide it. Sweet baby is similar, they do not want people to know about them.
True true. Naming demonic entities banishes then
Like Rumpelstilzchen
@@cleanerben9636 Emil Pagliarulo. Emil Pagliarulo. Emil Pagliarulo. Emil Pagliarulo. Emil Pagliarulo. Emil Pagliarulo. Emil Pagliarulo.
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"
Victory is a a previlige... only for majorities.
Wether it was good or ill intentions driving them, the moment they challenged a majority, their fate was sealed.
The CEO tried to lie his way out of saying that he’s not using DEI but on his own CDPR website you can see examples of the opposite. There’s even incentives for whamen and wanting to have more positions for minorities specifically even though that’s discriminatory.
Idk about Ragnorok and the assessment on Kratos. By the end of the 2018 game, he was trying to be a better loving father. I think his relationship development with his kid made some sense. 2 black giant chicks in a nordic game though felt very out of place.
The guy drops the ball in a couple of points here: kratos was fine in Ragnarok and his story made sense all things considered and Venom DID feel menacing. I mean he ATE Kraven’s head ffs haha.
Us: Hey, there's shit in my plate! Why did you do that?
Them: We didn't.
Us: I literally watched you.
Them: OMG, why are you so obsessed with shit?!
Literally all their gaslighting described in a small dialogue.
That is actually very well put. You should me that somehow. That describes SO many interactions we have with people these days .
Them: Define shit! 🤡
@@Jackfromshackhahaha 👌👌👌
Are you a Shitphobe?
No one wants "realism" in video games. We play to escape that crap.
Real life doesn't even feel real anymore, I guess I'm just too old, but I keep running into people in real life and I feel I'm in bizzaro world.
@@chuckchavez7715you’re not the only one lmao life has been a joke
The "realism" they want is pretending current Day LA is the pinnacle of human civilization and the model for everybody else. It is not.
I want realism in games tf u talking about Fortnite kid?
That's the problem. You're trying to escape. So, they have to take measures to stop it.
I remember when it was illegal to hire off of demographics and discriminate by race, sex, gender, age, etc. Now it's fine as long as it's DEI.
Ever since they tried to close the Steam group about them and terminate the account of its creator, I'm following closely what games Sweet baby stink worked for and never buy them. 🙂 The more people do it, the faster companies will heal from this DEI cancer that stifles creativity.
Yeah, with you right there mate
If we cant shoo them away, then at least we can avoid it with effort
No matter how big something is, if it lost some power, other will fill the void
I just hope it'll be less messy than what we experience now
Also saw Asmonglod’s video on this and I applaud you for standing your ground and not buckling to their moronic messages
Asking games journalists to be accountable for their misinformation? You'd have an easier time convincing the sea to part.
They definitely feel threatened by the truth which is why they are coming after you. You said take it with a grain of salt and not speak it as fact. And they jump on like 'he's lying.'
Bandai Namco did a huge blunder in publishing Unknown 9 Awakening without knowing that this slop is consulted by Sweet Baby Inc.
O they knew.
Bandai Namco knew. They even said they're going to go harder into it. It won't be until they start posting consecutive 200 million yen losses (like Square Enix did) that they'll realize that DEI is an artistic poison.
Damn, I thought the difference between a Conspiracy theory and the truth was about 6 to 8 weeks...
Seems it's even shorter now.
Massive Based Endymion W in destroying Woke and Cringe CD Projekt Red.
Everyone destroys CDPR. CDPR will even go bankrupt soon because almost everyone refunded Cyberpunk. Everyone who refunded Cyberpunk, destroyed CDPR
Next CDPR game is gonna be so trash 😂
We already got a awful p**ner in phanton liberty. Can't wait for them to fail again. I also think youtube doesn't save any of my comments because I got shadow banned.
We already got a awful p**ner in phanton liberty. Can't wait for them to fail again. I also think youtube doesn't save any of my comments because I got shadow banned.
"I do not hate CDPR" - I do now. Former fan 2007 - 2023.
You were not fan. You follow the flock of sheep knowing only part of the truth
@@CzerwonyForest I was a fan. Heck, I still have the 2007 unpatched retail version of the original Witcher. Really rooted for them. But they've changed, which is really unfortunate. I never would have imagined they would jump on the DEI bullshit. Poland is one of the last European bastion against western degeneracy. And yet, they've embraced it. Scum.
@@CzerwonyForestShut it, clown. I absolutely was a fan. I even have the original retail version of The Witcher. And their DEI bullshit is only part of the reason why I have dropped them. There is more to it, silencing dissident fans being one of them.
@@CzerwonyForest And your a clown.
@@CzerwonyForest Sure and do you have any specifics? CDPR was a good company for about 10 years. If you played their games, you could see the point when something started turning to dust inside that company and I think it concluded with the CEO getting fired after Cyberpunk release.
It's almost common knowledge that outside of the North America, the International Release of Spider-Man 2 had almost all of the DEI removed from the game. No Pride flags, no gay romance side quests, etc etc. Which shows just how far Sony and Insomniac's virtual signalling goes, which is as far as it'll make them money.
Anyways what I am curious about, are the Haley missions in the international versions, if so were they modified, or are they North American only?
(Also I agree, they were the worst part of Spider-Man 2)
As for Spider-Man: Miles Morales, that's how Marvel comic's sell his series "Miles Morales: Spider-Man" so it's basically just the brand name.
I've already added CDProjeckt Red to the ever growing list of Developers & Publishers to NEVER buy from again. And I tried warning people before Cyberpunk 2077 was released, that the CD Project Red that made the Witcher 3 is NOT the same as CDProject Red of modern day. And that Cyberpunk was going to be a mess. I was mocked & ridiculed.
Consider being mocked and ridiculed by "these" people a badge of honor.
Never forget - You get the most flak when you are over the target.
I bought Cyberpunk 2077 and refunded it the same day when realising it was a shallow, repetitive experience further hampered by bad performance. CDPR can update it, but they’re polishing a turd at this point.
They mocked and ridiculed you because you told the truth. But who's laughing now?
To be fair, Cyberpunk 2077 is awesome..
@@Christo_glenn I mean, speak for yourself. It's a single player that came out years ago that still manages tens of thousands concurrent players each day. Game was bad on release because of the performance and bugs, these days, it's a great game. I mean, if you ever managed something 1% as succesful as Cyberpunk 2077 you'd probably be set for life.
I don't need your permission to boycott anyone. I'll close my wallet to whoever I want. Keep up the good work. Bravo for not backing down.
CDPR doesn't want my money. OK 👍🏼
'My integrity is everything'. Words to live by. Respect
>I do not hate CDPR
Well, i do
You all know how it works; one tiny whiff smelled in these companies means there are deeper roots
It is like mold on bread; you cant just cut the mold off, the mycelium runs deeper into the rest of the loaf
Everyone hates CDPR. Thats why CDPR will go bankrupt soon
They borked it with cyberpunk. Yeah, the game is better now, years later, but what do you think will happen with their next release? How good will it be with the same investors pushing for launch, and even more ESG bs on top?
Agree. Idk why he's being so nice to them they don't deserve it.
Sounds like breadtuber logic
@@mason4354the issue I find is that diversity is a cover for incompetent people to gain positions they didn’t work towards over native candidates
It usually means that the staff isn’t as coherent and has difficulty with retention thus making it impossible to realistically make a coherent product this is before consultants begin carving up levels and narratives at pivotal crunch times
TLDR I can’t blame people when people say diversity hiring programs is gonna burn a house down it usually does
Even if you are often wrong and you go too far in your indignation, I still watch you because I fully agree with you 90%. In this case 100%. It was Endimion that I like to listen to. I think this one was different from the previous one. You had enough material for one "episode" so you didn't have to fill it with anything. Generally, please note that it was composed of two topics. I don't know if other people share my view, but maybe you should try this, instead of stretching one 10-minute topic into 12 minutes, try adding a smaller one, or combining two, or maybe publish less frequently and make longer episodes, for half an hour, like the issue messages and have 3-4 teams there. It's UA-cam, not chat... and I have no idea why I'm being rude, as I haven't even tried to post anything.
weird how she was talking about how good they are at their job but like 80% of the games they worked on got criticism specifically about their narrative/story and characters well before gg2 kicked off and everybody knew who they were, they were never good writers or consultants because the games they worked on were negatively effected by their influence. In the end the games industry does not treat their customers as just that customers, they treat them like ATMS believing that they have the rights to their money.
SBI are basically Kaneshiro from Persona 5: they are essentially the mafia, approach you all nice like, claiming you can make easy money, then once you start working with them, they threaten to blackmail you by telling everyone what's going on so that you can't back out, and they view everyone as just walking ATM's.
and making games worse is how they were discovered
The MK1 story mode is an example.
Getting a community note removed is actually huge. That just proves that Endymion is standing on business.
The fact is was put there is sad.
I got so bored with Spider-Man 2, I didn’t even finish it
@EndymionTV From the bottom of my heart, *THANK YOU!* Fighting this could not have been easy! 👍🏽
remember flak is heaviest when you're over the target
There's a misconception that Alan Wake 2 failed to sell because it was worse than the original or because of DEI stuff. I don't think people realize that Remedy's games pretty much never sell. The original Alan Wake didn't. Microsoft said Quantum Break exceeded their sales expectations but they also never greenlit a sequel, so it clearly wasn't enough for that to happen. Control has sold 4 million copies in 5 years. Not exactly a barn burner of a success for a game such as that one. Even when you go back to Max Payne, the original sold okay but the sequel didn't sell at all. This is a studio that has made very good AAA games over the years, but their sales numbers have always been very low in comparison to the industry. I was confused when they even announced a sequel to Alan Wake. Remedy is clearly still looking for that one AAA game that becomes a blockbuster hit and Alan Wake 2 was never going to be that game, regardless of quality or DEI.
Doesn't help that they added the DEI/woke agenda though. It's only going to make people stay clear even more now. That point cannot be ignored, regardless of how you look at it.
It also didn't help that the game was published by Epic, thus it never saw a Steam release. The game probably would have done much better without the exclusivity nonsense (though there was still no guarantee it would have succeeded... as you said, Remedy's games have never done particularly well).
@@hadlee73 Yeah, the lack of a Steam release certainly didn't help. But Remedy has always been a bit of a weird case.
They make far more interesting games than their peers like Naughty Dog. And I'm not really talking about storytelling. I think Remedy has always done a much better job than most AAA studios on the gameplay aspect. The cinematic third person AAA game is a staple but only Remedy has ever seemed to care about pushing the gameplay elements. They tend to try new things and mechanics, even if sometimes it doesn't work out.
For whatever reason though, their games just don't sell. At best, they do okay. I mean, they're still around making games so it's not like they've made complete flops. They probably break even on most of their games eventually and I'm assuming they will with Alan Wake 2 in the future. But considering the productions values, people might assume they've made huge hits in the past. That just hasn't been the case.
Yep this
Alan wake 2 didn’t sell because 90% of the player base doesn’t want to play an entire game as a black female. Who was on the cover. That’s just facts. Plenty of companies don’t sell well, then finally get a barn burner. That could have been Alan Wake 2, but they decided to botch it with DEI
These developments point to a real shift in DEI communications strategy. The militantly Woke, out-and-proud, "if you don't like it don't watch/play it" phase appears to be over. Companies have lost too much money by pushing these things. I think what we're going to see increasingly are companies gaslighting their audiences by publicly distancing themselves from DEI while still inserting real-world identity politics into their products.
Don’t you think that can only work a few times before a company gets a reputation for doing that and the customers turn on them though? I mean look at Ubisoft’s rep. They were a sinking ship long before the Outlaws/AC Shadows thing ‘cause their rep was already in the toilet.
@@haleztrom2597 I don't think it will work, but I think this is where we're heading. The DEI ethos has burrowed deep into the management of many of these companies and they're not going to give it up easily. They still want ESG mutual funds buying their stock and they still want to be listed on exchanges that require DEI policies (see Nasdaq's board diversity rule). They're going to start downplaying it and maybe toning down the worst Woke excesses in the hopes that the casual fans they've driven away will come back to them.
This. They won’t have the balls to just sever ties. Some actually believe I it. They’ve overplayed their hand, believing they’d already won, so they’ll go back to a more subversive strategy rather than the blatantly hostile one we’ve been seeing. Until a few major companies are destroyed, I don’t think the vacuous virtue signallers will realise they can’t win.
Spiderman 2 and Alan wake 2?!?! Wow! That's incredible! 2 games that have yet to break even! What an achievement...
add horizon as well
Wait I thought spider man 2 did
did u guys agree with the GoW Ragnarök take?
Spiderman 2 massively overperformed tho.
That gay scene in Spider-Man was so forced and weirdly done. Ruined the whole experience for me as it made me aware SBI was involved.
Sweet baby inc is a kiss of death if you have them corrupt... I mean influence your game.
People need to think carefully before outing themselves.
There is a saying I often think about: 'Before spewing nonsense, spin your tongue in your mouth nine times.'
That sounds disgusting ngl
"Think more than one step ahead." - JustSomeGuy
"Talking is silver, silence is gold."
Glad to see some guys like Asmon don't get influenced like gameranx and others
He is a nerd, not a poser, true gamer (even if not best lol)
Gameranx has 8m subscribers, no wonder they sold out. But yeah, Asmon is a treasure and I think it's safe to say he will never change, just like his lifestyle lol
Kim spends half her Ted Talk talking about her haters. If they make that much of an impact in your life, you are probably doing something wrong. I also love how these people always refer to anyone who disagrees with them as a 4chaner.
They laugh at us and call us idiots with that sarcasm, she and the studios that use Sweet Baby, so think carefully before giving your money so easily to these people because they hate you.
Lol they tried to blackmail wukongs dev team into working on the game, that answers your question as to how.
Personally, I wont be buying games going forward until after its been streamed and reviewed by a trust worthy streamer.
You know what’s so shockingly clear from that.. the sweet baby woman doesn’t like games. She’s not there for any fondness for gaming. She’s probably even old enough to have been part of the cinema generation. Clearly she only cares about activism and being a game devs game dev.
its so innovative that it makes companies lose money.. i respect the realism
I don't know how anyone could listen to that woman speak for more than 10 seconds..
Made me think of the T-Shirt with 'Throat Punch' written on it. Literally listening to her talk made me angry and feel like somebody scratching a chalk board.
i dont know either bro, i skipped all the sections of this video when she was talkin , i cant stand to even see her face, let alone hear her voice, LOL.
Dude, thanks for gathering the information and getting it out to the people. Help us avoid woke games and giving money to people who lie to us and hate us!
I am shocked that at the 18:00 min mark when she said "We were a DEI company some kind of vaguely defined like sensor and that we were here to use all the Power we had amassed to force companies to go woke and obviously that's a very baffling understanding of what work for higher is. I'm not sure they imagined we did it or how the contracts would be drawn up for it." That would have been the best time to play the video where she says to get with the marketing team of a company and scare them into what will happen if they dont hire them. Yeah that would have been the best time to play that video.
I think SBI actively works with woke gaming media to go after companies that refuse their help.
Forcing someone to like something isn't gonna make them like it. It's just gonna turn into hatred for it.
You rock, Endymion! Keep fighting the good fight!
Back before she knew people would scrutinize everything she said, Kim Bellair openly stated that her chief purpose in writing what's the change characters to things that she could see herself in, IE: a black woman.
The problem is now that EVERYTHING has to have “diversity” when we don’t want this. When “diversity” seeps into things like actual period series and black characters are stuck into “high society” like racism was never a thing before is jarring. Now we are purposely switching white legacy characters into black just for funzies or worse, they are purposely trolling to infuriate the fan base. Even worse, Ubisoft made a black/gay character a samurai in the next Assassins Creed and it is now known it was Tencent, a Chinese company, that pushed this idea. A CHINESE company made the main character in a game based on feudal JAPAN a BLACK and GAY samurai. This is trolling Japan and all parties involved knew what they were doing.
Oh aye, its VERY political now, itll never be the same. Gaming is going to be th exact same as Hollywood now and 2012 will be seen as the golden age of gaming, because we're never going back. Unfortunately. 😢
@@jubeaumont6305 Well, the silver lining is that the dollar is completely collapsing, and won't last a decade, because the mainstream left and right bankrupted the entire west. Meaning, the world's currency will be the Chinese Yuan soon. Without the weight of the dollar, companies like Blackrock won't be able to force their DEI agendas anymore. And China hates DEI.
It wasn't Tencent. Tencent hates DEI. It was Blackrock, as usual, and Blackrock isn't owned by the Chinese, it's owned by the Jews. Chinese don't use DEI, because they understand what it is. If they were to adopt DEI, that would leave their country vulnerable to 'refugee' invasion.
DEI was invented by Israeli intelligence agencies to use as a weapon against enemy societies. Its purpose is to fracture community cohesion, and replace the native population of a country in the workforce with their new arrivals. The Chinese would never adopt that, as Israel is just itching to invade their nation with blacks and browns, to ethnically replace them with groups that are known for being easier to manipulate and control.
Being a game dev and seeing your game up on screen with that sociopath would be a terrible sight to behold
For someone who thought you were a nobody talking 'nonsense', it sure put him and his cronies on red-alert. If it was 'nonsense', why the volatile reaction?
CDPR: Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions
Yeah, but they got in a wreck with Mary Jane
Look at the CD Project Red DEI Video they uploaded on their channel. That will tell you all you need to know about their company. Hint. Prepare yourselves for lots of Rainbows and gay stuff. The comments are utterly destroying them.
A little self glaze is allowed in this case tbh, good work getting them to eat their words lmao
20:30 - What a cold, heartless thing to say. Congratulations, Kim Belair, you are the most closed-minded individual I've ever seen.
That kills my hope for Cyberpunk 2 and Witcher 4. When I first heard that they hired an employee from Sweet Baby to work on the story, I was done.
they are probably going to be shit.
@@Joyappyou misspelled "definitely"
Cyberpunk's disgusting launch should have killed your hope for Cyberpunk 2. Why would you ever trust them after that?
@@marchmelloow an unstable unfinished launch is a completely different problem than the sweet baby thing, don't twist the two together.
@@Matt-h9q6f I'm not. I'm questioning why OP ever had hope in the first place.
POV: the gaming industry as a restaurant.
Me: Man I'm hungry can I have the pork schnitzel?
Server: OK, coming right up. (Gets on to the table and pulls down their pants and squats down)
Me: Why are you shitting on my plate?!
Server: How do you know it's shit? It isn't even out yet?!
And once it's out and you're unhappy with the finished product they offer to sprinkle some basil on top of it. Then they call it patched and fixed. The gaymer community hails it as GOTY and a certified banger, sales explode as the restaurant is considered redeemed. The journos tell you to get excited for the next course. The cycle repeats.
So glad I dodged the spiderman 2 bullet. Saved me $70
We, the people, are winning
We the people are RACIST!
The customer is always right on matters of taste.
I truly admire your courage, Endymion. I'm even woman enough to admit we need speakers like you who shame the higher ups into using their heads. Change and progress are inevitable, but they occur natural. Plus, the main objective of a game is to be fun and at one point, this whole ticking of boxes in the name of representation and getting with the times became an ugly obsessed that did more bad than good. In the beginning, it had a point and for specific cases, but games are for play. I don't sit there thinking about the activist causes the Mario Bros support. As far as I know, they are kind and respectful to everyone indiscriminately and that says enough for me. They don't need to act like me, be like me, talk like me, live like me or love like me for me to like them or believe they would be nice to me if we met. They're fun, they're cool and they make me laugh. THAT is what matters.
What's funny about GoW: Ragnarok is played through about 60% of the game. It wasn't as fun as the first one, and the story seemed off. I couldn't put my finger on it, (this was before i found out about SBI) but it just wasn't enough to keep my interest so i never finished the game.
People read game "journalist"? 😂😂 I stopped long ago
The sites are subsidized by parent company I would assume.
Or "were" subsidized haha
People who don't know anything about games or games journalism still think journalists are trustworthy.
There is no such thing as game journalism anymore.
I loved getting my Nintendo power in the mail, that was last time I recall reading anything from them, I even missed the initial kokuck2 stuff.
Kim saying she has worked on more video game stories than normal devs is frustrating and infuriating.
I love what you said; “I’ll come down you like the god damn fist of God on you!!” That was an epic way of ending the video!! I’m glad you will stand up to these companies and devs that try to denounce your integrity in any way shape or form.