How the hell can a broke customer, not buying woke garbage be blamed for their ideology destroying themselves? These cultist can't even use words correctly without making insults and slurs, Then they/thems wonder why calling everyone else that's not guzzling the woke Kool aid something that more similar to themselves is not bringing those under the message. Well if we had to go special Ed in school we worked hard to get out and we didn't let the participation trophies go to our heads and hiding in echo chambers, those types of people worked hard unlike the woke.
The gaming industry is fine. The tranny DEI feminist social justice woke crap with terrible gameplay, terrible storylines and terrible UGLY characters is not doing ok. Aside from the female chars being ugly, aside from the pronoun crap and etc ALL of these DEI games are just not fun. They're just bad games. Evil greedy corps like Ubisoft trying to hide behind social justice as their "we're the good company" redeeming quality while they microtransaction online service the f**k out of you. They can't go out of business fast enough.
Smash, you are a hero for building and maintaining the Kotaku Detected list buddy. I hope that list is near the top of the search results whenever gamers decide to question who wrote one of these biased articles.
And they're still not getting it, despite the layoffs, the failed AAA launches, the massive pushback. As you can see in the article, these people are still stubbornly clinging to the attitudes and behaviors that have caused all of this. If they can't, won't, learn from their mistakes, despite these mistakes being clearly and repeatedly pointed out to them, then they deserve exactly what they're getting. They're reaping what they sowed.
Their costumers is the whole world. Their disgusting mindset is seriously that the WHOLE world is some kind of -ism or -phobe... That is absolutely insane
@@paulw5039isn’t it strange? Ten years ago they would have been out of their jobs immediately. Now they’re allowed to lose money again and again. Who’s running these companies
@@MyAramil yea, it's their consolation prize. They can call all normal people istaphobes now like a broken record. That's all they ever wanted to do anyways. They make a trash product as hate bait and then spike it again right before release-- there has to be a reason for that. The consolation is better than the profit. One could argue, that's the entire point of nearly every AAA release nowadays. As a great Alien fish man once said, *it's a trap!*
And yet, gamers spent more money on games in 2024 then 2023, just not the "right" games. They even told us not to buy them so we went elsewhere. I think Space Marines 2 was the only successful North American AAA game of 2024. Heck, even the Swedish game industry is doing amazing and not just because Hell Divers 2, they increased by 8% in 2024. This is a USA and Canada problem due to Ubi Soft, EA, Microsoft Games and Sony America who all makes terrible games. Global game sales are up by 2.1% from 2023.
@@JimBobm That's a big reason why they're trash. Veilguard's combat, while certainly not groundbreaking, did look at least entertaining. But it was coupled with agenda trash.
gamers had nothing to do with it, it was all the developers fault, between overhiring during the pandemic and giving into woke activists and internet trolls, the developers have nobody to blame but themselves
Publishers and Shareholders with a handful of loud, activist devs. When the publisher tells you that you MUST add in a gay or trans character you MUST obey or lose your job. Few would willingly risk their job by disobeying. Let's stop ignoring Publisher and Shareholder fault.
Gamers didn't have a rough year at all, the devs and journalists did. Edit: What a terrible article, didn't mention how the studios and the media colluded to attack their audience, resulting in loss of consumer trust and perpetuating the cycle of terrible launches.
They brought this on themselves. That's a big ol' bowl of not my fucking problem. The gaming industry needs to have a reckoning and hopeful rebirth back to sanity and quality.
Seems like this will be the cycle. The gaming industry nearly vanished back in the 1980s because of crap games flooding the market. It wasn't until companies started doing quality control that it bounced back.
Consumers DO NOT have to spend their money on these games if they don't want to. The companies seem to be convinced that they're ENTITLED to our money. They're not. They have no one to blame but themselves for failing to remember that they succeed or fail based ENTIRELY on the customers' sufferance.
Customer is wrong and a Nazi and must as such pay money for the masterpiece that those Devs have created, next stop we will lobby mandatory payment for any of latest releases! Then we shall lobby that you give us praise 5 times a day on Bluesky and have a shrine dedicated to worship.
0 inflation dollars paid to propagandist gamer companies. did they hire Joseph Goebbels? fun fact: Biden's first name is also Joseph. Joseph Robinette Biden. other notable Josephs: Joseph Mengele (German SS 'doctor). and Joseph Stalin. just fun fact (that you can bring up at parties)
As well. I do not care what everyone else does.... they WILL NOT GET MY MONEY, till i see a substantial change. If i don't have to buy another video game for the rest of my life...I will.
oh they know,just the same old gaslighting,doublespeak, and lies,,, unfortunately what they fail to realize is that it isn't 2016 anymore and we the people have gotten wise to thier tactics and the cancelculture/shaming doesn't work anymore,,, WE IMMUNE NOW! BWAHAHAHA👍
"We never wanted this. We never wanted to see our industry in ruins. Together, we built worlds, inspired dreams, and united players across the globe." "But you betrayed us. You betrayed everything we stood for. You sold our passion for profit, twisted our art with agendas, and silenced those who spoke the truth. Gaming had only one chance to thrive. If you will not protect it... THEN WE WILL! "SO LET IT BE WAR! Let the truth shine, let the lies crumble! "Let the corporations tremble, let the profiteers fall! Though it takes every ounce of our effort, we will see this industry free once more! "And if We cannot save it from your corruption... "THEN LET THE INDUSTRY BURN!" -Horus
It's mostly been dog water since 2020. Fits the timeline. Orange Man Rad got elected in 2016, and that's when everyone in entertainment across the board lost their minds and started producing garbage.
"2024 was a year for game devs holding on for dear life." No, it was a year for them hurling themselves off a cliff. Over the guardrail. Past the crowd of people yelling "Don't jump!"
I mean, what did they think was gonna happen when they: 1 - make games gamers do not want 2 - admit these games are not made for gamers 3 - tell gamers "don't like it, don't buy it" Did they seriously thought we are compulsive buyers that cannot say no to a product or will buy a product on a whim even though we know when it's not made or marketed for us? Personally i never felt no whim to buy a barbie doll but my shelves are filled with Xenomorphs, Godzilla figures, Gundams, Zoids...
3. Yes. Gamers were considered a captured market, bc these companies forced their own storefronts and launchers, DRM, account requirments, online 24/7 for single player games, greedy pricing schemes, microtransactions, retention (addiction) mechanics etc. etc. etc. and most people just coped their way through that for a whole decade before they stopped giving them money. I've been firmly planted in this position for legit, 8-10 years now. Tons of gamers still give money to people that hate them, even still. It's good to see some people wake up and put their foot down, it's not something the gaming community is typically known for. The games being trash helps a lot!
When the product is of poor quality... who's to be blamed? Customer for not buying it or producer releasing broken product ? According to such mindset toy manufacturer should go on war with customers after finding out the toy is unsafe for children.
without us you wouldn't have a industry, without the gamers you would not have a industry, the gamers are the industry, we may not make the games or franchises but we such do make them all popular. because we are so passion about this industry,
They will pull an uno reverso, gaslight, make a thousand strawmen and go through all this effort to lay the blame at anyone's feet but theirs... and none of that will sell a single game.
This is what happens when you deliberately make products that your customers don't want and then tell those customers that it's not for them. Those customers don't buy the product. When your customers stop buying your products, the money stream dries up. Calling your customers racists and Nazis when they don't buy a product that you told them wasn't for them doesn't help matters. It just alienates them more.
The costumer is allways right in matters of taste. Is not business 101 to determine who is your costumer base and appeal to them? Dont fix what it isnt broken? This is like a restaurant with the worst service selling crap and then getting surprised when nobody goes anymore and they have to shut down.
This is what sucks. I graduated in 2019 with a bachelor's in game art/development. Now because I'm a straight white male. I literally can't get a job in the industry because I don't fit the criteria they want. I've always wanted to design games since I first played cod in 2003, I just knew that's what I wanted to do. It's so sad the gaming industry became this way. What's even worse is seeing many senior-level developers with over 20 years of experience quitting or being laid off because they can't stand what is happening or disagree with how the gaming industry has become. The people who are passionate about making good video games are overpowered by others or pushed out completely.
Let them fall, see if we care. We have hungry Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainean, Polish etc companies who come strong from behind, ready to make games and not politics.
Ah yes, we're to blame for the overspending and overhiring of these bloated companies, which results in games needing to sell 4-5M copies to be profitable or, worse, break even. And that's not even going into the bland, boring crap they're trying to sell us.
The steady decline of gaming over the past couple of years is exactly why i haven't bothered to overpay for a new console like the PS5. I'm not paying 500$+ for a system that has a weak, ideologically driven game catalogue or a catalogue inundated with games that don't interest me.
When you said free games, free codes I thought you said “free games, free coats”. I’m like wait wtf?!? These people are getting handed free jackets to wear? Sick lmao.
They are right. Us gamers are very much responsible for not buying woke garbage or putting up with propaganda being shoved in our faces and those companies losing their asses.
We use to have to just take what ever crap they/them threw at us and couldn’t reject it…. We don’t have to any more everyone if more awake than ever now. Keep up the fight
At least we have quite a few new studios being started by the veterans that made a lot of the games we loved. The industry will become good again with the success of these indie studios. AAA studios with bloated budgets and full of activist can all go bankrupt for all I care, they can’t make anything good anyways
I had a great year, played many backlogged games like Chrono Trigger, Parasite Eve, Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario⁶⁴, Sekirō, RE⁷ Biohazard, RE⁸ The Village, Star Wars Dark Forces² Jedi Knight, RE0, Mega Man⁶
Mean while Chinese companies printing money, genshin,star rail,wukong, wuwa, anata, ggg count as Chinese too I guess once human going to iOS and still have 50k daily players also marvel rivals. What is more funny game like WuWa releasing a native client for Mac where gamers are non existent
A quick Google search shows that there were 3.24 billion people globally in 2021 who play games. I know that this includes "mobile", etc. However, the notion that there are fewer than 40 people left in this subsegment of the industry, and the fact that, as a gamer, I have no idea of who these 40 people are, is a tale of extraordinary incompetence. This should be a free lunch for anyone who is worth more than 2 cents. How is it possible that these people are so poor at their jobs?
It was the conjunction of several toxic trends in the gaming industry. Publishers not letting studios finish games but instead hurrying them to release incomplete games. It's the "don't worry we'll fix it with a day 1 patch" mentality. There has been a lot of cutting of corners in general int he industry and a general drop in quality. The trend of filling games to the bursting point with microtransactions and trying to overmonetize everything, the trying to hold on to tired trends such as live services or hero shooters or looter shooters, ridiculous pricing strategies such as selling a game for anywhere from 70 to 120 dollars depending on what "edition" they buy and then expecting gamers to pay for dlc to boot which everyone can tell is a part of the original game that was cordoned off to be behind a paywall. Trying to get people addicted to buying "packs" in sports games, abusing workers and paying them the absolute minimum while expecting them to engage in excessive unpaid "crunch" time as simply a part of working in your company, and of course abandoning the gamer as the core audience (and even resenting them) and instead focusing on developing games for the mythical "modern audience" that has yet to show up to purchase any game made for them, and pushing agenda in games--in fact cramming the games full of agenda.
Well when you cater to like 5% of the total population you cant act surprised when a lot of people don't buy or play the game. It is simple make a fun game and people will play it. I feel zero sympathy for these clowns that thought they could force us too enjoy poor quality games.
Weird how they claim "Black myth Wukong" While they where the very own people who Litelry went Attacking the company and the game and went even so far to spread False Rumor, "claims" blackmail, down vote and mamy more. They only named the game so they can play the "smart people" to get gamers view but even then they dislike or dispise the game
last 'big' game i bought was Stellaris. after that -> only indie games (too much US/globalist/Democrat/EU/NATO propaganda in the last years. they thought that gamers would like their propaganda, didn't they? how cute)
I've been a gamer for 24 years and I'm 30. It's very good that the industry is falling. It needs a HUGE reboot. The main issues for that imo are: Aggressive monetisation, DEI injections, politics, unfinished games day 1, very expensive hardware, digital only, very bad optimizations, 70$ price tag, internet requirements for single player games such as PSN, no creativity, too many remasters/remakes, exclusivity is a thing of the past which having a console was one of the biggest reasons to own them. The golden age for me was from late 90's up until early 2010's which many will agree with
We told them where their modern path leads. In every step they took they went out of their way to reject our rebuke. 'Don't play it', they said. 'The game isn't for you', they said. 'We are seeking a new audience', they said. They partnered with consultancy companies which goal was 'to burn the gaming industry to the ground', while insulting us. This week alone a dev from CD Project Red wanted to exercise violence against its audience. And if they think it cannot get worse they are mistaken. Ubisoft is at the edge of bankruptcy, and they may be the first of many AAA. If I hated them I would say 'Go on, continue doble down in your policies! Losing 400M is doing great for you!'. As is, I don't hate them, and It doesn't bring me joy when a game underperforms, people being fired, or studios closing but *unless they start producing things out of love, and stop injecting weird agendas into games. The path of destruction companies are, cannot be avoided.*
What do you all make of this?
DEI is a death kiss in 2024.
i make of it this were all just tired of queers and trans pushing their bullshit on us
Lol. Blame themselves you morons. No one wants to play woke games.
How the hell can a broke customer, not buying woke garbage be blamed for their ideology destroying themselves? These cultist can't even use words correctly without making insults and slurs, Then they/thems wonder why calling everyone else that's not guzzling the woke Kool aid something that more similar to themselves is not bringing those under the message. Well if we had to go special Ed in school we worked hard to get out and we didn't let the participation trophies go to our heads and hiding in echo chambers, those types of people worked hard unlike the woke.
The gaming industry is fine. The tranny DEI feminist social justice woke crap with terrible gameplay, terrible storylines and terrible UGLY characters is not doing ok.
Aside from the female chars being ugly, aside from the pronoun crap and etc ALL of these DEI games are just not fun.
They're just bad games.
Evil greedy corps like Ubisoft trying to hide behind social justice as their "we're the good company" redeeming quality while they microtransaction online service the f**k out of you.
They can't go out of business fast enough.
Remember when they were content with, " You don't like our game, don't buy it"?
Them: You don't like our game? Don't buy it.
*Nobody buys the game*
Them: *surprised Pikachu face*
@@ColressDC *Studio Closes*
What do you mean I'm fired?
You didn't sell and F***ING GAMES!
No kidding. They are eating those words since they dont have money to eat anything else
@@ColressDC Or, them: "You are all bigots for not buying it"
"I'm a customer. Not your friend."
The gaming industry has done this to themselves, I feel no pity, sorry.
Gamers owe them nothing. They want to help themselves to our money while spitting in our faces and insulting us in every way.
No one's blaming you bud, these idiots deserved it especially after calling players bigots all because they didn't like their game.
Not even sorry.
Just play the classics. We will be back.
I have "schadenfreude" that all this woke can now kiss the street and i have no pity for the companys.
Megan is tight with Alyssa and listed on Kotaku Detected already.
ohhh... what a surprise... 🥱 you called it Smash - the nose-ring mafia
noooo that cant be right!
Smash, you are a hero for building and maintaining the Kotaku Detected list buddy. I hope that list is near the top of the search results whenever gamers decide to question who wrote one of these biased articles.
It's almost like attacking your customers and refusing to make games that they want is a bad business model. What a shock.
And they're still not getting it, despite the layoffs, the failed AAA launches, the massive pushback. As you can see in the article, these people are still stubbornly clinging to the attitudes and behaviors that have caused all of this. If they can't, won't, learn from their mistakes, despite these mistakes being clearly and repeatedly pointed out to them, then they deserve exactly what they're getting. They're reaping what they sowed.
Their costumers is the whole world.
Their disgusting mindset is seriously that the WHOLE world is some kind of -ism or -phobe...
That is absolutely insane
We have gone so far from the "Customers are king" era
they have degree in gender studies, not business lol
@@paulw5039isn’t it strange? Ten years ago they would have been out of their jobs immediately. Now they’re allowed to lose money again and again. Who’s running these companies
I’m more than happy to take credit for activists getting laid off
ironic they blame gamers for not buying games that are just shit
they blame gamers for not buying the games they told us not to buy.
@@MyAramil yea, it's their consolation prize. They can call all normal people istaphobes now like a broken record.
That's all they ever wanted to do anyways. They make a trash product as hate bait and then spike it again right before release-- there has to be a reason for that. The consolation is better than the profit. One could argue, that's the entire point of nearly every AAA release nowadays.
As a great Alien fish man once said,
*it's a trap!*
And yet, gamers spent more money on games in 2024 then 2023, just not the "right" games. They even told us not to buy them so we went elsewhere.
I think Space Marines 2 was the only successful North American AAA game of 2024.
Heck, even the Swedish game industry is doing amazing and not just because Hell Divers 2, they increased by 8% in 2024. This is a USA and Canada problem due to Ubi Soft, EA, Microsoft Games and Sony America who all makes terrible games.
Global game sales are up by 2.1% from 2023.
Don’t get mad at gamers when you try to sell us garbage
And put politics and agendas into them, then wonder why we don't buy them.
@@JimBobm That's a big reason why they're trash. Veilguard's combat, while certainly not groundbreaking, did look at least entertaining. But it was coupled with agenda trash.
gamers had nothing to do with it, it was all the developers fault, between overhiring during the pandemic and giving into woke activists and internet trolls, the developers have nobody to blame but themselves
Well it's our fault apparently for just not mindlessly buying whatever slop is put in front of us. They hate that we have opinions.
so much political garbage being pushed in quote triple-AAA titles. they hired dumb people that assumed that we were as dumb as them. awwww, how cute
Publishers and Shareholders with a handful of loud, activist devs. When the publisher tells you that you MUST add in a gay or trans character you MUST obey or lose your job. Few would willingly risk their job by disobeying.
Let's stop ignoring Publisher and Shareholder fault.
@CommanderRedEXE not all investors and shareholders, just Blackrock and Vanguard
nah they always blame gamers
Gamers didn't have a rough year at all, the devs and journalists did.
Edit: What a terrible article, didn't mention how the studios and the media colluded to attack their audience, resulting in loss of consumer trust and perpetuating the cycle of terrible launches.
Mhm…. Mhmmmmmm!
They brought this on themselves. That's a big ol' bowl of not my fucking problem. The gaming industry needs to have a reckoning and hopeful rebirth back to sanity and quality.
Seems like this will be the cycle. The gaming industry nearly vanished back in the 1980s because of crap games flooding the market. It wasn't until companies started doing quality control that it bounced back.
@@user-pf3gd1zd2inow quality is downhill again, it is almost the same.
Consumers DO NOT have to spend their money on these games if they don't want to. The companies seem to be convinced that they're ENTITLED to our money. They're not.
They have no one to blame but themselves for failing to remember that they succeed or fail based ENTIRELY on the customers' sufferance.
Customer is wrong and a Nazi and must as such pay money for the masterpiece that those Devs have created, next stop we will lobby mandatory payment for any of latest releases! Then we shall lobby that you give us praise 5 times a day on Bluesky and have a shrine dedicated to worship.
Message detected?
Purchase rejected.
Spot on, it’s not that we don’t like the message, we don’t want any message, we want to have fun.
As a gamer, I'll gladly take responsibility for my small part creating the downfall of woke gaming developers. I refuse to buy their crap
They can blame us to the grave for all I care. Won't change anything for them.
I'd like to say. They know what we mean, they're playing games," but I think there is a sizable portion of them that genuinely can't see it.
0 inflation dollars paid to propagandist gamer companies. did they hire Joseph Goebbels? fun fact: Biden's first name is also Joseph. Joseph Robinette Biden. other notable Josephs: Joseph Mengele (German SS 'doctor). and Joseph Stalin. just fun fact (that you can bring up at parties)
As well. I do not care what everyone else does.... they WILL NOT GET MY MONEY, till i see a substantial change. If i don't have to buy another video game for the rest of my life...I will.
Good. AAA needs to collapse. Especially western AAA.
2024 was the year that western gaming developer activist and bs corpos could no longer sell bs n get away with it😂
The 98% that are not intrested in games made for the 2% ...
I don't see anything illogical or wrong with that.
GUUUUUUUUUD LET THEM BUUUUUUURN!
Capt. J.T. Kirk would know how to answer! Whether it's the corrupt VG journalism sector or son killing Klingons, the answer is the same.
Saving Private Ryan?
wow, how can they still dont understand even what we mean by "woke"
oh they know,just the same old gaslighting,doublespeak, and lies,,,
unfortunately what they fail to realize is that it isn't 2016 anymore and we the people have gotten wise to thier tactics and the cancelculture/shaming doesn't work anymore,,,
WE IMMUNE NOW! BWAHAHAHA👍
Gamers are customers, if you don’t satisfy the customers, you don’t get money
I will happily and proudly take the blame for destroying companies that go woke, it’s a victory for us as gamers!
"We never wanted this. We never wanted to see our industry in ruins. Together, we built worlds, inspired dreams, and united players across the globe."
"But you betrayed us. You betrayed everything we stood for. You sold our passion for profit, twisted our art with agendas, and silenced those who spoke the truth. Gaming had only one chance to thrive. If you will not protect it... THEN WE WILL!
"SO LET IT BE WAR! Let the truth shine, let the lies crumble!
"Let the corporations tremble, let the profiteers fall! Though it takes every ounce of our effort, we will see this industry free once more!
"And if We cannot save it from your corruption...
"THEN LET THE INDUSTRY BURN!"
-Horus
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✊️👍
Them: don't like it, don't buy. Customers: ok. Them: omg it's gamergate 2
you goddamm right! lol 👍
The games industry needs to stop smelling their own farts, before they choke on them.
Take the red pill.
Unfortunately they have swallowed the brown pill. 💩💨😑
@@jamesmacleod671 as a great leader once said,
*they eat tha poopoo*
Western gaming industry in 2024 is their worst year ever in gaming history.
It's mostly been dog water since 2020. Fits the timeline. Orange Man Rad got elected in 2016, and that's when everyone in entertainment across the board lost their minds and started producing garbage.
Since the time of the Atari console colapse, the videogames crash.
@@Jeustful What are you smoking? Bro, late nineties, early oughts were golden. System Shock, OG Deus Ex, Thief etc. The 360 era was also legendary.
have to wonder how much worse 2025 will be
@@daviddesrosiers1946 i'm talking about the early eighties. The times of the ET videogame.
"2024 was a year for game devs holding on for dear life." No, it was a year for them hurling themselves off a cliff. Over the guardrail. Past the crowd of people yelling "Don't jump!"
"The games industry hurt itself in confusion!"
If they all lost their jobs I'd be getting my Christmas wish.
I mean, what did they think was gonna happen when they:
1 - make games gamers do not want
2 - admit these games are not made for gamers
3 - tell gamers "don't like it, don't buy it"
Did they seriously thought we are compulsive buyers that cannot say no to a product or will buy a product on a whim even though we know when it's not made or marketed for us?
Personally i never felt no whim to buy a barbie doll but my shelves are filled with Xenomorphs, Godzilla figures, Gundams, Zoids...
3. Yes. Gamers were considered a captured market, bc these companies forced their own storefronts and launchers, DRM, account requirments, online 24/7 for single player games, greedy pricing schemes, microtransactions, retention (addiction) mechanics etc. etc. etc. and most people just coped their way through that for a whole decade before they stopped giving them money.
I've been firmly planted in this position for legit, 8-10 years now. Tons of gamers still give money to people that hate them, even still.
It's good to see some people wake up and put their foot down, it's not something the gaming community is typically known for. The games being trash helps a lot!
Why does Alyssa Mercante's attorney looks like The Act Man going drag?
Yeah looks like 🤔
When the product is of poor quality... who's to be blamed? Customer for not buying it or producer releasing broken product ? According to such mindset toy manufacturer should go on war with customers after finding out the toy is unsafe for children.
Yes, we literally spell it out for them but they ignore us, so....I won't buy a game I won't play.
Good riddance to the western "gaming" industry, which has been nothing but a gaggle of woke activists for some time now.
I remember the scream fest 🤣🤣
As Cyael said, "GDC Developers screaming in a field, what will 2024 yield - LAYOFFS"
That is pinnacle of adult babies
And again: "Go woke, go broke!" What they're gonna do about it? Cry? 😎
It’s not the gaming industry collapsing. It’s the Western Gaming Industry on the Collapse!!
From the constant attacks from these woke devs, Im happy to be a part of their downfall, Its good to finally be recognized as a gamer 😁👌
"The people who play games had a rough year".... Huh??? I can't speak for everyone but I have been eating good on my classics and Indi titles.
OMG can’t even be truth. Hurts them that bad.
without us you wouldn't have a industry, without the gamers you would not have a industry, the gamers are the industry, we may not make the games or franchises but we such do make them all popular. because we are so passion about this industry,
Looks at the thumbnail ..."WTH is even that!?"
I think its Mercunte's legal representation for the garbage case against SmashJT.
It's Marilyn Transon, Alyssa Mercante's "lawyer".
TransVector
@@DarkForce2024 Wait does she actually have a troon lawyer? Lmfao
@@colwellalec Her case is train wrecked from the start. 🤣
They only have to blame themselves, chasing an audience that doesn't exist and villainising the actual audience.
They will pull an uno reverso, gaslight, make a thousand strawmen and go through all this effort to lay the blame at anyone's feet but theirs... and none of that will sell a single game.
This is what happens when you deliberately make products that your customers don't want and then tell those customers that it's not for them. Those customers don't buy the product. When your customers stop buying your products, the money stream dries up. Calling your customers racists and Nazis when they don't buy a product that you told them wasn't for them doesn't help matters. It just alienates them more.
They went woke
The costumer is allways right in matters of taste.
Is not business 101 to determine who is your costumer base and appeal to them? Dont fix what it isnt broken?
This is like a restaurant with the worst service selling crap and then getting surprised when nobody goes anymore and they have to shut down.
Game journalist are the same people who bring store bought cookies to a potluck where everyone else spent time and money on a home cooked dish.
Expired dollar store cookies
The gaming industry is not in trouble. The WOKE gaming industry is dying, the rest is doing just fine.
Let’s hope that 2025 is a better year for gaming.
it is the principle of the phoenix:
it crashes and burns,,,and when the ashes scatter,it will rise again!
Deep down we all know, this is ALL WESTERN video game dev & journo problems.
The Eastern devs & gamers are booming and enjoying.
If these guys can't even admit the problem they're never going to fix it. The outcome is inevitable at this point, and they did it to themselves.
I dont see how it's my problem, i dont buy trash but games i want & nothing more.
This is what sucks. I graduated in 2019 with a bachelor's in game art/development. Now because I'm a straight white male. I literally can't get a job in the industry because I don't fit the criteria they want. I've always wanted to design games since I first played cod in 2003, I just knew that's what I wanted to do. It's so sad the gaming industry became this way. What's even worse is seeing many senior-level developers with over 20 years of experience quitting or being laid off because they can't stand what is happening or disagree with how the
gaming industry has become. The people who are passionate about making good video games are overpowered by others or pushed out completely.
These past few years was a big push to make everything gay.
And some variation of that.
developers have gone from making games to being social justice warriors first, Bungie is a perfect example
Let them fall, see if we care. We have hungry Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainean, Polish etc companies who come strong from behind, ready to make games and not politics.
They told me not to buy games that I dont like and that certain games were not made for me. All I did was comply.
Ah yes, we're to blame for the overspending and overhiring of these bloated companies, which results in games needing to sell 4-5M copies to be profitable or, worse, break even. And that's not even going into the bland, boring crap they're trying to sell us.
That thumbnail was the creepiest picture of a dude in a dress ever.
Firewalk wasn’t a high profile dev team, they were bought for back end stuff, and then Sony tried to turn Concord into something huge.
The steady decline of gaming over the past couple of years is exactly why i haven't bothered to overpay for a new console like the PS5. I'm not paying 500$+ for a system that has a weak, ideologically driven game catalogue or a catalogue inundated with games that don't interest me.
Go Woke. Go Broke.
But...the mOdErN aUdIeNcE! Why won't they save them? 😢
It's called 'taking out the garbage'. And we've been letting the rubbish pile up for far too long.
That is 100% what I picture Alyssa’s lawyer to look like!😂
They shot themselves in the foot and then complained they had a hole in their foot..
When you said free games, free codes I thought you said “free games, free coats”. I’m like wait wtf?!? These people are getting handed free jackets to wear? Sick lmao.
Dude, you nailed it with the Final Fantasy 7 commentary
They are right. Us gamers are very much responsible for not buying woke garbage or putting up with propaganda being shoved in our faces and those companies losing their asses.
Good. Go woke go broke. Gives us something to laugh at.
Yeah I just read that article as well. They really do live in a little bubble and cannot see out of it.
Yeah, I agree... it's been a hard year. That Wukong game was pretty tough to beat, and also the Elden Ring dlc. Radahn was a beast
Why devs think attacking your consumers is a good idea is beyond me.
We use to have to just take what ever crap they/them threw at us and couldn’t reject it…. We don’t have to any more everyone if more awake than ever now. Keep up the fight
At least we have quite a few new studios being started by the veterans that made a lot of the games we loved. The industry will become good again with the success of these indie studios. AAA studios with bloated budgets and full of activist can all go bankrupt for all I care, they can’t make anything good anyways
Its kinda what happened with the video game crash in the late 80's And its kinda over due at this point.
I had a great year, played many backlogged games like Chrono Trigger, Parasite Eve, Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario⁶⁴, Sekirō, RE⁷ Biohazard, RE⁸ The Village, Star Wars Dark Forces² Jedi Knight, RE0, Mega Man⁶
Mean while Chinese companies printing money, genshin,star rail,wukong, wuwa, anata, ggg count as Chinese too I guess once human going to iOS and still have 50k daily players also marvel rivals. What is more funny game like WuWa releasing a native client for Mac where gamers are non existent
The main reason why FF7 Rebirth sold less than Remake, is because Remake launched on BOTH PS4 and PS5. Rebirth was only released on current gen.
Like the shirt says 'I farted. That's as close to giving a crap as you're going to get" 😂 Womp womp Western Devs.
A quick Google search shows that there were 3.24 billion people globally in 2021 who play games. I know that this includes "mobile", etc. However, the notion that there are fewer than 40 people left in this subsegment of the industry, and the fact that, as a gamer, I have no idea of who these 40 people are, is a tale of extraordinary incompetence. This should be a free lunch for anyone who is worth more than 2 cents. How is it possible that these people are so poor at their jobs?
The only industry sector that believes condescending to their customers and denigrating them is a good marketing strategy lol
It was the conjunction of several toxic trends in the gaming industry. Publishers not letting studios finish games but instead hurrying them to release incomplete games. It's the "don't worry we'll fix it with a day 1 patch" mentality. There has been a lot of cutting of corners in general int he industry and a general drop in quality. The trend of filling games to the bursting point with microtransactions and trying to overmonetize everything, the trying to hold on to tired trends such as live services or hero shooters or looter shooters, ridiculous pricing strategies such as selling a game for anywhere from 70 to 120 dollars depending on what "edition" they buy and then expecting gamers to pay for dlc to boot which everyone can tell is a part of the original game that was cordoned off to be behind a paywall. Trying to get people addicted to buying "packs" in sports games, abusing workers and paying them the absolute minimum while expecting them to engage in excessive unpaid "crunch" time as simply a part of working in your company, and of course abandoning the gamer as the core audience (and even resenting them) and instead focusing on developing games for the mythical "modern audience" that has yet to show up to purchase any game made for them, and pushing agenda in games--in fact cramming the games full of agenda.
this article only proves that they knew full well what exactly was happening.
Well when you cater to like 5% of the total population you cant act surprised when a lot of people don't buy or play the game. It is simple make a fun game and people will play it. I feel zero sympathy for these clowns that thought they could force us too enjoy poor quality games.
I feel bad for the workers
I dont
Weird how they claim "Black myth Wukong" While they where the very own people who Litelry went Attacking the company and the game and went even so far to spread False Rumor, "claims" blackmail, down vote and mamy more.
They only named the game so they can play the "smart people" to get gamers view but even then they dislike or dispise the game
They behave as though we, as customers, are required to support them... we are not. We owe them nothing. They are toy makers, nothing more.
The thumbnail for the video is exactly the problem with the industry.
8:30 Couldn't help but notice Stellar Blade is absent from the games mentioned... Why doesn't that surprise me?
last 'big' game i bought was Stellaris. after that -> only indie games (too much US/globalist/Democrat/EU/NATO propaganda in the last years. they thought that gamers would like their propaganda, didn't they? how cute)
Go woke, go broke!
Business 101: Produce what people want to buy. When you ignore this to push a message you learn the hard way.
I would say they should learn how to code... but yeah. Maybe they should learn how to swing a pickax?
Learn to lay brick, perhaps, since they love to spit on real men
Learn how to retail.
Gamers didn't do anything, but not buy trash games, and make it known why.
I've been a gamer for 24 years and I'm 30. It's very good that the industry is falling. It needs a HUGE reboot. The main issues for that imo are:
Aggressive monetisation, DEI injections, politics, unfinished games day 1, very expensive hardware, digital only, very bad optimizations, 70$ price tag, internet requirements for single player games such as PSN, no creativity, too many remasters/remakes, exclusivity is a thing of the past which having a console was one of the biggest reasons to own them.
The golden age for me was from late 90's up until early 2010's which many will agree with
We told them where their modern path leads. In every step they took they went out of their way to reject our rebuke.
'Don't play it', they said. 'The game isn't for you', they said. 'We are seeking a new audience', they said.
They partnered with consultancy companies which goal was 'to burn the gaming industry to the ground', while insulting us.
This week alone a dev from CD Project Red wanted to exercise violence against its audience.
And if they think it cannot get worse they are mistaken. Ubisoft is at the edge of bankruptcy, and they may be the first of many AAA.
If I hated them I would say 'Go on, continue doble down in your policies! Losing 400M is doing great for you!'. As is, I don't hate them, and It doesn't bring me joy when a game underperforms, people being fired, or studios closing but *unless they start producing things out of love, and stop injecting weird agendas into games. The path of destruction companies are, cannot be avoided.*
About time tbh, long time coming. Game companies have been predators for years, glad people are waking up.
This whole thing was built on DEI and arrogance. Never accepting what the market wanted. I'm glad I have a backlog, not a single tear from me.
Embrace woke lose money works for me......😂