Sad for them. Too many modern superhero video games I just skeletons of the ones we used to have. Killed by nobody audience, corruptive politics, greed and deceit, clownish nsanity, egotistical hubrisism, corporate tampering and meddling.
Companies make millions on niche products and art shouldn’t HAVE TO cater to the majority audience. He just made a bad game even if said audience was big there is no guarantee they’d even buy it
I wouldn't even call it a niche audience, i would call it straight up non-existent because this DEI crap appeals to no one with normal sensibilities. I would argue that it doesn't even appeal to the people it was made for (commies) while they would never admit to it. They just cheer something like this on from a distance since it reafirms their ideology but wont touch it themselves because in their gut they can feel this is all awful.
Considering im bi and black i technically am the "modern audience" i also have a lot of gaming friends who are lgbt. We all play Helldivers 2 mainly so thats where the "modern audience" went, right along with everyone else to play good games
Though Devs don't owe us anythin, they don't realize that the reverse also applies, We as consumers don't owe the Devs anything. They want our money, make a great game, it's that simple.
As someone who some would call "woke", i think calling anyone a racist bigot just because they dont like your product has to be the most snowflakey thing to do.
I completely agree with you, this game is disgusting, culture baiting trash and the fact it was funded with public money is just unhinged. However, it takes a true cheese burger eating, flag waving patriot to assume that every other currency on the planet equates roughly to a dollar. 14m NOK is just under 1.3m US dollars. 😂 But you are correct in every other aspect.
I saw a full playthrough of Dustborn from beginning to end. I have never seen a game with such a glacial pace. Hours of the game are just spent talking to people and when you do get into combat, it is incredibly basic with absolutely no depth (heck, you can't even die). Also, OH MY LORD NOBODY EVER SHUTS UP.
“Its colorful, inspired by comic books, has fight sequences against giant robotic mascots and it has a sarcastic view of the world. It doesn’t take itself very seriously.” That describes hifi rush perfectly but to be fair the didn’t say they’d be discussing a good video-game.
Small brain: If you dont like it, dont buy it Galaxy brain: If you hate the absolute shit out of my game, you should buy it. srsly converting your haters into fans is an absolute marketing triumph and thats what things like food marketing do on a regular basis (e.g hyper processed food companies making 'healthy choice' products to pander to people that are health conscious)
15:12 Y'know that reminds me of how Microsoft won't reveal sales numbers of their newer first-party games because they're ashamed to admit that their games aren't selling very well.
@@sneakycacti ya know, I've said for years "if you are a talented/good enough writer, you can make almost anything work." but I think a triggering mechanic is one of those exceptions....
Yknow, I’ve made it a point to where my AU’s version of Brothership will have other antagonists heavily based on characters from both Concord and Dustborn. These will be an extradimensional species of conquest known only as the “Fyrewalkers”
I think that they think that everyone is going to eventually conform to there mindset and then this is going to be considered a before it's time classic.
I mean I don’t give a shit about Dustborn but tbf he did answer the question about if the game is satire, tongue in cheek is just another term for satire or being satirical
Why are none of these people coming after the MODERN AUDIENCE for failing to come through for them? If these games were selling well in spite of all the backlash, we would all be eating crow. But they're not selling. Nobody is playing them. Where is the modern audience???
He did not get threats over this game. Why would anyone? He made a terrible game which we all laughed at. Who would honestly care enough to send him a threat of any kind? The only people I can imagine doing that are the people in his own camp who feel betrayed by the portrayal of their side’s beliefs in the game.
None of what he said matters. It's all cope. Because let's keep it a stack, if in some alternate reality, Dustborn was a hit, they would be wagging their fingers in front of everyone's face 100%. They would be singing on top of the high hills and celebrating their victory against the "chuds". If he had his way, the guy wouldn't be saying any of this nonsense. He wasn't just making some sweet, wholesome little game with his buddies or just making some little satire as a troll because he thought it was funny. No, they had the hopes of appealing to an audience that didn't exist to score internet points. That's it. And it backfired and now the guy is trying to save face by feigning innocence/ignorance or trying to make it seem like it was "toxic gamer expectations" that made them fail. It totally wasn't the fact that they made a cringe piece of garbage game nobody except them wanted to play.
Whatever happened to that gaming company that would announce games and they never come out they was like lying and scamming I forget that company's name they would announce a game and then cancel it out of nowhere I think they canceled like two or three games I wish I could remember their names
These people instead of just worrying about making games they want to put politics in video games just make a damn video game maybe your game might sell I guess that's a strange concept for them to understand
Yeah and then they wonder why younger people like me are going back and playing retro games rather then playing newer games. Its because people just want to have fun playing their games. They don't want to deal with or think about the real world while playing and I really don't get why thats so hard for some devs to understand.
the fact this game was made by tax payer dollars is extra salt on wounds. like BRUH. they wasted 14 million tax payer dollars for this from the Norwegian people just gone, for this. sadge
Ya know, reading this article made me literally go "OH MY GOD, NO ONE CARES!" I know people love to dunk on Five Nights at Freddy's, but those games for a while were made by ONE GUY who was the SOLE VOICE ACTOR in HIS OWN GAMES. Yet he went on to create a billion dollar franchise. Why? Because he cared more about how his games played than even the stories and listened to the audience who enjoyed his games and didn't blame his family or politics for any of the bad games he made!
10:19 the two "heroes" in the game are a trans woman who can gaslight you and an overpowered black woman WHO CAN MIND CONTROL YOU A.K.A if she calls you a racist = you become one nice double standards
"Tidal Wave of Hate" is my new song title. The song in question will feature a cacophony of blowtorch sounds, chains rattling, apocalyptic wails and mechanical keyboard clacks.
I dont think the game failed because it was "woke" but because it looks boring and i didn't see any coverage of the game until recently. If the game failed because it was "woke" by that logic apex,overwatch,and valorant would be dead.
It failed cause it was woke asf and the only ones that even care enough to check are uninformed normies. Apex is dying, only normies are keeping it alive; Overwatch people only care about it's R34, not the actual game; valorant literally no one but normies care. Your last point is completely meaningless. Normies that continue to play ignorance or fan boy consumers are the reason woke games keep being made and will never stop
Wrong my.friend, because overwath Apex and valorant where marketed as games, while dustborn whas marketed as woke from the star, like just bi loooking at the game cover art you know its woke, besides overwath Apex and valorant may have woke woke stuf but at least its fun to play, while dustborn is trash as hell 😎
1)Make a "game" for an audience that contains roughly 600 people. 2)Obviously make no sales. 3)Insult the majority of the market for your failure. 4)Get laughed at by people with common sense. 5)Surprised_pikachu_face.jpeg 5 steps of activist developers, summarised.
The 3 dislikes are the 3 people who were playing dustborn.
The 4th one was Tornquist
Sad for them. Too many modern superhero video games I just skeletons of the ones we used to have. Killed by nobody audience, corruptive politics, greed and deceit, clownish nsanity, egotistical hubrisism, corporate tampering and meddling.
Cater to a niche audience that doesn't exist; you get almost no sales.
It's not a niche audience..... it the "modern audience" the group of people who talk the talk but can't walk the walk.....
Not so much they don't exist it's just such a small group with a loud mouth but they also don't play games really
Companies make millions on niche products and art shouldn’t HAVE TO cater to the majority audience. He just made a bad game even if said audience was big there is no guarantee they’d even buy it
I wouldn't even call it a niche audience, i would call it straight up non-existent because this DEI crap appeals to no one with normal sensibilities. I would argue that it doesn't even appeal to the people it was made for (commies) while they would never admit to it. They just cheer something like this on from a distance since it reafirms their ideology but wont touch it themselves because in their gut they can feel this is all awful.
At the very least, Concord had the ponies to simp for it, Dustborn has literally no one💀
Can you elaborate on who the ponies are?
@@nintendoboy3605 Ever heard of Sony Ponies? People like JaytechTV, people who will defend Sony and their games like their life depends on it
@@jak3y3 I see
The Blame Game 🙂 Why take accountability for your failure? 🤷♂️
“Especially when there’s an audience that can take the blame for you” - Red threads thought process.
Considering im bi and black i technically am the "modern audience" i also have a lot of gaming friends who are lgbt.
We all play Helldivers 2 mainly so thats where the "modern audience" went, right along with everyone else to play good games
god you must be kidding hahahaha
I play games for fun. Not to have woke and Anti-woke agendas forced down my throat.
30 years in the industry? I've never heard of this Scrub until Dustborn. I've been gaming since '89
seems like someone decided to dislike bomb lol, or maybe its a glitch. edit: sadly it was a glitch lol, would have made the situation funnier
"Never take responsibility" may be a popular "MODERN" mantra.
what's with all the dislikes? did the dustborn ceo send 86 of his employees to dislike this video or something?
for me there is 1 dislike and 86 likes, must be a bug with YT
@@sneakycacti I believe someone used an exploit in the extension to add mass amounts of dislikes.
@FatheredPuma81 lol, sad
Oh, it IS a bug indeed!
I only see 2 dislikes.
Though Devs don't owe us anythin, they don't realize that the reverse also applies, We as consumers don't owe the Devs anything.
They want our money, make a great game, it's that simple.
If Dustborn is what 2026 is gonna be like, we're doomed as a society...
As someone who some would call "woke", i think calling anyone a racist bigot just because they dont like your product has to be the most snowflakey thing to do.
I completely agree with you, this game is disgusting, culture baiting trash and the fact it was funded with public money is just unhinged.
However, it takes a true cheese burger eating, flag waving patriot to assume that every other currency on the planet equates roughly to a dollar.
14m NOK is just under 1.3m US dollars. 😂
But you are correct in every other aspect.
I saw a full playthrough of Dustborn from beginning to end. I have never seen a game with such a glacial pace. Hours of the game are just spent talking to people and when you do get into combat, it is incredibly basic with absolutely no depth (heck, you can't even die). Also, OH MY LORD NOBODY EVER SHUTS UP.
Meanwhile you're playing peak (DOOM IS TRULY ETERNAL)
Seeing that amount of players playing Dustborn actually got me wheezing. 😂
The infamous dustborn song that you've seen clips of is so bad that it makes YongYea's dub of Kiryu sound good
“Its colorful, inspired by comic books, has fight sequences against giant robotic mascots and it has a sarcastic view of the world. It doesn’t take itself very seriously.” That describes hifi rush perfectly but to be fair the didn’t say they’d be discussing a good video-game.
We need to bring back professional game developers and get rid of those who get butt hurt when you have an opinion.
It's actually called dustbins 🗑
Small brain: If you dont like it, dont buy it
Galaxy brain: If you hate the absolute shit out of my game, you should buy it.
srsly converting your haters into fans is an absolute marketing triumph and thats what things like food marketing do on a regular basis (e.g hyper processed food companies making 'healthy choice' products to pander to people that are health conscious)
15:12 Y'know that reminds me of how Microsoft won't reveal sales numbers of their newer first-party games because they're ashamed to admit that their games aren't selling very well.
Triggering/cancelling were gameplay mechanics.....????
WTF, that would barely be good if it was an exaggerated parody ;/
yeah, it would say crap like "press X to trigger" LMAO
@@sneakycacti ya know, I've said for years "if you are a talented/good enough writer, you can make almost anything work." but I think a triggering mechanic is one of those exceptions....
Yknow, I’ve made it a point to where my AU’s version of Brothership will have other antagonists heavily based on characters from both Concord and Dustborn. These will be an extradimensional species of conquest known only as the “Fyrewalkers”
If that game would be satire they would not be offended when ppl make joke about it 🤷
"press twitter to trigger"
I don't believe people care about this game enough to harrass the developer.
There is official as of now 1 person on Steam playing Dustborn
I think that they think that everyone is going to eventually conform to there mindset and then this is going to be considered a before it's time classic.
Mondern Games for Mondern Audience
Which this Mondern Audience does NOT exist
The funniest thing is that their wiki got hacked too just to make fun of the game.
Sitting here, playing warframe, drinking good tea, rains outside and i watch a video about a shitty woke CEO cry.
AMAZING
LOL
1. Make good games, 2. Don't insult the audience. how hard it is to do these things if you want to sell your product , too hard apparently
Hearing that we have to feel bad for their failures is becoming so lame and pathetic, it became as much fun as the games they make, not fun anymore!
I mean I don’t give a shit about Dustborn but tbf he did answer the question about if the game is satire, tongue in cheek is just another term for satire or being satirical
i hope Sony sues every EDI involved in concord or else those dumb activist will never learn
Why are none of these people coming after the MODERN AUDIENCE for failing to come through for them? If these games were selling well in spite of all the backlash, we would all be eating crow. But they're not selling. Nobody is playing them. Where is the modern audience???
He did not get threats over this game. Why would anyone? He made a terrible game which we all laughed at. Who would honestly care enough to send him a threat of any kind? The only people I can imagine doing that are the people in his own camp who feel betrayed by the portrayal of their side’s beliefs in the game.
None of what he said matters. It's all cope. Because let's keep it a stack, if in some alternate reality, Dustborn was a hit, they would be wagging their fingers in front of everyone's face 100%. They would be singing on top of the high hills and celebrating their victory against the "chuds".
If he had his way, the guy wouldn't be saying any of this nonsense. He wasn't just making some sweet, wholesome little game with his buddies or just making some little satire as a troll because he thought it was funny. No, they had the hopes of appealing to an audience that didn't exist to score internet points. That's it. And it backfired and now the guy is trying to save face by feigning innocence/ignorance or trying to make it seem like it was "toxic gamer expectations" that made them fail. It totally wasn't the fact that they made a cringe piece of garbage game nobody except them wanted to play.
So where is this mythical "modern audience"?
Damn that’s crazy
The funniest part is if he understood how a market works it literally can never be the consumers fault your product didn't sell. Lmao
As a norwegian citizen, this game does not represent my country. eF the game and the developer team.
Whatever happened to that gaming company that would announce games and they never come out they was like lying and scamming I forget that company's name they would announce a game and then cancel it out of nowhere I think they canceled like two or three games I wish I could remember their names
These people instead of just worrying about making games they want to put politics in video games just make a damn video game maybe your game might sell I guess that's a strange concept for them to understand
Yeah and then they wonder why younger people like me are going back and playing retro games rather then playing newer games. Its because people just want to have fun playing their games. They don't want to deal with or think about the real world while playing and I really don't get why thats so hard for some devs to understand.
am i the only one wondering what's that Doom mod you playing on background ???
Pretty sure its just 2016 doom vanilla, gameplay was recorded months ago so I forget
It's normal Doom 2016. You can unlock classic maps if you find them during the main campaign
@@thediam0nddrag0n78 oh thx, i haven't still got to modern dooms, too heavy for my dial up looking internet lol.
Thought it's a gun mod for doom2
0 people playing Dustborn on Steam.
All you had to know.
yeah man twitter: the game wouldn`t be so bad, no joke right?
cacti how do you like your hamburgers
with ketchup, mustard, and relish!
Bro really pulled an Ubisoft
I can smell the salty tears
And they taste very nice
If your game has no talking about because people are talking about how big of a failure Concord was, maybe you need to re-evaluate your life choices.
Dragon balls deadland wasteland is more populated than dustborn player count
I think it's pronounced as Ragenerd Tornanus.
the fact this game was made by tax payer dollars is extra salt on wounds. like BRUH. they wasted 14 million tax payer dollars for this from the Norwegian people just gone, for this. sadge
"Redfall failed and devs took it well or I think so anyways" well I mean they didn’t even like the game itself either so yeah
Gotta love developers get mad at there players
Saying this game isn’t political is about as dumb as Asmongold asking for the new Metal Gear to not be political.
Games like Dustborn give political thrillers like Metal Gear (or just about anything Tom Clancy that’s not Ubisoft) a bad name.
Not only dose this game sound stupid, the CEO sounds worse...🤦
Ya know, reading this article made me literally go "OH MY GOD, NO ONE CARES!" I know people love to dunk on Five Nights at Freddy's, but those games for a while were made by ONE GUY who was the SOLE VOICE ACTOR in HIS OWN GAMES. Yet he went on to create a billion dollar franchise. Why? Because he cared more about how his games played than even the stories and listened to the audience who enjoyed his games and didn't blame his family or politics for any of the bad games he made!
10:19
the two "heroes" in the game
are a trans woman who can gaslight you
and an overpowered black woman WHO CAN MIND CONTROL YOU A.K.A if she calls you a racist = you become one
nice double standards
Instead of dust born how about Twitter the video game
aw joy
tf they got against italians
"Tidal Wave of Hate" is my new song title. The song in question will feature a cacophony of blowtorch sounds, chains rattling, apocalyptic wails and mechanical keyboard clacks.
That actually sounds fire
If you think games needed to be good to sell copies thirty years ago you are sorely mistaken.
I dont think the game failed because it was "woke" but because it looks boring and i didn't see any coverage of the game until recently. If the game failed because it was "woke" by that logic apex,overwatch,and valorant would be dead.
It failed cause it was woke asf and the only ones that even care enough to check are uninformed normies.
Apex is dying, only normies are keeping it alive; Overwatch people only care about it's R34, not the actual game; valorant literally no one but normies care.
Your last point is completely meaningless. Normies that continue to play ignorance or fan boy consumers are the reason woke games keep being made and will never stop
Wrong my.friend, because overwath Apex and valorant where marketed as games, while dustborn whas marketed as woke from the star, like just bi loooking at the game cover art you know its woke, besides overwath Apex and valorant may have woke woke stuf but at least its fun to play, while dustborn is trash as hell 😎
@guilhermeteixeira7655 yea the gameplay is what killed it not that fact it's "woke"
@@guilhermeteixeira7655 that and it just wasn't marketed at all. I didn't see anything about that game until it died.
@@corbinallen4562 keep denying that it wasn't woke when it was 100% woke
At this point people are in denial wokeness is going away. It's not
1)Make a "game" for an audience that contains roughly 600 people.
2)Obviously make no sales.
3)Insult the majority of the market for your failure.
4)Get laughed at by people with common sense.
5)Surprised_pikachu_face.jpeg
5 steps of activist developers, summarised.