• hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    I feel like a huge portion of corporate America has adopted the following strategy:

    • Half ass a product despite a comically large budget, resulting in a product that ranges in quality from mediocre to downright terrible
    • Stick some culture war shit somewhere in the product
    • Expect reviewers to give you overwhelmingly positive reviews based off political virtue signaling
    • Put a magnifying glass on the vocal minority of genuinely toxic fans, so that you can claim everyone who doesn’t like the mediocre product is toxic
    • bullshit about sales numbers
    • Obfuscate individual success/failures on earnings reports, and blame overall underperformance on “macroeconomic conditions”

    Like at this point it’s on me for engaging with these posts I guess.

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        26 days ago

        Look if you can’t tell the difference between actually well designed games with a diverse cast and Ubisoft crap number 12 then that’s on you.

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          26 days ago

          who said anything about any other thing in the games or their origin? All I meantioned was your idea that having minorities involved in anything was “culture war”

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            26 days ago

            Okay so explain to me why things like Spiderverse and Baldur’s Gate receive nearly ubiquitous acclaim in ways Snow White and Assassins Creed doesn’t.

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              26 days ago

              No.

              Explain what “culture war” is, and how it isn’t just incorporating minorities into a work.

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                26 days ago

                The difference between actual diversity revolves around tokenization, flanderization, homogenization, and of course gaslighting.

                “culture war” minority characters are often inserted into narratives where they don’t quite fit, are often one dimensional characters, and often all act in a certain way based off their race/gender/sexuality combo, and are often inserted to gaslight anyone who has an issue with the low quality of the underlying product into thinking all criticism is bigoted.

                It’s the last point that both you and Ubisoft are leveraging right now. If they replaced Yasuke with some burly Japanese dude, the entire discourse would be centered around how this game is a mid-at-best title for way too much money.

                Instead asshole stans like you come out of the woodwork to push a narrative that most negative criticism centered around bigotry.

                There are plenty of IPs with minority characters that don’t get shit on, because both the IP and the characters are actually good.

                Enjoy your $70 mid-fest.

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                  26 days ago

                  Oh lord someone get this chud out of the thread! And fer fucks sake y’all never ask chuds a got damn thing. Cuz they’ll tell you, and it will be the dumbest shit you read today

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                    26 days ago

                    Look man this “grown adult acting like a middle school bully” thing worked on reddit in 2019 because everyone was terminally online and you’d be backed up by twenty plus commenters hurling vitriol.

                    It’s 2025. There are maybe 15 people total interacting with this post. I have a life in a way that was impossible during the covid era.

                    Grow up.