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NCSoft president: "The games industry's evolution towards acceptance and diversity is ongoing"
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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Fan base isn't regressing - there's just an increasingly polarized contingent that won't stop wailing about every snub.
Overall the gaming fan base is growing because of this embracing of diversity.
Yeah it’s just a loud group of dipshits that want games to be a safe space for their regressive views.
They can't go 3 words without saying "woke".
Wokewokewokewokewoke...
The Helldivers 2 Steam ~~review page~~ (edit: it's comments on announcements) is covered with reviews from accounts that don't even own the game begging Arrowhead to "not add WOKENESS!" to the game.
What review page are you talking about??
I went to check out the reviews and all I see is people complaining about Sony blocking out so many countries. I don't see a single "woke" complaint.
Are you sure you're not just hearing that people have complained and then assuming they actually did?
Sorry, you're correct- it's not the reviews, but the comments on any announcement made by the devs that I was remembering.
The lack of mouse icon next to their names means those Steam accounts don't own the game.
I wonder how many of them are just bots tbh
Cause the game is pretty inherently political. The setting is a farcical fascist govt...
It's a coordinated effort to make those bigoted assholes seem to be a larger number than they actually are. And we can blame Steve Bannon for that.
Also everyone who participates in the narrative that “regressive are swamping the gaming industry”.
I mean on the plusside, you always know that whenever anybody uses the word "woke" as if it were a real word, you can immediately add them to the blocklist or ban them. Nothing they can add has any value any more.
I see three comments, two of which mention wokeness and one of which mentions sending the dev team to re-education camp.
None of the comments is solely about wokeness. Wokeness is mentioned in conjunction with politics.
One of the comments wants to make sure the game stays “neutral”.
Note that zero of these comments are complaining about diversity. To those who criticize wholeness, it is a distinct thing from diversity.
Do you know what people are referring to when they use that word?
I provided a screenshot as an example. Obviously I'm not going to link to every fucking bigoted comment. Those were the top three comments; two of which were useful to my point.
Here, let me make one bigger for you:
They "think" adding more diversity in the form of inclusion and LGBT representation would make the game worse, since apparently that point wasn't as clear as, say, a fucking foghorn.
Yes. "Woke" means "anything that threatens my worldview of white masculine superiority and reminding me that non-white, non-straight, non-male people exist and should be represented in art hurts my fee-fees."
But sure, explain how it's really about "ethics in gaming journalism".
Can you make that bigger? 😛
How they can review a game without own it on steam?
I edited my comment, but I was wrong in that it's not the review page that gets swarmed but the comments on announcements that Arrowhead makes. Anyone can comment on an announcement (which makes sense, if [for example] it's about an upcoming feature that isn't out yet.)
I see, steam community foruns.
It's better to not go into these, full of fanboys, haters and stupid people farming fake points.
I'm guessing they buy, review, refund? Not sure if that also removes the review as I almost never refund or review games.
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