Because the game sold w and reviewed well, so it goes against the narrative of “get woke go broke”
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Psythik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m honestly surprised that no one calls this game woke
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
echodot@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
I think literally every business in the world has managed to tow that line. It’s not like the right stopped drinking bud light. Although they probably should have.
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I feel like people might have. I vaguely remember when it first came out that there was someone on youtube uploading videos of them assaulting the woman’s suffrage protester and they got taken down after blowing up.
spacecadet@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Mainly because you can shove “woke” shit down peoples and they won’t care as long as they get to play a manly man or stacked chick and the story and characters are well developed. It’s just when the game is really bad that people care about it and then the studios can blame the poor performance on the alt-right as a cop out for their shitty game. I.e. Star Wars outlaws and Concorde
lime@feddit.nu 12 hours ago
people have been very uppity about the new dragon age even though i hear that’s good.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
Outlaws is a good game though
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
What is woke about the game?
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Anti racism is woke. Arthur actively beats the shit out of or yells at anyone who is racist. Arthur is woke. This is a good thing.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 18 hours ago
Also, you can murder random Klan members and increase your honour.
13esq@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Not sure if satire.
Being not racist is woke now? I thought it was just normal.
Klear@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
What did you think woke means?
daellat@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Have you seen the average gamer responses lately? The needle for woke has now moved to female protagonist = woke
echodot@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
Woke is just things the right don’t like. Even if it’s just a personal thing like salad.
Psythik@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
What do you think “woke” means?
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I didn’t say not racist. I said anti racist.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
Not to say that youre wrong, or to imply that ‘woke’ is a real concept beyond whatever makes fascist chuds feel bad in their undeveloped brains, but being anti-racist is a lot different than being not racist, and takes a lot more courage.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
Tax is woke. The neighbour who fills up my wheely bin is woke. Kids who play music on the bus are woke.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 9 hours ago
Always has been
Psythik@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Literally everything mentioned in the 4chan post.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I don’t feel that it’s work. It’s pretty standard for today. Maybe in the 1800s this could be defined as woke
Psythik@lemmy.world 12 minutes ago
The bar is extremely low now. Being a decent human being is woke.
vga@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Nobody except the craziest of crazy thinks negatively about woke stuff if the actual content is good. Case in point: Arcane. When the wokeism was apparently more important to the producers than the quality of the actual product is when shit gets irritating.
lime@feddit.nu 12 hours ago
i have only ever heard good things about that show. it apparently brought in a lot of new players (who then promptly left because they realized what the game and community were like).
vga@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
I never played the game and the show doesn’t make me want to play it. The show (at least season 1, I haven’t finished it yet) is still superb.
lime@feddit.nu 12 hours ago
oh i read your post as if the show was an example of woke without substance.