Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThat only relates to the price, not how terribly the game was made.
Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThat only relates to the price, not how terribly the game was made.
umean2me@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
You would have to jump through a lot of hoops to conclude that activism makes you a bad game developer. If they’re exploiting their customers constantly to try to increase profit margins, they are more than likely exploiting their workers, who they have much more control over.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not really, all the current failures in gaming are attributed to activism in games. Dustborn, Concord, veilguard, etc
umean2me@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
You’re telling me that a bland and generic Overwatch clone with character designs that were reductive to the groups they were supposed to represent failed because of activists? The games you listed didn’t fail because of activism, they failed because their “activism” was a marketing stunt instead of being actually progressive. There are plenty of games developed by people that care about those issues where they’re represented accurately and appropriately. Those games usually do well and win awards. Making a game where you meaninglessly and inaccurately pander to minority groups is not the result of activism, it’s trying to leech off of actual activism.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Um… Yes? You’re proving my own point based on what you just wrote.
The people that made Dustborn, Concord, etc, all wanted to push a narrative instead of making a good fun game.
Activists, woke people, etc, are more than welcome in the game industry… As long as they keep that shit to themselves. Leave that idiotic nonsense at home.
You get to work, you work to make a good product, and that’s it.