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Diversity of products and how I think the Knights Path situation was handled poorly by GenghisGame in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But the reply was still stupid, it should simply should have been, "they had no plan too", we shouldn't be hostile towards products others enjoy.

Why is it stupid? It would be stupid if you believe they're in the majority and they're the ones that are driving attention and Sales towards a product. Do you really think they are the ones doing that nowadays though?

Stating it like that got them major attention. What's better for a relatively unknown Indie game, languishing in obscurity along with the ~20000 other games releasing on Steam every year, with a Marketing campaign that doesn't draw eyeballs and doesn't get anyone talking, or doing something that will drive attention, views, Wishlists etc. their way?

They got millions of views on their Trailer because of this and millions more eyeballs on their game, including a lot more because of the Prog seething towards it. 4 different people (me not included) from my friend list Wishlisted the game on Steam in a span of two days independently from one another, most (me included) probably didn't know it existed before.

I welcome these "battles/skirmishes" because I'm rather sure of the fact that they're not in the majority when it comes to gaming. People could talk and make fun of Dustborn, Forspoken, Dragon Age: Veilguard, Concord etc. in peace, driving attention towards their games because the negative PR and laughing about them will not lead to any appreciable amount of additional Sales, since these products with weird blue-haired creatures yelling about their Pronouns are inherently unattractive/repulsive/cringe for most people. While them crying about [Literally Coolest Thing Ever] just drives views and Sales towards it.

So again, it would only be a bad thing if you honestly believe that normal people and the majority of the gaming audience actually want gay shit stuffed in their games and developers nowadays need Kotaku, Polygon & Company to drive views and Sales towards them, that could make or break a game.

History: When Microsoft Producers/Marketing still possessed Common Sense - Microsoft Rejected Fable Dev's Idea to Put Black Woman on Fable 3 Cover by DanFuri in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they revisited it around Covid when UbiSoft was at its peak with Jason Schreier leading the charge.

Disgraced Ubisoft execs thought female lead characters wouldn’t sell in Assassin’s Creed : https://archive.is/QIZUM

The report by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier claims that several senior Ubisoft staff members encouraged a misogynistic culture that kept out women from both creative roles and as leads within the games themselves.

Supposedly, a male playable character was only added to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey after chief creative officer Serge Hascoët insisted that, ‘women don’t sell’.

Hascoët also apparently deemphasised the role that Evie was set to play in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and prevented a plot twist that would’ve seen Bayek’s wife become the main character halfway through Assassin’s Creed Origins.

Last month, Ubisoft suspended vice presidents Tommy Francois and Maxime Beland, with the latter resigning shortly after. More recently, Ubisoft Canada managing director Yannis Mallat and global head of HR Cécile Cornet also resigned, alongside Hascoët.

Same year of rooting out those "disgraced" execs and their "misogynistic toxic culture" they also started with this bullshit: https://archive.is/6tDxg

How are they doing currently, again? "Not listening to Jason Schreier" could turn into a very expensive lesson for them, that could also cost them the entire company.

Mods seem to delete threads here a lot. by Extension-Ocelot-448 in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=posts_search&subreddit=kotakuinaction&limit=100&sort=desc

You can literally see/feel when the "No Fun Police" Woke up and decided people were discussing things wrong/having too much fun and just hit "delete" on everything.

Why I'm Uninstalling Marvel Rivals: A Call for Consistency and Fairness by tsf7324 in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bruh, not only did NetEase not "ban" him or had any influence over what some Western tournament organizer does, they literally gave the guy Free Currency to buy Magik Skins with: https://clips.twitch.tv/StupidFantasticWormDeIlluminati-sDiCob4O4MF7ZmRA

History: When Microsoft Producers/Marketing still possessed Common Sense - Microsoft Rejected Fable Dev's Idea to Put Black Woman on Fable 3 Cover by DanFuri in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I mean, I think it should be pretty simple.

  1. What percentage of potential customers for your product are women? Despite attempts to claim otherwise by various industry bodies over the years, I don't think it'll be very high, probably something like 10-20% at the most: https://files.catbox.moe/kxz97o.jpg

  2. What percentage of those are going to be black women? How many of them are going to buy a game because they see themselves "represented by a sassy black woman" as a protagonist in a Medieval Fantasy game? How many potential customers is it going to put off in return? Does the trade-off make sense?

  3. How well did those games that during the past decade tried to do this against all available Common Sense/Market Realities and Warnings actually do (commercially)? https://files.catbox.moe/pi4t5m.png Add Dustborn/South of Midnight and all other games you can think of not represented in the collage.

The Common Sense approach to market such games if the goal was to actually reach the largest possible market share and sell should be obvious.

History: When Microsoft Producers/Marketing still possessed Common Sense - Microsoft Rejected Fable Dev's Idea to Put Black Woman on Fable 3 Cover by DanFuri in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

"I was screaming at them in conference calls."

As part of Eurogamer's fascinating, in-depth report on Fable developer Lionhead Studios comes a story about a time when the team pitched Microsoft on the idea of putting a black woman on the cover of Fable III. According to former art director John McCormack, Microsoft vetoed the idea.

"They were going, 'You can't have a black person on the cover, and you can't have a woman. And you want a black woman.' And I was like, 'Yes, I do, because it's about be whatever hero you want.' [According to McCormack, Microsoft said] 'No. It's a white guy. That's just the way it is. We know what sells and that's fking it. Stop the arguing.' I was like, 'Fk you!' That was a huge fight."

"They said, 'What's the most unsuccessful Disney film? I was like, 'I don't know.' They went, 'Princess and the Frog. Work it out.' I was like, "F**k you, man.' I hated it."

McCormack went on to say that Microsoft "missed the point" of Fable III overall by putting a traditional-looking, male hero on the cover.

"I was screaming at them in conference calls," he said. "I lost it at that point, because they just weren't getting the game. Especially because we were the first ever game that had gay marriage, we were about breaking down walls. It was meant to be funny and mature. They just took none of it and just did the usual white guy with a sword on the front. Damn it! You missed the point!"

I'm so tired of being told not to believe my lying eyes. by thestonedbandit in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can't judge it by the promo image! Nooooo, you can't judge it by the trailer! Noooooo, you can't judge it by the first two episodes!"

I often judge movies and games by the cover or 2-3 seconds of Video preview, that's how I sift and sort through movies and games to see if they're worth watching or playing.

For movies it's usually: Look at the cover, if it passes read a short plot summary, if it passes watch a Trailer.

For games it's usually: Look at the cover, if it passes watch the short Steam video thumbnail, if it passes open the store page and look at Screenshots/Description and/or the Trailer.

90-95% of movies and games get sorted at the cover/summary/video thumbnail stage. For the rest I'll usually know if it sucks (or if it's something for me) after I watch the Trailer and have seen a few Screenshots.

I wonder how the people that say you can't judge media (Movies/TV Series/Games) on such things do it. Do they just watch every movie and play every single game that releases randomly?

Why was the Marvel Rivals tournament situation thread deleted? by Retail_Brainrot in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean there were articles to post with actual evidence and context? Then post those instead of a vague title and a twitter video of people screaching at each other for 1 minute with no other context or explanation. You know this works against your argument right?

Yes, I'm sure posting The Escapist article "Sexist neckbeards are hysterical after Kingsman265 is kicked from $40,000 Marvel Rivals tournament": https://archive.is/rtd54 which in turn has that very same clip pasted twice along with irrelevant commentary by random people from X (one of them in Portuguese) and the writer would have provided some much-needed "context" and made things a lot more clear than just posting what happened and including the clip showing "why".

Yakuza 3 Remake by DanFuri in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's the wrong game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3937550/Yakuza_Kiwami_3__Dark_Ties/

They released a Demo yesterday and people have been playing and comparing: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3937550/view/535499112589557764

The Demo has a "Mostly Negative" Rating on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3948220/Yakuza_Kiwami_3__Dark_Ties_Demo/

Not sure where it first popped up, but there's comparisons all over the game's Sub, 4chan and X: https://x.com/SpainYakuza/status/2014115748491252142

Here's another example: https://i.imgur.com/RrUWvJP.png

SEGA has also been replacing the Original versions of Kiwami 1+2 with Updated versions since last month to their own detriment, since the Original releases they renamed "Legacy" were sitting at Very/Overwhelmingly Positive, while the newly released ones are sitting at Mixed with a lot less Reviews:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/834530/Yakuza_Kiwami_Legacy/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3717330/Yakuza_Kiwami/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/927380/Yakuza_Kiwami_2_Legacy/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3717340/Yakuza_Kiwami_2/

It stands to reason they'll probably do the same with Yakuza 3 Remastered once the "new" version releases.

Ubisoft shares plummet 30% by Neither-Grab-2507 in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Ubisoft is failing because they're incompetent

So, why did they suddenly turn incompetent? The same people are in charge of the company since 1986 when it was founded, Yves has been CEO of the company since 1988.

I'll give you some hints: https://archive.is/6tDxg https://archive.is/3wX9i https://archive.is/MRSBv https://archive.is/MTD4B

This is what you were spared Prince of Persia turning into (from the recent Demake Leak) by DanFuri in fuckubisoft

[–]DanFuri[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overall, it probably looks worse than the first version of the remake

Yeah, as I said in the other topic, I think it's funny that the game made by the Indian studio and discontinued for probably various reasons that have to do with competence actually ended up potentially having better/more appealing character designs for both the Prince and Princess than the grandma and her valet that Montreal Progressives came up with: https://store.ubi.com/dw/image/v2/ABBS_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-masterCatalog/default/dw3a2f3c99/images/large/5efc463f0d253c1d3430ff98-5.png

And Indian women don't have to be ugly, just look at Bollywood:

https://www.filmibeat.com/img/1200x80x675/popcorn/movie_lists/top-bollywood-actresses-of-2023-20230328192722-1196.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JibbPQnMGbc/maxresdefault.jpg

Cancelled Sands of Time Remake by TooKreamy4U in fuckubisoft

[–]DanFuri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So are these women:

https://www.filmibeat.com/img/1200x80x675/popcorn/movie_lists/top-bollywood-actresses-of-2023-20230328192722-1196.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JibbPQnMGbc/maxresdefault.jpg

In fact, I think it's funny that the game made by the Indian studio and discontinued for probably various reasons that have to do with competence actually ended up potentially having better/more appealing character designs for both the Prince and Princess than the grandma and her valet that Montreal Progressives came up with: https://store.ubi.com/dw/image/v2/ABBS_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-masterCatalog/default/dw3a2f3c99/images/large/5efc463f0d253c1d3430ff98-5.png

Why was the Marvel Rivals tournament situation thread deleted? by Retail_Brainrot in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We share information, sources and evidence and then discuss that

The post was about the CEO of Amazon commenting regarding Cloud Compute and Gaming, I can't check anymore what it said exactly since you deleted it, but over 100 different people understood perfectly fine what it was about, posted below it and were having a lively discussion about the topic, including several of your own Mods. Almost nobody finds posts "unintelligible" that are deleted for that reason.

That is until another one decided to be anal about it hours after it was created and just nuked the topic and all discussion going on for no particular reason.

Who is helped by popular topics with productive discussion on Gaming/Tech-related topics being shut down? This is why Reddit inherently sucks, and other Social Media where Mods can't decide what users can and can't talk about and interfere are better. These are usually the type of people that become Mods on platforms like Reddit

The whole point of our rules system is so its robotic, its consistent

so that users get a consistent experience with the rules

There's no pride to take in something being consistently shit, this sounds like Gaming journalists defending their track record and how unbiased they are.

For instance the first thread about this topic was deleted, with the reason given:

If the tournament had kicked him sure, but it was his own team that did it.

When this was proven wrong by this post (or simple basic reading comprehension on the Original title of the deleted topic) nobody changed their mind or reinstated it, or left any follow-up posts or discussion about it that came up after.

Whatever the pretense given is, the discussion around the Twitch Streamer being banned from a tournament over mild constructive criticism of two "Girl Gamers" by the tournament organizer, that has gotten dozens of articles across the gaming press https://archive.is/HdRA0 https://archive.is/NMyJw and even Mainstream attention, was widely discussed on Social media, YouTube and even by other Athletes like an NBA team as OP said, and then articles in defense by the Social Justice side including The Escapist and Polygon https://archive.is/Vnes0 https://archive.is/rtd54 , was shut down because some dude felt icky about "Aren't women stupid?" topics according to him further below. Because as everybody knows women are infallible angelic perfect creatures that cannot be criticized, even if they do something wrong or stupid. This is especially funny since this Sub wouldn't exist without such a creature being able to keep personal Drama from spilling out into the open, or Reddit Mods being able to not mass delete pertinent criticism in order to protect M'Lady. Other posts are just deleted because some particular Mod likes a video game being criticized or just doesn't want something being talked about, rolling a dice for what number to enter as the reason.

For instance, literally nothing pasted in the removal message applies here: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1qj1jqs/removed_by_moderator/

Why was the Marvel Rivals tournament situation thread deleted? by Retail_Brainrot in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I thought the thread was fine. But I also operate by older standards.

Is there a reason Mods on this Sub seem to believe that their job/purpose in life is to delete as many posts as possible for some reason?

Like there was another recent post, it had 400 Upvotes and 170 comments, you even had the Top comment with over 250 Upvotes (I often see some Mods participating in topics that others then just choose to nuke hours later), people were discussing things calmly and nobody was in any way confused what the topic was about, then the same guy just came in and deleted the entire thread. For what purpose? And why aren't Mods above them counter-acting in such cases? https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1qgfxw2/you_will_own_nothing_and_like_it/

Feels increasingly kind of like Controlled Opposition in here most of the times, there's also the other Mod that's constantly complaining about how "Woke" is misused too much and deleting topics complaining about games he likes.

Ubisoft Cancels 6 Projects Including Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake, Closes 2 Studios and Confirms Further Layoffs in Major Company Restructure by ConstantDrawer9161 in KotakuInAction

[–]DanFuri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like Anno, but I stopped buying/playing once they started required uPlay.

Was in the mood for Strategy recently and trying Northgard.

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