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[Kotaro]

2024 has been a banner for chuds, we got our 'rare chuds win' one after another;
- woke games bombed (Suicide Squad, Concord, SW Outlaws, DA Veilguard, Dustborn, Unknown 9, and many others)
- based games prospered (Stellar Blade, Wukong, Helldiver 2, Space Marine 2)

Looks like the momentum continues in 2025. In latest major developments in war against wokeness
- Chinese-developed Marvel Rivals is doing great numbers with its traditionally designed characters (masculine men, sexy feminine females)
- BIG NEWS: Meta completely nuked all their DEI programs and Facebook/Instagram dumped censorship and wokeness completely
- Amazon also cancelled many of their DEI programs
- Ubisoft is on the brink of bankruptcy and AC: Shadows delayed once again. Will Ubisoft even survive before Shadows released??
- CI Games, Lord of the Fallen studio, said they will not implement anymore DEI elements in their games, because they basically said 'go woke go broke'

With all these recent developments, Do other game developers still not get the message???? is Naughty Dog still going to stick to their bald dude female character? is Fable still going to keep their butt ugly female character?? they're risking hundreds of millions of dollars, even when they already know what the outcome will be

DEI wokeness is dying, chuds are winning. Adjust or DIE

 

[Crayon]

 

[Bernardougf]

 

[AJUMP23]

This thread is politics.

But all these things ebb and flow. Large developers will follow the market and go with what sells.

 

[bundylove]

OK

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

This culture war shit has some of y'all terminally online.

 

[fart town usa]

I look at it this way.

There is no shortage of non-woke games. The problem is that chuds shit on them just as hard as they do DEI-infested stuff.

Until the chuds start showing some love to these AA games, we're going to watch the slow death of woke AAA and the slow death of quality non-woke AA studios.

Explore AA publishers and buy their games, those are the studios we want to level up to the AAA world.

 

[Draugoth]

Companies only see money, if DEI games keep bringing money they will keep doing it, that's all (you can blame Blackrock for it)

 

[bundylove]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

This culture war shit has some of y'all terminally online.

And the irony is that companies and people in positions of power believe in it.

let than sink for a moment. and reflect how fucked up that is.

 

[bundylove]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

It's funny because i was listening to Kirsche (like 3 weeks ago) and the same exact phrasing this person says was in a DEI documentation.

 

[Topher]

chuds and wokes?

 

[MikeM]

Anti woke are up there with vegans and crossfitters.

The games you listed as failures was because they sucked.

 

[bundylove]

You cpuld also watch the latest joe rogan show where zuckerberg reveils some of the nasty shit they had to comply with

 

[Pimpbaa]

I look at it this way.

There is no shortage of non-woke games. The problem is that chuds shit on them just as hard as they do DEI-infested stuff.

Until the chuds start showing some love to these AA games, we're going to watch the slow death of woke AAA and the slow death of quality non-woke AA studios.

Explore AA publishers and buy their games, those are the studios we want to level up to the AAA world.

Chuds boycotted Stellar Blade because they censored a couple of outfits out the 40 something the game had (even tho they added edited version of those outfits back that were even more revealing). I pre-ordered that game (something I never do, always wait for sales) because we need more games like that to succeed.

 

[adamsapple]

chuds and wokes?

 

[NahaNago]

Just because you won some battles in one year doesn't mean that woke/DEI is dying especially in gaming. This stuff has been going on for nearly a decade and has become the norm in all of the AAA gaming companies so even if you end the programs you still have a decade of employee hires in those companies.

 

[bundylove]

It's funny because i was listening to Kirsche (like 3 weeks ago) and the same exact phrasing this person says was in a DEI documentation.

You know i done care if you are gay or lesbo or trans or hippo. As long as you are good at your job do it.

But to be hired based on skin and gender and sexuality and then planes crash and fires rage and and and ...thats different

 

[gaheris]

Like that is something to be proud, because it isn't it is just pathetic.

 

[Crayon]

Chuds boycotted Stellar Blade because they censored a couple of outfits out the 40 something the game had (even tho they added edited version of those outfits back that were even more revealing). I pre-ordered that game (something I never do, always wait for sales) because we need more games like that to succeed.

That is true. Guys were actually raging over that. Fucking crazy.

What does chud even mean though? I don't like saying incel. Maybe chud would be fine.

 

[Firestartah]

Anti woke are up there with vegans and crossfitters.

The games you listed as failures was because they sucked.

And you dont think that the fact they sucked wasnt because of DEI hires who were shit at their job but got it in order for the company to meet a quota ??? or did that Ms. Freeze in Suicide Squad popped out of nowhere like magic.

I'll take being considered like a vegan over being a beta that just accepts every trash thats being thrown at them just cause they are complacent and stuck their head in the sand with the "it is what it is" attitude. Some of us want this hobby of ours to keep thriving, if you dont got what it takes to speak up and point out issues, then sit down and shut up.

 

[Barakov]

Just because you won some battles in one year doesn't mean that woke/DEI is dying especially in gaming. This stuff has been going on for nearly a decade and has become the norm in all of the AAA gaming companies so even if you end the programs you still have a decade of employee hires in those companies.

Then again an awful lot of people lost their jobs last year so

There comes a point where even AAA studios will lose thier taste for putting this stuff in their games.

 

[RoboFu]

People still don't seem to understand that wokism is funded. It's a means of control that people with money and agendas beyond what's presented at face value want.

 

[Generic]

GTA6 will probably be the most successful entertainment product of all time.

 

[Unknown?]

Anti woke are up there with vegans and crossfitters.

The games you listed as failures was because they sucked.

Nah, not even close. Anti wokes are loud now because idiots kept saying anything and everything was racist when it was not. They kept saying men can menstrate and get pregnant. They kept saying you can identify as something that doesn't exist.

Vegans keep telling everyone to get attention. Anti wokes are tired of being told to live in fantasy land.

 

[Shubh_C63]

This thread is politics.

But all these things ebb and flow. Large developers will follow the market and go with what sells.

We won't have total eradication but the ones who does stick by and keeps making Woke games might find their niche success.
Like how Life is Strange was so much associated with LGBT when no game was delving on those topics.

 

[TropicanaTwista]

These threads are more cringey than the "wokeness" in games.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

I’m a married chud so more of an incel.

 

[CityHunter1981]

Where is the fun in that, if suddenly no one make woke games anymore, where we can just laugh about how they bomb…

Next one is Avowed…

 

[willothedog]

 

[Hawkeye2890]

The tide has definitely turned. But it will take 2-4 years to see the results due to long dev times.

 

[MikeM]

And you dont think that the fact they sucked wasnt because of DEI hires who were shit at their job but got it in order for the company to meet a quota ??? or did that Ms. Freeze in Suicide Squad popped out of nowhere like magic.

I'll take being considered like a vegan over being a beta that just accepts every trash thats being thrown at them just cause they are complacent and stuck their head in the sand with the "it is what it is" attitude. Some of us want this hobby of ours to keep thriving, if you dont got what it takes to speak up and point out issues, then sit down and shut up.

COD is a clown show. It still does well. Why? Because the core game remains generally intact.

For example, games like Concord which is known to be heavy DEI chased something that already existed. You could have the fattest titties and ass out there, but it was a solution to a problem that already found its solution. Sounds like a lot of these DEI failures.

No idea what you are referring to regarding Ms. Freeze. As for me being a beta- well, look at my picture. Chad.

DEI can make sense. It just can’t be forced and a lot of companies are learning the hard way.

 

[Jaybe]

And it all started with a Sweet Baby Inc employee throwing a Twitter rage fit cause a list of their games was made:

 

[MikeM]

Nah, not even close. Anti wokes are loud now because idiots kept saying anything and everything was racist when it was not. They kept saying men can menstrate and get pregnant. They kept saying you can identify as something that doesn't exist.

Vegans keep telling everyone to get attention. Anti wokes are tired of being told to live in fantasy land.

Your local DEI club is far wilder than anything i’ve seen.

All seriousness- you have extremes in any belief circle.

 

[StereoVsn]

Keep in mind that dev takes many years now days so you will see games with this sort of material coming out for couple more years.

 

[NahaNago]

Then again an awful lot of people lost their jobs last year so

There comes a point where even AAA studios will lose thier taste for putting this stuff in their games.

After putting this stuff in their games for so long it will be several years before the aftertaste leaves from these studios. My opinion is that it is just going to adapt and evolve to be more palatable for the masses.

 

[Jaybe]

Upcoming 2025 failures:

1. Avowed (racist director)
2. South of Midnight (racist community manager)
3. Assassin’s Creed Shawdows (racist studio)

 

[gow3isben]

2024 has been a banner for chuds, we got our 'rare chuds win' one after another;
- woke games bombed (Suicide Squad, Concord, SW Outlaws, DA Veilguard, Dustborn, Unknown 9, and many others)
- based games prospered (Stellar Blade, Wukong, Helldiver 2, Space Marine 2)

Looks like the momentum continues in 2025. In latest major developments of war against wokeness
- Chinese-developed Marvel Rivals is doing great numbers with its traditionally designed characters (masculine men, sexy feminine females)
- BIG NEWS: Meta completely nuked all their DEI programs and Facebook/Instagram dumped censorship and wokeness completely
- Amazon also cancelled many of their DEI programs
- Ubisoft is on the brink of bankruptcy and AC: Shadows delayed once again. Will Ubisoft even survive before Shadows released??
- CI Games, Lord of the Fallen studio, said they will not implement anymore DEI elements in their games, because they basically said 'go woke go broke'

With all these recent developments, Do other game developers still not get the message???? is Naughty Dog still going to stick to their bald dude female character? is Fable still going to keep their butt ugly female character?? they're risking hundreds of millions of dollars, even when they already know what the outcome will be

DEI wokeness is dying, chuds are winning. Adjust or DIE

Pretty sure Fable has character creator male or female

 

[fart town usa]

Companies only see money, if DEI games keep bringing money they will keep doing it, that all (you can thank Blackrock for it)

The fascinating thing is that most of these projects are a complete waste of money. There are so many examples and it keeps happening, lol.

It's so bizarre to me. But Blackrock is definitely a thing with funding this through ESG and ESG inherently brings in DEI. And now the West seems to be actively pushing back against it through elections. What a bizarre time in history.

 

[Stuart360]

The fact that there are reports that even Disney, the poster child of wokism, are considering dropping their agenda drivel, well you know the tide is changing.

As others have said though, its going to take a few years before we see just how much it is changing.

 

[fart town usa]

I'm using this thread as an excuse to shill for Outcast 2. Seriously, buy this game, it's often on sale. Technical hiccups aside, this game is a freaking gem.

 

[LectureMaster]

chuds and wokes?

Those are young people's buzzwords, stay and learn!

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

And it all started with a Sweet Baby Inc employee throwing a Twitter rage fit cause a list of their games was made:

Pretty absurd, the campaign to "report the fuck out of this group" and then the individual user... for what exactly? All I see is admitted and suggested abuse of the reporting system.

 

[Pop]

Well not Xbox yet

 

[Topher]

Those are young people's buzzwords, stay and learn!

 

[Jaybe]

Well not Xbox yet

Probably the ones behind these:

 

[ArtHands]

Sony Playstation developers

 

[chakadave]

Companies only see money, if DEI games keep bringing money they will keep doing it, that all (you can thank Blackrock for it)

This. It’s buying social brownie points.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

The chuds are about to wipe Ubisoft off the face of the planet. A shame, because there could have been a renaissance there if they took control of their company. Ghost Recon, R6, Splinter Cell, PoP, Far Cry…and all they had to do was make them and make them like they used to.