Preemptive so that people don't discuss the woke shitstorm for Avowed. Or maybe it had already happened but nobody cares about the game that much to have noticed.
The tags on the game in the linked article were DEI and non-BUY-nary.
Avowed, who knows, really. That game was a shot in the dark in the best of scenarios - they'd have been much safer just making Pillars Of Eternity 3...
You don't have to use Steam forums as a dev. It's simply not a requirement.
we are still in the fight!!!!
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What happened with Kingdom Come? I thought they have lots of goodwill
Why?
Only in the eyes of the anti-woke brainrot club, which has quickly reached the same level of annoying non-stop BS as their horseshoe counterpart...
Currently replaying Deadfire, but without Josh Sawyer, I don't give 2 fucks about Avowed.Something’s going on
It would be cool to see a Pillars of Eternity 3 with Microsoft money.
In a post-BG3 world where people are now willing to look at an Isometric CRPG.
Well. Deadfire didn't quite gel with me because I just don't like pirate stuff. But I still think the PoE games (both 1 and 2) are a better execution on "Infinity Engine"-likes than the Pathfinder games by Owlcat. But that has more to do with the shitty Pathfinder ruleset and how Owlcat have decided to adopt it for their games. There's just too much fucking buffing going on that you need to do before every encounter. And there are a lot of them. Sawyer had the right idea of making a rule system from scratch that fits a video game. Altough one could criticize that he went overboard with trying to balance everything out; you can't really make a bad build. And you can't really make an OP build. Which is kinda where a lot of fun can come from, imho.
there wouldnt be "non woke' if woke wasnt a thing in the first place. the "non woke" want the same thing you want.
Cause it's a half step removed from allowing publishers to remove their reviews section. The forums are incredibly useful for obscure troubleshooting, mods, long form discussions, and criticism. Publishers shouldn't have control over that, full stop. Beyond adhering to common sense global Steam conduct policy,. Valve's entire brand and success is owed to being "the good guy", with Steam as their charity.Why?
It's a service that Valve offers devs to use as they see fit. Valve isn't some charity company providing a discussion platform for the masses
Considering how behavior on those forums has increasingly become more and more braindead and less civil, I can't fault any developer for not wanting to spend any resources on it.
Nobody wants to spend their precious time playing kindergardner for a bunch of adults.
Personally, I'd still leave it open and just put a sign up "we have no intention of stepping into the pit, we'll be over at X, but you do you, have fun" - but again, can't fault anyone for just closing it entirely.
Avowed is generic woke trash.
What did they do ? I haven't kept up with the news in a while.
How did hellblade 2 turn out with ms money? Not a second longer than part 1.
No, it's not.
Apparently, a guy is shown having some quality time with another guy - my guess is that it's going to be the bad guy being shown in full-on-Caligula-style debauchery.
Do you know what else has unskippable gay sex? Prison.
There are some wild rumors about an "immoral" sex scene (some say gay sex....but this was stealth removed already from the original twitter post) in the game. Also there is a rumor about a black guy appearing in the game where people also arent happy with.
