It's a consulting firm that makes games worse and advises people to threaten their employers with "media outrage" if said employer doesn't hire a consulting firm to increase diversity in the game's writing.
Bigots are upset there are ethnic, women, and lgbtq+ representation in video games, they recently found out a consulting firm, the topic of this thread, was employed on several recent flops and since bigots lack the ability for critical thinking they now blame EVERYTHING wrong with games on that company.
Meanwhile, the actual controversy around them pertains to a Steam page that contains a list of every game the company was hired to work on. People who want to avoid that company's work can visit that page and make sure that a game doesn't appear on the list.
The company is very, very upset by the prospect of accountability for their own output, and a few employees are trying to mass report, smear, and otherwise attempt to damage and punish the person who made the Steam page.
That's where the actual controversy starts. The rest of it is just "consulting firm gives awful advice, game companies follow the advice, the game sucks, people don't want to play more games with similar problems, people follow a steam page to keep track of games associated with the consulting company, consulting company becomes very upset"
dude was holding his tongue the entire time not to say just absolute dipshit nonsenseOkay, but how is that actually relevant to this situation?
Okay, but how is that actually relevant to this situation?
Okay, but how is that actually relevant to this situation?
Meanwhile, the actual controversy around them pertains to a Steam page
Bigots are upset there are ethnic, women, and lgbtq+ representation in video games, they recently found out a consulting firm, the topic of this thread, was employed on several recent flops and since bigots lack the ability for critical thinking they now blame EVERYTHING wrong with games on that company.
It is a consulting company that has worked on recent big games like Alan Wake 2 and Suicide Squad...
A steam user had put together a list of games SB worked on (he got them from their own site) in case gamers wanted to avoid them...due to had awful S Squad was...
A higher up of SB tried to get the steam user banned from steam and that backfired, and when they pulled that, now the anti-woke game groups have started looking at their history and it turns out one of their founders has given interviews about white men and why they shouldn't matter in gaming anymore...
Now SB has gone quiet but it turns out there are numerous more companies just like SB out there...
Isn't that Asmongolb guy some kind of right wing lunatic?
Isn't that Asmongolb guy some kind of right wing lunatic?No, not at all.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a3760aa7.pngI would like to ask you to explain how the page owner's not-actually-hateful conduct during the interview has anything to do with the company trying to brigade and mass report the list itself
no hes a neckbeard NEET streamer with milquetoast capital G Gamer opinions
I would like to ask you to explain how the page owner's not-actually-hateful conduct during the interview has anything to do with the company trying to brigade and mass report the list itself
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a3760aa7.pngYou're only allowed to criticize what people buy when you're the one buying it for them. Until then we'll buy games with hot babes in it and not wokified by a woke consultancy firm. Just like some people boycotting JK Rowling associated products, only, that group isn't harassing streamers playing wokified games
You're only allowed to criticize what people buy when you're the one buying it for them. Until then we'll buy games with hot babes in it and not wokified by a woke consultancy firm. Just like some people boycotting JK Rowling associated products, only, that group isn't harassing streamers playing wokified games
You're only allowed to criticize what people buy when you're the one buying it for them. Until then we'll buy games with hot babes in it and not wokified by a woke consultancy firm. Just like some people boycotting JK Rowling associated products, only, that group isn't harassing streamers playing wokified games
because it's just thinly veiled pushback against gaming embracing modern social sensibilitiesIt's not that thinly veiled, really. The pushback is largely against diversity spreadsheets and quota checklists that don't actually make the game any better. It's push back against a culture that constantly puts out articles about how "this game is awesome but I have to give it a bad review because it has too many white people in it"
It's not that thinly veiled, really. The pushback is largely against diversity spreadsheets and quota checklists that don't actually make the game any better. It's push back against a culture that constantly puts out articles about how "this game is awesome but I have to give it a bad review because it has too many white people in it"
it's gamergate lol
You're only allowed to criticize what people buy when you're the one buying it for them. Until then we'll buy games with hot babes in it and not wokified by a woke consultancy firm. Just like some people boycotting JK Rowling associated products, only, that group isn't harassing streamers playing wokified games
It's push back against a culture that constantly puts out articles about how "this game is awesome but I have to give it a bad review because it has too many white people in it"
Only they insist they are entitled to have all games be made to suit their desires and insecuritiesNot really. They're just buying the games that suit them, rather than buying the games that don't. Additionally, they're compiling a list of games that have similar DNA (aka, using the same diversity and sensitivity consultant) so that other people of like mind can avoid those games, too.
Can you point to one of these reviews from a published source that isn't just a random twitter or youtuber with six followers?Here's the specific one I had in mind, since it's somewhat recent. Articles like this have been coming out about lots of games for a really long time now, though.
They're just buying the games that suit them
https://x.com/GamesNosh/status/1764802262017183761?s=20Yeah, that's definitely the Sarkeesian model. So I'd say calling them bullshit is likely warranted in that case, though the internet is doing what the internet does and turning the whole thing into an salvageable shitshow.
Yeah they're not "just" doing this but count on you to ignore all the horrifically racist shit that comes out of that camp.What else are they doing, functionally?