You can stop using stupid shit like “cishet white” for starters. Statistically, most people who do not care will be cishet white. Those who care, will also mostly be cishet white. With this type of exclusionary discourse bordering on racism, no one will ever listen to you because from the start, you already sound like you have nothing important to say. There’s three types of people in the US: Slaves working 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet, middle class being pit against the slaves by the third group, the capital. By using exclusionary discourse, assimilated from bougie fake activism, you’re promoting infighting within the classes that should be hunting the capital like animals, the French way!

Edit: your country has sacrificed countless children to never eschew the right to bear arms. Well, stop bitching online to make yourself feel good and use them.

You mean: “some people have different opinions on a game than bertie does” right? I did not profess any opinion of my own, just my bewilderment that the best game bioware ever made sold less than 20% than Inquisition 10y ago in a massively popular franchise, when the potential market is an order of magnitude larger. Would be nice to know what motivates this disconnect between perceived quality from professional bloggers and the actual people buying the games. If you leave reactionary emotional ad hominem outbursts, like your reply, aside, and have a critical analysis of the entire situation, there has to be a reason Veilguard’s sales paled in comparison to much more niche franchises like Dragon’s Dogma… Personally, I think the change in art direction and eschewing of pungent writing in favour of Disney like fairy tale drivel pushed most of the core audience away and wasn’t differentiated enough to capture a new audience.

Wait, but Robert Puchese of Eurogamer told me That Veilguard is the best Bioware game he ever played. Are you telling me this may be a lie? What could possibly explain this disconnect between message and reality?

Pedant time: That’s microscale not nanoscale.

You can shoot me now, it’s deserved.

Let the FUD begin!

Arrrrright.

Huh, I think they forgot a pretty big regime in the headline…

Remember Marty Straton is a grade A cunt. Boycott doom.

I’m never paying for an ID game while Stratton is around, which is fine, because after the MS acquisition, there’s only one direction to the quality of the franchises…

By design. Cut all the middle men (including thousands of jobs in logistics, distribution and sales) and absorb all of that trickled down wealth upwards in the form of bonuses to the gents who annihilated an entire industry, not by lack of demand, but because the incentive structure is completely opposite to the interests of society at large.

Apple does NOT protect user privacy.

Sadly that evaluation trusts what Apple says, not what Apple does.

With the stagnation of iPhone growth, Apple has turned to services and there’s nothing more profitable than selling access to people.

Because modern audiences don’t ask for it.

Did they use MS’s AI to copy Mick Gordon’s music after shafting him?! Marty is a POS. Not buying this game or any other ID game till they pay Mick, apologise, and boot Marty. There’s a wealth of boomer shooters available to choose from, this isn’t that impressive.

Why think when you can emote right? I’m take a wild guess and say there’s an ocean between us…

Europe downscaled their artillery shell production capacity intentionally after the cold war ended. Russia got a significant portion of their ammo from NK. That comparison as a benchmark is ridiculous. I don’t even know why I waste my time. That’s some Radio Free Europe BS.

Yes yes, everyone knows the scale of military industry is measured in billions wasted spent and not in output or quality. Look at the F35s, a shining example of money well spent… The biggest problem of EU’s military Industry is that they’ve been preparing to fight a sci-fi war and forgot artillery et al are still a thing. Otherwise, not worried at all.

Oh, moving the goalposts already. First they were imaginary, now they have rookie numbers… Ok…

TIL SAAB, Rheinmetall, D’Assault, Glock, H&K, Thales, Airbus, et al are figments of my imagination.

And that was just from the top of my head.

Stridsvagn coming to NATO armies FTW!

They’re going to have shit value aren’t they… Poor Volta PTSD intensifies.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This type of disconnect is what happens when the media is more concerned about being in their sponsor’s good graces than complying with their obligation to their audience. Next time, politely decline Disneyland tickets and other freebies, ya know, like the code of journalistic ethics dictate…

Now, queue accusations of misoginy and whatever a loud minority of idiots does, while the overall message, that traditional outlets should not have these huge conflicts of interest undisclosed, gets drowned in the shit flinging by those with megaphones, vs the silent majority.

Veilguard didn’t fail because it had post op scars as a character option (but man, drama youtubers cashed in hard on that one), it failed because, apparently, nobody in the development team was as worried about shipping a good, well written and entertaining game, as they were with trauma dumping.

Edit: For the record, the laugh is for hyperbole, I’m pissed because this broken system results in further layoffs of people who were just caught in the meat grinder. UNIONISE yesterday!