09-11-2024, 05:53 PM
What sets the the anime / Asian gaming stuff apart though is that there is no way for the woke advocates to get inside the creation process unless it's a 'global team'. They can't have a diversity officer or whatever 'police' the content or run to HR enough times to enact the 'necessary changes' to the protagonist like they can at Xbox, Ubisoft or Disney.
They can do that only when the game is brought over to the west (very limited because otherwise it sinks the entire product) or developed to cater to the west. But a lot of stuff these days starts out as some niche Korean/Chinese thing and is then introduced to a wider market with very little changes with millions in online ads that bypass the 'traditional' gate keeping soy gaming press entirely.
Another dog whistle that has been uncovered is 'accessiblity'. 9 out of 10 times 'accessible' games are woke as hell or have very generic designs.
Finally the mainstream gaming press has a blind spot for this type of media. They often don't see it as 'real games' and report on stuff like Dustborn and Outlaws as 'good' and inaccessible bro-games like Warhammer as 'bad'.
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But they don't do much coverage on 'niche' games that according to Steam player counts often have 10x or 100x as many players as the latest corpo woke slop they tried to push. They mainly stick to policing the mainstream content but that's not what gamers are playing anymore.
They can do that only when the game is brought over to the west (very limited because otherwise it sinks the entire product) or developed to cater to the west. But a lot of stuff these days starts out as some niche Korean/Chinese thing and is then introduced to a wider market with very little changes with millions in online ads that bypass the 'traditional' gate keeping soy gaming press entirely.
Another dog whistle that has been uncovered is 'accessiblity'. 9 out of 10 times 'accessible' games are woke as hell or have very generic designs.
Finally the mainstream gaming press has a blind spot for this type of media. They often don't see it as 'real games' and report on stuff like Dustborn and Outlaws as 'good' and inaccessible bro-games like Warhammer as 'bad'.
But they don't do much coverage on 'niche' games that according to Steam player counts often have 10x or 100x as many players as the latest corpo woke slop they tried to push. They mainly stick to policing the mainstream content but that's not what gamers are playing anymore.