This is a slightly off topic post, but one that I feel is tangentially related to Q and The Great Awakening.
Not sure how many gamers we have in The Great Awakening. I grew up with classics like Command & Conquer, and Red Alert. Over the years we've seen many phases in gaming culture. Among these have been both Gamer Gate 1.0 in the early 2010s, and more recently the Gamer Gate 2.0 which was kicked off when the discovery was made that there are woke consulting firms like Sweet Baby Inc who work in league with the woke journalists to pressure companies into compliance with their D.E.I agenda.
Well, gamers won a very big battle today. Evidently, Sony spent $250,000,000 and 8 years of development on their IP called "Concord." Search for pictures of this game and you will be met with some of the most bafflingly horrible character designs in entertainment history. They checked every D.E.I. box possible while managing to make every character look hideous and ugly. What did all those years of development and millions in cash net Sony? 700 peak concurrent players on Steam and a complete shut down and refund of the game only 11 days after launch.
For those who aren't aware, this type of failure is unheard of in the industry. There have been plenty of flops over the years, but never one of this magnitude that a major publisher like Sony was backing and then subsequently pulled the plug on only two weeks after launch.
For comparison, there is another game called Black Myth Wukong developed by a Chinese studio that came out around the same time. It featured the famous "Monkey King" from Journey to the West as the main protagonist. It was in development for 4 years with a budget of $57,000,000 (20% of what Sony spent) and grossed nearly a billion dollars in revenue.
This is a major sign of where the general public stands with the woke narrative. The mainstream media continues to gaslight everyone with stories of how the woke leftists are all up in the polls and super popular.
In the end, money talks.
The woke narrative is getting buried in all forms of media, be it gaming, movies, television, etc.
That is all. Now back to your regularly scheduled Q digs and research! 😁
It’s also a form of money laundering.
Ever notice Trump saying everything they touch turns to shit. The art is ugly. Music is ugly. Get out of shape super heros. Gender swapping of characters like Iron man. It’s awful and all connected.
I agree.
There is no way these television and game studios have billions of dollars to simply flush down the toilet. These shows and games look like they could be made by a talented studio with a tenth of the budget and in a tenth of the time.
Laundering is a big part of the direction these industries are going in.
Could you elaborate on how they money launder through a project like this? Thx
Easy. The money is given to / spent on 3rd-party "programming firms," "marketing consultants" and "animation contractors" who either pocket the cash themselves or spend it to buy bricks delivered to Chicago for an open air art project Aaron's the time of the DNC convention, or other things they wouldn't want to talk about.
Like the infamous Sweet Baby Inc.
Thank you for posting this. The comparison between different games/investment $$ really brought your point home. You’ve got me thinking.
Don't forget the 90 lb super weak woman beating the holy s**t out of the 240 lb man with muscles.
Ahhh
Captain Marvel fiasco. Brie doesn’t like us at all.
There is also the downfall of the Star Wars franchise starring Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker. All the other Star Wars stuff produced by Disney is 10 times as bad with The Acolate being some sort of DEI st sandwich. Then on the Marvel side, we have the st sandwich known as She Hulk. Then there is Indiana Jones 5 which was a total disaster. And finally, there is the upcoming disaster known as Disney's Snow Brown and the Seven Beings.
Keep in mind that the above is just the Disney crap.
I loved the she hulk comics way back. It was so silly and campy like the Bruce Campbell movies.
Brace yourselves, the Disney version of She Hulk made Twerking a thing. There is a picture out there that shows the title character twerking with a fat black woman.
It's also worth mentioning that George Soros infiltrated huge gaming companies in the last 15 years, which makes sense, that's when games really started to go downhill. Search up George Soros video games, you'll find his shitty jewbag articles.
Im not a super heroes movie kind of guy. I liked the very first batman -- kinda -- but have avoided them since. They are mostly disjointed stories that disappoint.
But I watched the Avenger series because of a post here that linked it to current events. They turned the Hulk into an effeminant soy boy cuck and made Thor a fat drunk. How can any comic book nerd accept this malfeasance?
Thanks for posting a unique perspective many of us would never have known. I tend to agree with you that collectively, we are indeed NOT buying-in to the nonsense they are producing... in many silos of thought. Money? Yea... but moreso, it is the demeanor of those saying no.
This is shifting a complete paradigm and the energy field shrouding the planet changes. We have always manifested this energy grid and live within it... self generated. When humans, en masse' unite in only one idea it (in-turn) shifts the frequency of this energy grid. Free will is the most powerful energy on earth when it is focused and united. In fact, it would actually be the definition of NCSWIC.
I've also noticed a lot of streamers lately are playing games that are ten (like Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas) or even twenty years old (like Metal Gear Solid) rather than the latest games. There's a lot of young viewers getting reintroduced to some classics. Just need some of them to stream the original Deus Ex, that game is just redpill after redpill and it came out in 2000 and predicted an absurd number of things that have happened since then (the war on terror, AI, nanotechnology, a manufactured plague, etc.)
Lots of streamers are playing old games from the classic era up until PS2 era. Which is great, those are the best genuine eras for gaming.
This is why the cia studies the Gateway process and collective conciousness.
Art aka written. Dance. Music and so on, tells the stories of culture in a way that affects the masses. Music is the most powerful.
And likely why the (probably)C_A took control of rap, to control the black population.
Make Gaming Great AGAIN
Also another note on the DEI consultant firm Sweet Baby Inc and Black Myth Wukong. Allegedly, Sweet Baby Inc tried to threaten the studio behind Black Myth Wukong to pay for their services or else "something" might come out about them and that they "may need" their consultanting to remedy the situation. Black Myth Wukong allegedly said that Sweet Baby Inc. was trying to charge them around $1,000,000 for their services. The studio told them to pound sand. Coincidently right after, news articles from a bunch of gaming journalist started to report that the studio had a problem of sexism. Very interesting all these game "journalist" came out of the wood work. Twitter noticed this blatant bs and started to support the studio. That's why the game is such a big success because it's a fuck you to game journos. Also, it's supposedly a really beautiful and good game. The more you know.
Sweet liber-tea. I love it.
That's a huge win.
This is very on topic but I think you (and most of us) are missing the bigger picture. Recall when Trump talks about how thieves, when caught, have to return the diamonds. Microsoft has to be broken up, because it is CIA and Deep State and it can't be reformed. If we want to destroy the Rothschilds and the CIA and Blackrock we have to burn it all down and switch to BRICS.
Google/Amazon/Apple/Microsoft all have their infrastructure subsidized by the CIA and American Taxpayer. That all ends soon. Your cell phone, that you make most of your purchases, is subsidized by the cabal. Same with the the consoles, especially Xbox, it is subsidized by Cabal. Silicon Valley couldn't survive if they had to pay their electricity bill. The CIA and cabal launder tax payer money to pay the infrastructure bill of the tech companies. They also manipulate investment to keep these insolvent companies active.
Meta spends like 3 or 4 billion dollars a month just on Research and Design.
I think the Q team wants to destroy the legacy media so the Chinese and Nintendo can buy up the IP for cents on the dollar and put a stop to the money laundering.
This is also a Jump the Shark moment. These multimedia companies got infiltrated and trolled. It's hysterical.
I think the implosion of Microsoft Xbox as a brand is interesting, too. Very similar to the implosion of Paramount. Paramount might not even survive. Same with Intel. These old guard companies, from TV to Silicon Valley, are all on their death beds and might not survive another year.
Sony seems healthy but they aren't thriving either. Nintendo is probably the most likely to survive the Storm. Ubisoft took a hit today and I think they are down 10% because their Star Wars game is down 75% from the sales numbers of a decade ago.
I've been banned on ResetEra for talking about BRICS. I didn't even get a chance to talk about how the Military is dismantling the old guard media corporations and intentionally bankrupting them.
It's possible the CEOs just don't understand interest rates. They might just be retarded. Any way, the video game and entertainment industries are imploding because they are the worst investment imaginable. The games are too niche, games take too long to develop, there is infinite competition, and gamers are tired of the genres. The business doesn't scale either, so the larger you get, the less efficient you get. Entertainment isn't an industry that produces commodities, but these idiots are trying to run Sony and Microsoft like they are producing pork rinds and orange juice. Microsoft is absolutely crazy because they don't want full time employees that retain knowledge and culture. They hire contractors for a year, then they shitcan the contractors and ship the product. But you can't do games that way. Lol. The contractors have no real love for Forza or Fable, so the games suffer because no one has a historical connection to the Studios and there is no passion or culture or even understanding. It's a lack of mentoring. No mentors. No artisans. No visionaries. Just people with a 9 month contract to model a hero trans man in an outfit that looks like asparagus.
Paramount and Microsoft and other media corporations went all in on streaming and subscription services over the past decade (to compete with Netflix and Amazon). But Microsoft nuked the Xbox brand and MS now has to pivot to a third-party publisher because the Xbox brand got beat the fuck out of the market and is like 8% compared to Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft might still release a new console after the Storm, but they are essentially now a third-party publisher and they don't care about hardware to the extent that Nintendo cares. Nintendo, on the other hand, does offer streaming games, but only the old stuff, the really old legacy console games. Sony has streaming too, but it's not day and date.
Embracer just fired over 4,000 employees and closed dozens and dozens of game studios and stopped work on ~70 games. (The Arabs didn't agree to finance Embracer and Embracer had no plan B and no other source of money laundering.)
I don’t know anything about gaming, but that was a really interesting post. Thank you for taking the time for this reply.
It looks like Concord only sold 2500 copies. This multiplayer game has only been out barely two weeks and they're already shutting down the servers and refunding people because it's unplayable to where it took players 10 minutes just to find anyone to play with.
And the OP didn't even talk about the failure that is Dustborn, a game so woke you'd think it was a right-wing made parody of woke but no the devs took themselves very seriously. The protagonist's special abilities include "canceling" and "bullying".
I'm of the opinion that these failures are being done on purpose. One it helps big companies like Microsft buy out dead or dying studios who are trapped into DEI contracts. Two, I believe it's part of shrinking our entertainment. When Rome was collapsing, all the people wanted was more bread, more wine, and more circus. We're losing the "circus" more and more every day. We are losing that digital escapism from this reality. It could even be a part of the plan to pull us away from the TV and Computer and bring us back to nature and God.
TBH Concord failed because it was trying to cater to an audience that doesnt exist with their knockoff Guardians of the Galaxy stuff Plus its a hero shooter? How many hero shooters are out there competing against each other? The character design was atrocious and unsalvageable, For a new company to be comprised of veteran game developers it doesnt seem like they had a "Good" art director.
Concord might have succeeded if they had a competent development time. It took 8 years to make. In that time, like you said, a glut of hero shooters have saturated the market. Also, in that time, two Guardians of the Galaxy sequels were produced, and the third one was lackluster which killed the hype. Also in that time there has been a shift in the zeitgeist. There have been significant pushback against the woke agenda, normies have caught on and successful boycotts have been launched against massive brands. For comparison, GTA5 took at most five years to make (some sources say it was done in three). Imagine if Concord came out in 2021, at the height of covid hysteria. It might have sold very well.
Concord also very prominently displayed each character’s pronouns on the selection screen.
There’s another (somewhat smaller profile, but still worthy) failure too:
Dustborn, a game funded by foreign governments, in which you literally use words to hurt people, and learn skills like how to “cancel” your enemies, is also apparently in shambles with a tiny player base.
Not to mention Homeworld 3 having a garbage DEI story that’s been widely panned by everyone.
Of course, the mental gymnastics that gaming Reddit is going through to blame everything but DEI for the failure of these games is a spectacle to see. The HW3 subreddit was downvoting and banning people who blamed DEI, yet the overwhelming consensus was that the story was absolute trash written by amateurs. They just can’t quite put their finger on why it was so bad, but it was NOT because it was woke, of course.
They refuse to even acknowledge woke exists, lol.
Every time I’ve ever mentioned it, like clockwork I get hit with “What is that word even supposed to mean?????”
Not gamer related, but young people related....
my son said he and some others were watching the kamala dnc speech in his freshman dorm the other night. His RA came by and gave them a strange look and said so this is what you are watching. My son replies, "we are hate watching". The RA smiled and laughed and said good as he walked off.
This is in college, my son says most of the people he talks to are pro Trump. I am sure there are some around him that are not, but the energy is shifting. The assumption is you are pro Trump, so the lefties are keeping quiet.
The ugly characters, really, I stopped playing games when the main character is only one gender and ugly. I remember see beautiful women and eye pleasing characters. Now all of them a fat ugly short haired women wearing pink, blue or green hair. Ugh make it stop. Also bitching at me about woke, f that I am trying to relax.
I'm getting a lot of laughs out of the Dustborn flop.
Woke is why we always go back to old classics like Skyrim. It has none of that bullshit.
Early gamer, around for GG. Its hard to produce art with an ugly heart.
Just today Nintendo released a trailer of Mario & Luigi: Brothership, featuring a world named Concordia! Great timing, lol
How is this gamergate 2.0? Because of the DEI discovery?
Let's see how the new Assassin's Creed: We Wuz Ninjaz does. It's getting shredded in the YouTube comments, but Reddit claims it's going to be the biggest AC everrrrrrrr.
I am by no means a supporter of Sony but the studio that made this game is Firewalk Studio and there parent company was aquired by Sony while this game was in development. The game flopped mostly due to it being so similar to free to play games like Overwatch 2 and Valorant. Why would people pay to try out this new game when there are 2 established games in the same genre that are 100% free? Also Sony did not spend 8 years and 250 million making this game. Firewalk Studios might have but they were aquired by Sony in April 2023 so it seems like this game was almost finished when Sony aquired them.
I am not sure where you get that all the characters look hedious as this is a scifi game. They look like scifi characters. I personally have never played the game but I went and looked up some game play and read up on the game after reading this post.
All in all this just seems like a bad first game from a new game studio. With Sony aquiring them so late in development there would have been no reason to scrap the project.