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! 😁
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.