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Quite ok. But you did just say that woke ideology affects all aspects of a game so you can easily blame shit game mechanics on woke ideology. Are you saying that's not the case?
Baldur's Gate 3 pushed for woke ideology and did extremely well, but it's a risky move. Every character in that game is essentially bisexual, with a lesbian couple that you have to save. Just like how sex can help sell an otherwise shitty game, you can expect "ideologies" to make a weak game even weaker. Here's another example from Persona 5, a game I didn't like playing but is well received by the community. At some point in the game you take a test and one of the questions is about who makes the money in Japan. The answer is not the government because the government is stupid at managing money. Clearly game developers had an ideology that they wanted to push in a game. Whether or not it's a popular opinion is another matter. Point is do enough of these in a video game and anger enough people while your game is essentially mediocre at best, then don't expect great sales. Even if the game was top notch, doesn't give developers excuses to put these into games. People in 2026 are very sensitive to bullshit, and can easily see it.
The issue isn't whether or not the lead is an attractive woman, or even if she's meant to pander to horny, lonely men. I was discussing more the possibility that developers might backtrack to please the whiners. Imagine the public backlash if Santa Monica Studio caved and made Laufey a sex symbol... yeah, some of those complainers might change their mind, but that would be overshadowed by the roasting Sony would get for not sticking to its guns.
If I was on the jury for the trial of ideology, I'd have zero doubt that it's guilty.
Which ideology? Glad you've asked. All of them! It is completely irrelevant that games happen to push LGBTQ, Feminism, or DEI mostly nowadays. If they tried to push Krishna or Christianity or anti abortion rhetoric I'd be against that too.
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Apparently not. Nintendo can get away with murder and still have a huge fanbase. They play outside of normal games industry rules for some reason.
Sticking to a vision and making money don't always go hand in hand. Also, who's vision? AAA games today have hundreds of people working on it, so who's vision we're talking about? This is the problem with gaming today in that there's too many cooks in the kitchen. Same goes for movies if you know about the controversy over The Odyssey. You know it's an issue when the Greeks have a problem with it. The Odyssey did make money despite the controversy, but that doesn't mean the movie did everything right.
This is categorically false. Nolan completely shit on the story. If he had honored the story instead of taking so many creative liberties, people would have given an infinite shit less about the casting. The casting is the least of this movie's problems. Also, stop derailing this thread.
Bro, You're arguing with people that were mad that Dark Souls has 'Body Type A' and 'Body Type B' for options.
Didnt think I was?
Because male and female are now offensive for like five people, where Body Type A & B are offensive for majority of players. There was a Mod that renamed body types 1 and 2 to male and female was removed. This is called conditioning, like how Sony paid bots to convince people that removal of physical media was good. Just like when people tell themselves that not having Playstation games on PC is good. Majority of people are not in agreement of this assessment.
Yeah, conditioning is what gets people mad. A game that has less "progressive content" but forces the agenda is more woke than a game that has more "progressive content" but isn't trying.
It's game developers using their position to piss off the majority of their audience and thinking they can get away with it. Which is a path Sony has gone down and has clearly failed, multiple times. Restricting their games to Playstation may end up like Microsoft's games where they thought too highly of them and eventually figured that their audience didn't share the same sentiments. At this point, Microsoft releasing their games on PC did not make up for their poor games.
This is why PC is so great because nobody said you can't have physical games. The last known game to be on DVD was Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), which shipped with 10 DVD's. Goes to show that PC's with Blu-Ray are rare. Even finding a PC with a disc drive is impossible today. Nobody said it has to be on a laser disc as USB thumb drives are an attractive option.
Sony knows that people aren't going to dump their PS5, just after they dumped Xbox to switch to PS5. For the rest of this console generation, you won't see PS5 owners jump ship. PS6 is a reset which means consumers can then decide if they want to stick with console or make the switch to PC. Whatever games you own on PS5 have better be physical because once someone switches to PC then chances are those PS4/PS5 games will go with the Playstation account. It'll be weird legally to backup a digital copy of a game since it requires the console to be modded.
Are you describing yourself?
Depends on which numbers you're looking at. The big picture shows that 70% of games were bought digitally, but Sony made games were bought majority on Disc. Astro Bot sold 60% on physical disc, which suggests that physical is the preferred method to buying games. Physical games make up 60% of 1st party game sales. Uncharted 4 sold 80% on disc.
Sony did it to make more money, especially with GTA6 around the corner. Sony was probably going to wait until PS6 to do this, but they looked at the GTA6 numbers and realized now is the perfect time. Sony also wants gamers on Playstation Plus since most are on basic. Only 22% of customers are subscribed to the highest-tier PlayStation Plus Premium, while the rest are on Essential. Only 63% of USA gamers buy two or fewer new video games per year, which means Sony isn't making as much money as they'd like. Getting people on higher tiers of Playstation Plus would make them more money.
well for one thing for pc games we can get different pricing at different places even if it's just steam keys, for playstation sony sets the pricing the digital price is the same everywhere
It's actually more like 80%, but the problem with the 80% digital sales is that it also includes games that are only available digitally. Sony combines the sales of all AAA, dlc, microtransactions, free, indie and online only games which makes this 80% kinda unfair. God of War Ragnarok is 67% physical and 33% digital. You can cherry pick numbers but a lot of AAA games are majority physical, which is what really matters.
Who says we don't? I do believe that if Valve releases Half Life 3 as a USB Thumb Drive for $10 more, then people would buy it like crazy. Same goes for GTA6 because these are once in a lifetime games and a lot of people would like to hold these in their hands and mount them with their collection.
PC's had games loaded onto hard drives which proved to be better than loading a game of a DVD or Blu-Ray, and that's how digital got pushed on PC. It was just a better gaming experience. Also, nobody ever questioned if they actually owned the digital games they bought. Everyone assumed it was like owning the game on disc, but that's not the case.
Because gaming is an expensive hobby and it's going to be more expensive because the removal of physical games means you're at the whim of the corporation. On PC it's easier to control prices because you have many choices where to buy games, where on Playstation you now have one choice and that's Sony. You can pirate easier on PC where on Playstation both the console and the hardware are permanently banned. Valve doesn't actively scan your PC for pirated games and then bans you. Imagine banning a PC from Epic, Steam, GoG, and etc because you were caught playing a pirated version of some game?
The uproar will die down, but people won't forget. The same thing happened to Xbox and you can see how quickly people forgot about it. If you have to be digital only then why stay on console? We know the PS6 will be around $1k, and Xbox maybe even more expensive.
Actually, full systems sometimes go for less than the standalone parts when on sale. With the ram pricing lately, prebuilts can be better deals if you watch for them.
Yep. At work it went from "Dell can suck a dick with those SSD and RAM prices, we'll buy aftermarket and add it," to "These are as good as it gets, order it from Dell."
I know you know that you can by prebuilts. This Ryzen 5500 with an RTX 5050 is $900. Consoles are not immune to RAMpocalypse either, we just haven't seen major price increases yet. The RTX 5050 isn't that much slower than a PS5 Pro either which is $900.