Concord gone?

[zuniger]

They took it off steam??

[Lodreus]

Jumping in to simply say it's such a waste of resources. All of that time n' effort they could've made something else that was worthy of making. Another cash-grab.

[inpurpleshadows]

引用自 Lodreus：

Jumping in to simply say it's such a waste of resources. All of that time n' effort they could've made something else that was worthy of making. Another cash-grab.

Agreed. What's even worse is that the devs spent eight years making Concord, yet it was removed from shelves two weeks after release. Concord's failure is on the same level of disaster as E.T. for the Atari 2600, but at least that game had a ton of hype before its eventual release. Concord, on the other hand, had no advertising or any sort of fanfare.

[tonni]

this is problem w/ the haters who do nothing alld ay than hate on peopel who r more sucess in life (CEO of company ring the bell anyone? earth to idolt)

the relentlessing haters have crushed the game im not saying i was gone buy it full price but discount? put me in coach (to play a game with fun friends)

[tonni]

引用自 Lodreus：

Jumping in to simply say it's such a waste of resources. All of that time n' effort they could've made something else that was worthy of making. Another cash-grab.

i dont wanna get shot down like concord but whats was so bad aboutthe game? looked alrite???

[tonni]

引用自 LilBlkCloud：

引用自 Ben Lubar：

d = diversity

as in, people can be different than you and that's okay

e = equity

as in, the system does not arbitrarily disadvantage anyone
completely irrelevant for the fictional world a video game takes place in

i = inclusion

as in, games are accessible to as many people as possible

how can you try to spin this as a bad thing

Easy. The people who spin it are racists, misogynists, and homophobes trying desperately to keep the world as white, male, and heterosexual as possible for as long as possible. When you're as desperate as they are, you can pull off all sorts of mental gymnastics.

The hilarious thing is they're destined to lose this war at some point, because the world only becomes more and more diverse with each day. It's like watching a bunch of kids trying to build a dam with twigs and mud to contain a raging river.

very good analogic from u with river/mud/ dam comparison… i agree world is more diverse now its good and the people who complain non stop about oh no watchout they put woman inside my game? its pretty gay of them (pun indented)

[Lo Burattino]

引用自 Lodreus：

Jumping in to simply say it's such a waste of resources. All of that time n' effort they could've made something else that was worthy of making. Another cash-grab.

Sony could've spend like 2.000.000$ to port the Killzone franchise to PC instead and they would've definitely made lots of money.

[Doctor Zalgo]

引用自 Animus：

引用自 D. Flame：

That proves that DEI powers that be find their game problematic, but they succeeded in spit of it. They over came the opposition with as few concessions as possible.

And yet, they still got DEI checked. And still sold well.

It's almost as if, as stated before, bad games tank, not games with DEI policies/content.

Ugh, DEI is a HR function. Not a game design function. HR aren't standing over the artists shoulders making them put different outfits on their NPCs.

[Boblin the Goblin]

引用自 Doctor Zalgo：

引用自 Animus：

And yet, they still got DEI checked. And still sold well.

It's almost as if, as stated before, bad games tank, not games with DEI policies/content.

Ugh, DEI is a HR function. Not a game design function. HR aren't standing over the artists shoulders making them put different outfits on their NPCs.

The ideas of DEI can be included in a game.

[Doctor Zalgo]

引用自 Boblin the Goblin：

引用自 Doctor Zalgo：

Ugh, DEI is a HR function. Not a game design function. HR aren't standing over the artists shoulders making them put different outfits on their NPCs.

The ideas of DEI can be included in a game.

What idea specifically? The idea of games being inclusive? That's been a thing for decades.

[davidb11]

引用自 Doctor Zalgo：

引用自 Boblin the Goblin：

The ideas of DEI can be included in a game.

What idea specifically? The idea of games being inclusive? That's been a thing for decades.

I think it's more the bad parts of DEI.

[RiO]

引用自 Ben Lubar：

引用自 Doctor Zalgo：

It's just that DEI is the replacement word for woke and woke just means 'bad'.

Yep. If you want to see a history of words that are being misused like this, the Wikipedia article on "social bolshevism" has a long list of related terms and the histories of each.

No such Wikipedia article currently exists[en.wikipedia.org]. Sounds more to me like you're coining a term yourself.

引用自 Ben Lubar：

引用自 D. Flame：

Omega Labyrinth was one such high profile example

Ah, a game I've never heard of. Perfect "high profile" example.

And after a quick check, that game was not published by Sony at all.

Omega Labyrinth was published on the Playstation Vita by D3P.

Omega Labyrinth Z was to be published on the Vita and PS4 by PQube, but it never made it. After several age-rating bodies had either classified it as 18+ or refused classification, which PQube was perfectly OK with, Sony Europe and Sony US at the last minute stepped in and blocked it from being published on their platforms in the West at all, unless the publisher would consent to large amounts of censorship and have the game resubmitted for review under a more favorable rating. PQube refused, because not only did they not want to compromise that far on the title's integrity; it was also a total bastard move on Sony's part that came out of left field.

(Admittedly the game does have some very questionable content; that personally I find to be beyond the point of bad, but still acceptable, taste - but well: to each their own.)


A third game, Omega Labyrinth Life was eventually made for Nintendo Switch, Steam and PS4 - of which the PS4 edition specifically was censored. That edition and its advertising was also loaded up with snark at Sony's expense, culminating in the intentional rename as Labyrinth Life, removing the lower-case Omega ( 'ω' ) from the title - which was stylized to represent a pair of female breasts and thus were also to be censored.

It's actually a quite well known case.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of it, given that you're a self-proclaimed game developer.
You do not keep tabs on incidents happening in your industry?

引用自 D. Flame：

The company publicly mocked Sony. The Uncensored version on Switch blew away the Sony version in sales too. Sony was so rustled by it that they even made a new policy stating that if you were going to release a game on the PS, then it had to be the same version as on other platforms.

So even if some nobody online never heard of it, Sony certainly heard of it.

Oh yeah. That's right. Omega Labyrinth Life was the one that triggered the platform-parity madness. Sony had the audacity to dictate if you want to release something on PlayStation, and it has to be censored to their standards to do so, you're not allowed to offer a lesser censored version to other platforms.
That's basically the reason for the uptick in 'voluntary' censorship applied across all platforms in, predominantly, anime stylized games where the euphemism of so-called 'fan service' is a staple of the medium.

[asdf22]

This game failed because the majority of gamers are straight male bros and don't want to see pronouns in our games. The character design was awful as well and just 'soft'. We don't want to see grown males in our little girl's bathrooms playing pretend. It has seeped into this issue as well as gaming and people are having enough. I'll simply not buy the game based on the pronouns alone, and many others agree. One good thing I'll say, the game looked polished at least. It's a shame they went so woke. You know what they say..
I also find it funny that people talk bad about grave dance but then turn around and throw the word 'chud' like it's going out of style. Love it.

[Long Niar™]

Terrible game, but there's an even worse woke game out there called DUSTBORN, I think...

There is a literal QTE where you can call a sane person "racist", as an insane black woman.

Absurd.

[davidb11]

引用自 ส็็็็็็็็็：

This game failed because the majority of gamers are straight male bros and don't want to see pronouns in our games. The character design was awful as well and just 'soft'. We don't want to see grown males in our little girl's bathrooms playing pretend. It has seeped into this issue as well as gaming and people are having enough. I'll simply not buy the game based on the pronouns alone, and many others agree. One good thing I'll say, the game looked polished at least. It's a shame they went so woke. You know what they say..
I also find it funny that people talk bad about grave dance but then turn around and throw the word 'chud' like it's going out of style. Love it.

What's this about little girl's bathrooms? Eh?
Better not say things like that, or the FBI might start asking questions about you. :P

Concord and Dustborn are two examples of very bad games that are also woke, woke to an insane degree.

[veracsthane]

a housefly now has a longer life span then a woke game. this is a good thing.