Instalar o Steam
Iniciar sessão
|
Idioma
简体中文 (Chinês Simplificado)
繁體中文 (Chinês Tradicional)
日本語 (Japonês)
한국어 (Coreano)
ไทย (Tailandês)
Български (Búlgaro)
Čeština (Checo)
Dansk (Dinamarquês)
Deutsch (Alemão)
English (Inglês)
Español-España (Espanhol de Espanha)
Español-Latinoamérica (Espanhol da América Latina)
Ελληνικά (Grego)
Français (Francês)
Italiano (Italiano)
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonésio)
Magyar (Húngaro)
Nederlands (Holandês)
Norsk (Norueguês)
Polski (Polaco)
Português (Brasil)
Română (Romeno)
Русский (Russo)
Suomi (Finlandês)
Svenska (Sueco)
Türkçe (Turco)
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamita)
Українська (Ucraniano)
Relatar problema de tradução
Regras e Orientações das Discussões
Denunciar este post
>Implies ESG bucks leads to more sales
is it free market capitalism? yeah, sure
Are the devs making the games they want? No
Which begs the question: 'What is the problem then?'
[Citation needed]
Those pushing for this stuff know it's unpopular with the usual audience. They're shoving it into established franchises under the assumption that the usual audience will buy it anyway, while simultaneously hoping to attract that "modern audience" they're always talking about.
The problem is, this might work once with the usual audience, but from that point on your usual audience will be extremely wary of falling for it again. Once bitten twice shy and all that. Also the mythical "modern audience" don't seem to be as interested in buying video games as these devs had hoped.
There's also the matter of ESG funding. Investment capital linked to a score that ranks a company on environmental and social issues. This created artificial demand for companies to demonstrate their progressive values, particularly on things like diversity and social justice. ESG scoring for investment has proven unpopular though, and investors seem to have walked away from it. I think it's unlikely to have much of an effect on things going forward, and already the industry is readjusting. All these layoffs the industry has been seeing are disproportionately affecting those hired for "diversity" reasons, rather than merit.
Now the "free market capitalists" are pushing for heavy social media regulations and banning mobile applications.
This WILL backfire.
Not that these "free market capitalists" are even capitalists to begin with.
Multiple mechanisms are in place to ensure something sells well? Like what? Devs buying their own games or something?
Sounds like a tinfoil hat conspiracy if I ever heard one...
Do you even really know what ESG scores really are, what they do and how they function?
'Cause I don't and its not really something I care to much about.
When I look at a video game, any video game, there is only one question that really matters:
"Is this fun to play?"
The answer to that question is the only real question that matters when it comes to video games. Period.
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice has been labelled as "woke"
Baldur's Gate 3 has been labelled as "woke"
Suicide Squad failed, Baldur's Gate 3 succeeded.
Why is that?
Baldur's Gate 3 is fun to play
Suicide Squad is boring and not fun to play
It's as simple as that.
One could certainly make the argument that Disney might do better if they weren't trying to push for woke, although that is largely a speculative argument.
The fact is that Disney continues to make money.
Say what you will about the company but one thing is for sure: They aren't hurting for money.
I just knew you were going to call me a crazy conspiracy theorist at some point. You could just have done that from the start though, all of "woke" is a conspiracy theory, is it not? Doesn't mean that it isn't true though.
People at large are extremely sheepish and it is quite easy to control them through media and all kinds of marketing efforts. Why do you think "influencers" are even a thing? If you imagine that people are actually individuals in all ways and make their own decisions, I would say that is quite naive.
Except we're not cooking it. We're being served slop and saying it tastes bad.
do you have a problem with people voicing their opinion about the taste? Or will you just try and label anyone that doesn't like the taste a sexist, racist bigot?
this discussion isn't really a "muh free markets" debate anyway. you're just trying some lame gotcha. "hur dur well it's the consrvatives that don't like all this woke stuff, but they love free markets".
It's also hardly "free market capitalism" when you have multi billion dollar conglomerates pushing and influencing this totally natural change. It's not being pushed down from the top at all, bro. nope.
Those who have gathered the wealth have the say. That's the basic principle of it.
On principle, conservatives are very much in favor of the "woke" stuff since their top-down mechanism is ultimately what allows that to happen in the first place.
If any Democrat says that the capitalist systems and market mechanisms should be more focused on being built bottom-up (rather than top-down), any such idea gets instantly trashed by the conservatives.
You fully admitted yourself in an earlier post in this thread that you don't fully understand what ESG is, what it does and how it works.
Yet, you go on talking about something you barely understand like its this super big thing and solely responsible for all the evils in the world and the gaming industry.
You even double down by making some very vague claims that there are some kind of mechanisms in place to artificially secure a game's success somehow, which you can't explain either when you're being asked about it.
Moving on.
As stated before, the most important question to me when it comes to video games is "Is this fun to play?"
All other questions are secondary at best.
Subsequently that is how most gamers seem to operate as well.
I don't really care about stuff like ESG scores or whatever because that's not the thing I spend several hours doing when I play a video game, you know?
I mean, check my profile... I clocked in 1600+ hours into Elden Ring.
What's more likely?
That I clocked in those 1600+ hours because I like playing Elden Ring or that I clocked in those 1600+ hours because of ESG scores?
Then it's a self-solved issue and nothing to worry about.
Edit: Thanks for also confirming that Steam moderation is not neutral and trying to push the woke agenda.