Comment on ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews

garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• PunkiBas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What does DEI stand for? Urbandictionary was completely unhelpful with it

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  • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Diversity, equality, and inclusion. All very terrible things, as you can see…

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• Mellow12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What is the actual quality of the game?

  Did you know about this game? Did you buy and play this game? Did you actually like this game?

  Are you one of the ~220 people who bought this game and didn’t spread the word to their friends.

  It sounds to me like this game sucks. Maybe it was rotten from the start. Maybe they were forced to hire a bunch of mentally ill people with a massive chip on their shoulder to ‘advise’ and change the game to tick some boxes on a list. ( don’t you just love having fun according to a list of prescribed requirements? ) We will probably never know the truth.

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  • indog@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re parroting the line of dumb conspiracy theories known as Gamergate 2 pushed by a bunch of grifters farming engagement on YouTube.

    Narrative consultancy companies like SBI don’t force you to hire them, and if you choose to hire them, you don’t have to follow all of their advice.

    If you’re interesting of curing yourself of the mindworms the YouTube algorithm has planted in your brain, please check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGmESJM6BFQ

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• PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  From what I know Sweet Baby Inc. is involved. Which is a studio that focuses a lot on DEI when it comes to narratives/story in games.

  They already did not have the greatest track record, some good games, but a lot of mediocre and even bad games. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the game scores are related to DEI, but the fact it keeps happening to games they’re involved with says at least something.

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What does “focuses on DEI” even mean? That it has non-white people?

    Some stories don’t have straight, white people. That doesn’t mean there’s some agenda going on.

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    • PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It means exactly what DEI is. So yeah, predominantly focusing on non-white people and non-straight people.

      They are a studio that consults on specifically this in games they’re collaborating with.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They are contract writers for hire, and you have been misled, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the YouTubers you follow. Both Sweet Baby and their clients have denied this interpretation of what they do.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The good games they’ve worked on have included some of the most praised games in recent years. If you want to ask why this keeps happening, you have to have massive blinders on to ignore the likes of God of War: Ragnarok and Alan Wake II, both firmly in recent memory, and also realize that basically no writer on earth could save something like Suicide Squad from its criticisms.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No…TRUE Scotsman uses Sweet Baby Inc!

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    • PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Like I said, some good games. Which by the way still received criticism from people about certain DEI related involvements, whether you agree or disagree with that is different thing, but the criticism was there too.

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Anything not about straight white men will have people complaining about DEI bullshit. It’s never a reason a game has failed. They fail because they’re bad games. They might also include DEI stuff, but it’s not the cause.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Criticism” is a charitable word for what that is.

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