Journalism overall is pretty much redundant in the current year…
Dragon Age: Veilguard has shown how servile and totally lacking any objectivity game journalists are. Journalists have devolved into propagandists pushing political ideologies, and no longer provide objective information. This role has shifted to online podcasts on YouTube and other platforms. If I want to find out about a game, I watch gameplay online, and see if this is anything I wanna play. I don’t need a review in IGN to tell me what to think, IGN gave Veilguard 9/10. It was allegedly written by a trans person.
Let’s imagine a world without video game outlets. No IGN, no Kotaku, no Polygon — they all just poof, overnight.
I can absolutely imagine such a world, and we could add Vice and CNN to the list. Legacy media no longer serves the common man. The degenerate infotainment on Vice, and simping for Kamala on CNN serves none. People wanna be informed, not propagandized. Is it any wonder the people seek information from bloggers and podcasters?
It’s funny, though. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is getting lambasted for its inclusive elements because it (apparently) isn’t a 10/10 experience. Meanwhile, I don’t recall Baldur’s Gate 3 getting a whole lot of flak for– oh, wait.
Woke does not always lead to broke. By why is Veilguard a worse gaming experience than BG3? The developers of Veilguard have a large corporation backing them, the Electronic Arts. BG3 was developed by Larian, an independent studio. Also, while BG3 includes homosexuality and you can create a trans character in the game, I have not encountered a dialogue preaching to me about pronouns and misgendering. Mediocre gaming experience and being preached to on gender ideology is what disgusts the public about Veilguard.
Also, BG3 allows you to turn off sexual scenes. Actually woke does not always lead to broke. Barbie was kinda woke but it attracted a segment of the population, girls that played with Barbie dolls in their youth, and their boyfriends that were forced to attend the screening of this movie. Somehow the marketing worked. There is a concept in marketing called Lovemarks, the latter is actually a book written by Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi.
And I believe Lovemarks win in the video game business. The current consumer thinks twice where he puts his hard earned shekels. A game can cost around $100, if you want some super duper deluxe edition, and why would you put it in some woke garbage?
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