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[Angry_Megalodon]

The tags on the game in the linked article were DEI and non-BUY-nary.
It seems the antiwoke have already had the power go to their head and are acting even worse than the woke brigade.
Sad times ahead.
Also: it's possible that this is due to an incoming delay.

The art director tweeted something that in a normal world would get him fired and out of any industry. Spare me the two-sides crap. Play with fire and all that.

 

[Mithos]

//Conspiracy theory//
Watch the game come back on a page where external tracking can be disabled by developer/publisher.

 

[Kacho]

Goatsidian?

I see grummz asking them why they deleted the forum.

 

[LazyParrot]

there wouldnt be "non woke' if woke wasnt a thing in the first place. the "non woke" want the same thing you want.

The other side could just as easily argue there wouldn't be woke if games weren't full of sexism and racism in the first place.

It really is just two sides of the same coin at this point. It's barely even about the games anymore. Hogwarts Legacy had a genderless character creator, a hyper-diversified student body and NPCs that constantly referred to you as "they" but barely any of the anti-woke crusaders cared because the wokies hated the game and that meant they had to love it.

It's a fucking clown show.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

The other side could just as easily argue there wouldn't be woke if games weren't full of sexism and racism in the first place.

Very bad argument, considering that the most racist and sexist games are the woke ones, which define people by their skin color and sexual preferences. I'd love to read examples of those non-woke "sexist and racist games".

It's the market that decides their fate, anyway. There's no need to counter trash with more trash.

 

[Bieren]

It's steam forums...that 4 site is a nicer community and better set of forums. The most toxic places on reddit are better. Steam forums are full of the same Karens that are on yelp complaining about a burger joint not serving a kale salad.

 

[Puscifer]

They’re doing a speedrun attempt at running that goodwill into the ground.

I just googled it and there's no way that's real, it's so rage bait I can't take it seriously lol

 

[MagiusNecros]

If they canceled the game tomorrow I wouldn't be sad.

 

[LazyParrot]

Very bad argument, considering that the most racist and sexist games are the woke ones, which define people by their skin color and sexual preferences. I'd love to read examples of those non-woke "sexist and racist games".

Of course the argument is bad, that's the point. One group labels a game woke if there are too many black people or women who don't look like supermodels in it, the other labels it racist or sexist if it doesn't contain enough of them. The drama about Abby in TLOU looking too manly was just as dumb as the drama about the first Kingdom Come not having any Africans in it.

 

[pudel]

It's steam forums...that 4 site is a nicer community and better set of forums. The most toxic places on reddit are better. Steam forums are full of the same Karens that are on yelp complaining about a burger joint not serving a kale salad.

Yeah, steam forums can be extrem toxic when you have armies of trolls occupying it....but it can be also extremely useful in terms of troubleshooting solutions or modders informing about Nexus bans and such stuff.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

How did hellblade 2 turn out with ms money? Not a second longer than part 1.

Two things about HB2:

-devs made what they wanted (less video gamey than part 1)
-audiovisual presentation is industry leading.

Sure, MS doesn’t do lavish productions, they are much better than kickstarter money. PO3 (and Avowed) will be well funded.

 

[thismeinteil]

The tags on the game in the linked article were DEI and non-BUY-nary.
It seems the antiwoke have already had the power go to their head and are acting even worse than the woke brigade.
Sad times ahead.
Also: it's possible that this is due to an incoming delay.

Only in the eyes of the anti-woke brainrot club, which has quickly reached the same level of annoying non-stop BS as their horseshoe counterpart...
I guess that means equilibrium is achieved

with what? Both sides of the woke and non woke coin are fucking idiots i swear. Gimme back my old gaming where games were all about having fun and not political talk. Even this forum turned into a shitshow just the opposite spectrum of the retardera side

The other side could just as easily argue there wouldn't be woke if games weren't full of sexism and racism in the first place.

It really is just two sides of the same coin at this point. It's barely even about the games anymore. Hogwarts Legacy had a genderless character creator, a hyper-diversified student body and NPCs that constantly referred to you as "they" but barely any of the anti-woke crusaders cared because the wokies hated the game and that meant they had to love it.

It's a fucking clown show.

Hey guys, now I'm totally not woke (now that we're losing) and I agree those woke guys can be annoying, though just rarely, but those anti-woke are the real problem, amirite? Don't you just wish they'd shut up and sit down (and let the woke take control of the gaming industry.) Did I mention that I'm totally not a woke gamer by the way.

 

[Hudo]

How did hellblade 2 turn out with ms money? Not a second longer than part 1.

Ok. So? Doesn't mean that PoE3 has to be shit, too.

 

[Drake]

ha! I've never actually seen it where you click on the community hub for a game and it just re-directs you back to the main game page. I used to check it once in a while and it was nothing but people trolling the shit out of the forums regarding woke and pronoun stuff. It was actually pretty funny.

 

[laynelane]

I wonder if they'll release a statement about what's going on. I'm assuming it's not a technical issue, so it's likely that the people at Obsidian didn't like what was being said - and were worried it could have an impact on sales. That would be funny, though, since they're still employing the racist art director. And he definitely had a negative impact on the game's reception for many people.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

Why do these garbage woke games also happen to have comically shit names that can be turned into a meme.

Avowed simply is avoid

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

I know these tags are user submitted, but I can't get over the fact that these are the first two...

 

[Duchess]

Sounds like Avowed has unskippable gay sex too

It's also a QTE, which you must complete in order to avoid a game over (or worse, if you're on permadeath mode).

 

[The Cockatrice]

I know these tags are user submitted, but I can't get over the fact that these are the first two...

They nuked the tags as well. I dont see them anymore.

 

[diffusionx]

 

[Dazraell]

ha! I've never actually seen it where you click on the community hub for a game and it just re-directs you back to the main game page. I used to check it once in a while and it was nothing but people trolling the shit out of the forums regarding woke and pronoun stuff. It was actually pretty funny.

I remember having this once with other game on Steam. Later turned out it was just an error that was fixed. I can't recall what game it was, but I even had a same error mentioned by others where the game wasn't in my library while it was visible on my purchases as pre-order. This issue was resolved a day or two later and forum was exactly the same it was before "disappearing". So while I do find the whole thing funny, it may be just be a temporary error

 

[LazyParrot]

Hey guys, now I'm totally not woke (now that we're losing) and I agree those woke guys can be annoying, though just rarely, but those anti-woke are the real problem, amirite? Don't you just wish they'd shut up and sit down (and let the woke take control of the gaming industry.) Did I mention that I'm totally not a woke gamer by the way.

Nice strawman. If you've given any of the big three a single cent in the last five years you've done infinitely more to support the woke gaming industry than me lol.

 

[Nickolaidas]

All I know is that the second Christian puritans saw the woketards getting kicked out of the door, they didn't miss a single moment to barge in.

Same shit, different day. I will always oppose censorship, no matter which isle it comes from. This whole combined KD2/Melanie Mac_Razorfist TFD drama is doing a fine job at reminding me that the Right was an ally of convenience and now we're going to have to fight the opposite side of the coin.

I guess that Stellar Blade's Eve will always be one post away from being censored, whether it is because of 'misogyny and male gaze' or because of 'coomer anti-Christian values'.

Sigh.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

They nuked the tags as well. I dont see them anymore.

Wow, publishers can do that? Didn't know this.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Wow, publishers can do that? Didn't know this.

Yeah you can do that if steam considers it irrelevant or something, dont know how exactly it works, but I've seen tags getting removed before for being spammy/offensive.

 

[Hot5pur]

Another day, another trigger story. We had Hogwarts, we had Veilguard, now we have avowed. The funniest part is now we have two distinct sides taking turns getting triggered and when you point it out it's all like "nooo this is different!!".
The only different thing is some people grow up and mature and others choose to remain children.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Yeah you can do that if steam considers it irrelevant or something, dont know how exactly it works, but I've seen tags getting removed before for being spammy/offensive.

Slippery slope! Interesting!

 

[Itchy Tickles]

Steam forums used to be alright until the rewards came in, so now you constantly see 2 types of messages that get the clown awards, "don't add lgbq+ blah blah" and "Please add lgbq+ stiff blah blah" . It's the lowest tier trolling and yet they get Steam points for it.

Did I really see people defending and fanboying over Musk? You are fucked in the head.

Any of the extremes fucking suck. Whether it's "woke" or "anti woke" people need to read the situation on its own instead of automatically getting super defensive or offensive because a gay person or a woman etc might be a prominent figure or even just a 1 scene chatacter. It isn't difficult or at least it shouldn't be. Not everything has to be a fight.

 

[geary]

Steam community hub is an absolute cesspool. I'm all for free speech, but some of the forums are filled with the dregs of society. Good riddance

Soon this forum will be as well, if the lunacy is not contained.

 

[Haint]

No, it's not.
Again, the forums are a service Valve offers to devs. If they use it, it belongs to the dev (Valve just hosts it). Which means they are free to close it - this has never been any different.
Reviews are an integral part of Steam itself, fully independent of the dev.

You can bet your ass publishers would love to remove reviews. But they can't, because those two things are not related.
The forums are closer to the workshop than they are to the reviews.


Apparently, a guy is shown having some quality time with another guy - my guess is that it's going to be the bad guy being shown in full-on-Caligula-style debauchery.
That's it. That's enough to wind up the terminally online these days
Nobody gave a damn in GoT just a few years ago about much wilder stuff, but people are quickly losing their last brain cells, it seems.

Vavra isn't doing himself any favors being all vague about it to not spoil the story.
Which of course triggers the usual suspects even more.

The forums are and should be a service to customers, not developers. This was one of the top features all the Gaben fellators lambasted EGS for not having.

 

[diffusionx]

All I know is that the second Christian puritans saw the woketards getting kicked out of the door, they didn't miss a single moment to barge in.

Same shit, different day. I will always oppose censorship, no matter which isle it comes from. This whole combined KD2/Melanie Mac_Razorfist TFD drama is doing a fine job at reminding me that the Right was an ally of convenience and now we're going to have to fight the opposite side of the coin.

I guess that Stellar Blade's Eve will always be one post away from being censored, whether it is because of 'misogyny and male gaze' or because of 'coomer anti-Christian values'.

Sigh.

So what do you think the appropriate response is for someone who sees content in a game they don't want to see?

I'll just say yet again that the woketards are the ones working at the companies. They put the stuff in the games. Other people just say they aren't buying the game. They have no power at these companies. They're not getting paid by them. They just say "fuck you, skipping the game." It's just retarded to claim there is equivalence or two sides of the same coin. There are no "Christian puritans" working at any of these companies FFS.

 

[noob smokes]

Hope this game does well just to see the fuckery

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Soon this forum will be as well, if the lunacy is not contained.

Let's not get carried away.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

First game that bombs in 2025.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Soon this forum will be as well, if the lunacy is not contained.

 

[Nickolaidas]

So what do you think the appropriate response is for someone who sees content in a game they don't want to see?

I'll just say yet again that the woketards are the ones working at the companies. They put the stuff in the games. Other people just say they aren't buying the game. They have no power at these companies. They're not getting paid by them. They just say "fuck you, skipping the game." It's just retarded to claim there is equivalence or two sides of the same coin. There are no "Christian puritans" working at any of these companies FFS.

If you want to boycott every single game on the planet which has a gay character in it, you're welcome to do so.

My problem is with morons who literally say that every game that has a gay character - even if it's an NPC you meet - is woke. No matter how well written that character is. No matter how well they fit in the narrative and the lore. They are becoming the very thing the woketards claimed we all were.

 

[Roman Empire]

Oof, they should have stayed silent. The last thing Avowed needs is another controversy.

 

[Trilobit]

there wouldnt be "non woke' if woke wasnt a thing in the first place. the "non woke" want the same thing you want.

Yeah, all these people who didn't say a peep or even succumbed to woke propaganda are now putting their foot down as "anti-woke" people have started to voice their opinions.

I'm reminded of this pic quite often:

 

[Buggy Loop]

Sounds like Avowed has unskippable gay sex too

You wish

No sex in avowed

 

[Unknown?]

The other side could just as easily argue there wouldn't be woke if games weren't full of sexism and racism in the first place.

It really is just two sides of the same coin at this point. It's barely even about the games anymore. Hogwarts Legacy had a genderless character creator, a hyper-diversified student body and NPCs that constantly referred to you as "they" but barely any of the anti-woke crusaders cared because the wokies hated the game and that meant they had to love it.

It's a fucking clown show.

Ya because too many men weren't menstruating and getting pregnant, that was a problem!

 

[Lokaum D+]

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Does this forum want every game to fail?

 

[poppabk]

Hey guys, now I'm totally not woke (now that we're losing) and I agree those woke guys can be annoying, though just rarely, but those anti-woke are the real problem, amirite? Don't you just wish they'd shut up and sit down (and let the woke take control of the gaming industry.) Did I mention that I'm totally not a woke gamer by the way.

They are being total assholes and you know it. Maybe not in respect to this game as much as KCD 2 but it's still gone from '0 sweet baby' to 'oh you are a jew, no wonder you like blacks and faggots' in the space of a couple of months.
If you want things to remain unwoke then letting the assholes absorb all the power will result in it going off the rails super quick.
The problem with the woke movement isn't that having a gay character in something is bad but that a few grifters used it to raise themselves up to the arbiters of what is acceptable and then proceeded to paint everything over with the same shitty brush. I'm already seeing the same thing happening with the opposite.

 

[Banjo64]

Suppression of dialogue is always a good sign

 

[Braag]

When you don't want people to discuss your game. I wonder if this is gonna be similar to Veilguard where the the devs try to hide certain characters or themes in hopes of maximizing sales.

 

[bighugeguns]

Cancelled my Gamepass Ultimate, I won't help fund any of this.

I'm starting to develop a dislike for the Xbox and Playstation spheres of people.

 

[adamsapple]

Cancelled my Gamepass Ultimate, I won't help fund any of this.

Canceled over just this?

 

[Holammer]

... and it's back.

 

[bighugeguns]

Canceled over just this?

I can only digest so much obnoxious bullshit, walking away is as easy as breathing.

Besides, I need to save up for the next bing bing wahoo machine, have a good feeling about that one.

 

[simpatico]

Once again we find ourselves at a precipice where a huge publisher can choose not to launch a super-fire sloppa floppa. What will Microsoft do? Shovel a few more million into a doomed launch? Probably.