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They are Nikke developers. They are making 30-40$ million per month in the gacha.
I tried to buy shares of Samsung once upon a time and the hoops I needed to jump through to buy something on the Korean stock market I just noped out of there
South Korea is a special case, their securities laws are pretty archaic compared to the rest of the world. Despite being very much first world they are still considered an "emerging market" by the industry because of their access restrictions.
Sounds more like the founders cashing out early.
Dont Rocksteady used a consultation firm to avoid problematic issues? Why is Poison Ivy, that is suposed to be a seductress Femme Fatalle type of character, turned into a child?
YupTHAT CHILD IS POISON IVY ? WTF!!!!!
) will still hold the majority of shares, so in that aspect I guess nothing immediately will change.Eastern devs actually support sexy or beautiful girls in their games……..what a novel idea. Western devs have caved to the woke mob and have made the women in their games manly and flat out ugly in most cases. Cant objectify women by putting pretty girls in games now can we? Stupid beyond all reasoning.Ugh.....
As opposed to based eastern developers:
If Level Infinite, that is owned by Tencent, is the publisher of Nikke, and the game is still one of the most lewd gatcha games out there, i dont think anyone will come and take that away. They know why Nikke is printing money. As long the CEO Kim keeps in charge i dont see anything really changing for the worst. Dude is based AF.Well, there goes one of my favorite game devs in the current day landscape.
The optimist in me read that the CEO (and Tencent, the current biggest investor
The realist in me knows that a profitable company and an unprofitable company means virtually the same thing to seasoned investors. They will control the decisions to an extent to be able to pump, dump, and rebuild the stock as they see fit irrespective to the actual product being made.
I was looking forward to Stellar Blade (still am), and I play Nikke daily, and this does nothing but sadden me. There is literally zero benefit to me as a gamer for this news and we will only see ideologues and bean counters ruin the things that they touch. For fucks sake they were already competing with giants like miHoYo in the global space in monthly revenue on the gacha. I guess "so much money" lost out to "ALL OF THE MONEY".
I get what you're saying, but that's not how the mind of investors work. Monetization will undoubtedly get worse at the bare minimum, and "market expansion" type censorship can occur. We saw literally the same thing play out with another Korean gacha dev a few years ago with Epic 7. Pretty much step for step for what's going on here and that game got heavily censored, mostly to be able to release in China. Then, afterwards, they also future-proof censored all new designs so that they wouldn't have to maintain two versions of the game. The only difference is that Nikke makes much more money than Epic 7 does.
Because making each female character beautiful is objectifying women, making it like being beautiful is a prerequisite or a standard to being a woman.
What story does her unattractiveness tell?This is how you know making the lady characters unattractive has nothing to do with DEI. It's not like Beyonce or Jennifer Lopez are super popular (somewhat due to their looks). But I do like when some devs make their female character unattractive, because that too also tells a story.
Like.................
I don’t.
But then in the game she can jetpack around, jump up and down 40 foot cliffs, and shoot grenades/lasers at frantic speed. Doesn't that clash against her "wear and tear" visual appearance? Seems dissonant with the picture that her character design would indicate. If anything, I think returnal's MC should be a younger, more agile person instead of an old lady.
I really need to give Returnal a second chance.This is how you know making the lady characters unattractive has nothing to do with DEI. It's not like Beyonce or Jennifer Lopez are super popular (somewhat due to their looks). But I do like when some devs make their female character unattractive, because that too also tells a story.
Like.................
Thats why Gaass are needed. You can fund 5 Stellar Blades running a season of Gaas. Probably where the industry is headed: Joint parnership with these publishers who have more money than the entire industry but no expertise in making longform singeplayer games.
She looks exactly like what I’d expect a female astronaut/scientist to look like. So it fits imo.This is how you know making the lady characters unattractive has nothing to do with DEI. It's not like Beyonce or Jennifer Lopez are super popular (somewhat due to their looks). But I do like when some devs make their female character unattractive, because that too also tells a story.
Like.................
To me I don’t have issue, western devs can design their characters however they want….my issue comes from them criticizing Asian devs for designing their characters however they want.
A leak from a former ND employee alleges that the reason for fugly women characters in their game is to not alienate transpeople.
But games don't make ALL female characters beautiful. Just as all male characters aren't handsome Chris Hemsworths.Because making each female character beautiful is objectifying women, making it like being beautiful is a prerequisite or a standard to being a woman.
Which I agree with.
