This week’s podcast dives into the unfortunate collapse of Firewalk Studios, the team behind the ill-fated Dragon Age Veilguard, which many are calling a complete trainwreck. Host Brett Deister expresses his frustrations with the gaming industry, particularly how it has strayed from meritocracy, leading to projects that fail to resonate with audiences. Alongside this, he discusses the rise of AMD's 9800X3D CPU, which is shaping up to be a formidable competitor against Intel. The episode critiques the current trends in gaming, including a focus on identity politics that Deister believes detracts from engaging storytelling. Tune in as he unpacks these pressing issues and shares his candid thoughts on the state of gaming today.
Takeaways:
- The closure of Firewalk Studios highlights the consequences of ignoring meritocracy in game development.
- Dragon Age Veilguard has become a source of frustration for fans due to its disappointing direction.
- AMD's 9800X3D CPU may provide better value than Intel's recent offerings in the gaming market.
- Focusing on gender identity over storytelling can alienate the core gaming audience altogether.
- Bioware’s current leadership choices reflect a troubling trend that could lead to further decline.
- The gaming industry's obsession with social issues might lead to a loss of traditional players.
Companies mentioned in this episode:
- Sony
- AMD
- Bioware
- EA
- Nvidia
- Intel
- Firewalk Studios
- Polygon
00:00:00 --> 00:00:02 And welcome to a new episode of Digital Coffee
00:00:02 --> 00:00:05 Gaming Brew, and I'm your host Brett Deister. If
00:00:05 --> 00:00:07 you please subscribe to this podcast and all
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00:00:09 --> 00:00:10 It would really just help with the rankings.
00:00:10 --> 00:00:14 Let me know how I'm doing. So this week, I'm
00:00:14 --> 00:00:16 going to be talking about Sony just completely
00:00:16 --> 00:00:19 closed Concord Studios and my feelings around
00:00:19 --> 00:00:24 that one, the new AMD CPU, and unfortunately,
00:00:25 --> 00:00:28 Dragon Age Veil Guard and the complete and utter
00:00:28 --> 00:00:32 up that it actually is because it is a complete
00:00:32 --> 00:00:37 and utter up because that's what they were going
00:00:37 --> 00:00:39 to buy aware a mentally disabled patient that's
00:00:39 --> 00:00:43 actually running as a game director anyways let's
00:00:43 --> 00:01:00 get on with it Hmm. That's good. All right. So
00:01:00 --> 00:01:03 Firewalk Studios is shutting down along with
00:01:03 --> 00:01:07 mobile game developer, Neon Koi, but it's even
00:01:07 --> 00:01:12 more interesting that, well, Concord was the
00:01:12 --> 00:01:15 only game that Firewalk Studios actually created.
00:01:15 --> 00:01:17 And behind the scenes, there was unfortunately
00:01:17 --> 00:01:22 a lot of DEI practices that were basically discriminatory
00:01:22 --> 00:01:26 of letting White men know that they don't belong
00:01:26 --> 00:01:30 there, letting white men know that they are lesser
00:01:30 --> 00:01:33 of anybody else. Meritocracy was not even there,
00:01:33 --> 00:01:37 and it shows. Because guess what? When meritocracy
00:01:37 --> 00:01:40 is not the most important thing in a job, you
00:01:40 --> 00:01:43 get less than qualified people that care more
00:01:43 --> 00:01:46 about who they are, what they are, and their
00:01:46 --> 00:01:50 mental disorders run amok. And guess what happens?
00:01:51 --> 00:01:55 It is now just that it's just a terrible game
00:01:55 --> 00:01:58 that nobody played and Dragon Age Veilguard is
00:01:58 --> 00:02:01 going to go the way of the Buffalo because Bioware
00:02:01 --> 00:02:03 is a zombie brand right now we all know this
00:02:03 --> 00:02:06 EA knows this that's why it doesn't really care
00:02:06 --> 00:02:08 that much it's made its money for what it's worth
00:02:08 --> 00:02:14 but it's this is the beginning of the end for
00:02:14 --> 00:02:18 Bioware but Firewalk Studios is the end because
00:02:18 --> 00:02:22 they are no longer a studio when you basically
00:02:22 --> 00:02:27 hemorrhaged $200 million or more of money for
00:02:27 --> 00:02:29 a development that took you eight years to figure
00:02:29 --> 00:02:33 out how to make a game that nobody played and
00:02:33 --> 00:02:36 nobody wanted because the character designs were
00:02:36 --> 00:02:41 weird, the forest pronouns were weird, the...
00:02:41 --> 00:02:45 really overweight people in the game or weird
00:02:45 --> 00:02:48 like things that didn't make sense because reality
00:02:48 --> 00:02:52 even in a fictional world has to make sense to
00:02:52 --> 00:02:55 people you cannot just be like we're just gonna
00:02:55 --> 00:02:58 throw out reality for the sake of our own sexual
00:02:58 --> 00:03:01 or deviant fantasies which is happening a little
00:03:01 --> 00:03:04 too much in the gaming industry which I'm happily
00:03:04 --> 00:03:07 not does not buy any more new games if that's
00:03:07 --> 00:03:10 what you want This is what will happen. Either
00:03:10 --> 00:03:13 you stop doing this madness or the madness will
00:03:13 --> 00:03:18 sink you. You only market to your audience. You
00:03:18 --> 00:03:23 don't market to your audience. That doesn't matter.
00:03:25 --> 00:03:29 If your target audience is men, you make a game
00:03:29 --> 00:03:37 for men. If your target audience is 0 15%,
00:03:37 --> 00:03:40 then you're not gonna make any money. The problem
00:03:40 --> 00:03:44 is that they're trying to do this, slip it in,
00:03:44 --> 00:03:46 and be like, ooh, we're gonna make everybody
00:03:46 --> 00:03:50 queer, ooh, we're gonna make everybody love pronouns,
00:03:50 --> 00:03:52 ooh, this is gonna work, ooh, this is gonna work,
00:03:52 --> 00:03:53 and then it doesn't work, and then you get mad,
00:03:53 --> 00:03:56 and then people are like, we told you so, stop
00:03:56 --> 00:03:59 doing it. And this is what happens to your game.
00:04:00 --> 00:04:04 Your game will only work if you only target your
00:04:04 --> 00:04:07 audience. I've never seen a marketing strategy
00:04:07 --> 00:04:09 say, hey, let's throw out our audience and gain
00:04:09 --> 00:04:12 new audience members because that's more expensive
00:04:12 --> 00:04:16 to do. It takes a lot of money to get new people
00:04:16 --> 00:04:20 to basically buy your game, buy your product
00:04:20 --> 00:04:24 or whatever. And I've just never understood why
00:04:24 --> 00:04:28 every single time this happens, people get upset
00:04:28 --> 00:04:32 when the outcome is you lost a bunch of money
00:04:32 --> 00:04:35 because you're not actually catering to your
00:04:35 --> 00:04:39 audience. Yes, unfortunately, you sick deviants
00:04:39 --> 00:04:43 or women that are in the gaming industry, your
00:04:43 --> 00:04:46 audience is men. If you hate men, don't go in
00:04:46 --> 00:04:49 the gaming industry. This is the brutal, harsh
00:04:49 --> 00:04:52 truth. Men have made the gaming industry popular.
00:04:54 --> 00:04:56 Are there women that play? Of course there are
00:04:56 --> 00:04:58 women that play. For the overwhelming Jordan
00:04:58 --> 00:05:03 that plays PC and console, is men. Women, you
00:05:03 --> 00:05:08 are coming into a man's space. Understand this
00:05:08 --> 00:05:11 is not your space. There are some spaces that
00:05:11 --> 00:05:13 are women and there's some spaces that are men.
00:05:13 --> 00:05:16 This is what has happened is that when we come
00:05:16 --> 00:05:18 to the space, they say they want, they demand
00:05:18 --> 00:05:22 respect without actually showing that they deserve
00:05:22 --> 00:05:26 respect. And then they change it up. Basically
00:05:26 --> 00:05:31 belittle and emasculate men. And this is what
00:05:31 --> 00:05:36 happens. We are sick of it. Stop it. I'm more
00:05:36 --> 00:05:39 than willing to have Bioware crumble before me
00:05:39 --> 00:05:43 because you aren't catering to your audience.
00:05:44 --> 00:05:46 I don't have to buy Dragon Age and Veilguard
00:05:46 --> 00:05:48 if you don't really want to write it well or
00:05:48 --> 00:05:51 make a really compelling game or decide that
00:05:51 --> 00:05:54 you're going to not actually care about your
00:05:54 --> 00:05:59 previous three games and just start anew. I don't
00:05:59 --> 00:06:02 have to do it. it's fine with me i can tell everybody
00:06:02 --> 00:06:06 else not to buy it either this is happens word
00:06:06 --> 00:06:11 of mouth can either help you or sink you and
00:06:11 --> 00:06:16 it sunk firewalk studios it sunk them because
00:06:16 --> 00:06:22 a they did not prioritize meritocracy over everything
00:06:22 --> 00:06:24 else which is funny because that's the most most
00:06:24 --> 00:06:27 equal thing egalitarian that's what i was saying
00:06:27 --> 00:06:31 egalitarian thing you can do is promote meritocracy.
00:06:31 --> 00:06:35 The best people float the top. And it all helps
00:06:35 --> 00:06:38 everybody else. That's how you're supposed to
00:06:38 --> 00:06:43 do it. That's how it's always worked. Stop. I
00:06:43 --> 00:06:45 don't care if you're creative, you can still
00:06:45 --> 00:06:49 have common sense. But Firewalk Studios did not
00:06:49 --> 00:06:51 have common sense. They sold their studio off
00:06:51 --> 00:06:55 to Sony, tried to pitch them. And this is why
00:06:55 --> 00:07:00 Firebox Studios leadership has 100 % of the blame
00:07:00 --> 00:07:02 because they pitched this game to Sony saying
00:07:02 --> 00:07:05 it would be a really great game and it would
00:07:05 --> 00:07:07 be their live service and it would go bonanzas
00:07:07 --> 00:07:10 and everybody would love it and nobody loved
00:07:10 --> 00:07:13 it except for 2000 people at the peak because
00:07:13 --> 00:07:16 it was a new IP and no one really knew about
00:07:16 --> 00:07:21 it. And so now it hurts. It's going to hurt.
00:07:22 --> 00:07:31 There is no way around this. Stop not catering
00:07:31 --> 00:07:34 to your target audience. Cater to your target
00:07:34 --> 00:07:39 audience. It's men. If you hate men, stop being
00:07:39 --> 00:07:43 in the gaming industry. It's as simple as that.
00:07:44 --> 00:07:47 The cold hard truth is you are in an industry
00:07:47 --> 00:07:53 that caters to men that men have enjoyed. Are
00:07:53 --> 00:07:55 women in there? Of course, like I said before,
00:07:56 --> 00:08:01 but stop this. It's not going to work anymore.
00:08:02 --> 00:08:07 This ship has sailed. We don't like it. This
00:08:07 --> 00:08:13 is basically a cautionary tale saying keep on
00:08:13 --> 00:08:17 doing this and your business will go bankrupt.
00:08:19 --> 00:08:22 You don't care about that's fine. but you will
00:08:22 --> 00:08:28 make no money. Anyways, moving on to AMD Ryzen
00:08:28 --> 00:08:34 7 9800X 3D. Look like it's going to, it's gonna
00:08:34 --> 00:08:37 hurt Intel quite a bit because the only industry
00:08:37 --> 00:08:40 AMD has done really well in is the CPU market,
00:08:40 --> 00:08:44 because Intel has not done well with it. Let's
00:08:44 --> 00:08:50 just say that. They have just... They rested
00:08:50 --> 00:08:52 on their laurels and they didn't actually try
00:08:52 --> 00:08:55 to innovate as much and a lot of times Intel
00:08:55 --> 00:08:59 What was done previously is every new CPU that
00:08:59 --> 00:09:02 came out you needed a new motherboard with it
00:09:02 --> 00:09:06 AMD After bulldozer because that was an awful
00:09:06 --> 00:09:09 chip line They decided to use do rise in and
00:09:09 --> 00:09:12 rise in for about five years had development
00:09:12 --> 00:09:16 in the first part from the 1000 to the 5000 series
00:09:16 --> 00:09:20 used AM4 and so you could use your same motherboard
00:09:20 --> 00:09:22 but buy a new CPU which makes it cheaper and
00:09:22 --> 00:09:25 now in the new one you could still buy or you
00:09:25 --> 00:09:27 can still keep your CPU maybe buy a new motherboard
00:09:27 --> 00:09:30 or keep your motherboard and buy a new CPU and
00:09:30 --> 00:09:32 you aren't worried about it not being compatible
00:09:32 --> 00:09:35 with each other. That's how it works that saves
00:09:35 --> 00:09:38 money and that keeps customers happy and the
00:09:38 --> 00:09:42 Ryzen chipset is really good except for the 9000
00:09:42 --> 00:09:45 series has been terrible. But it looks like it's
00:09:45 --> 00:09:50 getting better. But it looks like the 9800X3D
00:09:50 --> 00:09:54 is going to be about $479. That's $30 more than
00:09:54 --> 00:09:58 the 7800X3D, which is pretty good. He uses the
00:09:58 --> 00:10:04 3D vCache CPU. It's a vCache CPU. So it looks
00:10:04 --> 00:10:06 like it's going to be a really good price point
00:10:06 --> 00:10:09 for what you're going to be offered for this
00:10:09 --> 00:10:12 as well. And it looks like The Aero Lake lineup
00:10:12 --> 00:10:15 is going to be cost around $589 and it's over
00:10:15 --> 00:10:21 $100 more than the upcoming 9800X3D. The X3D
00:10:21 --> 00:10:24 price may seal the deal. As far as I'm concerned,
00:10:24 --> 00:10:27 Intel's latest chips are straight up not good
00:10:27 --> 00:10:30 value for gaming. And that's what one reviewer
00:10:30 --> 00:10:32 has said, which is quite the blunder when you
00:10:32 --> 00:10:35 think about it, given that AMD Zen 5 launch was
00:10:35 --> 00:10:38 hardly spectacular. Yeah, it looks like this
00:10:38 --> 00:10:41 cream of the crop. just has not been good for
00:10:41 --> 00:10:44 anybody. And it looks weird given the fact that
00:10:44 --> 00:10:48 this was Intel's shot to actually unseat AMD
00:10:48 --> 00:10:51 for being one of the best CPUs. And it looks
00:10:51 --> 00:10:53 like they haven't actually done that. And it
00:10:53 --> 00:10:58 looks like AMD's new lineup of its 9 series
00:10:58 --> 00:11:02 will do a lot better than before. And the 7
00:11:02 --> 00:11:04 series is still good. If you're looking for the
00:11:04 --> 00:11:09 AM4 chip, the 5 series is amazing. The 5950X
00:11:09 --> 00:11:11 It's probably one of the best ones you can buy
00:11:11 --> 00:11:15 for the AM4 chipset. And if you still have an
00:11:15 --> 00:11:17 AM4 motherboard, I would actually look into that
00:11:17 --> 00:11:22 because I'm pretty sure it's priced pretty competitively
00:11:22 --> 00:11:25 right now. But this is where we're at. Unfortunately
00:11:25 --> 00:11:28 for Intel, you can't seem to get their footing
00:11:28 --> 00:11:31 on this one. And they just seem to be in a state
00:11:31 --> 00:11:35 where they're trying to be AMD, but AMD seems
00:11:35 --> 00:11:40 to be beating them back quite a bit. On the GPU
00:11:40 --> 00:11:43 side, unfortunately it's a different state. Nvidia
00:11:43 --> 00:11:46 is still just top dog number one. They just can't
00:11:46 --> 00:11:48 seem to do anything wrong except for their price
00:11:48 --> 00:11:51 points and just the power consumption is usually
00:11:51 --> 00:11:53 pretty bad. But beyond that, they actually are
00:11:53 --> 00:11:56 the top dog. They always seem to be AMD. They
00:11:56 --> 00:11:58 beat out Intel now, which is funny because I
00:11:58 --> 00:12:04 said last week that Intel had at one point a
00:12:04 --> 00:12:07 time to actually buy Nvidia and it balked on
00:12:07 --> 00:12:10 it. Didn't want to go for it, which is probably
00:12:10 --> 00:12:13 one of the biggest mistakes they've ever done.
00:12:14 --> 00:12:17 Because now Nvidia is, it's one of the top companies
00:12:17 --> 00:12:21 to buy for stocks at least. So that's where we're
00:12:21 --> 00:12:22 at. So if you're still looking in the market
00:12:22 --> 00:12:25 for it, I would actually hold off and look at
00:12:25 --> 00:12:28 the 9800X3D when it comes out because if it's
00:12:28 --> 00:12:32 priced pretty competitively at around $475, it's
00:12:32 --> 00:12:35 actually not bad for a pretty top of the line
00:12:35 --> 00:12:37 CPU. That's actually not a bad thing to actually
00:12:37 --> 00:12:40 look at. So if you are in the market for that,
00:12:40 --> 00:12:44 I would hold off and look for that or still hold
00:12:44 --> 00:12:48 off and get the 7 CPUs because the 9
00:12:48 --> 00:12:51 CPUs haven't really blown anything out of the
00:12:51 --> 00:12:54 water right now, but the 9800 X3D seems to be
00:12:54 --> 00:12:58 a good one to actually look at for what it offers.
00:13:01 --> 00:13:08 All right, so Dragon Age Veilguard. I was skeptical
00:13:08 --> 00:13:10 about this even when it came out. I kept on hearing
00:13:10 --> 00:13:12 there's gonna be no blood. You can't do blood
00:13:12 --> 00:13:16 magic as a mage. Your story from the previous
00:13:16 --> 00:13:19 games doesn't really matter except for four points
00:13:19 --> 00:13:25 in it. There was top surgery scars for your character
00:13:25 --> 00:13:28 creator and now we've actually full come full
00:13:28 --> 00:13:32 circle and now dialogue options for your main
00:13:32 --> 00:13:36 character being trans. Because we need to be
00:13:36 --> 00:13:39 lectured on how to not misgender somebody because
00:13:39 --> 00:13:45 mental disorders are always good to enable enablers.
00:13:46 --> 00:13:49 That's what EA is. That's whoever actually decided
00:13:49 --> 00:13:52 to enable the game director, Corinne Bush, who
00:13:52 --> 00:13:54 is actually a dude pretending to be a woman.
00:13:56 --> 00:14:00 Great. Yes, I will never buy another Dragon Age
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 game as long as that game director is still there.
00:14:02 --> 00:14:09 And you know what? Bioware. Bioware. To be honest
00:14:09 --> 00:14:13 with you, I have never seen a worse game than
00:14:13 --> 00:14:16 this game right now. And this really tops it
00:14:16 --> 00:14:20 with Concord and everything else. Who the hell
00:14:20 --> 00:14:23 wants to play a game that cares more about your
00:14:23 --> 00:14:26 pronouns and misgendering than actual good story
00:14:26 --> 00:14:33 and writing? Like seriously, Bioware. I'm just
00:14:33 --> 00:14:39 so sick of these sycophants that decide that
00:14:39 --> 00:14:43 trans ideology and genderqueer ideology is the
00:14:43 --> 00:14:46 main important thing about it. Not to mention
00:14:46 --> 00:14:48 that I just saw a YouTube video where basically
00:14:48 --> 00:14:52 the game director under their leadership or his
00:14:52 --> 00:14:55 leadership, because I will misgender him all
00:14:55 --> 00:14:57 I want to. Yes, you're a dude, grow the f***
00:14:57 --> 00:15:02 up. Just grow the f*** up. It's a very hostile
00:15:02 --> 00:15:04 work environment seems like in Bioware right
00:15:04 --> 00:15:07 now, especially under the DA or Dragon Age team
00:15:07 --> 00:15:11 it seems like that they have promoted women and
00:15:11 --> 00:15:17 non -binary or fake people apparently Into leadership
00:15:17 --> 00:15:21 positions have made white men feel terrible and
00:15:21 --> 00:15:24 also any gay man that doesn't follow that also
00:15:24 --> 00:15:27 any just male in general that doesn't follow
00:15:27 --> 00:15:31 a weird ideology from a sycophant from a narcissist
00:15:31 --> 00:15:34 from somebody that should be in an insane asylum
00:15:34 --> 00:15:37 because they have gender dysphoria into leadership
00:15:37 --> 00:15:40 position where the dude pretends to be a woman
00:15:40 --> 00:15:42 that actually is a dude because no one's being
00:15:42 --> 00:15:46 fooled by it has decided that this is a good
00:15:46 --> 00:15:50 story choice. A they also only gave review codes
00:15:50 --> 00:15:53 for polygon and all of them because they were
00:15:53 --> 00:15:55 going to give him favorable reviews. Skill up
00:15:55 --> 00:15:58 basically said don't buy this game. Apparently
00:15:58 --> 00:16:02 it has been hemorrhaging players now and is still
00:16:02 --> 00:16:03 sitting on mostly positive review right now,
00:16:03 --> 00:16:06 but just wait a few days and it will basically
00:16:06 --> 00:16:10 be mostly negative right now. The reason why
00:16:10 --> 00:16:12 it's gotten a mostly positive review right now
00:16:12 --> 00:16:15 is because it is established IP. Everybody loves
00:16:15 --> 00:16:17 Dragon Age from the first one, which is probably
00:16:17 --> 00:16:21 still the best Dragon Age origins. to DA2, to
00:16:21 --> 00:16:23 Dragon Age Inquisition, now we have Dragon Age
00:16:23 --> 00:16:26 Veilguard, which I have not bought, have no interest
00:16:26 --> 00:16:30 in buying, and will never ever touch this game
00:16:30 --> 00:16:33 because this game is in Dragon Age. I will happily
00:16:33 --> 00:16:37 go back to Dragon Age Origin or Dragon Age Inquisition,
00:16:37 --> 00:16:39 even though Origins was probably still the best,
00:16:40 --> 00:16:44 hands down will only be the best, and the problem
00:16:44 --> 00:16:47 is when the people that made Dragon Age Origins
00:16:47 --> 00:16:50 so special leave, You understand why it is really
00:16:50 --> 00:16:53 the people that matter and meritocracy should
00:16:53 --> 00:16:58 always matter as well. Because from a writer
00:16:58 --> 00:17:00 standpoint, this is just awful. The character
00:17:00 --> 00:17:04 development's awful. Seems like your character
00:17:04 --> 00:17:09 and from what I've read from reviews, seems like
00:17:09 --> 00:17:14 character rook, quote unquote, just there is
00:17:14 --> 00:17:17 no backstory to them whatsoever. You just know
00:17:17 --> 00:17:20 solace. because it's a continuation, a loose
00:17:20 --> 00:17:24 continuation of the Inquisition or Inquisitor
00:17:24 --> 00:17:28 storyline and supposedly Solosin, he's a bad
00:17:28 --> 00:17:31 dude but there's no actual connection to it except
00:17:31 --> 00:17:34 for Varric and apparently you and Varric know
00:17:34 --> 00:17:36 each other but it's not really established why
00:17:36 --> 00:17:40 you know each other. It's just really bad establishing
00:17:40 --> 00:17:43 your character type of a thing. This is basic
00:17:43 --> 00:17:46 writing too. This is basic storytelling 101.
00:17:46 --> 00:17:49 Like how to establish a character and you don't
00:17:49 --> 00:17:51 establish it whatsoever. So that's the other
00:17:51 --> 00:17:54 problem. Now we have problems with just trans
00:17:54 --> 00:17:57 and non -binary, which I still always joke about.
00:17:57 --> 00:17:59 If you have a non -binary character in a video
00:17:59 --> 00:18:03 game, they don't exist because coding is binary.
00:18:04 --> 00:18:09 Sex is binary. You cannot be non -binary because
00:18:09 --> 00:18:13 you don't exist then. And if that's the case,
00:18:14 --> 00:18:22 you have a mental disorder. Like the mental asylum
00:18:22 --> 00:18:26 is being run by the mental patients now. I don't
00:18:26 --> 00:18:29 understand why we keep on allowing this, but
00:18:29 --> 00:18:34 apparently the gaming journalists are also the
00:18:34 --> 00:18:36 mental patients too that are running the mental
00:18:36 --> 00:18:40 asylum. Like we're running into a bunch of fools.
00:18:42 --> 00:18:45 in leadership positions acting foolish and we
00:18:45 --> 00:18:48 wonder why and they wonder why the gaming industry
00:18:48 --> 00:18:53 is in such a downward spiral because you do this
00:18:53 --> 00:18:59 stop it I don't care about pen sexuals fine if
00:18:59 --> 00:19:03 you want to have sex with a griddle or a pot
00:19:03 --> 00:19:10 or a walk I don't really care but stop it stop
00:19:11 --> 00:19:14 forcing this on people. Nobody likes it. We have
00:19:14 --> 00:19:16 said time and time again, Concord failed because
00:19:16 --> 00:19:18 we didn't like it. Star Wars Outlaw failed because
00:19:18 --> 00:19:21 we didn't like it. This will ultimately fail
00:19:21 --> 00:19:25 and Monster Hunter Wilds will do a better job
00:19:25 --> 00:19:28 than this. Yeah, it's at 70k right now, but trust
00:19:28 --> 00:19:31 me, after a week, it will drop to Nowheresville
00:19:31 --> 00:19:34 and Origins will still be more played than this.
00:19:34 --> 00:19:36 Dragon Age Inquisition will be more played than
00:19:36 --> 00:19:38 this. Dragon Age 2 will be more played than this.
00:19:40 --> 00:19:42 It's just the first few days in the first week.
00:19:43 --> 00:19:45 People are excited because we've had a new Dragon
00:19:45 --> 00:19:48 Age game since a decade. And this is what you
00:19:48 --> 00:19:51 do. You can't even create a proper Dragon Age
00:19:51 --> 00:19:53 game. That's what everybody says. This isn't
00:19:53 --> 00:19:57 a Dragon Age game. This is something else. And
00:19:57 --> 00:20:00 I've seen other clips of the Qun and the Qun
00:20:00 --> 00:20:03 is based off of more Islamic Muslim religion.
00:20:03 --> 00:20:05 And they say the Qun takes care of everybody.
00:20:05 --> 00:20:09 And then the same character that said that. goes,
00:20:10 --> 00:20:13 I'm from this, I'm from this area or this country
00:20:13 --> 00:20:16 and I don't follow. I don't care what the Kuhn
00:20:16 --> 00:20:19 says. And I'm like, yeah, the, this is a weird
00:20:19 --> 00:20:22 story oversight that should have never happened.
00:20:23 --> 00:20:28 Well, the Kuhn in Dragon Age origins to an Inquisition
00:20:28 --> 00:20:32 was a very, you have your place. This is what
00:20:32 --> 00:20:35 your place is. You cannot deviate from the place
00:20:35 --> 00:20:40 you're in. Very like Muslim type. inspiration
00:20:40 --> 00:20:45 and it went from that to this lovey -dovey weird
00:20:45 --> 00:20:49 thing like they're changing everything to interject
00:20:49 --> 00:20:55 modern gender queer theory it doesn't work nobody
00:20:55 --> 00:21:03 likes it stop for the love of God if you want
00:21:03 --> 00:21:06 to be successful stop you want to be successful
00:21:07 --> 00:21:10 Stop being sexist, which is funny because the
00:21:10 --> 00:21:14 white dude hates white guys. Yeah, the white
00:21:14 --> 00:21:16 dude pretending to be a woman hates white guys.
00:21:17 --> 00:21:25 Why? Why are you purposefully crapping on your
00:21:25 --> 00:21:31 target audience saying stop misgendering me bigot
00:21:31 --> 00:21:37 on a video game? We play these things to get
00:21:37 --> 00:21:40 away from this madness, but apparently you want
00:21:40 --> 00:21:43 to drag us into this madness So we'll go play
00:21:43 --> 00:21:47 other video games to get away from your madness
00:21:47 --> 00:21:53 The game director has a mental disorder, it's
00:21:53 --> 00:21:57 called gender dysphoria And should not be in
00:21:57 --> 00:22:01 any place in linear ship whatsoever But no EA
00:22:01 --> 00:22:07 Because they're the publisher That is like second
00:22:07 --> 00:22:16 worst, just below Ubisoft, which will probably
00:22:16 --> 00:22:20 be number one soon. If they do this crap in battlefield,
00:22:20 --> 00:22:22 kiss battlefield goodbye too, because I'll just
00:22:22 --> 00:22:24 play Delta Force. It's free to play anyways.
00:22:25 --> 00:22:27 EA, you are on thin ice. You should have known
00:22:27 --> 00:22:30 this was not going to be a good thing. Plus the
00:22:30 --> 00:22:32 name director of Mass Effect, we're doing none
00:22:32 --> 00:22:36 of this. Whatsoever it's yeah, cuz you all know
00:22:36 --> 00:22:40 it's a train wreck It's a train wreck and we're
00:22:40 --> 00:22:44 all watching it and The few of us are like don't
00:22:44 --> 00:22:48 buy this games gonna be terrible People are gonna
00:22:48 --> 00:22:51 start to figure out then your next game if this
00:22:51 --> 00:22:54 game is mildly successful will not be successful
00:22:54 --> 00:22:58 at all because Unless the game current game director
00:22:58 --> 00:23:01 is no longer the game director. I will not buy
00:23:01 --> 00:23:05 a game from you. I will wholeheartedly not buy
00:23:05 --> 00:23:08 a game for you from you. I can play whatever
00:23:08 --> 00:23:13 else I can play. There's a lot of games out there
00:23:13 --> 00:23:18 and you should understand that. So I don't want
00:23:18 --> 00:23:20 more to say, but I'm just very disappointed in
00:23:20 --> 00:23:24 this. I'm very disappointed in how EA is structured
00:23:24 --> 00:23:26 by where it's a zombie brand right now. They're
00:23:26 --> 00:23:29 just keeping it alive. It is going to go nowhere
00:23:29 --> 00:23:32 is going to do nothing. And you have tarnish
00:23:32 --> 00:23:35 your reputation for the vast majority of people,
00:23:36 --> 00:23:38 which is basically your target audience, which
00:23:38 --> 00:23:41 basically they love dragon age origins. They
00:23:41 --> 00:23:44 wanted that grim dark fantasy and you took it
00:23:44 --> 00:23:52 away for this weird gender bender. I love my
00:23:52 --> 00:23:57 pronouns. I'm trans, so I have a mental disorder
00:23:57 --> 00:23:59 type of a thing and we see it and we're like,
00:23:59 --> 00:24:05 we don't want this anymore. We're done This is
00:24:05 --> 00:24:13 was your one shot and you ruined it so Have at
00:24:13 --> 00:24:17 it if you buy the game I Don't hate you I get
00:24:17 --> 00:24:19 it. It's Dragon Age. I was really excited for
00:24:19 --> 00:24:21 it, too And then I kept on seeing more and more
00:24:21 --> 00:24:23 things and I'm like I am NOT excited for this
00:24:23 --> 00:24:26 whatsoever F you I got better things to do in
00:24:26 --> 00:24:29 my life than to have you preach to me your weird
00:24:29 --> 00:24:33 ideology BS But anyways, thank you for listening
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