They basically went the polar opposite end of the spectrum
Not to mention they removed every bit of cleavage in WoW. Replacing portraits of cartoon girls with baskets of fruit because you can't be sexist with fruit, only with fruits but that's not the same thing as apples, and bananas.
Small potatoes. WOW's horniness was still on the Rated T level spectrum
Even at a Teen Rating, Tekken, Fatal Fury/KOF and Street Fighter still gets away with more explicit fan-service than WoW ever could.
It is 100% a panic move by Blizzard which just proves that all those allegations were totally true. Because you dont try to hide shit when you dont have things to hide.Even at Teen Rating, Tekken, Fatal Fury/KOF and Street Fighter still gets away with more explicit fan-service than WoW ever could.
Seems like Acti-Blizz has now taken in hard stance against harassment now after I read this article.
How is that an issue though? I couldn't tell you anything about builds in any game, I'm sure you'd say the same about my toon right now, but how is that an issue? If this was a "how to" video, maybe, MAYBE there would be a ledge to stand on, but again, I don't see the issue here.
Sorry, what about the game doesn't work? I'm up to Act III right now, apart from disconnects (which seems to be a computer thing rather than a server thing at this point), I haven't encountered any broken functionality.
Sorry, again, how? Based on what I've played, none of that rings true.
By what reasoning? All the problems you listed were on the level of gameplay, this video, as I understand it, was based on art design.
Oh God, here we go.
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Except you clearly do, because you've spent paragraphs ranting about it. No-one asked you about all the types of people you listed, you made it a big declaration to say "I don't care about those people, what are you saying?" If you didn't care, why are you making such a big deal of the things you clearly don't care about when, as far as I can tell, the video itself doesn't?
I don't know anything about the state of Mafia III, but the short version is that D4 is playable.
...what the fuck did I just read?
Yeah that was just me uncritically thinking.I don't have the means of watching the video in question right now, but as to some of the comments:
How is that an issue though? I couldn't tell you anything about builds in any game, I'm sure you'd say the same about my toon right now, but how is that an issue? If this was a "how to" video, maybe, MAYBE there would be a ledge to stand on, but again, I don't see the issue here.
Sorry, what about the game doesn't work? I'm up to Act III right now, apart from disconnects (which seems to be a computer thing rather than a server thing at this point), I haven't encountered any broken functionality.
Sorry, again, how? Based on what I've played, none of that rings true.
I know, different strokes, different folks, but it's like we're playing completely different games. That, or something happens beyond where I've got up to.
By what reasoning? All the problems you listed were on the level of gameplay, this video, as I understand it, was based on art design.
Oh God, here we go.
First, this:
Funny Events of the "Woke" world
In a world in which gaming companies are filled to bursting with sexual harassment allegations. Jason can't hold back from his wokeness and posts about a new gaming studio being formed by a bunch of dudes, because "Muh Diversity though!". Ever think that a group of friends might have just...
You clearly don't have a problem with some homogenous groups, and take issue when people point them out, but take issue with other groups.
Second, I'm sorry, you'll need stats for that, because I haven't seen anything like what you're describing. To claim that every video has shown "female and trans employees" is an outright lie, when the most recent dev update (the one where Immortal and D4 were both discussed) was a group of 4 men. So, by your logic, 4 men is totally fine, 2 women isn't. For the record, I don't think there's an issue or virtue with either, but if you want to play identity politics, at least keep it consistent.
Third, I did a quick look at the YouTube page for Diablo and did a gender count by image from post-launch. I counted 9 men and 5 women. So unless you have actual statistics, you're triggered by the presence of a gender that's only just above 50% of the presence of another gender.
Except you clearly do, because you've spent paragraphs ranting about it. No-one asked you about all the types of people you listed, you made it a big declaration to say "I don't care about those people, what are you saying?" If you didn't care, why are you making such a big deal of the things you clearly don't care about when, as far as I can tell, the video itself doesn't?
It's the same tripe that people always spill out when they say "I'm not prejudiced against X, I just don't like forced diversity" or whatnot.
I don't know anything about the state of Mafia III, but the short version is that D4 is playable.
The long version is that I've suffered multiple disconnects, and while things aren't as bad as they were, they aren't perfect now, and I've suffered more deaths/log-outs than I care to name. However, I'm not sure if that's down to the servers or my own computer, because even when I'm not playing anything, it's still suffering connection issues at various points.
...what the fuck did I just read?
For any of that to be true, you'd have to demonstrate that Prava was either:
1: Propped up within the game itself based on the inherent characteristics you described.
2: Point to an example where she's propped up from outside the game based on the inherent characteristics you described.
Since you haven't played the game, I'll assume that you don't have anything to back up the first option. Based on everything I've played so far, nothing like what you're describing has occurred (nor is it present in Book of Lorath, where Prava is referenced). Not to mention that Prava isn't even a pope-esque figure (that would be a que-hegan) within Sanctuary; Zakarum is undoubtedly based on the Catholic church, the Cathedral of Light isn't.
If it's option 2, then I assume you have something to back that up, because I haven't seen anything like what you're describing. Certainly Prava's been featured in blog/twitter posts, none of them have ever drawn special attention to her innate characteristics.
If you have nothing to back up either of those options, I'm left to ask what the issue is.
So was the Sorcerer in D1.
For regular players it isnt an issue, play what you want even if it is bad and you get roadblocked by the content on your own. "Bad" builds in games like Diablo and PoE are set ups that cannot do the games content without a crazy level of skill and if you have that much skill you are also probably smarter with you build choices anyway.
Ive talked about this but here is a short list.
I mean it would depend on the devs in question. If its the art team or whatever, fair play. If its the guy in charge of game balance or class design, kind of an issue. (Which was literally a thing in Warframe for a few years before the recent changeover in personnel, the guy in charge of the balance hadn't actually played the game in years and was mostly making decisions based off usage analytics). Which also had a series of iffy new frame (classes essentially) because they'd show them off in weird god/dev mode with no mods installed instead of any kind of real gameplay scenario (and most were correspondingly underwhelming before several updates)
Only because they were called out on it and were forced to. They don’t get any props when the only reason they’re doing it is to save what’s left of their grunt staff bottom line.
Well, yes, I know, that's generally how builds work in ARPGs. It's one of the things I liked about D3 in that given the rune system, you weren't locked into a skillset the way you might be in other games. D4, I'm not as fond of, but it seems like a decent middleground between D1/D2 and D3/DI in regards to how it approaches skills.
Except again, the people playing it are dungeon designers, not class designers. If this was a video like "How to play (class)," sure, the gripes would make sense, but you're fixating on something that's incidental to the video itself.
Art/dungeon developers are still developers. A "developer," as I'd call it, is anyone who works on the game itself.
My list only scratches the surface trust me. If you want to dig deep into it there are plenty of videos for that. My favorite is that the reason our stash is small (in a game about collecting loot btw) is because the game loads the entire inventory and stash of EVERY player you see on screen, and if they added more inventory or stash space it would crash the servers.
Again that is fair. But Optics matter to the user base and when this video is what drops seemingly in response to player accusations, it's bad optics. And imo no matter how you slice it, there really is no excuse for sloppy builds or gameplay to be used in ANY developer video. Even if you are art team, are you somehow excused for never playing the game you're making? I don't think so because art is an important part of making the game feel a certain way, and you'd want to play the game to make sure your art assets fit into the world. They don't have to be pros at the game, but they should appear to have at least a little competency in playing a game they've been working on for 7 years. Don't you think?
Pfft, next you'll suggest Todd Howard should have played a survival game before releasing Fallout 76 (if you are at all familiar with any survival game, that entire first announcement onstage is just a hilarious train of WTFery lol)
I'd rather suggest Todd just stop talking about his games. He's like a richer Sean Murray. Or maybe a Peter Moulenuex...err Fable dude.