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The core of the narrative around The Woke being mad about Marvel Rivals is really about Concord - you know the hero shooter for "modern audiences" that shut down and issued refunds in less than a month, and then claimed that the game failed because the hero shooter market is just over-saturated? Except we're just a couple of months later and here's a new hero shooter that's very successful, which challenges the developer/media narrative about why Concord failed so abysmally.
It doesn't challenge the narrative. The market is oversaturated. Concord wasn't free.

People like to pretend it's cause it was woke or ugly or bad, but concord could have been the best, prettiest thing ever and it still would have bombed. Because it wasn't free.

A competitive game lives and dies on the back of the community size and engagement, and concord entered a market where every major competitor was free, and charged a retail price.

So these new FREE entries don't lessen the truth about the market being oversaturated, they just don't represent any risk for a consumer to try them while they're new and hot.
 

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People like to pretend it's cause it was woke or ugly or bad, but concord could have been the best, prettiest thing ever and it still would have bombed.
Most sensible people know why I feel, but you just have your usual outrage grifters lying to themselves and their echo chambers.
 

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What, he lied just to get morons to vote for him?

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He didn't lie - he was openly racist and (white) Americans really, really liked that, so they voted for him.

If it really was about the economy and bringing grocery prices down you'd think more black people would've voted for him. But the vast majority of black voters voted against him, because they saw him for the racist fascist that he is. And the majority of white voters voted for him for the same reason.
 
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Oh no! They made Gerald WOKE and TRANS in the new game! The Witcher? More like the WOKESTER! With its Geraldina of TRANSIA!
I'm hoping they go as book-accurate as possible and give her a sapphic love interest. Then the "source material purists" will be obligated to admit they actually just don't want gays.
 

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Ciri also got beaten with the DEI uglification stick. Luckily, enterprising heroes have lready fixed her design
It's fucking sad when the moment I finished the trailer, I already knew people would be bitching about how Ciri doesn't look like a supermodel anymore. I don't want that to be my first thought about games now...
 
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Oh no! They made Gerald WOKE and TRANS in the new game! The Witcher? More like the WOKESTER! With its Geraldina of TRANSIA!
The best thing you can do is ignore these fools. Even some of their audiences are getting sick of them or those who have been in this business for a long time are losing people.


I don't want that to be my first thought about games now...
Then don't let it be. When I first saw that trailer. Those idiots weren't even on my mind.

Then the "source material purists" will be obligated to admit they actually just don't want gays.
There are more than a couple of that proudly admitted that they don't think highly of the the LGBTQ or speak for their "friends" hatred.
 

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I'm hoping they go as book-accurate as possible and give her a sapphic love interest. Then the "source material purists" will be obligated to admit they actually just don't want gays.
I might be remembering things wrong but I seem to recall she had both male and female love interests in The Witcher 3.
 
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It's fucking sad when the moment I finished the trailer, I already knew people would be bitching about how Ciri doesn't look like a supermodel anymore. I don't want that to be my first thought about games now...
Joke's on everyone, since this is all just prerendered anyway. You compare W3 prerendered Geralt and Yennifer to their ingame counterparts and they look quite different. They probably haven't even locked Ciri's design yet. Isn't the Witcher 1 remake supposed to come out before this anyway? This game'll be 7 years away.
 
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I might be remembering things wrong but I seem to recall she had both male and female love interests in The Witcher 3.
I think you may be misremembering, I don't think Ciri had any romantic involvement in the Witcher 3 at all, & I've done 2 very involved playthroughs.
 

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Ciri also got beaten with the DEI uglification stick. Luckily, enterprising heroes have lready fixed her design
I wonder if any of these guys will realise that they are most likely making themselves unhappy by fixating on unrealistic notions of beauty that are may leave them disappointed by what the real world has to offer.
 
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I wonder if any of these guys will realise that they are most likely making themselves unhappy by fixating on unrealistic notions of beauty that are may leave them disappointed by what the real world has to offer.
Something tells me these guys focus on unrealistic beauty standards because it's the world that's disappointed in them.
 
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I wonder if any of these guys will realise that they are most likely making themselves unhappy by fixating on unrealistic notions of beauty that are may leave them disappointed by what the real world has to offer.
Maybe, maybe not. But as they are, any relationship they'd enter would likely result in two unhappy people. So, you know, perhaps not a great loss to the dating pool.
 
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I think you may be misremembering, I don't think Ciri had any romantic involvement in the Witcher 3 at all, & I've done 2 very involved playthroughs.
No I think I recall something like that too. In Novingrad there's definitely a girl at an tavern where its strongly implied they had a one night stand.
 
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