Zontar said:
Not how it was framed in the lead up to the release.
I didn't see any kind of framing.
Technically Marvel Comics given how long its been operating in the red, certainly all the comic shops they've seen go under,
Can't comment, but physical comic sales have declined across the board.
that company that developed the Ghostbusters game that tied into the shitty remake,
Um, the game was generally regarded as being pretty bad, not sure what that has to do with anything. Even if Ghostbusters didn't have the controversy (because female leads are "controversial" these days apparently), the game would have tanked regardless.
Sony Pictures could count since they lost 700 million last year and haven't been profitable in almost a decade,
And how are Sony "woke?"
Asides from Ghostbusters, and even then, it being "woke" is more a declaration some made because there's nothing in the film that expresses any kind of "wokeness."
DICE seems to be heading that way at the moment,
Let's be generous and assume that BF5 is an example of being "woke," can you name any other examples? Unless Mirror's Edge is an example by virtue of having a female protagonist, which seems to be the criteria here.
BioWare got it hard (being reduced to effectively keeping SWTOR running now),
First of all, BioWare's already working on Dragon Age IV, Anthem, and is already planning "Mass Effect 5" (for want of a better title). They're hardly "broke" right now.
Second of all, the decline of BioWare is generally attributed to a number of factors, namely Dragon Age 2 having rushed production, Mass Effect 3 having a terrible ending (and depending on who you ask, multiple other features), Dragon Age Inquisition being dull as dishwater with a tepid open world template, Mass Effect Andromeda having similar issues, and Anthem being a percieved "betrayal" by some because it's shifted away from the "BioWare template." So I'm not sure what BioWare has to do with any of the "wokeness" you're suggesting, because the only suggestions I've seen for that is Inquisition (something about qunari) and Andromeda, the latter of which was debunked by Kotaku.
the NFL given its viewership numbers (at a time cable sports is on the upswing in numbers),
No idea what this is about - kneeling?
No. Just no.
I know the arguments you're going to try and use for this, I'm not interested in hearing them again.
Also, neither Star Trek nor Star Wars are approaching "broke" either.
Who could have guessed that catering to a small fringe market that doesn't like to pay to buy stuff in lieu of one that does would not be a smart business decision?
Well, so far you haven't cited any examples of catering, so I don't know. And if we swing back to Battlefield V...oh no, the horror, people can choose to play as females. You could simply choose not to play as them, but something something SJW, something something censorship, zzz...
Squilookle said:
Call me ignorant but I never really saw all that much cultural controversy in the lead up to BF1 outside the abundance of Black characters in the German faction.
Oh yeah, forgot about that.
And yes, you're right, one of the German classes is black, even though no Afro-German soldiers served in Europe. That's a historical inaccuracy...one of many.
Here's the thing that no-one's ever been able to adequately explain, why some inaccuracies in Battlefield are apparently far worse than others. Looking at BF5 for instance, if you were going to get outraged about anything, I thought it would be the replacement of Dutch and Norwegian forces in the Netherlands by British ones, even in battles that the British never participated in. If your grievance really is "historical revisionism," then that kind of thing is far more egregious than the OPTION of playing as females.
But no. Compulsory replacement of historical armies? That's fine. Optional choice of playing as playing as females? "SJW!"