So last week was the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, which I guess is as good a place as any for the liberal assholes to gather and show the world what they’re doing wrong.
Of course, they can’t admit that they’re wrong, that they are the cause of the marketplace drying up, because they, like the religious, don’t have a grasp on reality.
Honestly, you can’t make this shit up.
First, let’s look at the conference itself, because that’s a laundry list of what’s going wrong. There are 55, yes 55, different panels dealing with identity politics. Yes, they do talk about actual development here and there, but why would anyone in their right mind care about some of these in an industry that is falling down around their ears, mostly because of this crap?
Fair Play Summit: Nonbinary by Design
Climate Crisis Workshop: Use Your Game Developer Superpowers to Fight the Climate Crisis
So You’ve Been Canceled. Now What?
LGBTQA2S+ & Global Queer Community Roundtable (Presented by IGDA)
Making the First Afrofantasy MMORPG: Lessons on Intersectionality in GameDev
I could go on and on and on, but that’s enough. But it gets worse because most of these people are left-wing dumbshits. At noon, during the conference, about a hundred developers went out into a public park so they could group scream their frustration over the state of the games industry.
Well assholes, you did it to yourselves!
“The game industry is falling apart around us, and we’re all flocking to San Francisco for a week to pretend like this is fine,” the GDScream event announcement states. “Let’s take a minute where we all stop pretending, and express just how it feels to be a game developer in 2024.
But look at what you’re doing? The reason everything is falling apart is because you are not listening to the consumers, you’re all wrapped up in your identity politics bubble that nobody else buys into! I couldn’t find just a video of the scream, this is the shortest clip I could find.
They complain about the layoffs, which are mostly happening to studios who buy into identity politics before actual fun and entertainment. What do you expect? The industry isn’t doing well and it’s doing it to itself. Last year, the biggest selling game of the year (probably, we don’t have final figures yet) was Hogwarts Legacy, a game with virtually no identity politics in it. Meanwhile, the ones that double down on the garbage, they’re the ones underperforming in the marketplace. Spider-Man 2, a woke disaster, flopped. It was nominated for 7 awards. It won zero. The game included mandatory “inclusion training” in the game. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was a “The Marvels” level flop. Hardly anyone plays it anymore. Steam numbers are dismal. They were forced to give people their money back in droves. You want to know why you’re losing your jobs? Look at what you’re working on! Alan Wake 2 sidelined the main character, the reason most people wanted to play, so that a young black woman could take the reins. This isn’t story, it’s agenda.
Keep in mind, these are the same people who shit themselves whenever Trump’s name is mentioned. This is why Gamergate 2 is starting up. It never really went away, but this is going to tank the entire industry, at least the woke developers and the vast majority of the game journalism industry.
Good riddance to all of them. These people need serious professional help.