From the article:
“Play is an integral part of human evolution and learning,” she says, mentioning that this is a topic she covers in her book. “Gaming, being the most refined form of play in our time, has much to offer. Instead of focusing on what gaming is not, it’s more effective to showcase its true essence. The industry’s effort to create a more diverse range of games, beyond merely violent and intense ones, will help showcase the broad spectrum of gaming as an expression of creativity.”
Fan base isn’t regressing - there’s just an increasingly polarized contingent that won’t stop wailing about every snub.
Overall the gaming fan base is growing because of this embracing of diversity.
Yeah it’s just a loud group of dipshits that want games to be a safe space for their regressive views.
They can’t go 3 words without saying “woke”.
Wokewokewokewokewoke…
The Helldivers 2 Steam
review page(edit: it’s comments on announcements) is covered with reviews from accounts that don’t even own the game begging Arrowhead to “not add WOKENESS!” to the game.What review page are you talking about??
I went to check out the reviews and all I see is people complaining about Sony blocking out so many countries. I don’t see a single “woke” complaint.
Are you sure you’re not just hearing that people have complained and then assuming they actually did?
Sorry, you’re correct- it’s not the reviews, but the comments on any announcement made by the devs that I was remembering.
The lack of mouse icon next to their names means those Steam accounts don’t own the game.
I wonder how many of them are just bots tbh
Cause the game is pretty inherently political. The setting is a farcical fascist govt…
It’s a coordinated effort to make those bigoted assholes seem to be a larger number than they actually are. And we can blame Steve Bannon for that.
I mean on the plusside, you always know that whenever anybody uses the word “woke” as if it were a real word, you can immediately add them to the blocklist or ban them. Nothing they can add has any value any more.
How they can review a game without own it on steam?
I edited my comment, but I was wrong in that it’s not the review page that gets swarmed but the comments on announcements that Arrowhead makes. Anyone can comment on an announcement (which makes sense, if [for example] it’s about an upcoming feature that isn’t out yet.)
I see, steam community foruns.
It’s better to not go into these, full of fanboys, haters and stupid people farming fake points.
I’m guessing they buy, review, refund? Not sure if that also removes the review as I almost never refund or review games.
Ding ding ding