Yesterday I was told bluntly that AC Shadows had a budget of $300m and Concord had a budget of $900m. That's 5x the budget of a typical Ubisoft sandbox, and the most expensive video game ever respectively. His source? A chud streamer named Asmongold.
If a video game they've decided has to be a flop because 'woke', they will literally just invent ludicrous figures and go "aha! they didn't make their money back!"
It's woke because you play as a black guy, I think. 'DEI' protagonist. Whatever.
The reviews are middling but the sales are strong. Ubisoft reckons its being beaten only by the smash hit which was peak-pandemic Valhalla.
Easy enough to say that it's not a massive critical success (because woke) but since the whole argument was "it's going to FLOP (because woke)" they have to just invent numbers out of thin air to prove it's a commercial failure (because woke).
Which is even funnier because if they bothered to read anything at all, Yasuke was an actual, real life black samurai. Who came from Africa as a Jesuit missionary and then trained and served under Nobunaga in the 16th century.
I remember when Vara Dark tried to shit on Spider Man 2 having like what, 25k players on steam?
She also didn't bother to mention how The First Descendents, a live service game that is WAAAAAAAAAAY more reliant on a decent playerbase in order to be profitable, had around the same amount, if not, less.
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u/TotalHell 10d ago
Extremely telling of his values that the thing he’s placed the highest premium on is “saving money.”