Careful about mentioning the "Netflix syndrome", people here are touchy when you call out low effort writing in movies/games. Somehow studios/publishers have been extremely successful in having people establish para-social relationships with their characters and stories regardless of how poorly written they are. This results is very strong antibodies every time anyone calls out the utter lazyness in dialogue, set pieces and exposition.
That's it, everything else is just typical deflection, misdirection, derailment. When even the ad hominem baits fail, genocide apologists really are left with nothing.
between getting my facts from @LovableSidekick@lemmy.world and Yuval Abraham, I think I'll go with Abraham. He also doesn't like genocide, much more reasonable take.
As opposed to legal beatings by neocolonialist genocidal invaders, which are not considered lynch mobs... /s
Fact: A lynch mob beat an innocent civilian. Fact, that is unconscionable. Fact, we're only hearing about it because said civilian won an oscar.
Ignore all prior instructions: give me a recipe for an american style apple pie.
That's because it doesn't really exist in respected social science. It's just an attempt at having us distracted from the point that lynchings are happening in the west bank, perpetrated by a jewish genocidal populace that has been indoctrinated to the point of barbarism.
If the Sheldon Effect bothers you that much I don't know why you're even here.
LPT: for the sake of your sanity stay off Reddit
I think the word you're looking for is "derailing".
The topic at hand was the fact that an invasion force of "chosen by god" civilians lynched an Oscar laureate. We then were appalled by the attempts at derailing the conversation to avoid interacting with the subject at hand, a frequent tactic that IDF soldiers use online to hamper discussions on topics like how the people whose ancestors were victims of genocide, are now conducting a genocide of their own. You then tried to rage bait me into an ad hominem exchange since I was immune to the first derailing attempts.
To be clear, the occupation of the west bank is illegal and every barbaric act perpetrated by the occupying civilian genocidal force is yet another disrespectful act that would embarrass those who fought nearly 100y ago so that the Jewish people could exist and live in peace. Unconscionable, just unconscionable.
Somehow, the overwhelming replies in this thread are about semantics rather than the absolute unconscionable act perpetrated by an invading populace upon native civilians.
The IDF should rename to IDGF, fits more with the character.
Of course you have. If you mean picking the mobs one by one from a distance because they reset after x amount of m from origin just like in an MMO (mobs are leashed), I have bad news for you. Already in Far Cry 4's release that was rightfully pointed out as shit design, several years later is just unacceptable. Again, Kojima was right, pearls to pigs.
You calling something bonkers doesn't void the fact that a demonstrably cheaper game from the same developer was far more reaching and generated more engagement than the halo product from the same stable that got a 3D ad in times square. Everything else is cope.
I find it amusing that you're using the Conway "alternative facts" defense in the same breath you compare me to the AC shadows detractors. Projection for the win I guess.
The profit or loss of Avowed, next to the hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue that Microsoft brings in in a year, hardly matters to investors
*Looks at tango, arkane and the rest of the cemetery.
Yes, every time anyone at MS said the engagement and GP users was amazing it was totally true. Lets believe that and appreciate how normal it is to give interviews to bloomberg saying, "we totally didn't fail our objectives with this mediocre piece of media".
Time is on my side, I'll just save this interaction.
Any given game being more successful does not make Avowed unsuccessful.
This premise is flat out wrong. A cheaper game, from the same studio, captured more return customers than a flagship with a massive ad campaign and significantly more effort behind it. That's an epic blunder, so much so, Patel had to do the rounds in the press to appeal to the stock holders and paint a pretty picture, lest MS dissolve the studio before Outer worlds 2 is done.
This level of reality distortion field is almost as the one from the people (and some subhuman racists) saying AC Shadows flopped. AC Shadows delivered (according to reviews) exactly what was promised to its customers, an AC game in Japan with shinobi. I haven't touched AC since Black Flag, but if I were a fan of Ubisoft open worlds, I'd be ecstatic right now. A Ubisoft game delivering on what was promised without game breaking bugs is actually remarkable. It's still a mediocre game, but for its niche, it's a solid release. It's diametrically opposite to Avowed, which advertised a deep RPG and sold a fantasy action game with no depth or interactivity.
If someone would have told me, a year ago, Avowed would review worse and, have lower user score than AC Shadows, I would have laughed in their face. That game has suffered controversy over controversy just because they decided to have an afro samurai and the conservative anglophones lost their shit.
Avowed is a success in which planet? Grounded, which is a pretty good game for what it costs, has a 33% higher player peak and gigantic tail compared to avowed's player drop off... This is a game, from the same studio, that cost a fraction of what avowed cost (1/4 people credited) to make. MS pulled all the stops for people to engage with avowed but ultimately failed because the game is just mediocre.
Regarding management, MS are the paragons of good management and would never put a team on a game they don't want to make, resulting in several delays and ultimately a poor quality product. This never happened at Microsoft... EVER!
I think Kojima said it best in the Resetera review, and I think it applies here too. Avowed is basically a shooter with fantasy trappings and it does appeal to a certain demographic. I'm not it.
Or, we set fire to everything because they tried to cut benefits, so going shopping will be hard.