‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews (www.forbes.com)

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You can’t really gauge its Steam reviews because there are only 13(!) total so far, reflective of a game that has launched with just a few hundred players. 224, as I’m writing this article. Sub-Concord levels. Yes. Concord is a unit of measurement now.

The Concord legacy lives on.

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[-] garretble@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago

Besides the actual quality of the game, it seems like (stupid) people are complaining about DEI in this game? Why?

People are the worst.

[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

From what I know Sweet Baby Inc. is involved. Which is a studio that focuses a lot on DEI when it comes to narratives/story in games.

They already did not have the greatest track record, some good games, but a lot of mediocre and even bad games. It doesn't necessarily mean that the game scores are related to DEI, but the fact it keeps happening to games they're involved with says at least something.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

The good games they've worked on have included some of the most praised games in recent years. If you want to ask why this keeps happening, you have to have massive blinders on to ignore the likes of God of War: Ragnarok and Alan Wake II, both firmly in recent memory, and also realize that basically no writer on earth could save something like Suicide Squad from its criticisms.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

No…TRUE Scotsman uses Sweet Baby Inc!

[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Like I said, some good games. Which by the way still received criticism from people about certain DEI related involvements, whether you agree or disagree with that is different thing, but the criticism was there too.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Anything not about straight white men will have people complaining about DEI bullshit. It's never a reason a game has failed. They fail because they're bad games. They might also include DEI stuff, but it's not the cause.

Edit: correction, those games listed are about straight white men. Anything that includes a character that is not a straight white man will have those people complaining. They're the most fragile people in the world.