This game has been mired in some kind of controversy around over focus on social justice, aggressive responses from developers in response to critical reviews, and some other ‘woke’ criticisms. I find it strange that this is not mentioned in articles about this game being shut down. The social justice politics is very much a part of why this game did not attract gamers. I say that as someone who isn’t especially keyed into these political battles normally.
there is nothing suprising about journos leaving out that there agenda is unpopular. It's either ignoring or pointing finger and name calling.
Yes but the social justice stuff is mostly overblown.
It's a case of the "go woke go broke" crowd taking themselves more important than they really are.
Who in his right mind would follow the 8 year development of just another generic Overwatch clone and remember anything the devs or some marketing dude said during that time?
Right nobody.
Gamers don't really care about any of that.
They lock onto Steam, see the store, which says: "Here is another generic Hero Shooter which looks like all the others, its completely unoriginal has no strong IP and no new gameplay. But it costs 40 bucks and is mostly Ok".
The gamer goes "jeah whatever, my library is long enough already" and plays something else.
>Gamers don't really care about any of that.
>They lock onto Steam
and see hundreds of steam discussion and review criticising the thing you claim nobody cares about.
It is not so strange. Game journalism is mostly completely out of touch with majority of gamers and often part of 'woke' echo chambers with their fallback usually being blaming things on review bombing and other problems.
Fortunatelly we have free market.
Black Myth Wukong and response to it is good proving point. By all reasonable metrics it was massive success in west as well. Million or two million copies sold at least to western market for new studio in freshly launched IP is nothing to scoff at.
It really tells you that buyers of games do not really care about stuff journalist talk about. It really has rather little affect on their purchasing decisions. And that is really what should matter when you are trying to sell something.