If Valve cared about sales, we’d be on Half Life 6 by now.

Probably never, except for maybe a user-made mod. Valve designed this explicitly for VR. And you can bet that they don’t give much of a crap about the limited sales, they make so much money with Steam that any game they make is not financially important for them in any way. Their main motivation for making this game…

I doubt we’ll ever see a non-VR version.

You didn’t actually respond to anything I wrote (which should probably tell you something about your position) and instead tried to make the case that a single-player story based RPG set in medieval Europe was justified in featuring Europeans, that a multiplayer non-story based military shooter set in a fictional…

It’s only an “argument” because people seem to think every piece of criticism is a personal attack on them. You don’t HAVE to have this argument at all. You can say, “Huh, that person has a different critique than me. Interesting!” and move on. The fact that people think criticism MUST be responded to and crushed into…

Here’s a life lesson that has really crystallized in my brain in the last few years for you. Are you ready for this? Context matters.

bizarre controversy for the developer when chose to only include European characters in their game set in a medieval Europe. Which is a totally reasonable creative decision.

From an interview with the developer of Escape from Tarkov:

Your comment implies that you (and those who share your view) are persuadable given an adequate argument. I question that assumption. Ultimately the persuasiveness of any argument depends on how you value the fundamental thing being argued over.

behold the master race

If you don’t have a problem with lack of representation in video games, no one can “argue you” into caring about it. There are only about a thousand studies to back up how important representation in media is to the emotional and mental health of people from marginalized groups. If you haven’t internalized that…

The issue is the reason why they said they couldn’t do it.  Which you would know if you’d read the article.

Excellent question. If only someone might patiently explain it to you in roughly 2,100 words or so.

If only...

It’s definitely an internet nerd/culture thing in general.

Earlier this week I got into with a bunch of 80s cartoon lovers who were completely convinced the new Thundercats cartoon, created for an entirely different audience with an entirely different goal in mind, was an attempt to ruin the Thundercats legacy.

Regardles…

The thing is, gaming has always been “popular” - even those darn bullying jocks were playing Madden on Playstation or whatever. I think something that has affected it (much like every other facet of our lives) is the reach of social media, sharing, and targeted advertising - it’s not just that something is popular,…

You pretty much summed it up. Hell, Penny Arcade had a strip ages ago that presented what you said, even though the expansion and flood of new blood is one of the primary reasons gamers have more choice, more games and more nerd shit to buy, collect and crow about then ever before.

Everything you’re saying is true. But the people who need to hear it just fuuuuuuuuuuuucking refuse. I’ve tried all kinds of approaches to talking w/ other commenters here about gender or race-bias in gaming: listening first; keeping things hyper-rational and citing data; letting things get emotional and appealing to…

It’s all exhausting. Suddenly if a dev even includes women or something, then the Gamers™ lose their shit and call it SJW propaganda or pandering and run to their youtubers to confirm their bullshit. It’s become a 3-month cycle, with the same arguments being presented on both sides.

What are you talking about? Chrysler released the BRAND NEW CHRYSLER VOYAGER THIS YEAR

This boggles my mind.