>People actually don't understand that all decisions made from giant corporations are done via telemetry and are actually what 90% of the player-base want.
People actually don't understand that all decisions made from giant corporations are done via telemetry and are...
Yeah, I don't resent AAA publishers for their shitty business practices as much as I do the bottom feeders that enable said practices.
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>and are actually what 90% of the player-base want
It would probably be more accurate to say the decisions are what 90% of the playerbase are willing to put up with. They'll fug your bum until you're just about to cry but stop short of you dropping their product.
I've been working with media departments of large to medium corps for the past 4 years, they mostly care about how many comments/tweets their campaign is going to generate, they dont care if its good or bad.
Basically telemetry tells us that almost nobody actually cares about progressiveness (forced diversity etc.) but it generates a lot of traffic because most social network activities revolve around echo chambers, thus resulting in free press coverage.
No, for two reasons:
Telemetry doesn't tell the developer what players want. It tells them what players are doing. If people respond well to addictive lootbox and daily engagement tactics, it's not necessarily because they want it but because of a weakness in human psychology.
Secondly, public companies care about growth, not their current users. For investors, if a company can't expand it's userbase exponentially it's worthless.
That's fine, I'm not buying their shit either way.
Yes, that's why 90% of people always agree with them.
Niggerfaggotretard.
>they mostly care about how many comments/tweets their campaign is going to generate
I believe this. People on Zig Forums like to pretend that SJW types don't have any real influence compared to the actual vidya consumer base - and yet who really controls the social media consensus?
The majority of people are gullible and malleable and easy victims of marketing. They will accept whatever they're told as long as it doesn't hurt them too bad.
And companies have largely figured out that even when public opinion turns against them, they can ride it out anyway by just ignoring it and continuing to be exploitative.
All women are whores
twitter isn't reflective of the general public at all, though.
this is because those you call SJW (and related SJW practices) generate a lot of "hate" (be it justified or not) comments. Basically it goes like this:
>gamedev inserts progressive thing in their game
>left leaning journalist writes an article with a clickbait title
>"hate" comments come in, generating traffic
>now a lot more people know about GAME, by gamedev
In one of the coworking spaces I used to work in, there was this chick that was literally hired as a diversity manager. The actual HQ of her company was in another building, they told her they didnt have any space left for her so they got a coworking desk in a nearby building.
I know for a fact they have the space, so my guess is that they hired a diversity manager as a progressive token and just told her to fuck off to a different building, because they dont actually care about it.
This was in london, less than a year ago.
I never said it was, just that it contributes to generating literally free press coverage
You're not part of the 90%, that 90% is china
Whoah, fpbp yet again
>done via telemetry
>the process of recording and transmitting the readings of an instrument
how excalty?
in term of how I play the game or just I bought that lootbox?
based
90% of people are functionally retarded
Why not both?
>90% of the player-base
90% of their focus test sample. How accurately that represents the player-base is arguable.
in the world of gatchashit, DLCand movie games i'm 10%
90% of the playerbase doesn't know better.
>are actually what 90% of the player-base want
No it's what developers think the player wants which they should never do as it makes the game play like ass.
Ratchet and Clank PS4 remake compared to the original was awful despite being an exact remake with the same physics and gun play.
They kept taking the control away from the player and guiding them down a set path, sure they player wants to figure out how the game works and where to go but they don't want you holding their hand.
Their money is the same tho
And that's all that matters
Google has a massive global network that allows them to know more about their users than their users know about themselves, and they're still surprised that Stadia flopped.
I feel like Google is its own entity. They'll try fucking anything and almost all of their projects flop.
Though they've not given up on Stadia, so I'm curious if it is actually unpopular or not.
Even that quiet innocent girl who sits in the back of my uni class and barely says a word?
You bet she has a bf
>90% of the player-base want BLM, LGBTQGJVFFHJJVD++++ propaganda, and social politics shoved down their throats
Yeah, no.
If that word is the n word, you found the one and you should pop the question.
My day was better before you brought this undeniable fact to my attention, but there's no undoing it now.
Not true because corporations don't give a shit about existing playerbases and just try to appeal to everyone else.
I believe this. I also believe companies like Blizzard actively post here too.
>why aren't you playing WoW Zig Forums
Regardless of how much hate it generates, it's free advertising and gets people to think about WoW if only for a few moments.
rewrite ancient history in a video game to be more inclusive is not what 90% want, it is the pure decision of few degenerates.
That's not how business works.
At the end of the day market research data still has to be interpreted by people and products based on that interpretation will also be made by people and just because you happen to work on a job involving large investment sums doesn't suddenly mean you're smart or qualified, just that you do. Hollywood is a good example. Logically you'd think they're making shitty movies because they're guaranteed to make money based on their market research, right? But no, it's actually because people in charge of those movies are often fucking stupid these days and they're just hugely lucky market research carries them as far as it does.
>duuuude don't hate soulless corporations they're soulless by design
It's not a very good argument. If anything it makes me want to steal their shit more
Most people don't care, but the people who do like it outnumber the people who hate it.
>I also believe companies like Blizzard actively post here too.
Show them this and laugh at them.
So by being angry about it, I'm playing into their hand?
And by silently accepting it, I'm cucking myself into submission to their progressive shit?
Is there a winning move here that doesn't involve burning six million people a day?
Reject modernity
Embrace monke
Realizing you don't need to consoom as much as you thought you do
Yes, just don't buy it. Don't be angry about it, just say that you won't buy it and move on. I've bought every Playstation so far, I won't buy this one. That's the only thing they're afraid of
>Zig Forums shit
Go back
Holy kek Zig Forums actually bootlicking to corporations.
How does feel to be a contrarian whore?
Cant wait to see you fags defending the SJW culture in some years.fucking retards
That doesn't work anymore, but yeah, that's pretty hard for normies to wrap their head around.
>and yet who really controls the social media consensus?
If anything it's the other way around. They fall in line with the way our corporate overlords want things to be, so they get a lot of presence
And as we all know it doesnt work. Why then?
The winning move is understanding that the majority of people playing games don't go on Kotaku or Polygon and the more you kick and scream about sites like that they more attention you bring to them. You people did more for the advancement of social justice and putting it in the public spotlight by throwing a temper tantrum over it then they ever could have done on their own. Stop being a fag and play good video games.
they can't pull data from the silent majority you absolute mongoloid
social media ( the source of the data) is controlled by sjw
Telemetry that's only looking at how long people play, not if they're enjoying their time.
They're stretching out grind just long enough for there not be too many who leave but as many as possible who pay for cosmetics and progress speed ups.
There is nothing consumer friendly in their decision making.
Except not. Stats are meaningless when you don't know WHY.
Maybe only 10% of people participate in a thing but why? Until you ask that cutting it or changing it is not an option.
And most people are too stupid to understand why things exist as they are so even knowing why can mean it doesn't need to be cut or changed.
People whine at Mojang taking so long to update and shit but has any of them ever stopped to realize why? They're trying to balance their desires and how the game should function with what players want rather than just forcing their bullshit.
They actually listen to backlash instead of just the stats.
>Hire people based on hitting diversity quotas instead of talent and merit
>Games become more buggy, bloated, generic and lazy
Really makes you think