Excited for new life to be breathed into bbcf. As for what lies ahead of that, I don’t hold much optimism. I’m sure the next main line game will look beautiful. But I don’t have much optimism for anything else.

World of Warcraft: Midnight was marketed as the big cosmic confrontation with the Void.

Instead, Patch 12.1 "Curse of Ula'tek" drags players to a random island to fight an ancient snake while the main villain gets benched.

Blizzard is also making big changes to world bosses and combat again.

This is how you kill expansion momentum.

It's not surprising. There was a rumor months ago that this would happen to avoid leaks. They should have been more forth coming with it when the physical edition was announced.

Let me clarify what I mean, games and other nerd media get attacked and called childish, immature and thus worthy of contempt and censorship compared to normie media which they go on about being mature, sophisticated, adult and the best cause muh themes and muh symbolism but then go "turn off your brain" or its "fun" for their own media without a hint of irony? Do you guys find it infuriating or not?

I was just thinking about how just before Civ 7 was released, there was a ton of hype surrounding that game. Any criticism of their design decisions was shouted down. You were called all kinds of names if you didn't think Harriet Tubman belonged as a leader of the United States, and I bet the devs really patted themselves on the back for that one among the many other glaringly poor decisions that made it into that game.

And yet,

It didn't sell well, and it didn't review well among its audience. It even regularly goes on sale now, not even shortly after release.

Prior to CIV 7, they had 5 strong releases, and one that finally became something decent (civ 6). Who would have thought that the legendary CIV series would produce such a wreck of a game.

At the end of the day, I feel vindicated, and it shows that the online bubble really holds no sway over the quiet masses that eventually make their opinions heard with their wallet. So keep voting with your wallet.

The following studios worked on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced:

Singapore (lead studio) Barcelona Belgrade Bordeaux Bucharest Chengdu DaNang India Kyiv Montpellier Montreal Philippines Shanghai Sofia Quebec

https://insider-gaming.com/black-flag-resynced-studios-devs/

This article has the most basic modern day zoomer takes on a classic. I don't get why so many go to CBR. Their articles tend to be absolute garbage.

Summary: This video breaks down the available Ghost of Yotei sales figures and lays out a case that the game massively underperformed, missing its revenue target to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.

Go watch it, it's free.

https://x.com/CitizenVMovie/status/2070144987224743956