I like how they didn’t talk about the two Sweet Baby employees (Chris Kindred and Felix Kramer) started a mass flag campaign against the Sweet Baby Inc detected curator page. That made the curator page get so popular. Because Sweet Baby employee tweets are from 29th of February. But the curator page was made on 29th of January. The curator page was an thing for a month without harassment or whatever. Before it got tweeted out. Basically they did a Streisand Effect on the curator page. Also Kindred said, “and report the creator since he loves his account so much.”. Funny, how PC Gamer didn’t talk about that stuff. When talking about Sweet Baby controversy. Games journalism is a fucking joke.
Okay, most of their takes are lukewarm, but their one on sweet baby is very weird.
To be clear, I agree that people who go “woke is bad reeee” are assholes who should be ignored, but my problem with the company is how they portray themselves.
With sweet baby higher ups calling for witch hunts against really ineffective small steam groups on twitter or having a very narcissistic presentation showing what they do, they just gave people like me the ick
If Concord had been a perfectly fine shooter it wouldn’t have failed so hard. It was mediocre, uninspired and greedy. A project that sought after the Overwatch hype and got release far too late to capitalize on it, coupled with a 70$ premiun pricetag in a world where Overwatch itself is already free. Add to that a cast of uninteresting characters, poor marketing, barely any gameplay review (which wasn’t showcased because they knew it was lacking), and you get the fastest shut down of a game in gaming history. Concord is a textbook example of mismanagement, poor development, and being out of touch.
Paladins, a game that definitely didn’t qualify as a perfectly fine shooter, is the polar opposite of Concord. Capitalized on the hype on time, released with a proper price tag, free, and is still alive to this day, somehow with a very positive rating on steam.
Every person I know of who’s played it said the actual shooter part was the only good part. Good gameplay, uninspired to crap everything else and, as you said, way too late and expensive to catch the Overwatch train.
Frankly, I liked the first trailer until I saw it was not just multiplayer only, but a hero shooter, making me as far from interested as it is possible to get.
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fixed…, thanks for the report
Thanks, that was a wild read.
Alan Wake 2 image seems unrelated? Odd since the others match
I like how they didn’t talk about the two Sweet Baby employees (Chris Kindred and Felix Kramer) started a mass flag campaign against the Sweet Baby Inc detected curator page. That made the curator page get so popular. Because Sweet Baby employee tweets are from 29th of February. But the curator page was made on 29th of January. The curator page was an thing for a month without harassment or whatever. Before it got tweeted out. Basically they did a Streisand Effect on the curator page. Also Kindred said, “and report the creator since he loves his account so much.”. Funny, how PC Gamer didn’t talk about that stuff. When talking about Sweet Baby controversy. Games journalism is a fucking joke.
I found out about this “Sweet Baby Inc detector” group a few months ago.
It’s fascinating to see the extent to which people are willing to go to participate in the proverbial circus.
Okay, most of their takes are lukewarm, but their one on sweet baby is very weird.
To be clear, I agree that people who go “woke is bad reeee” are assholes who should be ignored, but my problem with the company is how they portray themselves.
With sweet baby higher ups calling for witch hunts against really ineffective small steam groups on twitter or having a very narcissistic presentation showing what they do, they just gave people like me the ick
If Concord had been a perfectly fine shooter it wouldn’t have failed so hard. It was mediocre, uninspired and greedy. A project that sought after the Overwatch hype and got release far too late to capitalize on it, coupled with a 70$ premiun pricetag in a world where Overwatch itself is already free. Add to that a cast of uninteresting characters, poor marketing, barely any gameplay review (which wasn’t showcased because they knew it was lacking), and you get the fastest shut down of a game in gaming history. Concord is a textbook example of mismanagement, poor development, and being out of touch.
Paladins, a game that definitely didn’t qualify as a perfectly fine shooter, is the polar opposite of Concord. Capitalized on the hype on time, released with a proper price tag, free, and is still alive to this day, somehow with a very positive rating on steam.
Every person I know of who’s played it said the actual shooter part was the only good part. Good gameplay, uninspired to crap everything else and, as you said, way too late and expensive to catch the Overwatch train.
Frankly, I liked the first trailer until I saw it was not just multiplayer only, but a hero shooter, making me as far from interested as it is possible to get.
I wonder if they changed the url or the edit didn’t federate to me yet. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-biggest-gaming-controversies-of-2024/