Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[DocWager]

So ummmmmm… Should Benji step down? Icon-Era seems to have stole our thunder completely.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Now it's only a matter of time before someone uses a bire avatar and gets banned too. 

[benji]

So ummmmmm… Should Benji step down? Icon-Era seems to have stole our thunder completely.

Please no armchair diagnosing, there is no mental decline in the staff, this is a chud fabrication.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Is it true that Melody Shreds is actually Nintex?

[Taco Bell Tower]

Is it true that Melody Shreds is actually Nintex?

Melody still hasn't thanked Nintex.  Makes you wonder 

[Steven Snell]

Is it true that Melody Shreds is actually Nintex?

Melody still hasn't thanked Nintex.  Makes you wonder 

Money laundering scheme?

[Potato]

I know the whole Concord thing is passé, but...

https://gamerant.com/timesplitters-2-outsold-concord-in-august/

Someone post this using the riotous account

[books]

Speaking of money laundering, I wonder if Nepnep's ko-fi can still accept donations? Those Brazilians (especially the ones that look like Lucio) need all the help they can get. https://ko-fi.com/nepenthe87577

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/geoff-keighley-and-gaming-news-parody-site-hard-drive-are-joke-beefing-on-twitter-and-its-delightfully-petty.982236/page-2#post-128771520

User Banned (1 Week): Inappropriate Commentary

I like Geoff but he can't glaze Sony cock in public like a fetishist and expect everyone to go along with it

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-an-apparent-terrorist-attack-by-israel-a-wave-of-exploding-pagers-targeting-hezbollah-kills-at-least-8-and-injures-2700-up-2nd-wave-confirmed.983253/page-18#post-128992113

Sickening. Genocidal. It's insane that the descendants of the people who died horribly in the concentration camps didn't learn anything from it.

On the contrary, some of them, at least the ones participating in and justifying this, learned that it's a free pass to do anything they want.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-an-apparent-terrorist-attack-by-israel-a-wave-of-exploding-pagers-targeting-hezbollah-kills-at-least-8-and-injures-2700-up-2nd-wave-confirmed.983253/page-18#post-128992113

Sickening. Genocidal. It's insane that the descendants of the people who died horribly in the concentration camps didn't learn anything from it.

On the contrary, some of them, at least the ones participating in and justifying this, learned that it's a free pass to do anything they want.

Cool forum b-dubs

[Venice]

Against Valkaria: A big giant pussy bitch, even if just pretending. 

Just want to say that, yes, Valkaria really is a big, pussy-assed bitch.

When Wanky-bump fell for the bait and wrote his explanation:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-concord-director-steps-down-as-studio-behind-historic-playstation-flop-waits-for-sonys-decision.986304/page-12#post-129004920



Valkaria originally responded by APOLOGISING to the Wankster:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-concord-director-steps-down-as-studio-behind-historic-playstation-flop-waits-for-sonys-decision.986304/page-12#post-129005172



But once he got banned, Valkaria didn't have the trans-balls to stand by his words and instead edited his post to say 'nevermind':



Truly, a pussy-ass bitch of the highest order.

Also, special shout-out to this brown-nosing little cunt, encouraging Valkaria to 'get' the Wankster's 'ass'. 

I've never heard of Vixolus before, but he's got 61,000+ posts on there. Anyone know more about this shit?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-concord-director-steps-down-as-studio-behind-historic-playstation-flop-waits-for-sonys-decision.986304/page-12#post-129006765



(Since there was lots of Final Fantasy talk a few pages ago, here's a Tifa Lockhart cosplaying palate cleanser: )

[books]

Mid-season Concord was bomba, but I'm just waiting for next black celebrity to do something heinous and have BCT run defense to spice things up. PDiddy doesn't count since he's rich so it's a wash.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Wonkybump got what they deserved.

[books]

You aim at the Kangs, you best not miss.

[DocWager]

Speaking of money laundering, I wonder if Nepnep's ko-fi can still accept donations? Those Brazilians (especially the ones that look like Lucio) need all the help they can get. https://ko-fi.com/nepenthe87577

“Psst! Hey! Hey you! Did you also know this page is helping support a Black creative? Yes indeed! If empathy and progressive ambitions sound right up your alley, then what are you waiting for?”

Oh my lord, it’s all such performative bullshit. 😂

[Propagandhim]

"empathy"  

[books]

"empathy"  

Shut up you yt cracker capitalist colonizer. Take this carrot!

[HaughtyFrank]

I've seen some absolutely vile things being said against the developers and some of my favorite content creators. I'm praying the game's a hit so these weirdos go back into the shadows

Yeah it's unfortunately pretty heinous and disgusting how prevalent it is on places like Twitter. I had hoped the positivity would drown them out like it had with the release date trailer, which was quite well received and they couldn't really generate much in the way of rage bait from, but they've really gone whole hog with the inclusion of top surgery scars, with some truly vile rhetoric around that, and of course their old staples of freaking out about pronouns, body type instead of sex, body sliders not letting them make women fuckable enough for their refined standards, and vitiligo options, bizarrely.

Meanwhile these dumbasses are making comparisons and statements like "why would I want to play Dragon Age when I can play BG3 instead," like you dense motherfuckers that game has pronoun & genital options and vitiligo too! They really are the dregs of humanity and just the dumbest you can find.

Corrine seems like such a sweet and earnest person it's terrible see the really horrible things they're saying about her. It will be sweet justice if this game does manage to win GOTY and sell well. All these chuds are trying to will it as Concord 2.0 so having it be a critical and commercial success would be great on its own but also just to really stick it to them

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-hands-on-previews-please-be-careful-of-spoilers.985584/page-12#post-129020493


Well now i hope it bombs hard

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

"empathy"  

Where's the next episode of the Bire podcast?! 

[books]

I dig this retroactive white washing of DA Inquisition who everybody at the time said sucked ass and didn't deserve any sort of goty and memes were made about their goty editions. But now that scars and vitiligo are options in the new game, the old game was also great. Look, I played that game for 100s of hours, but it wasn't very good. I even bought the dlc to finish the story but couldn't be bothered because it's not very good.

Origins sucked too.

[nachobro]

I've seen some absolutely vile things being said against the developers and some of my favorite content creators. I'm praying the game's a hit so these weirdos go back into the shadows

Yeah it's unfortunately pretty heinous and disgusting how prevalent it is on places like Twitter. I had hoped the positivity would drown them out like it had with the release date trailer, which was quite well received and they couldn't really generate much in the way of rage bait from, but they've really gone whole hog with the inclusion of top surgery scars, with some truly vile rhetoric around that, and of course their old staples of freaking out about pronouns, body type instead of sex, body sliders not letting them make women fuckable enough for their refined standards, and vitiligo options, bizarrely.

Meanwhile these dumbasses are making comparisons and statements like "why would I want to play Dragon Age when I can play BG3 instead," like you dense motherfuckers that game has pronoun & genital options and vitiligo too! They really are the dregs of humanity and just the dumbest you can find.

Corrine seems like such a sweet and earnest person it's terrible see the really horrible things they're saying about her. It will be sweet justice if this game does manage to win GOTY and sell well. All these chuds are trying to will it as Concord 2.0 so having it be a critical and commercial success would be great on its own but also just to really stick it to them

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-hands-on-previews-please-be-careful-of-spoilers.985584/page-12#post-129020493


Well now i hope it bombs hard

well yes, BG3 has all that but also its A GOOD GAME

that's the difference maker every time, yet they never see it

[DavidCroquet]

I understand tensions are high but there's no need to bring Origins into this. 

Re: Vixolus, they're mostly Xbox partner program posting. If you don't get schadenfreude from watching people tie themselves in knots to muster enthusiasm for Xbox, it's natural that you would not pay him much mind despite his prodigious post count.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-inside-annapurna-interactives-mass-walkout-internal-politics-the-surprise-remedy-deal-and-why-it-all-happened.987552/

Will wait for Jason's piece, but yeah, interested to see how this all unfolds

Or you could just read the piece in front of you by one of the best gaming journalists out there, but nah she isn't worth your time.

😘

  User Banned (1 week): Trolling, Long history of same behavior

That "best gaming journalists out there"'s name? Albert Einstein Rebekah Valentine. 

[Jansen]

Speaking of Iconera being hardcore Sony fans
https://www.resetera.com/threads/where-did-it-all-go-wrong-for-playstation.987621/

That's the question for which I wanted an answer. It's not a secret that the PS5 generation is building up to be quite precarious for not only players, who have been complaining about a lack of games to play, but also for developers and publishers who seemingly are unable to find success on the platform. If you remember, just a few years ago with the PS4 in full swing it really did seem like Sony was unbeatable and that they were simply destined for success, so what happened? Let's put ourselves in the middle of 2017. After a bit of a rocky start, the generation had finally pulled itself together with PS4 establishing itself as the place to be on if you were a third party publisher. Around that time we had gotten the releases of Nioh, Nier Automata, Yakuza 0, Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5 – all games that found massive success on the platform despite most of them being full blown PlayStation exclusives at the time. It's such a different situation compared to the PS5, isn't it? The idea of even just one of those games managing to sell impressively on it seems like a pipe dream, with nothing but Live Service and the biggest AAA games managing to thrive on it.

The answer to that question from the beginning is simple: complacency. Sony didn't accurately assess the rising threat from both PC, stealing a portion of the platform's hardcore audience, and Nintendo, who rose like a phoenix from the Wii U's ashes to be put on track of becoming the best selling console of all time (and slowly but surely convincing developers to support it along the way). What could Sony have done differently then? One obvious answer for the former could be not doing the PC ports, but PC ports are the symptom, not the cause. In their search for only selling the biggest and most expensive games, they found themselves in a situation where the platform had to carry the games, and not the other way around like traditionally consoles operated. Not only do these games cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, but they also take long enough to make that these studios have to find more ways of generating profit, hence the rise in PC ports and these pointless PS5 remasters, the extended crossgen period and throwing billions at Live Service games as a Hail Mary. With PS4 they at least had a very accessible platform where they could pursue aggressive discount strategies, but the situation was made even worse now with PS5 since the Hardware itself is too expensive to make, in turn limiting the audience of the games, cycling back to making the hardware less desirable, and so on -> death spiral.

For Nintendo, there's not much to say other than they handed them Japan on a platter really. The PS5 is probably the least appealing console you could ever make for the Japanese market, and they also spent a good few years at the start of the PS5 generation pissing off Japanese partners as well. They better pray the Switch 2 is unable to run most third party games, because if it is? Sony's longest held advantage in the console market will be gone and with that their reason to exist. Anyways, it's not over yet. It remains to be seen what impact things like GTA VI could have on sales, at some point the impact the failure of the GAAS move will stop being felt, and hopefully they now realize variety is key to a succesful platform. What do you think?

Goddamn at all the Sony cocksuckers in that thread. The PS5 is a huge piece of shit from a first party perspective. These cunts gladly make excuses like "but the way current dev cycles are ". Um why should I give a fuck that Sony couldn't manage their teams correctly as a consumer?  I DON'T CARE WHERE ARE THE GAMES A SHITTY NOSTALGIA BAIT PLATFORMER ISN'T GONNA CUT IT

[Jansen]

Also the PS5 is just HUGE AND LOOKS LIKE SHIT

[kaleidoscopium]

If you can't believe it then stop entertaining an idea spawned from a dumbass grifter who doesn't even work in the industry anymore and hasn't been relevant for years and who was being spammed on this forum by a troll. Like this is genuinely "I believed a situation someone made up and i'm mad about it."

Are you genuinely, and i mean genuinely, THAT gullible dude?

Like why're you getting so worked up over genuine bullshit. As I said before it's about as useful as reading some Grummz tweets and taking them as gospel.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-concord-director-steps-down-as-studio-behind-historic-playstation-flop-waits-for-sonys-decision.986304/page-16#post-129018744

Wonder if crossing eden knows that Colin owns a game studio and has put out... 4 games now with a 5th on the way
https://twinfinite.net/news/colin-moriarty-to-serve-as-chief-creative-officer-for-lillymo-games/

[benji]

If you can't believe it then stop entertaining an idea spawned from a dumbass grifter who doesn't even work in the industry anymore and hasn't been relevant for years and who was being spammed on this forum by a troll. Like this is genuinely "I believed a situation someone made up and i'm mad about it."

Are you genuinely, and i mean genuinely, THAT gullible dude?

Like why're you getting so worked up over genuine bullshit. As I said before it's about as useful as reading some Grummz tweets and taking them as gospel.

Hey, let's go back a month to a thread where you were already doing massive amounts of damage control and what dumbasses not in the industry were saying.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-took-8-years-to-develop.960057/#post-127499325

Pai Pai Master
Member
48 minutes ago
#34
This place is pretty toxic with most people not taking into account that the studio was only established 6 years go. And was only really getting off the ground as COVID totally upended game development for a lot of seasoned studios let alone new ones.
This is a pretty realistic timeframe for a AAA game from a brand new studio.

But yeah gotta get our "oof" quota in for the day.

If Concord is an AAA game then Sony is going to take a fucking bath on it.

[Venice]

New Melody Shreds lore just dropped:

Significant amounts of self-harm = falling over every time he walks in high heels