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To: Rummyfan
the show had an 87 percent positive critics score, but a dismal 51 percent audience score.

Funny how this sort of thing just keeps happening and happening.

I know FR isn't really the biggest video game crowd, but the past few years has seen the same trend: some woke, huge budget game comes out, gets stellar reviews from the 'professional reviewers', then absolutely bombs amongst the actual users.

And before people sneer at 'just video games', the last big bomb- Concord- lost $400 million dollars. Some of these are quite big budget productions now.
4 posted on 03/23/2026 8:24:46 PM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: verum ago

Of course they used rotten tomato’s. The Metacritic user score was something like 11%. Yes the v game industry has been hit hard too. The losses are well into the hundreds of millions all because they brought the woke mob into the dev rooms.


11 posted on 03/23/2026 8:32:25 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: verum ago

See Civilization VII.

Not necessarily “woke” but just weird, strange and bad..


16 posted on 03/23/2026 8:34:53 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: verum ago

See Civilization VII.

Not necessarily “woke” but just weird, strange and bad..


19 posted on 03/23/2026 8:36:35 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: verum ago

Nobody should sneer at video games. Its a significantly bigger industry than films.


49 posted on 03/24/2026 12:53:25 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: verum ago

The “artists” are trying to push on us their agenda, at any costs.
They always did it.
But the audience is figuring that out!
It is the time for the producers to wake up.


57 posted on 03/24/2026 4:16:40 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: verum ago
It is indeed big money in the AAA gaming world. It’s the same grift as Hollywood though, they didn’t lose the money. It went to the woke assclowns “creating” the propagandizing drivel that fails in the real market.

They really don’t care, they got their paydays and they then get to tell the people how bigoted, homophobic, and racist they are because they didn’t like the garbage the virtuous elite produced for us to show us how bigoted, homophobic, and racist we are.

60 posted on 03/24/2026 4:52:25 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: verum ago

One game the left hates is the very unwoke Kingdom Come:Deliverance series, where you play a blacksmith’s son in 15th century Bohemia seeking revenge for your family killed by Cuman invaders. It’s got features like the “Alpha Male” bonus if you visit the baths and get a girl, lol. Lots of criticism from reviewers when the first game came out, but fans loved it and it made tons of money.


68 posted on 03/24/2026 5:48:36 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: verum ago

Concord was so bad, all customers were refunded their money and the server was shut down.


81 posted on 03/24/2026 8:45:31 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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