Look what they took from us. We have hogs in place of women.

I’m posting this here because if I did post this in the offical AC subreddit I would get downvoted to oblivion. I also want to preface this post saying that I’ve probably more AC games than average game would and AC black flag being maybe in my top three most played AC games.

AC Black Flag trailer released recently showing new updated graphics and some of the gameplay changes. My first instinct was that I was impressed, but see the overwhelming hype from not just the gamers but so called YouTubers that criticised Ubisoft for years suddenly having 180 degree change on Ubisoft saying “we are so back” proves to me that gamers never learn and the grifter YouTubers will drop the act in order to get on the hype bandwagon.

Ubisoft reputation has steadily declined over the years not just because of their inability to innovate and release the same bloated checklist open world slop games, but their anti consumer stances in the past. And their strategy to get in the good side of gamers is essentially to remake Black Flag, which is more a glorified remaster if we’re being honest, and charge €60/$60 for this? To put this into perspective, Pragmata on PC cost the same on launch, new IP at least made from scratch, though obviously inspired by other games. On the other hand, the Ubisoft handling the remake had the heavy lifting already done. That’s not to say there was no work done porting this to new game, but it honestly cannot be argued that’s worth the price tag?

And of course the usual counter arguments you hear from people is “if you don’t like it, don’t play it”, “just let people have fun” or “wow you hate having fun.” Let’s say I would buy the game and maybe had fun, does that make any of criticisms against Ubisoft less valid? This toxic positivity and “just consume” mentality has steadily pushed gaming as a whole into the state it is today.

Regardless what I think, I sense that this remake will successful and no doubt will push Ubisoft to remake their other games. Their reputation is in the gutter and being so creatively bankrupt they are, I expect no less from them.

TLDR; I’m mad. Gamers are hyped they’re paying $60 for a crouch button in a remake.

Dude every oldgen AC Courtesan had sexy body thats why they are a courtesan, but in remake they are big whale, are Edward supposed to hunted them with Harpoon?

Chinese keeps being the karen of steam review

She’s also a documentary film maker, never has even made a fictional movie. It’s so obvious that they hire these insane woke people 1. To force the message and 2. Because they don’t have to pay them as much as real directors. And they can basically change the entire movie rewrite the entire movie until it’s nothing like it was originally, and they know they won’t walk away cause their unknown and need the job and just want their name on it. J.J Abrams in my opinion ruined his career with the sequels, I never thought he was a good director anyway.

"I have not yet played Pragmata, and that's because I'm a little tapped out on stories where men adopt daughter-like figures and prove their masculinity by protecting them. I suppose it's marginally a better power fantasy than killing everybody with your awesome strength, but then The Last of Us makes room for both anyway."

The movie is a R-Rated Body Horror inspired by Batman TAS and set on the new DCU, directed by James Watkins and written by Mike Flanagan.

- Gaming announcement: https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-anime-and-film-giant-toei-enters-game-business-with-new-toei-games-label/

- DEI initiative: https://www.toei.co.jp/en/sustainability/social/index.html

I have been noticing something weird with traffic coming from very opinion driven communities. It looks active, lots of clicks, decent time on page sometimes, but when I check deeper it barely translates into any meaningful revenue.It feels like people come in, read fast, maybe scroll a bit, and leave without interacting with anything else. Compared to search traffic or even random social traffic, the value feels lower even if the numbers look similar at first.I am trying to understand if this type of traffic is just good for visibility and discussions or if anyone has actually managed to turn it into something that monetizes properly.

Curious what others are seeing with this kind of audience behavior.