Worth mentioning that the main US senator supporting this, Mark Warner, received substantial donations from Disney, which also poured 1.5 billion (with a B) dollars into Epic Games.
Wouldn't be surprised if some bigwig at Disney pushed for this investigation, too, especially given how fucking flimsy the results were (55% of all hate symbols were fucking pepe the frog).
The word consumer is so demeaning...
I doubt they were trying to be complimentary.
Wasn't one of the Witcher 3 expansions already either nominated or even a winner a few years back?
How the hell do you accidentally remove fog of war from a strategy game?
That is moronic to a level I didn't expect from this, I can see why he left the negative review.
they're just screwing us out of possible remakes
Bro don't make me like them T~T
Ayyy I know that reference. Good story that one.
Because it's pressvertising.
Veilguard has had a year (at least) of relentless, shameless astroturfing, ever since BG3 got GOTY, because EA knows it's not gonna be even close to competing with it and they (rightly) fear Veilguard will get shat on, especially since Bioware is on a 2 games abject failure streak with Andromeda and Anthem both failing horribly and Inquisition having at best a mixed reception with how buggy and repetitive it was at launch.
As a rule of thumb: if an article comes out before a game's actual release, it's positive about an aspect the game or franchise is known to be lacking in, and it sounds like John Oliver's parody of a corporate shill? It's pressvertising.
It's access-for-coverage, a trading of favours that stays undisclosed because technically no money changed hands; however, in the past we've seen what happens to outlets that don't kiss the ring and use the access to actually speak negatively of the product, or even neutrally, so we know there is an implicit (and explicit if you know the history of these dealings) pressure to be positive at any cost.
So in short: it's a bad article pretending to analyse the content they have early access to when really they're just advertising the game uncritically. It's literally just source-washed marketing material.
Here's to a multi-year long process to port the campaigns from BG1 and 2 into 3.
I mean, would you? It looks like the most generic checklist driven product I've seen yet.
It's so spineless it may be more lobster than game.
If anyone's got a code they're not using I'd happily take it off their hands 😇
Henry and Hans are going on a lads holiday. Awesome.
Not only that, even the ADL try as they might can't really make that claim with their chests. They qualify that pepe edits exist that have antisemitic connotations, which is true of literally any of the 4chan template meme characters.
There's nazi trollfaces, nazi wojacks, nazi chads, you can't use that as a reason to call pepe an antisemitic dogwhistle.