We are talking shit like coordinating pressure campaigns, getting people’s perspectives, raising awareness, and discussing X issue at large. You can start with something as simple as pressuring game studios to stop butchering whatever favorite game franchise you have.
Yeah, as much as I hate GamerGate, at least it showed that gamers DO have the ability to make a difference. We need to start our own GamerGate except one that actually does something like combating lootboxes and predatory monetization, fighting unfavorable working conditions, holding the likes of 343 industries accountable, fighting monopolies, democratization of game studios, I could go on.
My goal is for there to be a new, good, Fallout game. Along with this goal, we know the following:
Bethesda mishandled the IP at every opportunity since acquiring the IP
Microsoft now owns the Fallout IP, not Bethesda
Microsoft owns other RPG dev studios that show greater capability of handling the Fallout IP
Looking at this directly, why do you think pressuring Bethesda would better achieve this initial goal, than Microsoft? Microsoft has more power over the IP and the Means to allocate it to a better dev, even for a spinoff a la New Vegas.
We are talking shit like coordinating pressure campaigns, getting people’s perspectives, raising awareness, and discussing X issue at large. You can start with something as simple as pressuring game studios to stop butchering whatever favorite game franchise you have.
To me, that’s more agitprop.
We need actual activism.
Yeah, as much as I hate GamerGate, at least it showed that gamers DO have the ability to make a difference. We need to start our own GamerGate except one that actually does something like combating lootboxes and predatory monetization, fighting unfavorable working conditions, holding the likes of 343 industries accountable, fighting monopolies, democratization of game studios, I could go on.
The best ones I can think of are:
I am honestly sad the potential we gamers have to organize is wasted on shit like GamerGate and SweetBabyInc.
Maybe one day another good Fallout game will come…
Until then, we must pressure Bethesda.
I sincerely doubt current Bethesda can make a good Fallout game, so the better option is to pressure Microsoft.
Fallout being shit is a Bethesda problem. Microsoft problems are Microsoft problems, like their planned obsolescence on Xbox.
Fallout being shit is because Bethesda mishandles the IP, but Microsoft owns Fallout now, and could have another studio make a better Fallout game.
What does MiKKKrosoft have to do with Fallout being shite? Does it do some sort of interference in Bethesda?
I believe there’s a disconnect here.
My goal is for there to be a new, good, Fallout game. Along with this goal, we know the following:
Bethesda mishandled the IP at every opportunity since acquiring the IP
Microsoft now owns the Fallout IP, not Bethesda
Microsoft owns other RPG dev studios that show greater capability of handling the Fallout IP
Looking at this directly, why do you think pressuring Bethesda would better achieve this initial goal, than Microsoft? Microsoft has more power over the IP and the Means to allocate it to a better dev, even for a spinoff a la New Vegas.