How might recent events affect upcoming games

[Arsenic]

How do you think the events in Charlottesville will affect games such as Wolfenstein The New Colossus and more importantly, Far-Cry 5, both in respect to development and public reception.

Both of these games already had a good coating of controversy and with a growing number of people with the same ideology as the enemies you will be massacring in the thousands in these games coming out into the real world, how do you think they will be received?

Go.

 

[JJ Styles]

Using my own freedom of speech, i just want to kill my fair share of Nazis.

Wolfenstein 2 is still rather tongue in cheek and pretty self aware of what it is so for most people it wouldnt be an issue but of course theres still going to be that part of people who like sticking sticks up their stickholes so theres going to be some stigma.

Also alt right c***ks will do anything to try hamper wolf2's sales..

 

[Arsenic]

Using my own freedom of speech, i just want to kill my fair share of Nazis.

Wolfenstein 2 is still rather tongue in cheek and pretty self aware of what it is so for most people it wouldnt be an issue but of course theres still going to be that part of people who like sticking sticks up their stickholes so theres going to be some stigma.

Also alt right c***ks will do anything to try hamper wolf2's sales..

What are your thoughts in relation to Far-Cry 5 with recent events. I add emphasis on this game as it seems to target this same "alt-right" type extremists in a less satirical light, and was already generating plenty of controversy before the right wingers came into the spotlight so to say.

 

[JJ Styles]

since Far Cry 5 is set on a 2018 release date, if the whole drama/controversy of Charleston and the aftermath calms down a bunch (quote me on this chat), Far Cry 5 will not have any bad reps.

FC5 does take itself a bit more seriously compared to Wolf2 but im hoping that people can at least see that Bastardized fictional extremists and Nazis from an alternate era of WW2 are teo different breeds of evil.

As for Wolf2, this is going to sound sorta distasteful but obviously everyone even the people at Machine Games and Behthesda wished that the events of Charleston never happened, the hype for Wolf2 is going to be higher considering that everyone is even more excited to blast away some Nazis and fight for Freedom and inclusivity. Again, this is more of the people's choice to be even more hyped to start blasting away some Nazis

And back to Cri5, again like my statement of wolf2's potential rise in sales because of the current events, Far Cry 5 may also get its boost on sales because people want to vent out their frustrations against these alt-right extrmemist edgelords.

Tldr: both games can have the potential of massive sales numbers due to current events mainly since a lot of people are gunna have fun blowing up some fictional forms of evil, but are also at risk by the media on being called insensitive or distasteful.

As for the entire topic as a whole, everyone needs to remember how Call of Duty 4 became so damn popular in the first place aside from it being a groundbreaking game at its time. US War on Terror and CoD4 having almost the very same theme, and you have a formula that wonnered.

As distasteful as it may seem, current events can boost the sales of vidya games especially if they come at such a timing that no one expects.

 

[Desert Stream~]

These people try to hurt others, so by all means make a game with them as the enemy. It makes sense imo.

 

[JJ Styles]

Continuing my point, recent events CAN get people even more invested in certain games as a means to fulfill some bludegoning revengeance fantasies that enable our passive-aggressive bloodlusts feel flated up.

Its too bad that FPS games often get the brunt of the drama against normies because of how FPS games are often first cited with irl violence. Some people cant seem to never get over Columbine 1999 and the alledged connection to Doom as a source of inspiration to the killers.

Also while it may not be a recent event today, i remember a game in development that was cancelled for being TOO REAL or too much in line with the US war on terror at the time: Six Days in Fallujah. A game that is directly inspired by the Iraq war. It was supposed to be a third person tactical shooter that had elements of survival horror in which the horror was coming from the unpredictability of the Fallujah insurgents. The game was developed with such passion that the devs had to talk with actual marines, military personal, and war historians. However due to the subject matter being very real, it was cancelled.

But then again unlike Fallujah, The Nazis of Wolfenstein and the Cult of Eden extremists are fictional breeds of evil that are meant to be shot and killed by us players who desire LIBERTY and FREEDOM for the Red white and Blue of NA. And NA > EU hardfact :4head:

 

[EC]

All I know is those two games (Wolfy II and Far Cry 5) are going to sell incredibly well in the United States.