Why should anyone not buying stock in CDPR fucking care?
"Putting aside your emotions to marketing and social media designed to appeal to your emotions..."
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Cyberpunk 2077 twitter praises real life billionaire cyberpunk villain.
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"Putting aside your emotions to marketing and social media designed to appeal to your emotions..."
You are entitled to think so but I really don't believe this tweet indicates how the narrative of the game is going to play out.
What I do believe is that it's somehow trendy to hate on cyberpunk 2077 on Era before playing it just like some other places on the Internet are hating on the last of us part 2 before playing it and deciding that the story will be shit.
What the actual fuck? How do you come to the conclusion that someone is alt right from that tweet? Sometimes, reactions from this place make me dizzy.
I'm sorry, I had to reread that a few times to grasp that idea."Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) said she plays Lizzy Wizzy, a pop star who killed herself on stage -- doctors performed "emergency surgery" to replace her whole body with cybernetics, and she went on to continue the gig and her career as a cyborg. It's one of the "greatest pieces of performance art ever made," Grimes said."
Grimes details her character's backstory in 'Cyberpunk 2077'
Keanu Reeves might not be the only recognizable face to have a substantial presence in Cyberpunk 2077. Grimes, who's also on the soundtrack, recently held a livestream (since pulled) where she shared details of an in-game character she'd previously only teased. Appropriately, it's an...www.engadget.com
I'm...not sure how to feel about that. Is that (her suicide) going to actually be visually presented in the game? If it is in anyway I can not think anything but "Yikes."
Woah, from the title you'd think they did something atrocious like defending Michael Jackson.
But that was a bunch of ResetEra users instead.
But that was a bunch of ResetEra users instead.
Yes because all companies offered their employees the time off during a pandemic and then fired the ones that did. Poor Elon people are calling out his cruel business practices.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/25/tesla-plant-firings/
lol have they fired the social media person with horrible ideas about trans people yet
cdpr's twitter sucks and has consistently undercut their games' marketing with alt-right meme shit - at a certain point it's a pattern, and a lack of action starts to look a lot like co-signing that pattern.
cdpr's twitter sucks and has consistently undercut their games' marketing with alt-right meme shit - at a certain point it's a pattern, and a lack of action starts to look a lot like co-signing that pattern.
there's a major difference between people (mostly leftists) being skeptical of class consciousness/commentary in a game set in a genre built on such storytelling from a team who show their asses with transphobia, non-apologies, and corny shit like this (cyberpunk 2077) and alt-right xenophobic morons hating on the last of us part II because there's lesbians and POC in it
Sure, if that is your take. But I wouldn't dogpile on a game just because it's "trendy" to do so, I mean I have publicly praised Ubisoft games here in the past.
While you're obviously allowed to disagree with me, this is not a bandwagon thing.
I don't know much about the meaning behind cyberpunk but it seems optimistic that it would end up following critiques and reasonings that lead to the genre vs cool stuff let's play
I like how selectively the crunch argument is used on forums. It's horribly bad practice to crunch for years but just using the argument for publishers or studios you dislike is in bad faith.
A guy in the staff of an approx 800 man company tweeted something not critical of a narcissistic billionaire, ergo said company (including the OG tabletop game), do not understand said game. Gotta love ERA.
Alternatives: an individual opinion, a sarcastic appraisal, PR so the followers of a well known rech billionaire follow you...
I honestly didn't expect a full critical commentary on class and society from the beginning, yet I'm not familiar with the genre and I admit that I do like some of its themes and more so its aesthetics. And that is actually enough (well, that and CDPRs characters, worlds and quests) for me to anticipate the game. If I get more this is a plus.
OP
OP
For what it's worth, I made this thread and I hope Cyberpunk succeeds.
But I see this as a red flag that at the very least CDPR need a better PR team, especally after all the Transphobic shit they've done
I understand, well it's your choice and I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise.
Yes because these are perfectly fine business practices noone could possible have an issue with it.
Washington Post - "Tesla gave workers permission to stay home rather than risk getting covid-19. Then it sent termination notices."
Imagine actually defending this shit. The title is well earned.
I can agree with that, I just don't believe their tonedeaf marketing on twitter is indicative of how well played out the themes of the game will be.
Let's be real here, nothing of what we've seen so far indicates he's had a significant influence. Neither has any of cdpjr's messaging up til this point inspired much confidence. The opposite in fact.
NAUGHTY DOG CRUNCH GOOD
CD PROJEKT RED CRUNCH BAD
interchangeable based on your corporate blockbuster fanaticism of choice
exactly, this moment here can't be taken in isolation. there's been a ton of red flags throughout this hype cycle for me that have me worried about the game
User banned (1 week): inflammatory comparison
Your point?
This entire thread is the equivalent of blaming someone who links a Woody Allen clip of being a full supporter of child molestation and grooming.
Not to mention the UTTERLY RIDICULOUS ongoing idea among a part of the user base on this forum that anything that isn't laser-focused on being a social commentary/attack at capitalism first and foremost shouldn't be considered "proper Cyberpunk".
You can do whatever you like. It shouldn't matter if it's okay with me.
As for my point, it's a bit like this. Dan Vavra is a bigoted piece of trash. I'll never buy anything he ever creates. But I also won't say that I'm suspicious of his ability to create a good game, because history shows that he's created plenty of good ones. It's just that I'll never play any of those games because of the views of their creator.
I haven't heard about the alt-right dog whistles from CDPR, and what I know of the transphobic stuff is that it was just the person in charge of their twitter handle. I believe that person has been removed. Everything else I've seen and heard about the game points to a positive and well-researched trans representation.
Feel free to point out if I'm wrong about any of that. I won't be playing the game if I'm sure that the people in charge of CDPR are transphobic or alt-right crusaders. Was really looking forward to playing Spider-Man, but have no intention of doing so after I found out about the kind of shit Insomniac has done to its employees.
God Kings of Crunch
Nah but I thought it'd be funny to take a completely unprovoked stab.
So your not going to engage with what Elon musk has actually done? Your just going straight up ignore the fact that he offered employee's the opportunity to stay home during a pandemic and then fired the ones that did. This is perfectly fine to you and not worthy of condemnation?
If the game isn't actually punk they're going to
shit the bed with word of mouth sales.
And the studios rep will drop
It's in the title, have something energising to say.
shit the bed with word of mouth sales.
And the studios rep will drop
It's in the title, have something energising to say.
Par for the course with any upcoming AAA release on this forum. It was the same for The Last of Us.
This forum peddles in a drug called 'concern'.
have I missed something but there seems to be a rather strong undercurrent of people on this forum disliking almost every aspect of the game. From the digital foundry threads, the reveal and now something as seemingly innocuous as a tweet of Keanu.
also we should take the mad scrawling of OP with a pinch of salt...especially when he had this to say about the Simpson's
"The Simpsons peeked with the Tracey Ullman shorts, by season 1 it was already unwatchable"
he's a certified loon 😜 /joke
Wow their social media intern isn't tapped into the controversyNet as hard as us. Unbelievable! This definitely means the game will have Elon mush as the corpo route hero
Did you see the digital foundry thread where John was run off the forum because he didn't know about a homophobic bit in Ion Fury, therefore not mentioning it in his video analysis? This is what this forum is.
Thanks OP I am truly enraged. Keep the super loaded tabloid titles up.
This Tweet has zero relevance as to how critical Cyberpunk will be of unregulated capitalism.
This Tweet has zero relevance as to how critical Cyberpunk will be of unregulated capitalism.
Well, he's definitely infinitely more good than bad. By that logic everyone is bad, period.
"Game company posts image to giant capitalist man on popular social media platform and reveals that they don't know how to make games faithful"
Sometimes you just really need to look at the bigger picture here and realise that your minuscule moral dilemmas do not translate to the scale of corporations, which are themselves a product of capitalism and human resource no matter how big or small they are, so you really need to pick your battles here.
And when your outrage is directed at a PR department within that company for posting one wordless response but not in reaction to the unhealthy working practices that same company imposes on their workers at a known detriment to their health out with a pandemic, you really need to stop and think about where your outrage is really coming from.
Sometimes you just really need to look at the bigger picture here and realise that your minuscule moral dilemmas do not translate to the scale of corporations, which are themselves a product of capitalism and human resource no matter how big or small they are, so you really need to pick your battles here.
And when your outrage is directed at a PR department within that company for posting one wordless response but not in reaction to the unhealthy working practices that same company imposes on their workers at a known detriment to their health out with a pandemic, you really need to stop and think about where your outrage is really coming from.
The person who was in charge of corporate Twitter account wasn't implanted in that position by the aliens. It wasn't someone who was a blank page, either, it was a known alt-right sympathizer. The corporation chose this person to represent it on social media, issued a couple of weak non-apologies after this guy shit the bed, and only removed him because of external pressure, not because (apparently) it saw any fault with having this person in charge of their social media.
It's never just "that one guy".
Same thing with Dan Vavra - I have no reason to believe the rest of the Warhorse are alt-right dipshits, but the studio is okay with this guy speaking for them and being the face of the studio, so regardless of how the individual developers feel about it, the whole studio deserves to be boycotted until they very convincingly do a 180 on this.
