Culture Wars General - KiA Diet Coke Edition

[Zaragoza]

Why is River City Girls getting hated on? I'm not following it's game or not interested in buying it but for someone who has a special interest in these types of games, what's the deal with it? Something something about Sjdubyas and cringy voice acting but that's all I know on what's wrong with it. Any takers?

 

[Ruin]

EA Response to Star Wars Battlefront II Controversy Breaks World Record for Most Downvoted Reddit Comment - Niche Gamer

Electronic Arts have “won” the title of “Most Downvoted Reddit Comment” thanks to their response to the Star Wars Battlefront II loot box controversy. For those unfamiliar, Star Wars Battlefront II was plagued by lootboxes and micro-transactions giving those who paid a clear advantage. It was...

nichegamer.com

Electronic Arts have “won” the title of “Most Downvoted Reddit Comment” thanks to their response to the Star Wars Battlefront II loot box controversy.
For those unfamiliar, Star Wars Battlefront II was plagued by lootboxes and micro-transactions giving those who paid a clear advantage. It was later discovered that unlocking everything would take around 4,500 hours, or $2100 in DLC and micro-transactions.
While all in-game micro-transactions were later removed, the outcry was so great, it was one of the contributing factors to starting the debate by governments whether to ban or regulate lootboxes.
On November 12th, 2017, the EA Community Team representative of the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit posted the fateful comment. It was in reply to a topic where a user complained having to pay around $80 to unlock Darth Vader.

“The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.
As for cost, we selected initial values based upon data from the Open Beta and other adjustments made to milestone rewards before launch. Among other things, we’re looking at average per-player credit earn rates on a daily basis, and we’ll be making constant adjustments to ensure that players have challenges that are compelling, rewarding, and of course attainable via gameplay.
We appreciate the candid feedback, and the passion the community has put forth around the current topics here on Reddit, our forums and across numerous social media outlets.
Our team will continue to make changes and monitor community feedback and update everyone as soon and as often as we can.”

The Reddit community then proceeded to execute Order 66 on the post’s score. Posts on Reddit can be “upvoted” or “downvoted”- usually so the community can help curate which posts help discussion or should gain more attention. Posts with a higher score appear higher up in the thread.
On September 6th, user “-amasha-” posted a thread on the Star Wars subreddit, noting that the 2020 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records had added the aforementioned post as the “Most-downvoted comment on Reddit.”

 

[Recoil]

I hate that Reddit is a benchmark for this shit.

 

[La Luz Extinguido]

What's the Guinness world record for most downvoted Kiwi Farms comment?

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

Fun Boring fact: When reddit first started getting big one of the things that they did after obfuscating up and downvote totals was put a cap on downvotes. The reason that EA reddit PR account still has positive karma is because they only count the first 100 downvotes per comment against your total karma score now.

 

[verissimus]

What's the Guinness world record for most downvoted Kiwi Farms comment?

Puzzle pieces.

 

[IN 041]

>>>>>>>>>>>reddit

 

[RadicalCentrist]

-667815! That's a big yikes from me chief

 

[Lemmingwise]

Interesting that they record it as "T_D mod editing comments", when it should say "Reddit CEO admitting to editing comment on T_D"

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Here's another amusing downvoted comment... with an interesting, typical reddit reply.

 

[Clop]

That's one company that would go out of business overnight if nogs stopped buying their rehashed sports games every year for their xboxes.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Lol, Reddit.
I guess it really is bad when even degenerates hate you.

 

[IV 445]

It was an honest answer from a staff member. A very revealing answer into their mindset, but insightful still.

 

[JM 590]

Friendly reminder that the person with the most karma by far on the website for years was u/violentacrez, who earned it by being the most prominent poster on r/jailbait.

According to Reddit, the best thing in the world is underage girls, and the worst thing in the world is not being able to play as Darth Vader fast enough in their Star Wars game.

That's Reddit in a nutshell for you.

 

[BrokenWokenBespoken]

Why is River City Girls getting hated on? I'm not following it's game or not interested in buying it but for someone who has a special interest in these types of games, what's the deal with it? Something something about Sjdubyas and cringy voice acting but that's all I know on what's wrong with it. Any takers?

It is a very cynical cash grab at the Scott Pilgrim/Zoomer crowd bought by those who want cute girl beating up both sexes but none of the icky garbage. The ending was also very much "subverted expectations" that modern media would love to do to give you the impression of being smart. Get Fight N Rage if you want a more honest to god beat them up homage

EA Response to Star Wars Battlefront II Controversy Breaks World Record for Most Downvoted Reddit Comment - Niche Gamer

Electronic Arts have “won” the title of “Most Downvoted Reddit Comment” thanks to their response to the Star Wars Battlefront II loot box controversy. For those unfamiliar, Star Wars Battlefront II was plagued by lootboxes and micro-transactions giving those who paid a clear advantage. It was...

nichegamer.com

Electronic Arts have “won” the title of “Most Downvoted Reddit Comment” thanks to their response to the Star Wars Battlefront II loot box controversy.
For those unfamiliar, Star Wars Battlefront II was plagued by lootboxes and micro-transactions giving those who paid a clear advantage. It was later discovered that unlocking everything would take around 4,500 hours, or $2100 in DLC and micro-transactions.
While all in-game micro-transactions were later removed, the outcry was so great, it was one of the contributing factors to starting the debate by governments whether to ban or regulate lootboxes.
On November 12th, 2017, the EA Community Team representative of the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit posted the fateful comment. It was in reply to a topic where a user complained having to pay around $80 to unlock Darth Vader.

The Reddit community then proceeded to execute Order 66 on the post’s score. Posts on Reddit can be “upvoted” or “downvoted”- usually so the community can help curate which posts help discussion or should gain more attention. Posts with a higher score appear higher up in the thread.
On September 6th, user “-amasha-” posted a thread on the Star Wars subreddit, noting that the 2020 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records had added the aforementioned post as the “Most-downvoted comment on Reddit.”

I wonder how many EA community managers quietly quit after that and quit life as well. EA has United Airlines levels of bad pr.

 

[ZMOT]

I wonder how many EA community managers quietly quit after that and quit life as well. EA has United Airlines levels of bad pr.

doesn't matter really, they could just replace them with reddit mods, they were already on the payroll anyway.

EA Told Star Wars Battlefront Reddit Mods to Remove Negative Posts in Exchange for Early Alpha Access - Mandatory

EA reportedly bribed moderators of the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit by requesting that they remove negative posts in exchange for access to the closed alpha of the game made available a few months ago, along with tickets to the Star Wars festival and paraphernalia related to the film franchise.

www.mandatory.com

Battlefield V Reddit Mods: "We're done, It's over, No More Talks About Historical Accuracy" | SegmentNext

Battlefield V Reddit mod has officially censored any talks regarding the history shown in the game which everyone has been calling incorrect.

segmentnext.com

 

[AnOminous]

doesn't matter really, they could just replace them with reddit mods, they were already on the payroll anyway.

EA Told Star Wars Battlefront Reddit Mods to Remove Negative Posts in Exchange for Early Alpha Access - Mandatory

EA reportedly bribed moderators of the Star Wars Battlefront subreddit by requesting that they remove negative posts in exchange for access to the closed alpha of the game made available a few months ago, along with tickets to the Star Wars festival and paraphernalia related to the film franchise.

www.mandatory.com

Battlefield V Reddit Mods: "We're done, It's over, No More Talks About Historical Accuracy" | SegmentNext

Battlefield V Reddit mod has officially censored any talks regarding the history shown in the game which everyone has been calling incorrect.

segmentnext.com

That sounds more than a little bit illegal. You'd think the FTC would eventually actually do something about this kind of dishonest shilling but apparently not.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The Reddit community then proceeded to execute Order 66 on the post’s score.

Oh God that's cringy.

 

[Ineedahero]

Friendly reminder that the person with the most karma by far on the website for years was u/violentacrez, who earned it by being the most prominent poster on r/jailbait.

According to Reddit, the best thing in the world is underage girls, and the worst thing in the world is not being able to play as Darth Vader fast enough in their Star Wars game.

That's Reddit in a nutshell for you.

And if you take violentacrez out of the equation the guy with the most karma was Ian miles chong, who used to sell his karma to advertisers and used it to prop up his shitty games review site.

 

[SiccDicc]

Why is River City Girls getting hated on? I'm not following it's game or not interested in buying it but for someone who has a special interest in these types of games, what's the deal with it? Something something about Sjdubyas and cringy voice acting but that's all I know on what's wrong with it. Any takers?

Aside from what @BrokenWokenBespoken said, Adam Tierney hasn't done himself any favors as game director or whatever his title is. He's the typical male feminist which likely earned the ire of the other side, but I really do wonder what skeletons are in his closet. He constantly prided himself on this being a feminist work and even defended the game from feminists by saying plenty of women are working on the game and giving input to his script.

He's actually locked his account at present so I wonder what the fuck happened, the reaction to his mediocre game couldn't have been that bad. Other than the choice of VA's being pretty much Game Grumps it's just whatever.

 

[Agent Wet]

It is a very cynical cash grab at the Scott Pilgrim/Zoomer crowd bought by those who want cute girl beating up both sexes but none of the icky garbage. The ending was also very much "subverted expectations" that modern media would love to do to give you the impression of being smart. Get Fight N Rage if you want a more honest to god beat them up homage

Well that's a shame I had some interest of getting the game but after seeing people thoughts on it I just leave a hard pass on it.