It’s safe to say that Mark Kern is the titular leader of the Gamergate 2.0 movement that is trying to stop the madness of wokeness that has permeated the video game industry in the past few years. Along with Kabrutus a Brazilian gamer who made the Sweet Inc. Baby Detected Steam group and many others, a new generation of gamers is heeding the call to battle to stand up and defend our right to play video games unmolested by neo-Marxist, transgender, and queer activists who have taken over the industry.
Mark created a series of tweets that outlines an action plan that every gamer can understand. I fully support Kern’s boycott of the AAA video game industry.
I’ve reproduced the entire thread for posterity.
–Wolfshead
WE can fix AAA games. YOU can fix AAA games. My foolproof plan you can take action on TODAY. A very short plan, because it’s simple! AAA Games are overrun with woke politics, lousy live service where it doesn’t belong, $130 dollar Ubisoft AAAA games and ugly female characters for no reason!
There are TWO main causes for this:
- ESG based funding
- Fleets of activist game devs
It’s hitting from top to bottom. But ESG funding is drying up. My CEO and Studio
Head sources tell me games HAVE to make real money now and games can’t be propped up by DEI funds.
This is the time to strike!
They keep pushing woke politics and lousy gameplay, while charging us MORE for it!
I’m CALLING ON ALL GAMERS for a 2 Year moratorium on buying AAA games made by woke studios! This will make the execs take notice! This attacks the core problem at the TOP of gaming. As you vote with your wallet, SALES will PLUMMET even further. I promise EVERY GAMING CEO will notice!
Now it’s time to handle the fleets of developer ACTIVISTS who are ruining your favorite IPs. As sales plunge, there will be PRESSURE on the studios to trim the fat… Force sales so low on woke AAA games that they must LAYOFF 20% of their lowest performing staff.
Why does this work? Because ACTIVISTS trend to be the lowest performers in companies! AAA teams are BLOATED with them. They do the least work, the WORST work!
My sources tell me THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENING. But YOU can accelerate it! You don’t need them. See Twitter!
You stop buying AAA games for just 2 years, I promise you will change everything! You solve the Executive money problem. You solve the Activist problem.
You hit them from the TOP and the BOTTOM. Then you will RESTORE AAA games!
That’s it. That’s my plan. And I’m giving it to you now!
OK, sign me up. I think I can make do without another Assassin’s Creed for a while, after Valhalla and Mirage the formula got stale anyways.
Had no plans for Ubi Star Wars from the get go, and Aloy’s looks alone more than woke drove me successfully away from even trying the sequel to Horizon which simply failed to suck me in, despite rave reviews.
A bit more difficult to ignore: the Fallout series on Prime. Already watched it, and it was good. There was as usual for Amazon Studios enough woke in it, but could have been worse. They apparently copied Finn, the black Stormtroopers from Star Wars, as quota black guy for the Brotherhood of Steel. They had great actors, a very sorry excuse for a main plot, but it worked overall as they did a good job otherwise.
Playing Helldivers right now. The only woke in there is that they also go with brawny and lean body type instead of gender.
Guess its easier to find stracciatella ice cream without chocolate than games that are not woke to some degree at least anymore.
But then, Helldivers was a success but not AAAA level of budget. Kern was specific there. A law was passed in the state of Bavaria that forbids gender language at Universities. Baby steps, but I welcome them. There is also still a Christian cross in every school room in Bavaria. I welcome that.
I thought Assassins creed got stale after the very first game. I always disliked AC and preferred Prince of Persia instead.
There were different “eras” of AC. Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla are more RPGs, Black Flag had ship combat, in between Unity and Syndicate were also quite different to the early AC1+2 days. Prince of Persia recently had a remake.
My favorites are, in order, Origins, Odysseym Black Flag and Rogue. I am not a player of the Ezio period of AC2 with its many sequels.
The Star Wars game “Outlaws” that is upcoming seems to be made in the spirit of the excellent Ghost Recon Wildlands, the sequel Breakpoint probably broke the Ghost Recon franchise for a while.