Here’s your damn nuance: “In Germany, we’ve removed all Nazi symbols and references. Unlike films and other works of art, video games in Germany are forbidden to use such symbols and references as they are classified in Germany as toys and not media art.”
Toys? Sorry, I’m not going to call The New Order a toy, nor most of the other story-centric video games I play.
It’s not one you should rely on. People don’t stare at their Steam page every day.
This should have been promoted through the usual YouTube and Twitch channels. Find all of the YouTubers that review indie games and start sending emails.
I think NRFTW is fantastic, and it’s exactly what I was expecting it to be. However, people saw it at the same “style” as Diablo or Path of Exile and expected the game to be like those… except they’re not. And for those that do realize that, you have the other idiots that refuse to accept that it’s an EA game that still has a long roadmap until completion and bitch about the lack of an “endgame.”
Honestly, I think trying to compete with Diablo and PoE2 is already too much, even if it’s trying to say it’s not those. Those games are huge, with long-running, dedicated fanbases, and they do enough to oversaturate the market just fighting amongst themselves.
This was the wrong type of game to be trying to dive into the first time they cut themselves off from Microsoft’s financial cushion.
It’s always lack of advertising. The unfortunate fact of life is that 99.99% of indie studios have no clue how to market their game. They think they just have to make a good game, and boom, people will flock to it.
Steam is there to make sure users have a platform to download their game. It’s not there to market it. Marketing is just an occasional side effect.
At this point, I’m just calling this an excuse.
I mean, fuck Japanese IP laws, but also fuck Nintendo for trying to gaslight us into pretending everything is normal and standard. Nintendo of America is not in fucking Japan. They play by American rules with American audiences, and Americans will bitch about their practices.
You don’t sell a Chevy Nova in Mexico and call it a Nova. Adapt to the region you sell to.
Those assholes don’t give a shit about “freedom of art” when video games like Wolfenstien can’t get released in Germany.
Sooo, American Gods?
you see in Yeezus that he’s kinda bringing the experiments of groups like CLPPNG and Death Grips to the mainstream.
You mean this Yeezus merch? This was the same timeframe. (Sorry, different concert. This was later.) He wanted people to buy this shit as a bundle with a concert ticket.
Also, Death Grips was already mainstream. They didn’t need some insane motherfucker to sample their work to get popular.
Goddammit… get the quote right:
If buying ain’t owning, piracy ain’t stealing.
Right, and that’s what this game didn’t have. You have a trailer and some people who happened to discover this game and decided to play it. No real marketing campaign push to get indie streamers to play it. And the ones who do happen to play it are PoE2 players, which doesn’t do a good job of shaking off this looter ARPG image it’s trying not to make.
The name makes it even worse because it’s not a unique phrase.