WB Discovery CEO just said on an earnings call this morning that contributing to losses in the company’s financials was the “disappointing release of Suicide Squad,”
    • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      8 months ago

      Critical Drinker just bitches about things being woke now. Dude probably has the most banal takes on YouTube.

      This game sucks, but critical drinker sucks harder

      • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y50b8yo9SHU There you can compare takes an quality. Dude Suicide squad is not even compromising with “wokeness” in any fucking way IMO, WB never wanted to go woke they are compromising with stock and make it go up. WB said clearly they wanted a live service game to reap more money and that they’ll gonna keep doing live service games.
        Spoiler alert

        spoiler

        Harley shoots Batman in the fukken face with a death cold stare. How the shitting fuck that’s woke?

        Honestly as a marvel fan I’m down to kill the justice league but not to put 10% my salary every month to do so.

      • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
        13·
        8 months ago

        But it is one of the reasons these games fail. The live service battle pass shit too, of course, but not all of them have it. And I think he’s absolutely right in his video.

        • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          The game failed because it was a shitty live service skinnerbox that barely had actual gameplay.

          ‘Woke’ didn’t factor into anyones decision to avoid this game. But if critical drinker didn’t talk about things being woke, he wouldn’t have a channel.