Few games encapsulate all that was wrong with Amazon's approach to making games more aptly than King of Meat.
  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.onlineEnglish
    41·
    5 months ago

    The problem with capitalism is that rich morons can dictate all the resources onto a game with completely unreasonable expectations, and when it inevitably blows up in their face they’ll ruin the lives of the hundreds of people who worked on the game by firing them. And these people’s families will fall into chaos through no fault of their own.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      55·
      5 months ago

      amazon marketing basically put all their advertising budget by making mr beast create an event themed around it, and most people didnt get the memo that it was an actual game.

      if you dont watch him, or know someone who watches him, you basically would have never known. similar to how most pc players werent aware of concord at launch because its only advertisment was if you happen to watch state of play, a sony event.

      • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        5 months ago

        Wait you are telling me that the very generation of kiddos who find Mr Beast amusing and enjoy spending their free time watching others play video games didnt end up playing the video game that was heavily marketed towards them?

        I’m sure Amazon will be giving the pink slip to a few people and they’ve really earned it.

      • doug@lemmy.todayEnglish
        36·
        5 months ago

        I’m a millennial and had never heard of or seen Mr. Beast until he had that controversy around the same time he started launching shitty foods, which was enough for me to be like “don’t care for anything this guy’s involved with moving forward.” and have since then not even seen ads for anything he does except maybe once? before a Fallout episode.

        They must have their targeted advertising on lock ‘cause I guess they got the message from my lack of interest that I’m not in his demographic and aren’t advertising to me.

        • binarytobis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          The first and last video of his I saw was this one: “You’ve seen the dystopian horror Squid Games where a crazy rich man uses his money to put a bunch of poor rubes through a series of deadly games for the amusement of spectators? Well now I, a crazy rich man, have used my money to put a bunch of poor rubes through a series of deadly games for the amusement of spectators! I couldn’t do the deadly bit because the laws don’t let me yet. No, I couldn’t say what the lesson from the show was. Probably ‘wouldn’t it be cool’.”

          He’s got those dead eyes.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          24·
          5 months ago

          Millennial also, very glad not to have Mr. Beast advertised to me. I had one glance at that mf and I knew he’s just doing it for the money. Phony ahh bish.