Baldur's Gate Producers Panic! EXPOSED for Woke Agenda Manipulation + Dungeons & Dragons Sales BURN

[@EndymionTv]

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[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Wizards of the Coast? More like Wizards of the Bloat or Bloaties of the Coast.

[@JohnGoeagle-ob6iy]

What was ESG's original purpose anyway before corporations uses it as a virtue signal shield to distance from the free marketing?

[@justhenvandenberg5224]

I hope not but i am ready to vote with my wallet if the worst come to pass

[@adams3560]

@@JohnGoeagle-ob6iyESG’s purpose is and has always been to help investors know which companies are implementing environmentally friendly policies. Then a bunch of KZbinrs started conflating it with DEI for some reason, which shows that they don’t know what they’re talking about.

[@adams3560]

There’s no possible way that Shift Up going public could affect Stellar Blade, lol. You either have no idea how business works, or you are simply creating a clickbait title. Neither one is a good look.

[@Darth_Lex]

D&D has always been a "safe space." You are normally playing with your friends. If you can not feel safe around your friends, find new friends.

[@decorumlopez9147]

This is the Lore.

[@nigelw7626]

@@decorumlopez9147 This is the way.

[@johnserosanguineous1886]

None of these words mean what you think they mean. YT deletes any further explaination.

[@Darth_Lex]

@@johnserosanguineous1886 What?

[@CommanderRedEXE]

@Darth_Lex No, even the new owner claim OG D&D(pre-WotC stuff) was nothing more than Mysoginistic, Racist, Sexist, White Supremacy. Just look at the book WotC released about old school D&D. All they did was use these labels. It was NEVER a safe space nor political. It was fantasy first and foremost with some bases on historical facts for certain things like the tech.

[@seanzizman6477]

I read a newspaper article that really hit the nail on the head about DEI: if you get a group of people together that all look different, but they all think the same, you haven't created diversity at all.

[@Grivehn]

They mostly look the same too, though. Dreadlocks, half-shaven hair, rainbow color hair, fat... excuse me, body positivity.

[@elenalizabeth]

@@Grivehn you forgot about the bull nose ring 😂

[@lucianwong420]

Don't forget tattoos. They're walking around looking like a coloring book.

[@kvltovpersonality6290]

Stellar Blade isn’t cooked Stellar Blade 2 and onwards is 100% cooked

[@EndymionTv]

Let’s see hopefully not but y’know

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

More like cremated.

[@therealjaystone2344]

Hopefully the storyline can be improved because that’s one of the major problems for the first game

[@TheBrianhardkiss]

@@EndymionTvThey went public. They’re cooked. Did the usual investment groups buy in? Black rock? Vanguard?

[@kijin666]

@@TheBrianhardkiss Tencent stepped in and bought a bunch of stock.

[@gouravchakraborty9801]

Sony should have stayed in Tokyo instead of relocating to California, otherwise Stellar Blade 2 would have stayed based.

[@EndymionTv]

Having the office in California is likely why Concord exists cause that game sucks

[@anthonycarlisle6184]

Wtf?! They must've received a hefty woke discount. Cali's getting wrecked and rundown on the daily, it's my neighboring state. 😒

[@Alex-bi9mk]

Didn't Sony censor DMC5 when they were still in Japan?

[@woldemunster9244]

Im happy that Japan wants to stop Asian hate by calling it "cultural invasion", all you need to gatekeep is to call things what they are. This is emu-war level of contamination and kuSony is lost cause.

[@knowledgeseeker4614]

@@Alex-bi9mkI think they were already in California.

[@Vynne96-jg7er]

Shift Up❌ Shift Down✅ Fanservice exists for a reason, but if they willing to make a deal with the ESG.. Then it's their funeral.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Bloat Up is what they are now.

[@therealjaystone2344]

Tencent is from China and China will not be influenced by westerners that once were

[@EndymionTv]

It’s sad

[@adams3560]

ESG has nothing at all to do with fanservice. You clearly show your ignorance with this comment.

[@therealjaystone2344]

@@adams3560 they only listen to grifters just like once listened to the media

[@negan2714]

To save people time, this has nothing to do with BG3. Its about Wizards of The Coast and DnD.

[@kims4149]

This channel is a big "anti-woke" milking nothingburger. Best to use the not recommended feature on this channel.

[@jacksonmordente8716]

Ok phew lol that’s all I was worried about

[@schustererik83]

Thanx brother

[@user-hr4bo1zj1q]

Baldurs Gate 3 was woke AF...nudity doesn't make a game anti woke gents.

[@schustererik83]

@user-hr4bo1zj1q what exactly made it woke for you, because it really wasn't woke at all.

[@paultate5213]

The higher the ESG score the lower the profits. One day these dumbass executives will figure this out.

[@woldemunster9244]

Those executives are the ones who profit the most from ESG money, i don't believe every exec is that bad at buisnessing. :/

[@gregc.9313]

They already have it figured out. This is the plan. What part of “You will own nothing and you will be happy” did you not understand? Systematic destruction, organized chaos, divide and conquer, new world order.

[@williamdante7470]

Don’t underestimate the power of fanaticism. They know exactly what they are doing. It’s all part of the teething process of social engineering

[@2138Dude]

You dont understand how esg works. Larry Fink said its not about the cost, its about the message. They can sell 1 copy of the game but they won't go bankrupt because Blackrock covers all the costs

[@JamesJNothingIsTooSensitive]

They aren't worried about profits. They are worried about cultural impact. Control. Indoctrination. Money is ALWAYS second to Power.

[@ivanhunter6492]

The moment they moved to California was the day it died

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

Actually when they moved there it was the best thing they did during time anyway and now that everything has rotten they can't just up and leave for moving a company to another state is a long process and it cost a lot.

[@knowledgeseeker4614]

@@JustTooDamnHonestIn this case, it would be moving out of a country, which would probably be worse.

[@InternetMadnez]

Commiefornia

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

@@InternetMadnez Well our GDP says otherwise. In fact just last year California's GDP was 3.65 trillion(that is much more than all of Russia's GDP) and Texas is in second place with a GDP of 2.57 trillion and New York's GDP was 1.6 trillion putting it in third place. The only reason why you call it Commiefornia is due to the current governor and also the liberal hivemind that has infected the entertainment sector and yet Cali is one of the top states that makes large portions out of the whole USA's GDP. So in truth California is the furtherest from the communist mindset in terms of GDP and the entertainment sector is but one part of Cali's GDP for we have many other ventures that makes up for it.

[@InternetMadnez]

@@JustTooDamnHonest yes I said that because of the governor/entertainment and cancer woke policies (tho it is in corporations too). Terrible state policies (btw are thoses toxicos duely covid-vaccinated lol?) That said yes. You are rignt/your point is food. Even that didn't kill the power-innovations (mostly in tech/IT) that continue to play a major role in tomorrow's world. In fact, it feeds/leechs on it. We agree.

[@plumber1337]

Kyle got excommunicated from the cult for not preaching its mantras hard enough.

[@YarugumaSou]

His successor is a World economic forum creep. It's like replacing something bad with something even worse.

[@RageKage987]

lets be real the only reason he lost his job was bc he was outed as a woke freak the ppl who fired him are exactly the same as him the only difference is we have proof on this guy he was fired to give the illusion that they actually fire extremists and to hide the fact that the rest of them are just as bad as him.

[@yaldabaoth2]

No, he was let go because he preached the mantras in a public environment.

[@plumber1337]

@@YarugumaSou so, from the purgatory straight to the 9th circle huh...

[@jonathanwells223]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@YarugumaSouthat’s just transplanting a demon into a nest of eldritch abominations from beyond the stars, he won’t last long

[@Mad-Cat_Dan]

AAA Gaming is completely ideologically captured.

[@SecretPaints]

Yep, the whole scene is loaded with cultural Marxists

[@GangnamStyle33]

Wannabe political extremists hijacking IPs is becoming the norm. Wonder who is propping them up/giving them access?

[@CommanderRedEXE]

We tried warning y'all(gamers in general) in 2014 during OG GamerGate it was coming. Y'all(gamers in general) bought the Mysogyny lies and ignored us and thought we were just bitching and crying over nothing. Oh how right we were. Oh how much we wish people had listened back then before fate was set in stone and we could have stood against it better.

[@Zagreus_07]

If you allow video games to influence you then you shouldn’t be gaming.. A good game is a good game, simple as that.

[@pajeetsingh]

Body type A Body type B.

[@wolfsubzero1999]

The existence of the OGL also helped the KOTOR 1 & 2 come to fruition, as they used the level up system and basic stats from D&D. The OGL was basically the opening of arms to people to create what they want can. Very telling how we have reached a time in the West where creation and imagination is now disregarded for boiler plate copies of what came before and/or applauding the butchering of what came before.

[@EndymionTv]

It’s very sad what’s happening also great pfp love it

[@wolfsubzero1999]

@EndymionTv Also wanted to add; that now it's the PERFECT time for individual creation and voices. We as the consumer know who are pushing DEI (because these people and companies out themselves with their hubris, constant need for attention, and congratulations) but on the other end, we have indie creators like Rippa, RazörFist and more doing cool stuff and content creators, like yourself always bringing to light the nonsense. In a way giving roses to your work and everyone's work in this fight. Keep doing what you are doing!

[@KendaricV]

To be more precise they used a slightly modified Star Wars D20 ruleset. But since Star Wars D20 was created under the OGL, you're technically correct. The OGL 1.0 also spawned a lot of games like Conan D20, Warcraft RPG, EverQuest RPG and World of Warcraft RPG which were more interesting than D&D itself.

[@MadsterV]

@@wolfsubzero1999 This. And the way out for the public is to abandon the captured tentpole IPs and explore new, independent IPs. Money is not infinite but creativity is. Make em burn money until they run out.

[@Zennsunni]

It’s not just being disregarded, it’s being suppressed

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

That guy who said "It's 'ma'am'" now works as a Kotaku writer. Yeah, he is a bloatie, and even failed to say "It's 'type 1/A/2/B'" to go along with recent video games replacing "male/female".

[@viperdemonz-jenkins]

you mean the fuckwit that flipped at a gamestop or something?

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

TPCI embraces ESG/DEI that even Japan is mad about how Pokémon turned out recently. Pokémon is no longer about Pokémon, nor is it Japanese as its roots anymore. Do not bother with bloat companies. They will own no money from the fans, and be happy.

[@powerlifting85]

Vill zey eat zee bugs une schleep in zee podz?

[@killzoneisa]

what the short story on what they did to Pokémon ?

[@woldemunster9244]

@@killzoneisa Made everyones avatar look like a pre-op blobfishes in PokemonGO. But it's made by Swedish company, they are so progressive there that "big bangs" are daily and still they feel the need to troon-pander. :/

[@adams3560]

@@woldemunster9244You think everything has to do with trans people, it’s bizarre. Nobody thinks about them more than you do.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

@@woldemunster9244That also happened in SV too, but from the source, looking worse than the New Pokémon Snap characters.

[@Peter_Parker69]

If there's any popular/valuable cult-hit, you know these people will get their hands all over it to extract.

[@nobodycares9579]

Showtime!

[@TerryB01]

They went full Scout. They regret everything. They regret everything they've ever done!

[@YAH93]

Well, they have two options now: accepting it as it is, meaning they double down on woke BS, or turn things around and make games better again.

[@LordEmperorBoss]

Never go Full Scout.

[@gouravchakraborty9801]

Finally Baldur's Gate Executives grew some spine to abandon Woke Wizards of the Coast.

[@EndymionTv]

Or they got kicked out after ruining it

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

They've effectively said it some time ago. That they were starting to work on their own IP and leaving D&D behind.

[@decorumlopez9147]

They had spines, thorns and tongues unsplit since I first witnessed Swen's awe-inspirying battle cry. With people this real, the lizards at WotC can't... well, they just can't.

[@thedog7494]

Werent they blaming white people for the hate toward their early access launch? Didnt they get mad when a ton of people were playing as a white guy in their game? Did everybody just forget this?

[@Honed-]

or maybe... its worse, they just are culling white people, and keeping there diverse people.

[@Alpha1598753]

They keep pushing for catering to a unicorn audience at the cost of the very foundation of their fan base and paying customers How will they react when they see they lost nearly half their income when their bottom line said "we don't want that crap" all the way through? Will investors ask them to shove it where the sun doesn't shine and go back to the source material or double down on a clear path to financial ruin? Sucks that BG3 quite enthralled me with the D&D universe, getting my own headstories and campain ideas just as WotC decided to screw everything over on the double

[@aldo1814]

Greetings from Italy, brother...keep it coming. Hate all this woke stuff infesting gaming the past 8-10 years. Been revisiting my old 360 collection and got Dev mode and Xenia running on my Series S to tackle the oldies 💪

[@EndymionTv]

Thank you very much for watching!

[@aarons6907]

I will never invest in a company with ESG. Absolutley not.

[@txquartz]

You have to look at the contents. Something as simple as an official office recycling policy is ESG. So everyone -has- it, hence you nees to look into the actual policies.

[@finncapistrano9879]

CPC funded companies too. They're the exact corruption as ESG and DEI conglomerates.

[@wesleythomas7125]

D&D: "I'm gunna jump off a bridge! :D" Unity: "Ooh me too! Me too!" Adobe: "Well hey, if all the cool kids are doing it..."

[@ShadowDarnite]

It has to be noted that Baldur's Gate and DnD are not diferent franchises but the same, since Baldur's Gate is just a place where events of the main lore of the DnD rules.

[@stephenwoodard7756]

Shift up is about to learn why you never go public.

[@Demiurge13]

it's greed pure and simple. Going public makes them all money.

[@Mexican00b]

next DLCs - The Awokening of Baldurs - Stellar: TRANSformation

[@PlayerOne.StartGame]

I’m honestly hoping that Shiftup won’t mess with Nikke or Stellar Blade. If either of these properties are touched because of share holders I will be done with Shiftup.

[@tabaflip]

They are. It's just how things go.

[@woldemunster9244]

Everyone just stop playing those games until they beg you to come back. If they give no reason to return, then you know it's better to move on.

[@therealjaystone2344]

They once messed Nikke in the early days and then changed their minds

[@decorumlopez9147]

Sony and investors will make sure it happens.

[@Nihilisterplayz]

Sony did it to stellerblade watch them touch it

[@user-kv3ob3sq1i]

I called this months ago and it was ALWAYS the plan for shift up.

[@EndymionTv]

😪🤷🏻‍♂️

[@adams3560]

You mean the plan was for them to go public once the company reached a certain size, like hundreds of companies do every year? I’m shocked that they would do this completely normal thing.

[@therealjaystone2344]

Shift Up wants to be expanded and no doubt SB will be ported to every platform once their current contract expires

[@user-kv3ob3sq1i]

@@adams3560 that is a no brainer captain obvious. I am talking about the bait and switch to get to that size to sell out for some free ESG money and greed while manipulating gamers. censorship at release was always the plan, but caved not to risk push back from the public while trying to go public. South korea is where woke started almost 20 years ago. s. korean companies have been bait and switching like this with s.korean gamers for decades. Read about s.korea's 4b movement... "a world without men" most s.korean women hate men and most of them don't have relationships with men their whole lives. korea's population problem has been worse then japan's for 30 years... south korea is literally the "beautiful one's" from the mouse utopia experiment. it's sad and don't even get me started on the suicide rate of men in s.korea. it's just sad all around.

[@Goth-zm9yp]

If stellar blade is in any way involved with ESG and DEI then the company is automatically a failure and i will be adding them to my banned list.

[@i_grok_u2902]

I have to say, I am a 68 year old gamer...retired and game all the time. In the last`3-4 years , the way games "feel" has changed so much. The games didn't use feel so cookie cutter, box checking, and have to include all of the latest fads. The problem is, they are starting games chasing one fad- and by the time they are done, that flavor of the month has gone down the road. And when I see a game like Dragon Age go from dark and gritty, tactical combat, with a story that you felt had gravitas...to cartoonish hack/slash/roll generic combat, lets crack jokes, look at me I'm a pansexual!!....I have quit buying games, they have been saving me a lot of money in the last year or so.

[@tabaflip]

Just why I only get small dev stuff. Fallen Aces, Angels Fall First, Trepang2, Hong Kong Massacre, Mud and Blood, In Sound Mind, Dusk... there's no reason to buy stuff from woke/soon to be woke mainstream chasing chumps. I wouldn't have gotten Stellar Blade even if I had a PS... and there's enough reason to not even own a PS in the first place.

[@gnorley]

This is a direct result of un-creative people being handed a creative property.

[@vanr3977]

Thanks for sharing old timer, it's good to know we share ideas even if our ages are so far apart

[@abrahambobst4602]

The only company that still seems to make fun games is Nintendo. Everyone else seems to be infected by the Woke Mind Virus.

[@nipsoffortune4780]

Time for that OS RuneScape

[@TheInnocentRabbitofCaerbannog]

It wont get better if we support them just after one good product Completely abandon sony, ubisoft, square enix, ea, etc Any money going to them supports the esg motive

[@ALEXZAVALA2]

"A buncha rich people tryna out virtue signal each other." We truly live in a society.

[@Alternus.]

Yeah Stellar Blade is will be a cult classic games cuz it is one of the only that doesn't have ESG stuff. Cuz when they went public Shift Up has Black Rock money now.

[@EndymionTv]

Eve gonna be 200 pounds with a mustache in part 2

[@hundkebab2433]

they did try to censor the outfits though - only half 'reverted' it because they got shit on by the community and then tried to cope by saying "muh it wasn't censorship but intended design!" - yea right

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

Yes and Shift Up is going to lose a lot of profits with the next release and BlackRock will not bail them out when they inevitably screw up.

[@filmnmusic1]

I was planning to buy Stellar Blade when it releases on PC, but I am having second thoughts about it now. I guess I will wait a little longer and see how this plays out.

[@IronD-12]

Pirate an mod it.

[@reallybigjohnson]

He says guys like him can't leave soon enough...but then proceeds to not leave.

[@arispaparis]

People used to ask wtf happened in the 80s. Decades from now, kids will be asking the same for our time

[@tamerofthewilds9987]

I’m pretty sure ‘Baldur’s Gate Producers Panic’ is an incorrect title, I’m fairly certain the producers of the game were Larian, and Wizards is just the copyright owner in this case. If the title were ‘D&D Producers Panic’ that would be correct, cause playing Baldur’s Gate 3 gameplay kinda implies whoever made Baldur’s Gate is a part of Wizards

[@qcumber6652]

He lied and used bg3 because that get's more clicks because grift money >>>> honesty.

[@ChristmasLore]

And Larian is a "progressist" company, and proud of it. Nothing has been forced on them. People here are just delusional. They also don't understand European standards and positions. Everyone here supports Larian in all their endeavors.

[@tamerofthewilds9987]

Good to see I’m not the only one who saw this whole thing and realized it looked terrible. Wizards does force their political views into everything, but Baldur’s Gate was thankfully free of their usual shenanigans. Magic and main D&D products have been having it way worse, so to see someone talk about Wizards’ usual product management over BG3 is pretty insulting

[@nicholasrova3698]

@@qcumber6652 That's the impression I got. Very click-baity title.

[@delta2372]

​@@tamerofthewilds9987baulders gate is pretty woke, the game gets heavily dragged down because of it, act 1 and the majority of 2 are not terrible with it, black and asian elves are annoying but that is about it, the very end of act 2 because of a very in your face lesbian couple who one hates the main villain of act 2 because he, and old white man didnt like that his daughter is gay. Act 3 good luck finding any white men or just men in general in positions of authority, will say it's almost a power fantasy if you make a six foot and buff white human male character who's either ginger or aryan and straight because you as the last of your kind have to save the world

[@PrincessGamer]

Honestly your missing some of rhe facts about how they were trying to run the OGL with DND they were monetizing streamers and other people too claiming what ever they make is now property of wizards of the coast so if for example I made a race in DND my own race wizard could go oh.. I like this.. YOINK!!!!!!!! its mine now not yours and I don't have to give you anything for what you made it now belongs to me. That was another part of why there was SOOOOO MUCH rage. I used to stream my DND games and tabletops, and my group instantly started talking about changing the game we were streaming else, due to what wizards was trying to do.

[@woldemunster9244]

Teehee. Lizards of the bloat.

[@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc]

streaming a game should be exempt . Should only involve manufactured product.

[@17th_Colossus]

I’m done giving Shift Up excuses. They chose greed over passion.

[@blumiu2426]

It was always greed.

[@AJLaRocque54]

The self-righteous ideologues seem to think they can dictate the content of my games and even decide if I'm allowed to play them based on my ethnicity. What they overlook is that computer gaming, whether on console or PC, is just one of my many hobbies. For instance, my call sign is KX4ND, and I operate two ham radios manufactured by Icom. I've also been playing chess by mail and email with friends worldwide since the 1970s. I'm an avid reader, typically finishing a book every two weeks. These are just a few of my interests, and if I were to stop gaming today, it would be a minor loss in the grand scheme of my hobbies. The critics might say, "Great! We don't need you!" but the reality is they do. Their employment depends on the gaming industry, which exists for one purpose: to make money. If I, and others like me, stop purchasing their agenda-driven games, their jobs will be at risk. They should seriously consider this when they insult the gaming community and fail to deliver the products we want. I am certain that I am not alone in this perspective.

[@MadsterV]

they plan to get to them one by one. Running only postpones the inevitable.

[@UToobUsername01]

@@MadsterV Yes exactly. Only japanese companies like Nintendo of Japan refuse the woke bribe money. When Sony moved HQ to west it meant these activists could interfere with non-woke games. Yes they really DO want to spread like a virus. But it isn't going to work if everyone boycotts games for 2 years as Grummz says (save for the non-woke games). That means everyone needs to have list of non-woke games for the next 2 years and just stick to these only.

[@Stothehighest]

A year late but I'm glad you're finally mentioning how we're working to push back on WOTC. For those interested Tales of the Valiant (ToV) is the new playsystem under the new ORC license. Its now available for public purchase. I got my KS kit last week and it's nearly seamless for someone wanting to switch over without disrupting their campaigns or builds with learning or converting to a new system.

[@lessonzlrnd]

The fallen one wants this corruption, so he gets it. He owns all we see. We have no choice. Cowardice for Cash ⚖️

[@IlIDOOMGUYIlI]

The question is, where are they are they getting all this money from? Who are funding them? Why are they funding them? I smell some conspiracy here

[@abrahambobst4602]

It is a conspiracy for social engineering, power, and control.

[@ryand285]

Larry Fink, the dink.

[@tabaflip]

Remember... No buying from big companies.

[@rpgadventurer32]

He was replaced with another activist. "wokeness" is not out of Wizard of the Coast at all.

[@nicholasrova3698]

Yep

[@MrsxLadieeb]

Give it time. PlayStation is gonna be just as b.A.A.d. as Xbox. Almost all their exclusives are woke propaganda.

[@SecretPaints]

I switched to Xbox sick of remasters from Sony and I hardly play exclusives anymore anyway

[@MrsxLadieeb]

@SecretPaints same here. Hell, tbh I have been playing classic mid-2010 games. Like, I literally just installed black ops 1, lol. I'm an Xbox guy myself , and I give them credit because they're just like, f it and just went man overboard. At this point, they just want everything cross-platform.

[@barbos1507]

What exclusives? Sony and Nintendo are the only ones who still make games exclusively for their platform. Tlou2, Horizon2, gow2 and spiderman2 are notorious and shitty propaganda too.

[@asumax8]

I've pretty much dropped both Playstation and Xbox. Droped Xbox with the Xbox One and Playstation with the PS5. Finally switch to the PC master race lol

[@MrsxLadieeb]

@barbos1507 I.....agree with you lol

[@Goth-zm9yp]

Note to all developers and companies stay a private company so that the woke investors cannot destroy ,denigrate and mutilate your company.

[@fangbatarang5659]

Yeah but those private companies, indie and devs need actual support from players. The only way to stop the rich virtue signalling idiots is to crowdfund games that people really want to play and see and create a parallel mainstream to the current cesspool of culture.

[@ChristopherSloane]

When playing D&D as a kid it was much like a medieval period game with the exception of elves Magic and of course evil creatures somehow the game has been so warped that it is so f****** weird right now that I don't recognize anything in it

[@Wendeta-hq2cp]

Considering how much freedom dnd has, I think it's safe to say we will be playing with the old books and making more and more homebrew, rather than relying on new official content.

[@EndymionTv]

Well you can take it and make your own version if you wanna technically

[@Darth_Lex]

For sure. This WAS the one game where you literally could be just about anything. Now, they throw down the virtue signal and claim everything is racist.

[@SirMirror890]

5e is just for trans teenagers to live out their fetishes

[@Q_Cooper]

The nice thing is B/X, OSE and a handful of others are taking the old versions of the game and cleaning up the rules so it's a lot easier to follow, I mostly play Castles and Crusades which feels like a successor to ad&d with a few modern touches like ascending AC

[@hillehai]

Seriously, what is it with the "mass exodus" in almost every title? How many mass exoduses can we have in such a short amount of time? And who's doing the exoduses?

[@decorumlopez9147]

Exoduse me?

[@robooboro]

It’s cringe at this point tbh

[@qcumber6652]

Exodia

[@dwalinfundinson]

"WOKE DISNEY STAR WARS AGENDA EXPOSED! Fans PANIC as Modern Gaming REJECTS Sweet Baby Inc! Marvel Feminists ATTACK Baldur's Gate - NUCLEAR Backlash PROVES Helldivers MASS EXODUS Destroying Wizards of the Coast! Games Workshop Shills FURIOUS! Black Myth Devs SMEARED Forever As Secrets LEAKED! IGN DESTROYED as Trans Space Marines Lore ERASED! Henry Cavill Attacks Fans After Boycott IMPODES! Hollywood Meltdown CONFIRMED As Based George Lucas REJECTS White Male Fanbase! Ex-Ubisoft Employee SILENT?"

[@Necropheliac]

OGL was a masterful strategy because it made the brand ubiquitous even in places where people were lifting concepts from the brand. Everyone still knew that it was derivative of the DnD brand and so it had the effect of bolstering DnD products through a free marketing pathway that other brands can only dream about. To get this kind of marketing through traditional means is extremely costly and tbh impossible for most brands.

[@MyDread09]

Welp stellar blade 2 is gonna bomb and shift up is gonna lay off a lot of staff just like all the rest and they have no one to blame but themselves

[@Greenapple30]

Welp good bye Shift up rest in pieces

[@EndymionTv]

Sad I hope they don’t fully go down that route

[@Greenapple30]

@@EndymionTv we seen this too many times now unfortunately

[@daneyal7162]

The sad thing is... diversity by itself is not a bad thing. It never was. THE PROBLEM starts when, instead of creating actual and genuine diversity, you REPLACE one majority with another, and then call the first majority racists or misogynists when the former majority complain about not getting an equal representation, or when they complain that the writing on diverse story is just not good. I believe that good writing and diversity CAN exist in stories, but it needs to be done with good writing and likeable characters being the top priority. Plus, not every story, movie, tv show or game necessarily needs to have diverse characters, or JUST diverse characters. A good way to not make diversity feel forced or mundane is to SLOWLY incorporate it into games and entertainment (when it's written well), while also continue to make entertainment that dosen't have to include diversity.

[@Chanshilla]

You can't please everyone. Shift Up will have to choose and I believe that they will choose wrong.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Metallica sold out since Master Of Puppets. They are known as "the most diverse inclusive band ever", and already lost their new and old fans when St. Anger and Lulu came along. I already know not to support Pocket Pair and Shift Up since they decided to go for the bloat. Merit should be embraced.

[@kvltovpersonality6290]

You… you mean Black Album? Cause those first 4 albums are thrash classics. Black Album’s when they sold out

[@EndymionTv]

My first metal album ever was Master of Puppets I still remember hearing Battery for the first time my mind expanded that day

[@AxeMain]

I wouldn't call and justice for all a sell-out album but you do you

[@SH0GUN11]

Lol I've been listening to Metallica for 20 years. wtf are you on about they lost fans? Their concerts still sell out. I've been to three in the last 5 years and those arenas are packed with old and new fans alike. Granted they don't play St. Anger songs though lol.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

@@EndymionTv You can see in that video where Cliff Burton last appeared in, and he never cared if the band are on a major label. James Hetfield is wrong when he said "We'd be doing the same thing we're still on an independent label." I will say that Jason Newsted is the best Metallica member that he sadly got bullied for being talented and respected to fans.

[@cancerconnoisseur]

He's done it once again, using Baldur's Gate in his title and tags when this, again, has nothing to do with Baldur's Gate. Over and over again. Such a blatant grift.

[@qcumber6652]

This channel has to be AI generated.

[@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE]

I have a personal objective not to buy a game within one year of launch. I have to see how much madness will happen within a year.

[@kuilu]

This, and the fact games launch in such unfinished states they basically need a year or two to even be considered a 1.0 launch.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

The tide is turning

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

The majority like fans and customers should be respected. Selling stuff to only minorities is bad business practice as it will not make the company any money in the long run.

[@n0sas]

Stop using pictures from the game in the thumbnail. Larian stdios has nothing to do with this. Misleading

[@qcumber6652]

Grift money >>>>> honesty.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

4:26 You may ask yourself... how do I work this? And you may ask yourself... where is that large automobile?

[@jurgen4466]

Time to stop this game hobby woke! As well as movies and series its just a small minority that want this trash!

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

6:45 TPCI will have to remove Pokémon Scarlet and Violet from eShop and stop making more game copies because the Ed Sheeran song license might expire. It can be said since there is going to be a Marvel vs. Capcom game collection coming up, and the collection can be removed from the stores when the license to use the characters expires too.

[@matthewwinningham5490]

Why god...why

[@EndymionTv]

😩

[@robooboro]

Can’t stop the barrage of L’s, it’s relentless

[@tiberiusbaty2410]

A very intelligent business decision to alienate your largest customer base. SMH

[@arkgaharandan5881]

we will find out wherever you can avoid going woke and getting esg money a the same time with kingdom come deliverance 2 as the studio is now esg compliant. Pay close attention wherever they be woke themes in the game.

[@therealjaystone2344]

And deliverance 1 will be shut down once the second game comes out since it’s a f2p game

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@therealjaystone2344 no its not.

[@therealjaystone2344]

@@arkgaharandan5881 Overwatch says hi

[@arkgaharandan5881]

@@therealjaystone2344 its a singleplayer game.

[@Jonathan_Collins]

I hope they don’t input esg but I did hear that the ceo of shift up still has most of the stock and another company in china so there is still hope I wouldn’t speculate anything just yet give time I still have hope for stellar blade 2 and the dlc.

[@therealjaystone2344]

I know they’ll port to all platforms besides pc

[@Nihilisterplayz]

The other company that has a share is tencent for nikke

[@jerome6191]

White guilt is disgusting

[@guedeto1995]

It really is just that white men enjoy things, have spaces where the hobbies are primarily geared towards them, and they can't stand it. It's honestly making me a little resentful despite my best efforts not to be.

[@osrthejourney]

These are video games bro. There are thousands released daily. Get a grip. Find some indie titles.

[@guedeto1995]

@osrthejourney I understand that there are games not doing this, regardless many IPs I love have been politicized. Borderlands is a prominent example. The thing is, I'm not just talking about video games or movies, or comics, or ttrpgs, I'm talking about how people in the industry have been talking about us. People in prominent rolls in many of these industries have said openly acual bigoted things in a public setting in their capacity as a employee and received almost no form of punishment. At best, we will get an apology and a slap on the wrist.

[@lordaizen8004]

SO HAPPY that I haven’t spent money on Magic:The Gathering in YEARS. Which is INCREDIBLY sad because that game is so much fun and I would have recommended it to anyone with a halfway capable brain….. which would only lead to MASSIVE cognitive improvements, due to the game being so cerebrally potent. Playing MTG allows one to build abstract and critical thinking skills, to an actually impressive degree. Growing up I have spent TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars (if not more) on MTG, collecting and playing for almost 20 years. Back then I would have said it was worth it too…..now I REFUSE to buy their products and support this UNNECESSARY path they have chosen and agenda they PUSH on others. WHAT A SHAME 😢😮‍💨🤦‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

[@kiethshadowfade]

I'll give Shift Up a chance since while they are doing this they just released Summer Rossana on Nikke.

[@VanguardArmada]

Yeah, I'm planning on using NIKKE as a litmus test of sorts. If I see DEI stuff start to creep into that game of all games, then Shift Up's done.

[@IronD-12]

​@@VanguardArmada agreed. If nikke starts to alter and it will be very....verrrrrrry apparent of it does...that will be the true test. That game is their true cash cow.

[@Dragon_Lair]

The OGL leaks are even worse than what Endemyion went into. It also granted ownership of properties made by third parties and the rights to remove content that WotC deemed to be offensive with no guidelines on what is or is not offensive or problematic. It basically gave them the power to shut down anyone they didn’t like or had a different opinion.

[@TheRandomMuffinMan]

Honestly, wizards of the coast is mostly irrelevant to the existence of DnD. It’s a table top game and you can make your own rules and lore. So most of the trash they posted can be ignored. The main problem is any media they produce like movies and games. But you can largely ignore those as well.

[@Astronopolis]

For the algorithm! Keep it up brother!

[@EndymionTv]

Thank you very much for watching!

[@anthonycarlisle6184]

For the allianc,coughcough, algorithm!!

[@Ver.3gA-06]

So I said this on smashjts vid and a south Korean said I was right. Imma paraphrase it "shift up thinks esg cuz it says so on surface lvl, and rhem being Korean, they wouldn't know anything deeper on American things. And the Korean said that they still have a 1970s view of America, so I don't think shift up is bending the knee, they just don't know what esg actually is

[@DuoMaxwellDS]

I'll believe it when I see the change in Shift Up's work. No point in getting all angry at something that didn't happen yet.

[@NeoN-PeoN]

I like that you still have some hope. But I do not.

[@MarkFin9423]

This is why gamers never win. Some people with more sense try to warn you, don't buy the game once you even get a whiff of censorship. Do not even buy if they "cave" and give you what you want, don't buy any future games from them either, stop voting with your wallet guys, vote with your apathy so these companies go out of business shrieking in silence so everyone can pick up the ashes once the company is toast. NOPE! Gamers complain, but they still buy, then complain more that their hobby is being ruined by activists even though the gamers are the ones who keep giving them money to ruin their hobby. Gamers can only really "win" if they first acknowledge that a vast number in their ranks are addicts who will buy anything. Until then, the only winning strategy is to start saving as much of past gaming as possible because that is the only future gaming has.

[@Zzplys]

It was fun while it lasted

[@EndymionTv]

I’ll hold out hope

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Even I enjoy the Japanese region Pokémon games. It is best to go for the Japanese imports like especially HGSS. You can still try and look for the Emerald English version.

[@Constellasian]

BG3 was woke as hell, but it was praised across the platform by many gamers. It even had the infamous bear sex option. Not many complaints about the full frontal nudity, sex, and violence, but then Stellarblade gets criticized mostly by leftists for having the heroine show more of her ass and thighs...

[@DarkWhyte_]

It wasn't leftists.. no leftist I know even cared.

[@TroySavary]

Because BG3 had "body types 1 and 2" rather than "male or female", let you swap genitals, and made every romanceable NPC bisexual. It checked all the right boxes for blue haired diversity hires at game sites.

[@xX_EltKLLgm-ng_Xx]

ya i had to refund BG3 after an hour, it was pretty garbage

[@mikosomehoursaday]

How can it be woke if it lets you to literally bang 5 different girls in a single run? Stellarblade could never.

[@jockpackage1770]

Most players used the OGL for home brew. Oh, something you want isn't in the books, a creature or class just doesn't exist? You can make them yourself and publish the info on these things freely so other people can use it in their campaigns. This was one of the backbones of the D&D community and why it thrived for so long. THen they tried to flip the script and say that they won't let you do this anymore and retroactively try to argue that anything that was successful under this deal now owed Wizards a cut. It was, obviously, a disaster. Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic games actually have their class system and feats almost directly ripped from how it works numerically from the addition of D&D that was current when the games were made.

[@revelstone7274]

Everything woke turns to shit

[@Lrd_Jacobus]

White men should leave this and that. So what are we supposed to do huh?

[@MartyrPandaGaming]

Do it, then sit back with popcorn as they go belly up. Get friends together and learn AD&D. Or, at the least, stick to 3.X. 5e is just a dumbed down version of that anyways. Try some new games even. Grab the rules for Battletech online, make some mechs and play a campaign. Like, literally make your own mechs. I've got a skipping stone, that I glued arms and legs on, that I still use as a King Crab. When it comes to Table Top games, be them RPG, Wargame or anything else, the books are guidelines, not rules. Pick, choose and modify them however your like when playing with your friends. These companies only own the IP. Your time playing and how you do so, outside of their pandering events, is out of their control and they get no say in it.

[@woldemunster9244]

Go do our own stuff, let these idiots run everything to ground and laugh at their surprised pikachu faces. :D

[@Dmatrio]

Listen to them and don't buy or stream any of their crap.

[@talesofgore9424]

White men will leave these scenes, go on to create new hobbies and IPs, and women and brown people will be demanding "inclusion" a decade from now, claiming it's unfair that a hobby built by White men is dominated by White men.

[@lomborg4876]

Baldur’s Gate 3 had really bad writing. But the gameplay was nice

[@Deus421]

Karlach is the definition of millennial writing. She was very annoying.

[@lomborg4876]

@@Deus421 indeed. The best one was probably Lae’Zel

[@brettcarrey4803]

I've completed act 1 4 times and always gave up on the game after cos I can't stand the writing or characters

[@ASoberBear]

Dear Queers, not everything has to be gay or about you.

[@anakomaru]

It's so weird that WOtC believes that players dont routinely ignore the rules and descriptions that they don't agree with

[@AxeMain]

I love your channel. Would you consider doing a palette cleanser video every few videos or so? I can only rage so much at this non-sense going on

[@EndymionTv]

What would you wanna sre

[@EndymionTv]

See* stupid phone

[@XX-121]

@@EndymionTv you're fine. we need people getting this stuff out to us. whether if it's what we want to hear or not, it's the news. the worst thing for the woke is getting exposed. just look how much sweet baby got done working unimpeded in the shadows.

[@adams3560]

His channel is entirely him posting rage bait for engagement, so good luck with that.

[@adams3560]

@@XX-121This isn’t the news at all. It’s one guy presenting a bunch of things with heavy bias and misleading statements. He didn’t even last a minute in this video before completely twisting the words of the guy working at Wizards of the Coast. This is low quality rage bait. Please don’t get your “news” from KZbinrs. They are not your friends.

[@Faecaloma]

dnd is way overrated. go play other, better games.

[@asaffin1]

Pathfinder v1 for life.

[@jfkst1]

I prefer pillars of eternity, Pathfinder, and divinity original sin game mechanics much more anyway compared to 5th edition dungeons & dragons.

[@SonOfSparda03]

Calling WotC the producers of baldurs gate is so disingenuous and im pretty sure Warner owns WotC so how about we get mad at the right company? Especially since Larian already cut ties with Warner Bros. Hard to trust someone with this many mistakes in just the title

[@thousandyoung]

Now you know why a lot of People returned to Old Games. Wukong will probably sell out too if they become a Success.

[@GymbonePlaysGames]

Yo

[@EndymionTv]

Hello!

[@AKIRAhate]

first!

[@EndymionTv]

Confirmed

[@failinginsilence5806]

Welp, Shift up has the investor money they don't need mine anymore. Until it's 100% certain there won't be any pandering my wallet is chained shut for the foreseeable future.

[@hds3018]

Watching this video just made me realize what a great work Tactical Adventures did with Solasta Crown of The Magister, a indie studio made a great D&D CRPG with zero woke politics in it, i bought the most expensive version just to support those guys.

[@shadowcastyt]

What’s funny is I would guess at least half of WotC and DnDs target demographic is likely made up of white men… (the general consensus is the average age range for people who play DnD is between the ages of 20-24, that player base is about 60% male and just as a crap shoot I’d say probably 50% of those men are white if I had to guess) regardless of what the number actually is if the DnD fandom actually listened I would think WotC and in turn Hasbro would probably take a massive financial hit, assuming of course the main fandom is still buying WotC merchandise

[@adams3560]

You didn’t even last one minute into the video before lying about something. That’s not what Kyle said at all. You’ve completely twisted his words. His comment was about himself and the board at Wizards of the Coast only. You say crap like this and then expect people to take you seriously. SMH. Also, calling Stellar Blade a “big hit” isn’t accurate. It sold about as many copies as any other PS5 exclusive. Was outsold by Spiderman 2.

[@woldemunster9244]

Yeah, he should have played the clip, it's clear that Kyle means white men are not welcome to work at Lizards of the Coast and you should hate yourself for being white, like he does.

[@thekingofawesomeness9173]

There's no way a company looks at their big money game (stellar blade) and say "hey for the second one, yeah let's do none of that stuff from the first one" right?

[@ivanstoichev7856]

Stellar Blade 2, a game about how Eve suddenly becomes fat, and the whole game is about how she must learn to accept her body as it is.

[@khatdubell]

Shift up has already bent the knee with the SB release. No one bends part of the way down, Once you bend the knee, you got all the way down.

[@seriouswall1173]

Without OGL. No dnd wouldn't be nearly as popular. It's because of the OGL dnd is what it is. I dont buy official dnd stuff because official stuff is garbage. They dont actually put care or love into their stuff... And that's before all this garbage happening now. If i couldn't get the other projects from people who actually care for what they are making. Dnd would be dead to me.

[@mobbs6426]

I don't get why publishers don't just crap out half a dozen smaller titles to please their ESG overlords, so they can have the freedom to do what they want with their main release. Harder for individual studios, but they're not getting the funding anyway. As simple as "We released four gatcha games this year targeted at diverse audiences, and only one AAA release targeted at those icky white men"

[@ultimatebobafett130]

I hope shift up doesn't go full esg, but at least if they do we have the first descendant.

[@ArpanShahM]

@endymiontv Just a clarification - ESG is "Environmental, Social and Governance" ....I have heard you mention E as "Economic" in a couple of videos