2024 has been quite the tumultuous year for the video game industry. Especially for game developers and publishers along with video game news outlets and journalists. Gamers are finally pushing back against the anti-gamer and woke agenda pushed by the industry and its massive PR branch of the media. However, December 25th provides an easy way for gamers and consumers to help decide what video games they should buy in 2025. If you want a way to help make that decision, then look at your favorite game developers and see if they say “Merry Christmas” or not.
For a while now, the concept of Christmas and saying “Merry Christmas” has been attacked by the grinches known as the Left for a long time now. The Left which screeches that being a normal, straight human being is something to be ashamed of, demonized for, and ostracized over in favor of their sexual proclivities, degeneracy, and psychotic world views that are anti-family, anti-religion, anti-free speech, and more.
This has carried on into the video game industry which was once an entertainment medium for telling great stories, creating awesome characters, and being diverse in an organic fashion (it still is when it comes to indie games). However, it changed from being the product of passionate developers to a vehicle of pontification for woke cultists.
Video games were no longer about telling A story, but telling THE story that fell in line with a checklist that every sector of entertainment has adhered to. 2024 seemed to be the fevered culmination of the woke agenda’s final form as we saw female characters uglified to a huge degree, writing where stories and dialogues were written to be as vanilla and non offensive as possible, and vehicles for promoting self-harming lifestyles.
Yes, 2025 will still bring with it the woke offerings for the Leftist minority. However, 2024 was the year gamers started to say “No” to these video games.
After all, it is why games such as Concord and Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn failed in spectacular fashion. It is why BioWare’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard is such a massive flop for the company since they decided to pander to a select few, ignored everything that made the Dragon Age franchise great, and is a perfect example of developers creating a game based on woke ideology rather than what the consumer wants (with sales woefully underperforming). You see it happening with Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws as well which is failing for similar reasons.
Every one of these games, and there are more, were considered DEI darlings in the industry and were promoted in a fanatic frenzy by video game news outlets and journalists. Outlets that, at one time, were on the side of the consumer but, like mainstream media, have decided to befriend and defend developers and publishers. Even if their shill articles and opinions damage their reputation with the gaming community.
If it wasn’t for the efforts of small outlets such as That Park Place and Fandom Pulse, or the various content creators and social media influencers, many of the games which flopped this year might have been successful or at least break even, allowing the industry to keep pumping out this woke refuse. Suffice to say, consumers would have been bamboozled out of their hard-earned money because games journalists would have kept feeding them lies about these games.
A media that defends developers and publishers which have embraced the DEI agenda to an insane degree. Which is happy to promote falsified data meant to promote the LGBTQ community and never bother to call out the results. That is currently trying to scare gamers about President Donald Trump and his tariffs. Though some are walking things back as games, such as Veilguard, have been incessantly mocked by gamers.
It’s sickening and tiresome.
But, if you think that filtering game developers and publishers who don’t say “Merry Christmas” is not a valid way to make a financial decision, then you haven’t been paying attention for the past 10 years.
Just look at some of the game developers who still haven’t even tweeted out “Merry Christmas” on their X profiles. BioWare, which got derailed while riding the DEI train, hasn’t said “Merry Christmas” though I’m sure they are all too busy trying to finish Mass Effect 5. Naughty Dog tweeted out a “Christmas”-themed picture without saying those two words but, the picture itself is…disturbing.
As pointed out in our tweet, why would Abby put her hand on Joel’s shoulder, or why would Joel want her to touch him, when, in The Last of Us 2, (SPOILER ALERT)…
…she bashed his head in with a golf club? Even then, have you seen Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and the alleged plot leaks? Naughty Dog is still riding the DEI train to bankruptcy.
Then you can take a look at Riot Games. Not a peep, though it would be shocking that the Chinese-owned developer would say anything. Riot Games, which just updated its ToS so that League of Legends and Valorant players can be banned for off-platform conduct, is definitely not a developer that gamers should be giving their money to.
Ubisoft, on a losing streak in 2024, has also been quiet when it comes to the Christmas holiday. Not surprising since the developer has wholeheartedly embraced DEI which is partially paid for by the Canadian government. But the Far Cry developer went off the deep end with Assassin’s Creed Shadows which is racist and a great example of cultural appropriation, two things which the Left loves to screech about. Which games journalists turned a blind eye to and even defended.
Could these game developers quickly tweet out “Merry Christmas” today? Sure. They have PR teams who could quickly draft something up. Of course, those same PR teams could have tweeted something out before this or even scheduled a tweet to be posted early in the morning, but they haven’t and they didn’t.
The game companies are still drinking the DEI kool aid. Fervently adhering to the same agenda that declared “Merry Christmas” is offensive.
So why not wish yourself a “Merry Christmas” and a “Happy New Year” by putting these video game developers on your “Naughty” list and ignore the games they publish in 2025 (and beyond)? Take that money and spend it on some developers who really know what gaming is all about. Meanwhile, let the triple-A developers decide which path they want to take – the DEI path to bankruptcy or the path to making games games again. Why continue to support game developers who are not only anti-Christmas, but anti-YOU?
By the way, don’t accept “Happy Holidays” as a substitute (we see you Rockstar Games). It’s turned into a polite way of saying “screw you and Christmas.”
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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