Crystal Core Radio #175 – Gamergate 2 & Final Fantasy XIV with Grummz
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Chapters:
00:00:00 – Pre-show banter and WoW reminiscence
00:06:19 – Falling in love with Final Fantasy
00:10:00 – The difference between WoW and Final Fantasy
00:12:00 – The story behind fishing in WoW
00:12:39 – The Unexpected Fishing Game in WoW
00:19:01 – The Early Days of Game Development
00:25:03 – Celebrating Victories in Game Development
00:31:25 – Storming the Castle
00:37:34 – Building up a Customer Service Department
00:43:46 – The Controversy Surrounding Grumps and Historical Revisionism
00:49:38 – Cancel Culture and Internet Hate
00:55:42 – Consequences of Cancel Culture and Harassment
01:02:00 – Stereotyping and Fear in Conversations
01:08:16 – The Introduction of ESG Programs and the Culture of Fear in Game Development
01:14:20 – The Myth of Exclusion in the Gaming Community
01:20:39 – Gaming as a Way to Understand Each Other
01:26:30 – The Toxic Atmosphere within Game Companies
01:32:30 – Balancing Gaming Discussion
01:38:51 – The Threat of the Informed Consumer
01:44:18 – Criticizing Mog Station and discussing game experiences
01:50:30 – Misrepresentation of the Game Developer’s Vision
01:56:48 – The Success of Twitch and YouTube Marketing Strategies
02:02:54 – The Story of the Bus
02:09:08 – The Thumper Encounter in Firefall
02:15:08 – The Story of Ember and its Progress
02:21:11 – The Importance of Demo and Milestone-based Funding
02:26:47 – Pushing Fringe Politics in Games
02:32:47 – The Nature of Power and Abuse in Games Journalism
02:38:56 – Thanks to Chris and Kronos for their content
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Loved when he chugged all that breastmilk live on stream.
crazy how u got to interview the man behind great breast milk caper at blizzard hq
grummz is a pedophile
This is the rare combo of 3 dumb bitches telling another dumb bitch exactlyyy
Commenters big-mad an Asian game developer dares to exist.
Telling the truth generally gets people riled up.
Continue the course
Great podcast dude!
Un subbing. Grummz is a racist misogynist stop giving him a platform
like this episode, thank you grummz for clarify all that mess of games
Please keep this up. This is have been our voice on censorship, changing characters, games losing lore and story and so much more. Grummz and many others like him are the voice of the video game community
Legendary episode. You guys have come a long way. Keep going!
Ultima Online and EverQuest were the two games who began the defining of the MMO genre. Grind af, yes. WoW changed it with the quest based, story driven and the rest is history.
The woke folks follows the same lineage as of the PC folks. They would join your group. They will complain your group isn't welcoming them. They will force your group to be the way they want it to be. They will kick you out of your group. They will claim your group was garbage and trash it. Then they go after your other group and repeat this circle.
Really interesting podcast
, I'll keep an eye on the Channel.
I'm going to talk about each section with separate comments. Don't want to risk the filters.
50:00 The gaming press has been dead ever since Microsoft started sponsoring articles in the early 2000s to try to prop up their own franchises for the Xbox while trying to show that Sony's were failures. That was when we started fixing scores and applying terms and conditions to reviews. Konami was the first one to get outed with some extreme terms and conditions for Metal Gear Solid 4 about 15 years ago. It happened to a Mario game shortly after and video game journalism as a whole lost most of its credibility. Though we still turned to review aggregate sites, the individual journalists lost almost all their influence by 2010 and the rise of this site basically cemented the failure of video game journalism as a whole.
53:40 The word woke isn't inherently political. It wasn't political until a certain movement about the lives of people of color in the last decade appropriated it. Prior to that, it was just a term that meant that you recognized that there were problems that targeted a specific group of people. However, as that movement picked up, that term was hijacked much like the words of a certain lawyer and supreme court justice. This movement has successfully redefined a lot of the words that people used. Even the world include in the topic of this podcast used to mean something different until those people took it over.
1:30:00 Hogwarts Legacy was always going to be a success regardless of whether people attacked it or brought attention to it. Most people don't realize the power of a strong intellectual property and Harry Potter is one that has had continued support with the author continuing to talk about it and create things related to it. And as long as it continues to deliver what the fans want, the property will continue to succeed. This is why no matter how much crap Blizzard gets for stuff like Overwatch 2, Diablo 3 and 4, and World of Warcraft, they are going to succeed as long as it delivers what the fans want and they are undeniably delivering to the majority of their audience. Starcraft failed because of balance issues while Warcraft failed because it was a terrible port job. Even Starfield has a fairly consistent audience despite all the crap it got. It might not be Skyrim big, but it's big enough to where they can justify another one because they've satisfied their core audience. That is how you maintain a loyal fan base.
And I know I'm going to get flak for this because I always do. Final Fantasy is what happens when you don't. It's a franchise that abandoned its turn based rpg roots to push Square Enix's newest game engine tech demo. The core audience in turn has abandoned the franchise and that's why its sales are declining with each new game that they push out. 14 is the only think that is still successful in the franchise, but it came at the cost of burning down half the company and all of its other franchises.
1:40:00 The collapse is definitely speeding up. November 11, 2014. Nearly 10 years ago, Valkyria Chronicles released on Steam, selling over 200k copies in the month it was released and eventually settled close to 1 million. The narrative that consoles were for gaming, that the PC was dominated by pirates, and that there was no room for turn based rpgs in the modern age collapsed all at once. This slowly gave rise to more and more indie games, though low effort at first. Now as the AAA game studios begin to falter under ballooning budgets from the push for graphics, indie multiplatform budget games are taking over. The best selling games of this decade isn't going to be the likes of Call of Duty, but rather going to be something like Palworld that popped out of nowhere.
Excellent discussion.
Please do not give a platform to this grifter.
Grummz is THE voice for the gaming community, he represents how most of us feel on a lot of cases. Keep telling the truth and keep upsetting these SJW’s!
This is why 400 guys and no girls tuned in.
So many wild statements. Guest wants to be a FFXIV Andy, but WTF is a FIELD Company? 300h + veteran BTW. Big shoutout to Chris (the second one)! Great feedback.
Not surprised that you two have connected.
As that man continues to fail at riling up the masses with BS and you pretend not to be anything other than a thinly veiled grifter who cares about “fairness” and “doesn’t believe in censorship”, I can only hope that in 5 years, you will be remembered as a laughingstock.
I implore anyone who doesn’t revel in their ignorance to look up the history of the term “woke”, now coopted and perverted by fragile white ppl and their minions.
Bless the good ppl of this world, of all races/colors/creeds, and I’m so encouraged that most of the comments here are from ppl who see these men for exactly what they are. Their time is running out – grifting without substance can only last for so long.
Just want to say I love your giving Grumz a platform.
I disagree with most of his takes and did feel he held himself a bit unprofessional at times during the video but I love seeing controversial opinions brought up.
I love aroun 1:19:00 you can see everyone unsure how to proceed with telling him the idea of a legion of GMs having to follow him around was a bit of an exaggeration while also not wanting to treat his concerns with a simple "turn on /busy and you'll be fine bro"
Ew, I can't believe you would have this guy on. He's such a piece of shit for all the misinformation he spreads. Unsubscribed.
I would like to amplify a comment I made under another comment about whether or not “woke” is an inherently political term, so I’ll say it here:
Woke was a term used colloquially by blacks in the mid-20th century to call out, among other things, the safest travel routes in racist America. The “green books” were a collection of the safest routes to travel based on experience and word of mouth.
It certainly spoke to an awareness, not of general injustice, but rather, specific scenarios where we needed to have our wits about us to survive the transgressions of fragile, white racists.
Now those same fragile, white racists and their model minions have coopted the term, perverting it to the pt of uselessness.
Which was the plan, of course. MLK was reviled for telling the truth – what the men on this podcast are doing is the opposite, but bc they face fierce opposition, they think they’re martyrs of the truth.
Think for yourselves and follow your hearts.