Maybe you're seriously overestimating the importance of your boycott?
2022 - 161 million views
2023 - 162 million views
2024 - 163 million views
Seems like your boycott has had no impact.
goodeye8
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I'd understand that if it happened in one maybe two countries, but this happened across multiple countries where most people don't condone the actions of Isreal. I'm not going just believe that some kind of a perfect storm gave Isreal the most televotes.
People who oppose Israel's participation didn't watch and didn't vote.
Why would people not watch? Do you think Israel has such a huge influence on people that they'd outright ignore watching the show? I would argue that's not a factor because there were people in the arena who booed Israel. They paid money to see it live. I didn't like Israel participating, I still watched it because Eurovision is not about Israel.
Even if they did vote, their votes were spread across dozens of other candidates.
That's a roundabout way of saying you think Israel's song was popular among people. I'm supposed to believe Netherlands, who just had a massive protest about Israel, gave maximum points to Israel? Norway, who is known to be pretty anti-Israel, gave almost max points to Israel? Same with France, UK etc. Countries that have polls showing the majority being against what Israel is doing turn around and give max (or close to max) points to Israel? How? Why?
We're supposed to take racism and far-right conspiracies as legitimate backlash? Normal people don't care about shit like that. I'm with the other person, the reception was lukewarm because it played it safe.
Once maybe twice, sure. Enough times for someone to make a post about it? I also wouldn't say it's a red flag but it's definitely weird.
Just take some basic safety steps, like discharging the capacitor and you'll be fine
You already lost the average gamer at "discharging the capacitor".
It is a consistent animation and easy to trigger, just ignore the hydra and continue forward. But I imagine most people don't know about it because most people will kill the hydra first, not to mention it's in a area that is not necessary to beat the game so anyone on a subsequent playthrough might just completely ignore that area.
I was talking in the context of extraction shooters. I can't think of a single extraction shooter where you could add attachments but not remove them. I've also yet to see anyone familiar with the extraction shooter genre think it's a good idea. If you think it's a good idea you're free to defend it.
I think Bungie still has experience making successful live service games, Destiny 2 has been a massive success for Bungie. The issue with Bungie is that they've forgotten how to release good games. Destiny 1 released kinda meh, but a year after launch started crawled back to being generally well received. Destiny 2 release (followed by the Curse of Osiris expansion) almost killed the studio, a year after launch started crawling back into being great and only in the last years really dropped off (when resources were pulled away from Destiny to Marathon). It feels almost like there are some head up their ass lead designers at Bungie who just won't listen to feedback and release a shitty game. Then the live team takes over the project, listen to actual feedback and fixes the stupid shit that should've been fixed the first time around.
Even with Marathon they had that event where streamers (and some other media people) got to play the game at Bungie and then Bungie asked for their feedback and when they got feedback on some really stupid things (like not being able to take off attachments from guns) they just went "We know, that's intentional". They're deliberately making design decisions that anyone with experience within the genre would instantly say "that's a bad idea". I don't know whose head needs to be pulled out of their ass but if Bungie doesn't want to release Marathon as a flop they need to do it quickly.
On a slightly different topic. I love how some people got to experience Marathon and Arc raiders in close proximity. Prior to the playtest people were cautiously optimistic about Marathon but Arc raiders evoked no emotion in anyone. And now it's more than reversed. People are praising Arc raiders and Marathon is seen as a lost cause.
Hydras can jump.
Exactly. They can charge $200 if they want to but it doesn't mean people are going to buy at that price. The price point needs to be where people are okay paying for it and I don't see it happening at $80. Okay, I lied a bit, I see it happening for some games but not for BL4.