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You can’t really gauge its Steam reviews because there are only 13(!) total so far, reflective of a game that has launched with just a few hundred players. 224, as I’m writing this article. Sub-Concord levels. Yes. Concord is a unit of measurement now.

The Concord legacy lives on.

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[–] PunchingWood -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It means exactly what DEI is. So yeah, predominantly focusing on non-white people and non-straight people.

They are a studio that consults on specifically this in games they're collaborating with.

[–] ampersandrew 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are contract writers for hire, and you have been misled, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the YouTubers you follow. Both Sweet Baby and their clients have denied this interpretation of what they do.

[–] PunchingWood 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not sure what I'm being misled over? It literally says on Wikipedia as well:

Sweet Baby Inc. is a Canadian narrative development and consultation studio based in Montreal. Founded by former Ubisoft developers, including scriptwriter Kim Belair and product manager David Bédard, the company consults on video game narratives during development to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within game narratives and studios.

Also, in every game they've worked on it's quite obvious which part they've been involved with, based on the above.

But people on this sub really just like to keep shooting the messenger huh 🙄

[–] ampersandrew 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You know that in the wake of Suicide Squad and Saga from Alan Wake II, they stated quite clearly that what was "obviously" their contributions were totally wrong, with Remedy confirming on their end? It may not be inaccurate to state that sensitivity reading or consulting for authenticity when writing diverse characters are services that they offer, but their contributions to each game are not itemized. It's like when a bad port happens and people see Iron Galaxy in the credits, they want to see this pattern of Iron Galaxy being responsible rather than and then throw out any evidence of Iron Galaxy actually being a really good port studio. I get that you want to form patterns of why something you perceive to be wrong is happening, but the truth is that these companies' contributions are not itemized, because video games work more like a traditional business than Hollywood, and it's no one's policy to break out which work was done by a contractor versus in-house, so you'll actually never know. Instead, Endymion, or whoever it is you watch that picked up on the week's trending rage bait topic, cosplays as a journalist and infers a whole lot of what Sweet Baby does that they just didn't do, whereas an actual journalist would get quotes from sources to confirm that it's true.