Well as the shit show known as Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition rolls on it may be coming to a bit of a close as well. Well let us start at some of the newer droppings today.
Remember the part about Chechnya in the Camarilla book that people were pissed off about. Well apparently the Chechen people are pissed off about a different spin from the same section. They seem to hate the implied idea that their country is a vampire controlled state ruled over by a Sultan.
Chechens complain on American game that depicts them as cruel vampires with Ramzan as their ‘Sultan’
The we pop over to the Anarchs book and find something new. But not unexpected when you think about it. When you get edgy shitlords to run the company then you will also get their fucked up idea that suicide is how the weak are culled from the strong.
Yeah that looks really good White Wolf. Really good.
But now it also looks like White Wolf as a production company will be going the way of the DoDo... again... for reals this time. Paradox Interactive is going to do what they do best with IPs they purchase. Pull them inside, stop all internal support and just license it all out. Basically just managing the approval process of whatever is submitted to them by the licensee. I suppose the WW logo may appear on approved material but probably not for long. Honestly you don't see the Target Games logo on the new Kult material do you?
A message from White Wolf (aka goodbye)
So the end is apparently in sight for White Wolf as a publishing house, even as a branch of a larger tree. But the people they put in charge, the lack of oversight and the overall approach to sensitive real life issues sunk the ship.
You hear people say "Get woke, go broke", well now it looks more like "Get edgy, get ended".
Well...the chapter is gone at least.
ReplyDeleteMan alive. They didn't just sink that ship, they scuttled it.
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