Waypoint Podcast: Manveer Heir (Ex-BW Montreal) Talk EA Woes, Andromeda, Race, and Sexism

I’m willing to bet the reason why people told him to get bent is because he wouldn’t shut up about racial politics.

Also his shit posting on twitter didn’t help to generate good PR for the game.

If he was any other white employee tweeting the same shit, a company would drop him in that instant. I think I'll just ignore whatever he says. He's not relevant.

I hope that he doesn't live in Las Vegas. Seems like he suffers being "playful" (Ludopata in spanish).
As for "hacking", one can use the game console and the commands that comes with it (i hope that no one from EAware is checking creds account in the N7HQ anymore)

First half actually had some really descent insight into the gaming industry but the second half was just more identity politics.

if mediocrity is a foreign concept to bio drones does that mean bio drones only play good games?

Lol, yes and no.

So are you trying to imply that just because a black person grew up in a "white" community that he cannot experience similar racism as a black kid living in the ghetto?

Please read en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy

Even a Harvard professor living in a white community could not escape the racism against his skin color.

Are you trying to imply that economic conditions will dictate how much racism a person personally experiences?

Im sorry, but a white person can study racism against black people but that is not the same as living it and personally experiencing it.

One can study all they want about whats it like to br in combat and interview 1000s of war veterans. But that will never be the same as actually being in combat and having bullets fly over your head, seeing your friends die, being away from home and not knowing if you'll live to see the next day.

There are so many intangible factors that can only be known by living it, not studying it.

Yet when you compare The Witcher series vs Dragon Age or the Mass Effect series you can easily find how The Witcher series out sold either pretty easily. Even Mass Effect with 4 games included now still didn"t out sell the 3 games for TW.

Pretty damn sad right?

All this data is easy to find but if you need me to post it for proof I'll gather it all.

White people live through racism too though, which is why the issues of intersectionality sometimes baffle me because tons of forms of tribalism exist out there that permiate all over the place.

Ever been called a fat wop before for example? I'm Italian and it kind of hurts but you get over it, but the casual form of how folks sometimes use slurs or things like that is often universal.

As I said, from experience that is something that you learn around the world. I may not know how that fully feels, I may have to research such heartache, but it doesn't stop me from showing empathy to such things to better understand why that is.

Growing up I lived near a predominantly black neighborhood and on many occasions was called honky, cracka and white boy. I was jumped 3 times by 4 or more brotha's.

Does that count as living racism?

The crazy part about it was that I was really cool with half their cousins and friends but it didn't really matter. Hate comes from many colors...

First game is barely playable, i once named it one of the worst games of the past decade a while back. Poor controls are a primary reason but I also hated the character of geralt and the overall plot. It was try hard in its dialogue, dark and gritty for the sake of it vs having a purpose.

Second game had some good stuff and toned down the try hardness I described above, but what bothered me was ironically the same complaints a game liked dragon age 2 had by some, the linear structure and lack of narrative choice. I was especially dissapointed by the games ending in that regard, and while I have problems with dragon age 2s ending I got closure from it unlike the Witcher 2.

Both games also have shit combat, but at least geralt was a bit more relatable then.

I do have a lot of issue with witcher 3, but overall it was a good experience that's worth a lot of the praise. Being a benchmark of excellence...thats a bit too far for me ultinately, but I am a pretty harsh grader sometimes. Only mass effect 2 i would even put in my top ten individual games of all time from bioware, and it's one of only two "modern" games, that and fallout new vegas, that are on that list.

Eta: I should say one game I did play this year may join that list, and it's breath of the wild but i'll give it time to digest so to speak.