Why Dustborn was funded and developed in Norway EXPLAINED

Dustborn may be one of the biggest gaming flops of all time, despite a lot of recent competition. Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws is shaping up to be a AAA flop, as gamers are flocking to Black Myth: Wukong, while Concord was just revealed to be pulled from the market - yet Dustborn, from publisher Quantic Dream and Norwegian developer Red Thread Games, is arguably performing even worse.
What may have grabbed the most attention though, is that the game was funded by foreign entities, more specially by EU bodies, and the Norwegian Film Institute.
We have been in contact with the Norwegian Film Institute, and even have some intel on the Norwegian scene, so in this video, we will break down how a game like Dustborn not only could have come out of Norway, but only could have come out of Norway.

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[markvargus]

So basically some idiot in the Norwegian government decided to get into subsidizing the gaming industry in Norway without having a "must make money with a game or be banned from receiving additional money" requirement, and allowed politics to decide what game to back rather than good business sense.

Sad thing is that this not only has resulted in games like Dustborn being made, but has likely permanently tarnished the industry in the country and the day the subsidies stop is the day the industry will die as no outside investors will risk funding a game in the country if it has a bad reputation for producing trash no one will purchase.

[thanksfernuthin]

Any concurrent player total up to 50 can be explained by reviewers, social commentators and YouTubers playing the game to do their job.

[goatlord]

On behalf of all Americans, I accept Andre's apology on behalf of all Norway.

[smackroscoe]

Being criticized for, “lack of diversity” will be a badge of honor & high quality that will be attracting gamer attention.

[RevanR]

Norwegian Government should start questionings the developer about what they did with taxpayer's money

[GIBBO]

Using “Willow’d” as an actual description for getting cancelled is that shows entire legacy!

[mariokarter]

Absolutely brilliant advertising by the government.
The protagonists are so insufferable that the police look sympathetic.

[fakenorwegian]

As an american who fluently speaks, reads, writes Norwegian and has family in Norway, I will say this. Norway in the early 90's was a paradise. Now I dread getting a ticket to go back.

[boiledliddo]

in Soviet Norway, Dustborn plays you.

[Krakrskog]

As a norwegian whos dived into indie game dev, Im so glad you bring this to light. The institute is supposed to help devs become self-sufficent, but developers like Red Thread Games are ruining it for everyone. I wish they had to owe the funds back, maybe then they'd take it more seriously.

[External]

"Wokest game every made."

Wow. 17 players. There is your modern audience.

[chadwolf]

There’s an odd contingent of people in the Nordics that are oddly obsessed with US identity politics. Remedy out of Finland has basically sacrificed its studio to the altar of left wing ideologies and it makes me sad.

[LIONREV]

Argentina had a similar problem with their Film/Culture institute, they funded a TON of shitty movies that no one saw and costed million to the tax payers, hell a lot of movies were funded but never filmed. It only stopped this year thanks to the new president Javier Milei.

[ctdosxv]

Dustbin currently has 13 players while the oldest game in my library dungeon siege has 30. And dungeon siege is from 2002. Ouch!

[funzario]

The intention of this game was not to send a message to the customer but to send a message to the gaming industry. Gaming studios can develop a game with 100 or less players and operate with a profit as long as they make what the government wishes them to do. The same pattern has been applied to theatres throughout Europe for decades, which are completly dominated by leftists and their propaganda however generating only losses and are generously funded anyway. The taxpayer will buy the game/theatre show indirectly through his taxes. They are simply distributing public money to their own.

[KennethBlum-slrx]

Can't wait for the sequels "Stillborn" and "Dumpster Fire".

[countofdownable]

Same thing that is often done for movies. Funded because of the message, not economics.

[santiago]

It's definitely not satire. One of the primary character traits of activists is they have no sense of humor, hence why everything offends them.

[somedude]

Woah what the heck is this? Actual journalism? I thought that was dead.

[pdjinne]

Turns out nobody wants to play forced DEI characters, and be LECTURED in a video-game.
Who would have thunk?
"Woke" or not, nobody cares, just make good characters, earnest art, and never lecture your audience.