This is why I don't try many new games. Back to the usual again. At least this shit didn't cost me anything.
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So far I don't see any virtue signaling in Path of Exile.
The Ranger class is an obvious dyke and has some anti-male voice lines but there are only a couple during the story part that aren't repeated in the much larger endgame.
Also its free with almost no in-game ads for the cosmetics (one announcement line in the chat every few hours). The initial stash size is plenty to get a single toon through to the endgame.
Strongly suggest using a build guide unless you are cool with learning by failing and throwing away unviable toons that you dumped 10s of hours into.
There is a tiny bit of it, and there was the colossal fuckup that was replacing the HUD due to screaming of the usual types back at the height of Tracer's Butt-gate. Thankfully they put it mostly back later with kind of a refreshing "fuck you this is better" vibe.
Basically was two slaves chained up, and that was female exploitation or something. They changed it to two SUPER generic images of a skull and a lion. Then later changed it to the twin-goddesses of the Sun and Moon, in poses reminiscent of the original slaves, but not chained up now. It was absolutely a censorship move, later mildly undone with something that wasn't a slap-job, but it's still very stupid the reasoning behind it all. One person complained on the forum. Just like with Tracer in Overwatch.
Original: https://www.keenandgraev.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PoE_Duelist_and_Hud.png
The hasty replace: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LjzkHljX63Y/maxresdefault.jpg
The current: https://imgur.com/6h7naqG
The dialog lines do give you some hope for humanity though, there's very little of the expected politics you get from most other games. I especially like the dialog differences based on your character that lend personality to your character choice rather than just a skin you're wearing. My main complaint is that the characters are all variously ugly with some very rare exceptions. I wouldn't mind a slightly more attractive cast, haha.
You forgot the part where they rewrote scion from "What the fuck is going on?" to "Men, amirite?"
Scion sounds like a sitcom housewife. She literally complains the horrific undead Frankenstein Monster reminds her of her ex-husband, in a "eeeh? Eeeeeh? Amirite ladies? Bazunga!" tone of voice.
It makes me so sad. She had such good dialogue. At least the wiki still has all her old lines. I should dig through the files to see if they're still in there, sometime.