All hail our CCP overlords? The shop reset has come and gone, still no virtue signals.
A new female skin has come out though. Probably just a coincidence, or they would have said something on Twitter or on the item page. Another piss-poor reskin that nobody asked for.
3 Years, No Virtue Signals!
Among Us was close, but they did tweet it on the developer account. They also told us three of the five people working on the game are female. (Sidenote, is the reason that game became popular because women made it? Maybe it was astroturfed the whole time.)
Xbox went so far with the virtue signals. Honestly concerning, especially when Soyny dialled it back.
You're right that it was to appease employees. They got significant numbers of threats to quit if St Floyd wasn't honored.
Unfortunately, one of their responses was to create a diversity board. Now that they've paid him the Dane-geld, they'll never get rid of the Dane. It'll take some time before the infestation becomes lethal, though.
They should have just let those people quit. If I blackmailed somewhere I worked into refusing to acknowledge women's day, I'd be fired!
Maybe that board got shuffled off to Rocket League when that got bought up, because that game went so woke it gave the likes of EA a run for their money. Of course, the subversion will eventually get Fortnite, but I won't forget that they were one of the last holdouts.
I agree with you, but it's not an easy time when dozens of your mid level developers, AKA the guys who do most of the creative work, all quit at once. They miscalculated the long term costs of people like me quitting or not joining, while the activistic people leave anyway for woker ventures.