It's really hard to start a post like this, so I'll just jump into it.
The reason why companies keep lurching to the left cannot be solely some grand elite agenda, because there's no way somebody invited Devolver Digital or some of the other low-tier names that went hard left to the supposed Great Reset meetings.
So why do they do it? Simple. We have short memories, accept apologies too easily and don't double down. They, on the other hand, have the MeToo movement to cancel people who cross them, they boycott effectively and easily due to a lack of targets and they always remember trivial details of when and how people stepped over their line.
Look at the thread about the Five Nights at Freddie's guy, his politics wasn't openly stated, but they tracked down his beliefs and went to war.
I know people are going to say "Why should we take a lecture from someone who buys from CCP-owned Epic Games", but attacking me doesn't make this shit less true.
We need clear red lines. We need an actual maintained and permanent list of companies that crossed us. I made the Female Supremacy Day Shame List 2021, but that's just a start, and I'm sure people disagree with me attacking even the most basic gestures towards that movement as unforgivable, so I don't believe I'd be the best person to be managing the actual list.
Recent good examples of not doubling down include:
Monster Hunter Rise [removed gender/voice ties for ResetEra]
Phantasy Star 2 (both the new & old game) [fully pushed gender removal and virtue signaled about it]
Guilty Gear Strive [Daisuke admitted to dumping the old player base and changing character designs for Sony (made I-NO more “obedient”)].
I like talking to a good portion of you, but you people very rarely speak with your wallet/purse and you make excuses for buying woke-influenced products. Guilty Gear Strive is a #1 PC seller this week and I know a bunch of anti-wokes shilling for the game DESPITE knowing about the bent knee. Why would they appeal to you if you’re going to buy the game anyway?
Look at these numbers.
https://steamcharts.com/app/1384160
My guess is all of these people are buying it for the good quality rollback netcode.
As you probably know, very few Japanese fighting games have good rollback netcode.
As someone who wants a good fighting game with a large playerbase and good rollback netcode, there are very few options that satisfy these conditions. With this mind, I can see why people bought GG Strive.
Even though the netcode seems tempting, I personally don't want to reward censorship.
I hope they update DB FighterZ with rollback netcode.
They’re buying it for lots of reasons. Some because they support the Westernization, some for the netcode, others for the music.
Here’s the thing, if you help support this entry, you’re dooming lots of future games to wokeism and casualization. It’s not worth it just for some netcode (this is coming from some who plays with 12-frame delay sometimes) You have to fight the FOMO.
I’m not trying to agitate you, but after seeing it happen time and time again, I just know that the wokies have much more buying principles than the majority of us do.
I personally won't be buying Strive as I don't want to reward censorship.
Still I would be lying if I didn't say that the rollback netcode is a pretty tempting reason to consider getting the game.