As someone who's on the fence but leaning against buying this particular game I agree that buying something just to spite the left is retarded, especially in a case like this where you're really just siding with one evil faction over the other. That said it's absolutely legitimate to treat leftist outrage as positive advertising and look into it. I've done that in the past and made purchases after becoming interested for reasons other than the outrage. I probably never would have gotten into the Red Dead series had it not been for the Shirrako incident on Youtube.
I don't disagree, but treating that as the only selling point for you is the problem I'm seeing a lot of people go through with.
Looking into it more to make a strong decision for yourself is how any consumer should be, but most people are letting their enemies control them through reflexive opposition. Which we are already seeing the "weaponized" version of being deliberately used in marketing in minor ways, which means it absolutely will soon be overtly used.
As someone who's on the fence but leaning against buying this particular game I agree that buying something just to spite the left is retarded, especially in a case like this where you're really just siding with one evil faction over the other. That said it's absolutely legitimate to treat leftist outrage as positive advertising and look into it. I've done that in the past and made purchases after becoming interested for reasons other than the outrage. I probably never would have gotten into the Red Dead series had it not been for the Shirrako incident on Youtube.
I don't disagree, but treating that as the only selling point for you is the problem I'm seeing a lot of people go through with.
Looking into it more to make a strong decision for yourself is how any consumer should be, but most people are letting their enemies control them through reflexive opposition. Which we are already seeing the "weaponized" version of being deliberately used in marketing in minor ways, which means it absolutely will soon be overtly used.