They come across like classic midwits to me at best and probably think they can play both sides and all of us know that never works with the left. Either they're going to get smart and start acting like a proper business and boot any of the weirdos out who start getting angsty over them selling fan service and silliness in their games because that's what sells in RPGs or they do what every dev does and cower in the face of negative articles being written about them and people who don't buy video games getting angry at them. Catering to these perpetually angry political factions never works, doesn't matter which side they're on because nothing will ever be good enough.
I don't think that's possible. The press pressure helps, but the reason companies go this way is they hire people who genuinely ARE activists and think this way. These people push their ideas, and everyone around them doesn't want to be rude to them, so it just escalates from there. The call is always coming from inside the building to some extent. You have to really scourge these people out and make them unfeel unwelcome, or they take over. By the time it reaches the point that it is visible in character creation and "male/female" sliders being unacceptable, the fight is already over.
They come across like classic midwits to me at best and probably think they can play both sides and all of us know that never works with the left. Either they're going to get smart and start acting like a proper business and boot any of the weirdos out who start getting angsty over them selling fan service and silliness in their games because that's what sells in RPGs or they do what every dev does and cower in the face of negative articles being written about them and people who don't buy video games getting angry at them. Catering to these perpetually angry political factions never works, doesn't matter which side they're on because nothing will ever be good enough.
I don't think that's possible. The press pressure helps, but the reason companies go this way is they hire people who genuinely ARE activists and think this way. These people push their ideas, and everyone around them doesn't want to be rude to them, so it just escalates from there. The call is always coming from inside the building to some extent. You have to really scourge these people out and make them unfeel unwelcome, or they take over. By the time it reaches the point that it is visible in character creation and "male/female" sliders being unacceptable, the fight is already over.
Oh yeah, preaching to the choir on that one.