Turns out you're correct. They were calling for it to be removed and CDPR had to explain to them in a statement that it was intended for world building and demonstrating that "corporations were using people's bodies against them," whatever that means. After that, they backed off (because, ironically, they took it at face value.)
I'm not sure CDPR actually believed this statement before they had to spin the situation or if they simply had their hands full patching thousands of bugs at the time and didn't have the resources to make the art department whip out a suitable replacement so they just made up some bullshit.
In any case, their first reaction to this bit of INCLUSIVE imagery was to scream like a group of exposed nerves. I wonder if they frighten themselves when they pass by a mirror in the middle of the night.
This is funny because they did have posters and ads featuring a trans person and they bitched until it was patched out.
When did they patch it out? I remember still seeing those ads when I played very late into the game's lifecycle (I think after the Anime came out.)
Turns out you're correct. They were calling for it to be removed and CDPR had to explain to them in a statement that it was intended for world building and demonstrating that "corporations were using people's bodies against them," whatever that means. After that, they backed off (because, ironically, they took it at face value.)
I'm not sure CDPR actually believed this statement before they had to spin the situation or if they simply had their hands full patching thousands of bugs at the time and didn't have the resources to make the art department whip out a suitable replacement so they just made up some bullshit.
In any case, their first reaction to this bit of INCLUSIVE imagery was to scream like a group of exposed nerves. I wonder if they frighten themselves when they pass by a mirror in the middle of the night.