I. Was just going back to when I first noticed craziness in video games and it centered around women in gaming but you are right. At the end of the day they just want to make games to piss people off and they hate the concept of escapism

Gotta love the “own the chuds” mindset

Obsidian is owned by Microsoft and they have to adhere to SJW dogmatic checklist with questions like:

What steps have you taken to ensure characters are represented respectfully and authentically?

Are you reinforcing any negative gender stereotypes?

Are you unnecessarily introducing gender & gender barriers into your code or design?

Are you creating playable female characters that are equal in skill and ability to their male peers?

Are your female characters equipped with clothing and armor that fits their tasks?

Do they have exaggerated body proportions?

Yea, they know people don't like it but it's their ideology and it HAS to be forced down our throats.

Case in point: Microsoft put a review embargo ON THE CHARACTER CREATION.

You can trap a raccoon by putting food inside a box with a hole big enough for the raccoon to reach inside and grab it, but too big to pull its hand out once it's grabbed the bait. You can return later and kill it however you like because the animal will refuse to let go of the food, even to save its own life.

Leftists are doing the cultural and political version of this.

TL;DR: Devs have decided to make what they want to enforce, while I have decided to buy what I want to buy. These two things are very different. Maybe they'll understand some day.

There are already more games than I could ever play created before the year began with a 2. They're too late to sway opinions with their bullshit, especially when it's petty vengeful idiocy.

My issue is one of both gratitude, and one of caution.

Gratitude because now I know never to buy anything with his name attached to it. That should save some money.

But also caution.

A lot of people were really hoping for, as some have called it, Skyblivion. I know that's asking for the moon, but people were expecting that. Because everything we know about it so far it's basically a smaller scale Skyrim without dragons, if it had been done by Obsidian.

The pronouns are off putting to some because it seems nonsensical to them. But when you double down and claim your whole goal was to piss off people with the inclusion of them, it completely changes intent.

You go from trying to be helpful and inclusive to some, and be reactionary and offensive with it instead. Which proves you don't care at all about the thing you're adding unless it annoys certain people.

Which can be completely avoided by avoiding Avowed. (whew, that was hard to type with all them a words. Had to triple check spelling)

Case in point, Starfield has pronouns. Not exactly a great game, but the pronouns literally matter nothing outside of the character creator. They were an after thought, hoping to hit as many DEI points as possible.

It contributed nothing to the story or gameplay outside of character creation. Other than it's inclusion, it was a non issue. I didn't see any community managers or developers doubling down and attacking naysayers about it, but I did see journalists do it.

But when you attack me for not liking your idea, it's not going to make me, or other people for that matter, want to buy your game.

All that does is push people away, while earning nothing.

So yes, please, continue being the cautionary tale of showing people your hand while you play poker with them, I'm sure you'll win.

They undermined their entire setting and created a situation that doesn't actually make any sense specifically because they're faggot californian atheist devs who just couldn't stop tipping their fedoras euphorically for long enough to actually allow an honest introspection into the very world they created.