I know a lot of people like to shit on Asmongold but he's right on this issue...
people aren't automatically turned off by woke games. there's woke shit in multiple games that were still wildly successful. it's just that there are tons of games that are absolute hot garbage in concept/graphics/gameplay/etc. they would not be funded on their merits, so some of them ride the wave and promise wokeness for that ESG funding. this creates a bias where practically every game with wokeness is a flaming shitpile even if you take out the wokeness.
this goes back to the stanford/UCLA studies that showed affirmative action fails means testing in every way. it's sold as a solution to under-representation and reducing discriminatory views, when in reality it makes both of these worse. there's nothing worse than being forced to suffer through something that's garbage, or someone who is incompetent.
Christ, they could have still had the lezzie character, but she sure as fuck wouldn't have been advertising herself as such.
She simply would have described herself as a spinster who lives with her sister/best friend/whatever. And that would be it. Adults might know. Kids didn't need to.
And questions like "Why didn't you ever get married?" would have fallen entirely within the realm of "None of your business, stop asking rude questions, kid".
Person has a safe hand; strong IP and tested gaming system on a free-to-play means. Is worried that it might fail.
Do they know something that they aren't letting on?
Sure wokery and all of that jazz is a lovely smokescreen but what's coming up next for this barely released game?
I know a lot of people like to shit on Asmongold but he's right on this issue...
people aren't automatically turned off by woke games. there's woke shit in multiple games that were still wildly successful. it's just that there are tons of games that are absolute hot garbage in concept/graphics/gameplay/etc. they would not be funded on their merits, so some of them ride the wave and promise wokeness for that ESG funding. this creates a bias where practically every game with wokeness is a flaming shitpile even if you take out the wokeness.
this goes back to the stanford/UCLA studies that showed affirmative action fails means testing in every way. it's sold as a solution to under-representation and reducing discriminatory views, when in reality it makes both of these worse. there's nothing worse than being forced to suffer through something that's garbage, or someone who is incompetent.
Case in point, Hogwarts Legacy, commercial success, has a troon character and full of browns in 1800's Scotland.
At least you can mod the game to remove those.
Christ, they could have still had the lezzie character, but she sure as fuck wouldn't have been advertising herself as such.
She simply would have described herself as a spinster who lives with her sister/best friend/whatever. And that would be it. Adults might know. Kids didn't need to.
And questions like "Why didn't you ever get married?" would have fallen entirely within the realm of "None of your business, stop asking rude questions, kid".