A survey by the GDC claims that 25% of American game developers identify as LGBTQ. For devs age 18-24, this figure jumps to 43%.
Read that again. Almost half of young American game developers are LGBTQ.
33% of American game devs identify as female or non-binary. This number is up from 25% in 2022. That’s an 8% shift in just two years.
https://www.thegamer.com/women-lgbtq-now-make-up-32-percent-of-all-game-developers-gdc/
From the article:
35 percent of all respondents were white, male, and not part of the LGBTQ+ community. It shows that while strides have been made to diversify the industry, there is still a little way to go
“Perfect diversity” will only be achieved when straight white men are gone.
Western game dev is just super feminine, super gay, and blatantly anti-white. That’s it. That’s the whole issue. It’s a traditionally male industry being overrun by lefty gays, trannies, and feminists while their customers are still very white, very straight, very male, and at least as conservative as the general population. You really don’t have to look any further than that to explain the ongoing conflict between devs and players in western gaming.
This ideological and cultural disconnect is the inevitable result of an engineered demographic shift in game dev. The people who are now in charge of making video games actively despise the demographics comprising most of the people who actually play video games. It’s completely untenable and unsustainable.
It’s too bad they weren’t stupid enough to collect overt political data. With what we know about correlations between ideology and identity, what percentage of game devs must be literal communists?
The echo chamber proves why they literally can't make games to appeal to the general audience. They literally don't know anything about the lives of their general audience.
I'm not someone who thinks that you can only write things you physically are (no man can write any woman, no woman can write any man), but you're talking about a group of people that, for example, are men that literally aren't attracted to women. By definition, if you have 6 exclusively gay men in a room, how the hell would they know anything about (for example) romance, or relationships. Yes, they could read good work, but they've already proven over the past several years that they are unwilling to read, and many think older works are "Fascist", "Misogyny", "Racist", "Transphobic", "False Consciousness", etc. So, now that literally no one there understands basic human interaction outside of their ideological echo-chamber, nor do they have any references to it, then how the hell can we expect them to write any work that isn't exclusively for themselves.
I warned about this with Forza Horizon 4. The game was basically exclusively for Southern California. The setting was "Cochella, but cars", and every character in the game was a Southern California hipster. They were already blindingly isolated by culture and ideology. If you isolate them out by demographics, really the only choice is to simply reject all game development from unfiltered developers.