The games are examples only, I’m asking in the general sense and even beyond games into movies or books or whatever - where do you draw the line?
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Vavra, independent studio owner who supported GG in 2014, is not Vavra, employee of Embracer Group in 2025. He sold out; something which deserves shame, not support.
KCD I is on my wishlist; KCD II isn't.
Like I said, I'm not supporting what you call 'selling out'. I support civil and respectful criticism. His record entitles him at least to that.
Also, it's the way to actually accomplish things. Unless you have the power to crush this company, as was done with Bud Light, or seriously hurt them, the only way you can go about it is to persuade people of the error of their ways. The way to accomplish that is not by yelling at people and making such accusations, even if you think they are accurate, but to criticize civilly.
Vavra's recent escapades on X / Twitter should tell you what he's become and what he stands for now.
He insists that he has complete creative control of KDC2 - which means turning Henry bisexual, despite him being canonically straight in KCD1, was his decision. As was adding in the obnoxious Musa character, despite earlier claiming "there were no blacks in medieval Bohemia. Period."
When questioned about the gay romance scenes, he was initially very evasive about giving answers (likely because he knew what the reaction would be) before finally having to come clean after it started blowing up.
And he also played 'semantics', denying claims of the game being banned in Saudi Arabia because of un-skippable gay romance scenes - while it was true that the scenes were skippable, the game was in fact banned there, proving the substance of the claims were correct in the first place.
He claims the game is all about player choice, but that choice is conspicuously absent when it comes to defending the Jews in Kuttenberg.
He has continually lashed out at multiple people on X / Twitter for questioning any of this, somewhat ironically including Youtubers who were actually defending his game.
In other words, he has repeatedly demonstrated that he's not willing to engage in any type of constructive criticism about his game - he has shown that any criticism, constructive or not, is to be attacked.
He is, in my opinion, at best either a liar or a hypocrite. For someone who once proudly posted himself wearing a t-shirt saying "based", his recent actions have demonstrated him to be anything but that.
Regarding the game itself, at the end of the day, it all comes down to your tolerance of woke content in games.
But regardless of whether you think the game is woke, diet woke, or not woke at all, once these things are in a game, history has shown they are here to stay. Expect KCD3 to have all this and more.
Finally, I would also add that I find it very interesting that the coverage from games "journalists" for KCD2 has been overwhelmingly positive - which is in stark contrast to the coverage for KCD1, where it was condemned almost universally. And this is despite KCD2 being functionally the same as KCD1 for the most part, albeit with better graphics and less janky gameplay. This possibly the most telling thing about the game being woke in my opinion.