If you were to pinpoint a time when would you say woke nonsense/sjw garbage creeped into gaming? I remember I used to love gaming magazines until they couldn’t shut up about diversity or women in gaming or articles saying how evil gamers were. My personal favorite are female gamers who talk about verbal abuse they get when they play online. At first I was sympathetic until I realized that verbal abuse is pretty common online.
Women can be great developers or programmers but hiring a woman for gorge sake of it is dumb. Same with men. And people get furious if you say you just want to play a game.
Main games I play now are Skyrim, Fable Deluxe, and the Sims. I’m really excited about Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield but I hope Bethesda doesn’t go crazy. Also hope next Fable game is good. Sorry for rant.
I remember sympathising with SJW-adjacent talking points as late as 2012. The original trailers for TLOU1 didn't impress me... they just seemed to be revelling in violence for impact's sake. So at that time I remember shitting on TLOU just because I felt like western gaming could be something... more, idk.
In 2013-ish I remember shitting on EA because of their development of games featuring military action, specifically their chosen marketing where they promoted the games as if they were an authentic slice of military experience. It seemed phoney and cynical as fuck.
I recall that it was really valid to say whatever you wanted until... until the press circled their wagons over gamergate. At that point, basically everything became ideological warfare. It's gamergate, bro. Probably 2014.