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Profitability is never assured. And if you take the attitude that if "profitability isn't assured it's not worth including it", you're probably going to make the most boring, empty, uninspired, generic and forgettable games ever. And that is a far bigger reason to not buy a game than some whining about "DEI".

Any fool can play it safe and work out who the lowest common denominator is, but if you're just going to do that, what's the point? You can say it's "only if a company is at risk of liquidation", but honestly, that's always a risk, isn't it? Just look at the amount of studios that have been getting shut down left and right by the companies that owned them, sometimes even just for not being profitable enough, even when they were making profit.

I also dislike this idea that representation is simply performative. That's ridiculous. Representation is, itself, doing a lot. There are many who find themselves by seeing others like them; find the words to describe what they're feeling by seeing how those people describe themselves; feel seen and understood by seeing representations of things they're going through themselves. Even shallow representation is, at least, recognition and normalising, which is important too.

Also, it's absolutely insane in this economy to suggest "they should give 10% of each sale away". How the hell would you sell that to the powers that be? No company is going to agree to make 10% less money.

And how does that track with what you're saying here? You say they should focus on what's safely profitable, but then you say if they are including "unsafe" stuff like LGBT elements, etc, then they should also be giving away a load of their money.....Which then makes it less profitable, and pushes them, conveniently, into the "shouldn't be made because it's not profitable" territory. Which is it? At best, you're essentially suggesting a "queer tax"...