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Imagine being so obsessed and sucked in to whatever flavor outrage of the week, there is the need to derail not just this thread, but several others.

Read the room, our industry is in shambles and the economy is about to hardcore tank, which will further impact our industry and chances of recovery it can have. Pronouns aren't the reasons tariffs are in place starting a global trade war and threatening to jack up the price of everything, including consoles, computer hardware, stuff people need to make and play games. A black protagonist isn't the reason the number of layoffs have greatly outpaced the number of re-hires, threatening people's livelihoods, homes, families, visa status, so much so that some people have to leave the industry entirely. A woman not being pretty enough, isn't the reason people are seeing their savings and 401k tank in real time, greatly threatening whether or not they will be able to comfortably retire, if they even have anything left at all by the time this turns around. We've also seen again and again, it doesn't matter how good the game does, there will be layoffs. The corporate motive is profit by any means, and we're all numbers on a spreadsheet when they decide cuts need to be made.

If you're getting sucked into this culture war nonsense, please go touch grass, read a book, do some life drawings, interact with some people in real life, remember what real people look like, how there is so much variation to humanity and we need to step outside of our own bubble sometimes. I cannot imagine asking for a very narrow definition of what games and game characters should look like that is completely safe, a cookie-cutter proven formula. That sounds so boring and limiting, and quite frankly absurd.

God's sake, NikhilR, grind your axe somewhere else, yeah?

Veilguard didn't do well because it was always going to be a mess when it had been in development hell for so long and famously turned sharply on the fundamentals of what kind of game it was going to be partway through, came out in a year when the economy was already in the shit, and in a year where people had already been burned multiple times by big releases turning out to be mediocre.

How do you think chucking 10 cents per sale to an LGBT organisation would have changed anything? Do you think the average player even gives a single thought to where the money would go if they bought a game?

If I were SBI, I'd have blocked you, too. You're just another randomer with "concerns" in a sea of randomers with "concerns" that just so happen to always be pointed at any media that dares gives PoC, LGBT people or gender nonconforming people the slightest light of day.

Honestly, it makes me cringe to see these losers aggrandised, whether it's self-aggrandisement or by people like you. They're not powerful, they're just noisy and bigoted. Studios are struggling for far, far more impactful reasons than the fact that some whiny manchildren don't want to buy their games because women/gay/whatever the hell they want to pretend is a problem this week.