Comment by maxlin
5 hours ago
Forward? Sideways at best. Good game developers focus on universal appeal, but instead these kinds of features are almost always driven by activist developers who don't care what damage they do inside the team itself to push these kinds of things through, they muffle true innovation, take away bandwidth needed for more important things, and break teams.
And all that before those features and how they're pushed often making the games leave a bad taste on one's mouth, most often soiling a whole franchise.
I'm in the process of reshaping my game dev career to avoid contributing to this kind of rot. Don't mind eating noodles if that's what it takes.
Not sure what what specific claim you're making. Do you think gay romance 'soiled' Mass Effect?
>take away bandwidth needed for more important things
in a game that already has romance options, adding a same sex romance option is not taking away bandwidth. and i cannot imagine how it would "soil" an entire franchise. just don't choose the same sex romance option if you don't want to. easy.
They aren't confused about how difficult it is to avoid same sex options in game. They spelled it out clearly - they decided "mainstream appeal" should not even bring up the option and doing so is probably pressure from people they don't like ("activists").
Karens aren't misunderstanding how to mind their own business or live-and-let-live; they are trying to enforce what they see as (or wish were) social norms and don't give a damn about the perspective of the folks on the receiving end of their chirping.
You know, the neutering of same-sex romances in ME: 2 (due to an extended right media campaign), is one of the most universally decried changes, in a game that was otherwise considered an improvement on the formula
maxlin> these kinds of features are almost always driven by activist developers
Guilty as charged! I'm an activist developer who threw down the gauntlet and insisted The Sims support same sex relationships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xqyIMwbew
You must be thrilled the Saudi crown prince's sovereign wealth fund bought EA, since it's so aligned with your outdated bigoted opinions on same sex relationships. And since GamerGate was supposedly about ethics in games journalism, how do you feel about EA's new owner, whose chairman, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, approved the operation in which Saudi agents murdered and dismembered journalist Jamal Khashoggi with a bone saw?
Enjoy your noodles, but get used to them!
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