More games and options is better....but fuck if it has characters or a story you don't like right? That'd be woke shit right. What if it was an all man game where golfers just looked at each other's cocks...that's not woke right?
Options for me but not for thee.
Expected.
If he wants to make gay porn games, go right a head. I am sure there is a market for that. As long as they don't pollute existing mainline IP (like making Solid Snake live up to his name), although this would probably be fine in the XXX section of steam or something. I wouldn't call that woke, no.
Using the Solid Snake example, Making MGS3 remake or mainline MGS6 and having Snake be bisexual or gay so he falls in line with ESG/DEI quotas, that would be woke as it's a mainline already existing game and character and it is changing the characters existence to appease the fan-fic desires of era/reddit, while simultaneously pissing off the existing fanbase.
If it's original IP, then go ahead. Make whatever, and it will be judged appropriately. No one has issues with fringe games, or tailored games. We (as in people against the woke infection) have problems with people coming in and changing existing characters or storylines to fit their worldview instead of going with the lore. Or using attractive models and making them unattractive or manly or both.
Gaming is large enough to have many stories told by people of all walks of life. The problem is when it changes existing franchises to appease a group of people or agenda (feminism, intersectionality, dei, etc..) instead of making a game for the existing audience.
As for games that are targeted to small groups of people, I honestly don't think it would be a problem at all if those games existed, but when they take out all semblance of sexiness and edge from existing games, add weird stuff in that wasn't with the series previously, and make everything a live service gaas game, people get pissed and are tired of the agenda changing/pushing. Especially when 95% of western studios are doing this and now pushing Eastern studios to do that too. If this was ps3 or early ps4 era, those style new ip games would of just been ignored by people that they don't appeal to, but now the backlash is in full swing.
Anita Sarkesian then others and SBI types of consulting have done a ton of damage and gamers are rightfully on edge with every new release. We as gamers recognize patterns, it's in our makeup to do so. We are trained to do so through games themselves.
This is where someone like Elon Musk or other investors come in. If there is a course correction, there is room for both style of games. Right now though all studios on western shores are pushing one direction and removing things hetero men (and many lesbians/bi sexuals, I would assume) like. Making all women ugly and the same androgenous form. That's not even getting into the race swapping, self inserting, preaching about the patriarchy or a bunch of other things that were never in these games before. Some even stating that "they know the player base will hate it but we are going to do it anyway"
With money pushing for classic non woke game design we can have equilibrium. Until then I expect a lot more flops, and studio closures. That is not good for anyone.
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