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I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Then again I'm a fan of Tropico 4, a game in which you play as the dictator of small banana republic.

It's a game in which you can:

Legalise same-sex marriage (pleases the Intellectual faction and helps if you have problems with providing sufficient housing - apparently only people who are married can share an apartment in Tropico)

Outlaw contraceptives (pleases the Religious faction and improves population growth)

Institute martial law (pleases the Militarist faction)

Commit voter fraud or outright ban elections (pleases the Loyalists)

Randomly murder foreign immigrants (pleases the Nationalists)

And the list goes on.

Now, granted, Tropico 4 is a city-builder game, so everything is a lot less personal and always played for (sometimes dark) humour. But I still wouldn't call it offensive. You play as a dictator (admittedly, a potentially benevolent one). This is the sort of thing dictators do.

To shy away from it is to deny reality. And... well... gaming will never grow as a medium if all it wants to be is nice, safe, escapist fantasy.

'Course, I'm not saying Dragon Commander should be some significant Art Game or whatever (unless you want it to be, it's your game), but to make it completely toothless because you're afraid of what people might think? No. That does not sound like the right thing to do.


And that turned out a bit more rambling and incoherent than it sounded in my head. But I'm sticking with it.


EDIT BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO DOUBLE POST: Just out of curiosity, what was that bland, inoffensive first batch of political suggestions anyway?

Also, I think you got deaththreats over Ego Draconis' ending not just because it was abrupt, but also because it was a huge middle finger to the player, totally out of line with the tone of the rest of the game and improperly foreshadowed (until the very last fight, maybe).