In an era of D&D where in-universe descriptions of Orcs are considered problematic and WotC will revise material to make their pastiche of Gothic Horror's gypsy stand-ins less stereotypical . What are the chances the big main stream game is going go this deep on race?
There are people who don't even like the word 'race' being used to describe the different...races. I couldn't think of an alternative.
I remember watching a recent review or recap of Baldur's Gate II, which does have gender and race gates, that called it problematic by modern standards, but I don't really know what the general feeling on this is. And to be fair if there's anyone replaying Baldur's Gate today, they're probably modding around that if they want to.
Species? That sounds too broad.
I hope that everything will be fine because Larian is not an American developer, which really matters. Otherwise, we would have already received the Witcher by Netflix. I mean, for some universes, races and relationships between them, even negative ones, are part of the story, part of the plot, and that's how it should be. There was a lot of racism in the original Witcher, and that's part of the plot. You can't cut out some historical part of the universe just because it is "offensive" to someone.
I don't see a problem with word "race"... If someone sees this as a problem, then it's their problem, not content problem. But I do not know why you bring up this post here. We've talked about this only in romance context.
