Actualy ... if there is anyone who knows how much time people spend creating their first characters, its Larian since they are gathering our data.
fair enough, but they never said quickly created characters were filtered out
or maybe... just maayyyybee...... it was a joke and had absolutely no political intentions behind it whatsoever.
it was so clearly meant to be a tongue in cheek joke
Oh I don't disagree it was put in a jokingly manner, that is quite obvious - I too do this to soften the blow when I have criticism of something to someone I'm not comfortable enough to be straightforward with. The way the whole thing is written sounds like that, a cheerful way of saying "really guys?", or something along those lines (at least the way I interpret it). Because it makes sense! They worked hard on a character creator that is way more in-depth than your average CRPG, hell, probably more so than most games period... I would probably also be deflated if people weren't appreciating it as much - but again, it's ok if that's how people chose to play.
this happen a year or more ago
Yeah as I said, we don't get those updates on GOG (I think the platform doesn't have that sort of dev posts available, like steam) so I only learned of this yesterday.
It has not impcated their design philosophy in any way we can identify
Yup, I'm glad I can agree with you there! But as I said, it sure made me fear that it ~could~, and that's why I came here.
From rest of that post you seem like one of those people who is bothered by this trend ... have you ever concidered that seeing it behind every mention of simmilar topic is part of the problem?
I agree that you can only see it if you have been exposed to it enough, but I don't think engaging in the game that has been set for us to play is worst than not playing, as much as I wish I didn't have to. If everybody was on board that it's ok to joke about any group of people, it'd be fine - but that's not the case. It becomes unhealthy when it is only socially acceptable to publicly criticize/joke about one group of people, there are spooky historical precedents for that kind of thing, so it falls to people like me to be the guy who has to point that out. Ideally we wouldn't be in this position, but I sure didn't have a say on that and all I can do is play with the cards I've been given.
But again, thankfully I haven't seen any of that seep into the game, I just would really like for it to stay like that.
