If you continue to kowtow, eventually, the only taste you will remember is dirt.
May be this is applicable to you or to me or to some dude in the street, but the common practice of big corps and names in incredible scrupulousness in any action that can turn into the bad PR paints a different picture. The gaming market grows by the day, so do the developers and publishers and they might prefer to search compromise rather than lose the media support and tons of money. There were situations when the whole markets were closed because of the agenda, the most recent is probably a complete ban on russian gaming market and displacement from most prominent distribution services. Same comes for any sensitive topic, and if Larian has a good PR team it will never allow something controversial and potentially resonant to slip through. Heh, thats why we can't kill tiefling children, btw.
And I don't even like it! It is just the order of things, which may change in the future (I hope it will), but as of now this degenerate stuff needs to be reckoned with.
Collectively, China (or at least its government) has some...odd beliefs about homosexual/bisexual relationships. Should Larian excise any potential homosexual/bisexual romance options in the hopes that their attempt sells better in that particular market?
There have been a lot of compromise done regarding the Chinese segment by many games and devs, like DotA by Valve with its changes in gory character models or Endless Legend by Amplitude with basically adding chinese as a minor faction in a fantasy game, lol. Don't see why Larian must be an exception. If they see some danger of losing sales and can do something about it, like releasing a Chinese version of the game where everyone is straight and anything else - why not? It will be just a matter of investment/reward. Same can go for the children killing matter btw, I'd like to see several options to this interaction in the end.
