Originally Posted by Zerubbabel
However, I would like to say no one is forced to play games with different political values than their own, or with values they don't like. There are plenty of games out there, and if something is a dealbreaker, it is advisable to go play a different game, rather than put down artists for incorporating their own views into their work. While games are mass-consumed products, they are also art pieces, complete with an expression of self. Now, that self may be 400 selves, but it's still a perspective of its own, with a legitimacy to its views in its own way.

Well that is all well and good to say, but I would note that there is a very large divergence between the sensibilities of almost any large media organisation (of which game devs are a subset) and what views are actually popular amongst the public. Try finding a game which reflects what most people think about the death penalty, trans issues, immigration etc. You would be hard pressed to find a steelman representation of such positions, never mind a game which was genuinely sympathetic to them. For all large modern corporations purport to care about diversity, its diversity of identity, not of viewpoint, that they are focussed on.

Last edited by Randy McStud; 11/09/23 05:26 PM.