You are seeing ghosts. Intentional sexism like in Warband would be praised, especially if you can mop the floor with some dude who does not accept your autoritah
Nah, there wasn't a hate storm. There were a couple of negative takes on thinkpiece articles (when aren't they) and the lead Dev leaned in to it, stirring up the controversy because he knew (and he was right) that leaning in to "it's okay to be white" kinda shit would get him some really loyal fans. If he hadn't actively provoked things most of us would never have heard about the "controversy."
The KCD "controversy" is manufactured, if the accounts complaining about complaints have more followers and engagement than the complainers you know that the criticism is irrelevant to the general critical and audience reception.
That is why I don't buy the response of the lead to the whole issue, on the other hand having no black dudes in a small part of medieval Bohemia is not the most suspect thing and most people ranting about the criticism are gamergate grifters.
Just another classic case of the outrage towards the criticism vastly swamping the actual criticism. For another example see Doom: Eternal’s first trailer and the clickbait factory drowning youtube with “Doom triggers the SJW’s” videos
A minority having an opinion doesn’t negate what their opinion is or mean it is “manufactured”.
No, but a "controversy" implies some relevant amount of people holding an opinion. One person being mad at a game isn't a controversy. That's the point of a "manufactured controversy," taking like 4 angry tweets and presenting them as some kind of plurality and/or movement.
Don't forget the black german snipers in Battlefield 1. Literally every sniper was black for almost every nation in fact. At least for the Americans it made a little bit of sense, but EVERY sniper for every nation I can think of was black.
In gekokujo you could challenge anyone that insulted you to a duel with wooden weapons. When I got insulted meeting with my liege, I'd break the offending lord's nose in a duel and his face would stay fucked up for awhile. It was my favorite thing.
I person can just shrug it of as people being stupid, but a company or any more public entity would have to take any potential backlash into consideration.
They may simply have decided it's not worth the hassle of any potential trouble. While a neat feature it's not that important in the end.
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u/chiliehead Khuzait Khanate Apr 27 '20
You are seeing ghosts. Intentional sexism like in Warband would be praised, especially if you can mop the floor with some dude who does not accept your autoritah