I kind of hate gamers.

Speaking of them making promises. Did you guys see the gamasutra interview where theyre promising to remove gender barriers in character creation to give more control to the player over the gender identity of their character? Whether that be trans or non-binary. Im glad theyre committing strong to doing something more…

I’ll actually open about this and the answer is that it became a news story once someone from the company responded. By itself, I don’t know if one image from a screenshot merits an article. (Scope of player response would likely be the metric for determining newsworthiness there. But once the artist—who works at one…

Respect to you but I’m not gonna thread back and forth on much. I have work to do. ;p

We can, but it’ll be -5 to your humanity point total because of the nano-injections.

You’re right. But CD Projekt Red has been called out for some troubling stances on race and transmisogyny before. We can hope that this is some incisive and cutting cultural commentary, but asking these questions is valid given CDPR’s past mistakes. I like CDPR, and I want to love this game, and putting pressure on…

I think it’s a ‘death by a thousand cuts’ thing. Combined with the blatant stereotypes folks previewing the game have called out and their history of anti-trans messaging (purposeful or not) folks assumed the worse.

I think it gets complicated by the company’s context of botching so much of social media and some of the rumblings from the show floor about how this latest demo was handling race. That’s a problem with the genre as a whole, but it doesn’t sound like 2077 is approaching that sort of thing with the greatest sense of…

There’s nothing to question yet when they haven’t announced this yet, but after talking to some folks in the know after this post went live, I can assure you that it’s real - Larian is making Baldur’s Gate 3. And as soon as I have the chance, I’ll be asking them these questions and many more.

Nice to see the comments already filled with people who don’t understand why unions are important or how workplace demos work and are instead already out here speaking nonsense.

Forced arbitration blatantly disregards due process and should be illegal.

If Japan could just A, have sexual themes in their games that didn’t feel like they were written by horny 13 year olds and B, stop sexualizing kids and flirting with the pedo audience, I will never say a bad thing about them again.

Sounds like my experience with Danganronpa. It’s great... but it sexualizes high school kids to a degree I don’t like, and even asks you to ogle at a girl who explicitly tells you to stop looking whenever she falls down and her skirt flips up.

I am in no way defending these choices, but is this one of your first visual novels? I feel as if you can count on almost every A+ popular visual novel being overly perverted/sexual and also sexualizing minors. Even Phoenix Wright does it with Pearl Fey.

I’d rather have unions and games take twice as long to make tbh

Expand your horizons...Play it and have fun. I’ve played D&D since third grade and ran out and bought the oriental (cringe) adventures supplement when i was a kid and didn’t feel the need to be of Asian decent.

Other than Frostbite, Bioware seemed to be their own biggest enemy on this one.

Don’t get me wrong, EA sucks, but from reading the article, this really doesn’t seem like EA’s fault. EA set a hard deadline, but it really seems like the problem was a lack of leadership within BioWare.

Oooooh, excited to see all the Freeze Peach rape apologists come out of the woodwork for this one. One of them just called me the N-word in the other thread. It’s been fun.

It’s not that it’s *about* rape. A game confronting the realities of sexual violence would be acceptable. It’s the way this game seemed to casually glorify it and make rape the goal.