Oh, calm down. You’re complaining about things you don’t understand.
Haha, for reals though. Fiction games, regardless of where they are based are still fiction. I doubt majority of the player base is going to be disillusioned because they saw a brown person walking around.
It also got bad press for perpetuating the myth of an ethnically homogenous, hermetically sealed medieval world that never existed.
Setting the question of boycots aside, Ghibli’s animation takes place in lots of different locations, both real and fantastical.
I think you got the whole concept of the discussion on the Witcher and diversity wrong. The Witcher 3 didn’t “get press” for not having black people in it. It got critiqued for being another game focused on European themes. It didn’t even get bad press, it got a “hey this game is cool, but when are we going to see a X…
I think that “equality warriors,” as you call them, have about as much common sense as anyone else. But in many cases advocates for racial representation are so used to being dismissed out of hand that they strategically put broad principles above specific cases. It makes political sense in the long view, where the…