You aren’t wrong, but you are also limited in how much money you can spend. The store that sells them updates items every so often and you can only go so far back on the offers. They also price things rather high making whaling on them rather impractical even by whale standards.

You are also able to farm everything in…

“artificial attempt at garnering interest"

So people should only roleplay in settings that match their culture and characters of their own race. Got it. Cool, cool, cool, excellent.

“It is no longer just a group of friends. It was never just a game.”

I think this is valid and fair, and I think they can also do more to incorporate more people from the marginalized group. I could also say that CR could just give and not do anything remotely touching SWANA groups and those demographics would have even less representation. I don’t think in the context of this article…

Imagine a group of allies and progressives being like “hey we want to explore some other cultures in a fun and not appropriation way so let’s hire some people to guide us on that way and present it to people” and standing on the sidelines and being like NO YOU CAN’T DO THAT!!!!

So....a solution? Sounds like you don’t want them to explore these cultural identifiers and the explorer-genre tropes. Should half the cast be fired and people you find “approved” be playing this game?

“This may seem like an overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation of what Critical Role is doing with this new campaign.”