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Starfield and BG3 aren't being boycotted. Those are just empty threats. Remember all the other times people said they were going to boycott their favorite games, and actually did it? Neither do I.
I remember back in 2016 conservatives screaming they were going to boycott Hamilton because of the cast making an appeal to Pence at final curtain, and people laughing hysterically at them because back then, there was no way any of them claiming they were going to boycott would have been able to get tickets in the first place.
They also proclaimed that they were boycotting the Star Wars sequels and claimed that they would tank at the box office thanks to the boycott. Instead the films did really well.
(I have my problems with those movies due to the plot, but having a woman main character and a black main character wasn't an issue for me.)
Ironically I think a lot of problems with those movies, particularly the last one, is they actually listened to the screeching conservatives and minimized Finn and Rose.
That, and J J Abrams can't write an original script for the life of him.
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You can be whoever you want in Balders gate 3 (genitals included) yet Starfield crosses the line?
Tbf most conservatives probably haven't played BG3 or know much of anything about it/forgotten realms. They aren't exactly the target audience
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I wasn't really interested in Starfield...until now. Let's play Starfield.
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I feel like this whole pronouns in starfield thing is actually astroturf to draw attention away from Bethesda being evil and abusive to trans people who worked for them. Plus it drowns out any news about the game's actual qualities or merits, which like all Bethesda games at launch, seems to be lacking.
There's so many reasons to be actually mad at so many things, and all this culture war bullshit is deliberate smoke to keep people running in circles.
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I mean, liberals boycotted Hogwarts Legacy because of J.K. Rowling (which was not even involved in the development). It seems to me that people just like boycotting stuff in general
Conservatives lost their shit over one beer can being sent to a trans streamer and en mass posted memes of them blowing up and shooting their beer.
Honestly at this point I think we can just leave the bunch of the bigoted whiners behind and stop giving a shit that they are unhappy. Giving someone the option to play a trans character in a videogame is just giving all players more options on how to experience the game. If you decide to not take the option meant to be someone else's yum then it's not gunna impact your gameplay aside from checking a box at the beginning of the game around the same time you are deciding the exact slope of your nose.
It's like when people find themselves unreasonably annoyed that a vegan option is available on a menu. Why the hell should anyone give a damn that you're unhappy with food you ain't gunna eat when you can order whatever you like?
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You can go as cis-conservative as you want with your pronouns in the game. No-one is forcing those conservatives to give in to their innermost desires.
The temptation is sinful to them in the same way that their murders and violence are righteous.
They don't realize the God they worship is Mammon.
thats has the same energy as the people who think pretty much anything can turn someone gay
I'm convinced anyone that thinks (insert item here) can turn people gay are just closeted gay people who are afraid to come out cause their politics are more important than their happiness.
This is nothing new. Why do you think they make such a big deal about sexuality being a choice? Because for them, it is.
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I just wish it was a better game they were cutting off their nose to spite their face with.
No they aren't
But wouldn't it be great it they did? I could start playing games online again.
This will pair eell with their botcott of reality.
It's a single prompt during character creation. The default option is always cisgendered. Literally 30 seconds or less and you never have to think about it ever again. In fact, you can ignore it entirely and it'll have been as if it was never there. Woooow such controversy.
I refuse to believe anybody is actually dumb enough to boycott the game over this. There are plenty of fucking legitimate reasons to not buy it, but having the option to select alternative pronouns during character creation is not one of them.
Oh no!
Anyway...
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