[viraptor]

> I know this sounds very conspiratorial

Not really. Some games got American military funding to promote the army.

> wondered what the backlash would be

For examples, look at backlash to farcry 5. See https://www.change.org/p/ubisoft-cancel-far-cry-5 where people just can't handle white American Christians being the bad guys.

[non-entity]

> Us Gamers have had to endure a lot of crap over the last few years. The targeted harassment by the mainstream press through Gamergate, the terrible launch and outright lies of highly anticpated video games, the outright censorship of art through “localization” policies, the continued rejection of romantic partners when they find out our hobby, the appropriation of our culture by so-called “gamers” on twitter. NO MORE!

This has got to be satire. This reads almost like the gamers rise up memes.

[viraptor]

I remember seeing a lot of this kind of ideas at the time farcry 5 was released. This site may be satire itself. But if it is, it's heavily inspired by reality.

[jiscariot]

That survey (2700 signers) reads like someone who did not play Far Cry 5.

Most of the journalism that I read about FC5 around that time of the release complained that the both the villain and the rural characters you befriend are too likeable and the game didn't deal with "real issues".

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17176308/far-cry-5-review...

The game completely avoids discussing race. Some of the cult members are black, though the members are overwhelmingly white, as are all of its actual leaders. The game has nothing to say about white supremacy or American extremism of any stripe, except, possibly, that murder cults are bad. ... And that limp, almost nonexistent exploration of politics, race, and religion is at odds with the action, to the point where it detracts from the experience.

I guess it has something everyone can complain about.

[blaser-waffle]

You offend if you do, you offend if you don't.

Pick the one that represents the highest rate of return and run with it.