Shadow of a Doubt

So here's the thing. I don't give a flying fuck about "woke" or not woke. That's just an easy target. Woke isn't the issue here. Baldur's Gate 3 was "woke" and made all the money and sales. The issue is that, regardless of whatever sort of bullshit grandstanding you want to make about it, gave development is a luxury industry that exists at the pleasure of the audience willing to pay for it. If you are going to work for a big corporation making games, the sole expectation of those games is that they make money. If you want to be an artiste, or a propagandist, or whatever, that happens on your own dime in your own time, and that's fine. Great things have come from small developers who just wanted to make the game they wanted to play. But if you want to work it like it's a job, you make the product the customer wants to buy. And there was no confusion in what the customer wanted. We told you, repeatedly, loudly and clearly. We told you with words. We told you with actions. We told you by not buying the products we told you we didn't want. Some go so far to say is that Trump was elected the first time around to prove the fucking point about what gamers wanted. But no one listened. Baldur's Gate 3 was full of woke, but it sold like bread before a hurricane. Why? Because they gave gamers what they wanted. They delivered a top notch experience that didn't throw any shit in your face you didn't want to see. There was plenty there for the woke to enjoy, but more importantly, it was completely ignorable. The game stood on it's own merits, and didn't turn into a lecture, which is what everyone had been asking for the entire time, and so it sold all the copies, and apparently no one learned a goddamn thing from it. I see loads of morons on here today, talking about how XYZ Bioware game was woke and if we had cared then we would have called it wo.... shut the fuck up, please. We didn't complain then because it wasn't the same thing then. You know it. I know it, and you're making yourself look like a retard by saying it. Neither Jade Empire, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, BG 1&2, DA:O nor Mass Effect contained a scene suggesting you do pushups for misgendering someone or had a mandatory "coming out to their parents scene" where the party must support the most retarded member of what was previously portrayed as a proud warrior race telling their parents they are "non binary". Nothing like that happened before, that's the shit people are talking about. And for the record, it would be just as fucking retarded if a conservative company made a Qunari character come out to their family as Christian. The gaming audience learns very far into the "chud" spectrum, learn to make what they want or keep going broke. What these studios once made will be mourned and cherished, you wont.