Larian Studios infected by woke virus

[Sporia]

never in a million years i would have thought that a patch for this game would have full blown comments about trans , pronouns and all that woke trash , this is a major red flag for the studio , its a sad day that development time , that even thought process is wasted on such things , you have a chuck of the community now talking about things that are not going to make the game better in anyway , the studio has been infected with the woke virus and if only i could get a refund on this game that i bought 2years ago.

adding things for 0.1% of your playerbase is going to work out just fine? or is it ,look at everything else that is woke in entertainment they have one thing in common they hemorrhage money

Lets take a wild guess at the most likely plot line for a story in the game

Lesbian couple and one of them is black or Asian because we need to represent and be diverse , its the same thing over and over and over from all woke flim/tv studios , maybe the game hasn't got any of those things but you can tell just from this latest patch note that there is a very high chance it will.

Just making a point that its predictable and boring and not inciting hate on any group,

[Tiviani]

Another one bites the dust, dum tish.

[KOHb]

Publicado originalmente por Deathelement:

dosent get much more feminist than drow lol.

I think you're messing matriarchy with feminism here. Will call it a blunder.

[Yojo0o]

Publicado originalmente por Deathelement:

this might blow your mind but sorry to tell you DnD has always been woke, Trans characters were a thing since the very beginning. Feminism was right there in the beginning but your only seeing it now? Blind much?
This is an incredibly small addition to the game that maybe 1% of players will choose and in every other circumstance this is held up as great RPG design as its a new play through or just a unique option for someone just like having a really obscure answer to a quest/dungeon but just because there's an option that's queer that you don't have to choose your going to cry about it? Were you complaining about the gay romances before? The fact Drow are in the game? dosent get much more feminist than drow lol. Seriously one day you will look back on these opinions you had and laugh at them and i say cheers to that day!

I wouldn't equate feminism with misandry and general misanthropy. Typical drow society is nothing to aspire to.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Just stop, you look foolish.

[KOHb]

Publicado originalmente por nyo:

Delete the game from your steam account. I've already deleted 2 games that started this woke nonsense and I couldn't refund. Best thing you can do is just delete, boycott and move on. I hope people who like this kind of nonsense enjoy the game, but I won't support it in any way.

Thanks for the warning.

Yup! That's a great idea.
Also delete yourself from forums here :D
You may go further and delete everything around you if it has any tiny details that you don't like. Delete your PC because it could show you SJW content. And of course delete TV and smartphone.
Not saying about deleting people because it's criminal, but you may cut communication with them.

When Job will be done done — you'll be living in a cozy bubble.

[Yojo0o]

Publicado originalmente por nyo:

Delete the game from your steam account. I've already deleted 2 games that started this woke nonsense and I couldn't refund. Best thing you can do is just delete, boycott and move on. I hope people who like this kind of nonsense enjoy the game, but I won't support it in any way.

Thanks for the warning.

I love how folks with this attitude so commonly have anime girl avatars.

[RocketMan]

Publicado originalmente por Spori@:

never in a million years i would have thought that a patch for this game would have full blown comments about trans , pronouns and all that woke trash , this is a major red flag for the studio , its a sad day that development time , that even thought process is wasted on such things , you have a chuck of the community now talking about things that are not going to make the game better in anyway , the studio has been infected with the woke virus and if only i could get a refund on this game that i bought 2years ago.

adding things for 0.1% of your playerbase is going to work out just fine? or is it ,look at everything else that is woke in entertainment they have one thing in common they hemorrhage money

You clearly have never looked into larian.

[PocketYoda]

I hate to break it to you op..

The whole of mass media is infected, Larion is just a small cadre in the their Army of minorities taking over trying to indoctrinate..

These forums are also well infected by minority attack groups.

[brendan_in_china]

Only thing I'll add is that this is definitely the time to give Larian any push back. They need to know when they're treading too far on un-fun political ground.

[Hobocop]

Publicado originalmente por Yojo0o:

Yes, because the USA is the only place in the world where LGBTQ people exist.

Larian is also not a US-based company and has been doing stuff like this for a while.

[Dis Lexic]

Publicado originalmente por Dragon Master:

There is a time and a place to complain about things being "woke".

This is neither. Up to and until Larian themselves make it clear that what they are doing is part of an agenda rather than just giving players options to make whatever character they want (even campy joke characters to make fun of) then this is not "woke".

When you get people saying "don't go see Black Panther 2 if you're white, the show is for black people and you're racist if you go see it on opening weekend" or "you better go see The Woman King if you're white otherwise you're racist" from them then it's just a character option that you can use to make whatever cringe or serious character you want.

If I were to complain about anything I'd like the hair choices to be easier to go through. Something Final Fantasy XIV style where you get a picture of the hairstyle and you can go straight there and see how it looks on the character rather than the clicking through 30+ options a and then 30+ options b.

THIS! Absolutely this. It would be one thing if the game had suddenly completely changed and everyone was suddenly gay and trans with those being their only character traits, or all the characters with white skin are suddenly either evil or incompetent, while the gay, black woman protagonist is a total girl-boss while exhibiting personality traits that, in a dude, would be (rightfully) labeled as toxic, but that isnt happening here. Whats happening here is that the devs have given an OPTION (note, OPTION, you dont have to use it) that makes it that bit more welcoming to some people. A small number of people, sure, but there arent very many people in wheelchairs either and yet public buildings are legally required to install wheelchair ramps and disabled bathrooms.

WOKE is when people utterly destroy something in the name of not offending anyone and providing representation which is somehow worse than the paper thin tokenism of the 90s and then wave those tokens around like shields when they get blasted for their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ product. This is simply a nice thing to do for the fanbase.

[Yojo0o]

Publicado originalmente por Dis Lexic:

WOKE is when people utterly destroy something in the name of not offending anyone and providing representation which is somehow worse than the paper thin tokenism of the 90s and then wave those tokens around like shields when they get blasted for their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ product. This is simply a nice thing to do for the fanbase.

This is a valid criticism, but "Woke" has become more of a dogwhistle than anything resembling genuine criticism. "Woke" just means "something other than a white male is present and I'm attacked" to enough people that it's meaningless at this point.

I'd much rather see such criticism actually be articulated, rather than condensed into a buzzword like "woke", or previously "pc". Shoehorning in progressive characters at the expense of actual character development or quality writing is something worth calling out, and it's why I disliked Sense8 so much, but a character identifying as gay or NB or something isn't enough to get mad over.

[Dis Lexic]

Publicado originalmente por Yojo0o:

Publicado originalmente por Dis Lexic:

WOKE is when people utterly destroy something in the name of not offending anyone and providing representation which is somehow worse than the paper thin tokenism of the 90s and then wave those tokens around like shields when they get blasted for their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ product. This is simply a nice thing to do for the fanbase.

This is a valid criticism, but "Woke" has become more of a dogwhistle than anything resembling genuine criticism. "Woke" just means "something other than a white male is present and I'm attacked" to enough people that it's meaningless at this point.

I'd much rather see such criticism actually be articulated, rather than condensed into a buzzword like "woke", or previously "pc". Shoehorning in progressive characters at the expense of actual character development or quality writing is something worth calling out, and it's why I disliked Sense8 so much, but a character identifying as gay or NB or something isn't enough to get mad over.

Yep, pretty much. I dont like a lot of the stuff that has come out in recent years because its poorly written garbage with Mary Sue protagonists, outright trying to rewrite history or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ all over established settings and characters in the name of making them 'more modern' and in the process, feeding everything that was good about them through a blender. The fact that the changed characters are <insert marginalised group here> is completely irrelevant.

[Yojo0o]

Publicado originalmente por Criminal Horse:

Publicado originalmente por Yojo0o:

I don't know what you're saying, and I suspect you don't know what I'm saying either.

You just tried to insult me, claiming with "persecution complex" because I don't like genocide.
Or it wasn't you and someone used your account? :D

I wasn't calling you anything, I was answering your question. That opinion is about PocketYoda.

[KOHb]

Publicado originalmente por Yojo0o:

I wasn't calling you anything, I was answering your question. That opinion is about PocketYoda.

Okay. It ws obvious quote to my comment.
Misunderstanding.