So I did happen to see the ending to Bioshock on Youtube, and I see how fundamentalist Christians on the project could threaten to quit.  Pretty much the end story is you kill Booker to prevent a timeline distortion that happened.  In short, Booker becomes a fundamentalist Christian leader who causes hell above earth, so the end result is to practice murder.  I can see a fundamentalist Christian getting upset on it on th project.  Well, this is now, considering some tweaks were made to the ending.

Well, what do I see in VGChartz in response to an article about some Christians threatening to quit the project over he ending?  A bunch of f-bombs to them were dropped, and other nasties at the Christians on the project.  People who had negative experience with the Christian religion get irate over people on the project being upset about things.  Without even knowing what the ending was like, there was people upset at people who knew more than them, expressing concerns to an extent of wishing to quit.  This is intolerance.

Ok, let's put this another way.  Say there is a game like Bioshock Infinite out there, but you have a time scene where someone goes off and ends up practicing homosexuality in their early years, and then game then shows a world that is hell in the clouds and is homosexual, and it is connected, and then the idea is to have you go back and time and kill off your younger self to prevent this from happening.  And say, that while working on the project, some homosexual developers were up in arms about it and threatened to quit.  Would you, who happened to get upset at these Christians also get upset at the homosexuals?  Odds are, because of your value set, you likely wouldn't at all.  Because their ire is justified, but the fundamentalist Christian's ire isn't, because you dislike the Chr istian religion, and depending on how strongly your view of it, would want it to totally disappear.

The short, everyone has intolerance of this or that,  Even people who glorify in tolerance can't people who aren't as tolerant as they are.

Can you link the original thread and article? I'm a little behind here.

I found a link to the article on this site.  In the comment section were a number of take offense at the Christian's threatening to quit over the game's ending.  I am unable to find the article.  I do believe at least one f-bomb was directed at the Christian in that thread.

There is nothing and I do mean nothing, that does not offend someone. In this case you cannot rightfully know "who" you are going to offend of your customers, so you have only those in your office to go on.

Should everyone's "offendedness" be treated equally? Sure. Should you act on everyone being offended? No. Nothing would ever get done.

With your Fund Christian vs the Homosexual reference, the answer should always be yes.

This day and age, some degrees of being offended are seen as more proper than others.  What annoyed me a bit in regards to the being offended was that people who knew nothing of the ending to Infinite, happened to go off and judged those who knew much more about the game than they did.

Would have been hilarious if it was the homosexual one you mentioned in the OP. Hilarious because public outcry would be insaaaaane. But since Christianity isn't such a hot topic right now that's under as much scrutiny as homosexuality, it's no wonder why it'd make such a more controversial game topic.

i think also racists have been offended by this game

Cool game, but it was clearly written by liberals.

Not really sure how I feel about the story. A lot of the racism and religious stuff was kinda unnecessary. Felt like they just wanted to be edgy, it was over the top.

1. Not only is it anti-extremist, but the game is actually a criticism of Christianity in general that attacks the very foundation (sacrifice of the child for the sake of the world) of Christianity. I don't think people get how against Christianity (but not necessarily Christians) this game is.

2. Comparing it to homosexuality is not an apt description. There is quite a large difference between homosexuals (an oppressed group) and Christianity (the dominant culture). Also, at no point in known history did a gay zealot unite the gay community which then began oppressing others. This has happened with religions in the past, and with christianity in particular. In other words, a city run by a religious zealot that abuses his people is believable and relevant in the historical context of our society. A city run by homosexuals that enslaves heterosexuals would be silly.

3. If someone wanted to quit, then by all means. I wouldn't want to work on a project that I had severe ideological differences with.either. But, whats upsetting is the fact that a work of art may be altered for the sole purpose of appeasing someone's sensibilities.

@Mr. Puggsly: Funny how addressing something that happened in our history is considered edgy. The things portrayed in Infinite are not too far off from the reality of things, which is precisely why those themes were necessary. Any game that takes place in 1910-1920's America and doesn't address racism would be pretty inadequate.

A lot of movies do the same thing and people don't consider them over the top or edgy (for the most part). This shouldn't be any different for games.