There isn't a single white guy in the game, and that was on purpose (I think a dev said so?).
Instead theres black females with purple hair and stuff like that...
A robot with pronouns.... I mean common.

Yes its woke.
You can tell by the models and skins and Armour, they have for sale.

The game play isn't bad from what I heard... its just its 40$ (when other hero shooters are free), and has characters that are too generic and boring.
People want good looking characters and sexy ladies in games.... it sucks to hear but it sells. Esp if your game is free to play, and lives off of selling skins ect.
If you go a differnt route, and dont think you can recoupe costs that way..... and instead have to price yours way above the competition out there, it better be the best damn hero shooter ever made (if you want it to be successfull). Concord was just barely avg when it came to gameplay.

The woke spin, didn't do it any favors either.

Anyways too many hero shooters out there already.
I wish they would drop makeing all these GAAS games, and instead do some single player ones.

Black Myth Wukong doesn't have almost any of these things either, and yet someone earlier in the thread gave it as an example of a game that "rejected woke". 

Its not about the "lack of a white guy".

People play games as escapism. They dont want to get force fed, agenda driven politically messageing, even if its just in the form of DEI characters.
Cuz usually when its one thing, its goes over the top.  They consult with these DEI firms, that then alter gameplay or story and such, and it effects the devs creative vision and sometimes just stands out too much (again its supposed to be escapism).

Devs from BLack Myth Wukong actually said they got coerced by DEI firms to pay them like $7million or they would review bomb it.
They didn't bother.... and to be honest... why should a chinese based games based around "a journey west" have anything to do with DEI?

This is also sometimes why theres big differnce between journalists that review games and score them, and players.
The avg person just does not care about these things, while DEI journalists that make up a large amount of game reviewers, do.
(either that, or journalists are scared to get cancelled, and thus all score things higher if DEI is there)

You're making this big assumption that there is some basic checklist of black/white/asian etc, that needs to be checked off.Â

Tober: What was my assumption in my first post? You answer my question by referring to my second post. I am curious what assumption I had in the first one.

I'm sure on the level of media companies, a lot of them have something just like that. But that isn't the goal that people are pushing towards.

Tober: Then why are they? It misses the mark making it essentially useless. What is that goal, you are referring to?

What is wrong with it, and what is a strawman requires the same answer:

No one is saying that skin color is more important than ethnicity. 

Tober: Above you said something like on the level of media, companies have checklists. It appears those checklist aim to use skin color as a wide web to catch as many people as possible. In a way these companies view skin color more important in their strategy, because they think it's more efficient. Not saying it is, but apparently they do

You're making an argument against something that doesn't particularly exist.

I feel like you completely misread my post. Because pretty much everything you're saying in here, agrees with my post.

Tober: I mostly agree with myself

Especially the last part that generalizing on only superficial character traits actually hurts representation more then it helps. In other words, do it right or don't do it at all. That's essentially the gist of it.

DEI is not about diversity and inclusivety. It's about the Mirage of it.

It's born from the obsession to compartmentalize people in easily identifiable checkboxes. A spreadsheet in other words.

Let's put a Nigerian, Senegalese and Aboriginal all in the color coded bucket 'black', because of something arbitrary as similar shade of skin color. Totally ignoring their vastly different cultures. Then pretend if Samual L. Jackson stars in a Marvel movie, the Aboriginal feels representation. Where the truth is that Aboriginal feels more represented by Paul Hogan playing Crocodile Dundee.

There are thousands of different ethnicities and none of them are called 'white' or 'black'. And certainly not 'people of color'. Lazily trowing them in the same buckets and pretending that if every bucket is checkboxed is somehow representative of all, actually kills real diversity.

Its not about the "lack of a white guy".
Its the going out of your way to almost yell "look we're doing DEI".  Its off putting to many.
People play games as escapism. They dont want to get force fed, agenda driven politically messageing, even if its just in the form of DEI characters.
Cuz usually when its one thing, its goes over the top.  They consult with these DEI firms, that then alter gameplay or story and such, and it effects the devs creative vision and sometimes just stands out too much (again its supposed to be escapism).

Devs from BLack Myth Wukong actually said they got coerced by DEI firms to pay them like $7million or they would review bomb it.
They didn't bother.... and to be honest... why should a chinese based games based around "a journey west" have anything to do with DEI?

This is also sometimes why theres big differnce between journalists that review games and score them, and players.
The avg person just does not care about these things, while DEI journalists that make up a large amount of game reviewers, do.
(either that, or journalists are scared to get cancelled, and thus all score things higher if DEI is there)

Fantastic perspective and one I’ve never considered. Thank you! I find myself agreeing with you.

From my own life, I’m a gay man, but does that mean I get along better with gay men? Not even close. I certainly don’t feel “represented” by stereotyped depictions of gay guys and I don’t feel “more included” because a character happens to be gay. The characters I most enjoy and aspire towards are often not what I am, but how I would like to be. The “LGBTQ” whatever alphabet community don’t represent me or my opinions or beliefs at all, and I wish the loud minority would stop telling the world that they do. 

Assumptions in your first post:

1.) That people think race is enough. That we can just put in a "black" character and call it a day.

2.) That people are ignoring vastly different cultures.

3.) That people are pretending that Samuel L Jackson is diverse enough, to cover aboriginals and other groups.

4.) That the goal is "checkboxing every bucket". 

No one is particularly advocating for these things as the end goal. At worst, they're stepping stones to other things. 

I guess almost everyone will soon forget about this generic filler game especially after PS5Pro reveal. Like PS Studios will announce something like Ghost 2 or show a new gameplay video of Death Stranding 2, then Concord IP will be forgotten by audience and covered with dust.

Concord might be compared to Godfall which was partially published by PS Studios. Godfall was just a game to fill the space between more important PlayStation games. A couple of months later nobody remembered that Godfall existed. I consider that Concord is something like that. A game that filled a gap in road map of releases.

You do understand that this is not the place to write a novel to cover every intricacy and nuance. So to keep it readable and get the point across is to make choices. I made my choices to get the point across in a compact and readable format. For that point I refer back to my original post.