People only care if the game is bad.  baldur's gate 3 uses Pronouns in a fantasy setting and was not used historically in forgotten realms but it had 0 effect on how much people loved that game.  Game play/writing is still king and if a game does those 2 things well you can add all the Pronouns you want into the game and the vast majority of people won't care regardless of settings.

Its about immersion. You cant just say "Its a fantasy world" and everything is ok. Where were all these characters and pronouns in the previous three games? Its so out of place in that series. It would be like in the next Elder Scrolls game a character pulls out an Iphone and calls in an airstrike. Is that ok? Its just fantasy, right?

watch this.


They believe in freedom of choice, and give players that.
They don't go out of their way to insert political messaging in said game.

Sven is a f***ing legend.
He says all the things gamers want to hear, and actually believes and does it.
I have faith this man, could lead any game development project in the world, and produce something good.

That my point, you can have pronouns and all the woke stuff in a game as long as you make a good game.  The problem is not woke games the problem is bad writing and bad game play. Baldur's Gate 3 is an example of a good game with "woke" stuff in it like pronouns.

These days it feels like every single game released is "woke" according to these grifters.

Fascinating video on Steam trends, especially these statistics- of all the games released in Steam in 2024, just 2.5% had the "LBGTQ+" tag and 7% had the "female protagonist" tag. This is supposedly the political trend that's overwhelming and destroying gaming.

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— Jacob Geller (@jacobgeller.bsky.social) 11 December 2024 at 22:43

They will keep trying to erase everyone who doesn't fit into their narrow view of how people should look and act. I try to ignore a lot of it, especially since everything is now "woke" at this point. Halo in UE is "woke" because Chief apparently looks feminine now, Space Marine 2 was "woke" for having a female commander. Dead Rising Remake was "woke" for removing the sexy photo feature, Avowed is "woke" for having pronouns, Indiana Jones was "woke" for having a strong female sidekick and one of the developers wore an LGBTQ+ shirt, Dragon Age is "woke" for a 5 minute conversation, Call of Duty is "woke" for having a non-binary operator. Now Witcher IV is "woke" because Ciri has aged and doesn't look like a teenager anymore and Naughty Dog's new game is "woke" for having a black character with a shaved head.

Lately even some of those who used to call games woke are now combating certain "woke" narratives, they'll simultaneously say that some games are apparently "woke" whilst defending the accusations of "woke" thrown to other games, doesn't that tell them that this whole thing is one big grift? The word "woke" is being thrown at everything. It is by far the most insufferable thing about gaming today, I  wish we could go back to console wars, maybe that is what happened? The console wars are dead so people need to find a new thing to make people angry about. They'll slam that woke label on practically everything except games with female characters that look like teenagers or perfectly looking no matter the context and their own personal attraction. It's a never ending pursuit of trying to find the next grift to provide them content for the next month.

A lot of gamers are being grifted by the rage baiting idiots on Twitter and YouTube who are desperate for attention and in the case of YouTube it is literally their work and unfortunately hate sells better so they'll desperately go from game to game, seeking the next "woke" game to complain about, the next imaginary enemy, so they have enough content for 20 more videos screaming about how much they hate modern gaming. Some titles I listed above didn't generate the same amount of controversy because they were titles loved by the public and that makes the grift harder to do so they'll quietly move onto the next. They will keep searching until they finally hit a bad title to "justify" their campaign or a title which simply didn't sell well and say "See, I was right!" but the truth is when you attack practically every game out there you will eventually hit one bad one.

They will make up imaginary enemies like SBI who aren't the first or only consultancy group, they are just the next target, they will stupidly claim that a consultancy group with less than 20 employees can push around billion $ corporations, they will ignore the good titles SBI has been involved in like AW2, GoW:R, SM2 and they will paint gaming journalists as the enemy, claim they are in cahoots with the "woke" but journalists scores largely match with Steam reviews on SBI titles and when journalists fall because gamers have been grifted into believing they're the enemy, all they will have left is their rage baiting Twitter users and YouTubers who will find the next thing to be angry about and blame for all of life's issues, and while gamers argue with each other, morons like Grummz and Angry YouTuber #2520 are laughing at us. Isn't it exhausting to be this bitter?

Won't be long before they're calling women's uteruses woke for producing female babies /s. 

"Woke" is like the word "racist". Starting to lose meaning.

To me the words are starting to mean the same thing.

I dont know, what about a character claiming shes non-binary in a game set in the middle ages?

"....the phrase non-binary gender was not known until 1999 and not in regular use until 2006."

Yep according to google, that term wasn't used then.


Also why is it that the otherside just ignore the facts, these effects have on games... and resort to name calling?
Like we already have a person posting a picture, naming people that don't agree with him, as dickheads.