Edit:

Well it seems like people here don’t agree with me. OK.

I’m locking this post now as the very thing that I said happens has happened. On the PlayStation community I was called a bigot for being against DEI.

Calling people racists or bigots and/or claiming harassment when those people call You out and then screaming VICTIM is simply unacceptable

Most of you have also proved my very first point for my far more effectively than I ever could

Being a gamer on the internet in 2024 is not a very pleasant experience.

Which unless you conform to the beliefs of the very loud and vocal minority is unfortunately a fact of life 2024.

The hard leftists have decided they own the internet and gaming industry and everyone else who dares oppose them is not welcome.

Being a gamer on the internet in 2024 is not a very pleasant experience.

You either support DEI in games or you’re a racist bigot. There’s no middle ground.

What happened to the days when we could talk about the games we like without having to worry if we are ALLOWED to like a certain game?

If I was proclaim my support for Suicide Squad kills the Justice League the right wing gamers would yell at me. If I was to say I didn’t like Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League the left wing gamers and the journalists would yell at me.

There’s no way to win.

My person opinion is all politics, racial issues and gender identity should be left out of games and writers should create the stories that they want to create without worrying if they have enough white or black or gay or trans characters. As long as the story is good and the gameplay is good and the characters are well developed most people don’t care what colour the main character is or if they’re gay or not.

But in 2024 that just isn’t the world we live in anymore.

The developers and journalists seem to have decided that gamers are the enemy and will be told what to like and if they push back they are branded as taking part in harassment campaigns.

So the gaming industry crashing and having to start again probably wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.

I’m tired of being told what to like and what not to like by developers, journalists and other gamers on both sides of the arguments.

I’ve been a gamer for 34 years and I don’t have any desire to buy any new games or support any developer for the foreseeable future and that makes me sad.

I love playing games and I loved talking about games but things have changed and it’s no longer fun.

  • jettrscga@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I agree with others that I literally never hear these topics and would recommend you find other sources if their talking points aren’t about gameplay and that bothers you.

    But I’m very confused by your comment: “without worrying if they have enough white or black or gay or trans characters.”

    How would there be a wrong number of any of those types of people? If they didn’t decide they wanted one of those types of people, does the character just need to be a straight white male?

    You’ve posed this as a “both sides” argument which gives me a decent inclination toward where you stand. You don’t want to believe you’re biased, but I doubt you’ve complained about a male and female character kissing in a storyline, or an all-white character cast because those scenarios feel “normal”. But if they add a trans character there’s a discussion about whether the developers were “forcing” them into the story as if they’d be better off as some other type of person.

    I hope you consider what you’re looking for without diversity in games, and why anyone’s bringing up the “issue” of different types of people being in a game.