If you don't care about these issues one way or the other, don't bother telling us that in this thread.
I freaking love CyberPunk 2077 from what I've seen. Looks like a dream game (unless you are playing on base consoles RIP current gen).
But there's some things that are exhausting about CDPR. They suck at social issues from diversity to publicly respecting LGBT people to humane work schedules. And they don't seem to mind that much. They say they'll avoid crunch, but have set a hard date almost a year in advance, so I wonder how well they've planned that considering the game has already taken longer than they expected. Crunch is lame and detrimental. Let's hope they avoid it this time.
First we had The Witcher games. White as f despite being a fantasy with zero valid reasons to alienate non-white depictions. They chalk it up to adapting books and being Polish... as a white person with Polish ancestry I thought their answer was totally bland. But hey, CyberPunk 2077 looks more diverse in its side characters despite going with white man cover art as generic as usual. https://www.pcgamer.com/fifty-shades-of-white-witcher-3-devs-talk-race-and-adapting-literature/
There was the incident of tweeting a Gamergate support meme from the GoG Twitter. They later apologized.
Then there's trans issues. They screwed this up on social media more than once as well, and while they possibly replaced one person responsible for the first incident shown below (according to some articles), the second case seemed to end in deleting the tweet and making no positive acknowledgement of trans people. Just an apology that was along the lines of 'sorry to those offended' and ending it there. Do they need to fire someone again? Nope. Should they clarify their views on trans people? I think so. First it was this:
Then this:
Then we move on - despite having US offices they don't acknowledge pride or LGBT people as a company with any positive notions. Many gaming companies and outlets both in and out of the USA acknowledge their LGBT employees. Why don't they? With their history in tweets and silence in public, I'd love to know if they care about this.
There was also the weirdness where a dev on their Discord said they won't do any similar statements to the progressive one the Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 put out which takes a firm stance and vows to represent LGBT people and even mental illness well.
Also who writes "cocksucker" as an insult still for fictional future settings?
So I'm conflicted. They've casted doubt on themselves, and left it there.
I wish they'd make the doubt go away.
I freaking love CyberPunk 2077 from what I've seen. Looks like a dream game (unless you are playing on base consoles RIP current gen).
But there's some things that are exhausting about CDPR. They suck at social issues from diversity to publicly respecting LGBT people to humane work schedules. And they don't seem to mind that much. They say they'll avoid crunch, but have set a hard date almost a year in advance, so I wonder how well they've planned that considering the game has already taken longer than they expected. Crunch is lame and detrimental. Let's hope they avoid it this time.
First we had The Witcher games. White as f despite being a fantasy with zero valid reasons to alienate non-white depictions. They chalk it up to adapting books and being Polish... as a white person with Polish ancestry I thought their answer was totally bland. But hey, CyberPunk 2077 looks more diverse in its side characters despite going with white man cover art as generic as usual. https://www.pcgamer.com/fifty-shades-of-white-witcher-3-devs-talk-race-and-adapting-literature/
There was the incident of tweeting a Gamergate support meme from the GoG Twitter. They later apologized.
Then there's trans issues. They screwed this up on social media more than once as well, and while they possibly replaced one person responsible for the first incident shown below (according to some articles), the second case seemed to end in deleting the tweet and making no positive acknowledgement of trans people. Just an apology that was along the lines of 'sorry to those offended' and ending it there. Do they need to fire someone again? Nope. Should they clarify their views on trans people? I think so. First it was this:
Then this:
Then we move on - despite having US offices they don't acknowledge pride or LGBT people as a company with any positive notions. Many gaming companies and outlets both in and out of the USA acknowledge their LGBT employees. Why don't they? With their history in tweets and silence in public, I'd love to know if they care about this.
There was also the weirdness where a dev on their Discord said they won't do any similar statements to the progressive one the Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 put out which takes a firm stance and vows to represent LGBT people and even mental illness well.
Also who writes "cocksucker" as an insult still for fictional future settings?
So I'm conflicted. They've casted doubt on themselves, and left it there.
I wish they'd make the doubt go away.
