I was dwelling on this point last night before falling asleep but the other angle people often don't consider is that on top of consumers watching how these companies react to these incidents, employees do to. There are undoubtedly employees at or who work with CDPR all the way from development capacities to distribution and publishing to simple building/office maintenance who are themselves or who have loved ones who are LGBTQ+. Some who are out and some who are still in the closet and simply trying to get by. What happens to their trust in the people they work with and under when the concerns of LGBTQ+ customers are either ignored or simply placated? What happens when these companies allow a working community to where inclusivity is treated so flippantly? Beyond just consumers, employees are allowed to ask for more from these companies in relation to being openly progressive and inclusive. Like has been said multiple times, the industry isn't absent of "politics". People work at these companies who have concerns beyond just the financial and deal with the same transphobia, homophobia, sexism, racism and general bigotry that marginalized people outside of their workplace deal with. This is why this shit is important and has nothing to do with just "seeking attention" or "being outraged". Marginalized people don't like being angry, or outraged or "seeing bigotry everywhere". It is just a testament to the reality that we live in that these problems ARE everywhere and aren't being treated as seriously as they should be. Topics like this pop up again and again because this nonsense is ubiquitous and insidious and too many people like to live in bliss calling them absurd when they're exactly what needs to start changing for the sake of bigger things changing.
