Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.

Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.

  • Anchorite@lemm.ee
    58·
    1 year ago

    Oh I really doubt many are boycotting it, just poking the anthills that are their fanbases and communities to keep them engaged

    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
      27·
      1 year ago

      They either own and play the game and tell people that they boycott it or never had any intention of playing the game and that’s their boycott

      • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
        36·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, The Gamers are famous for screaming from the rafters they’re going to boycott a game, then get it day one.

        Even the FUCKING PRONOUNS dude kept playing after he finished his hissy fit.

        • Hyperreality@kbin.social
          39·
          1 year ago

          It’s a symbiotic relationship.

          The (game, tv, movie, …) studio gets free advertising, the people protesting get to advertise their cause.

          It’s not always the far right either.

          • itsJoelle@lemmy.world
            111·
            1 year ago

            True, but to my limited recollection it’s the right losing their minds more frequently. See Gamergate .

            • Hyperreality@kbin.social
              4·
              1 year ago

              Yeah, but that’s fascists for you. Different can, same sausage. To quote Orwell on Hitler:

              It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.