Y’all doing a lot of typing, the answer is simple.
This game was on the wrong side of the nasty cac hype cycle.
we like to pretend those people don’t hold power but they do.
If they swapped out some of the LGBTQ characters and angle with some “sexy” female characters and some “strong” white men, the game would be doing just fine.
Maybe wouldn’t be smashing success, but the servers would still be up right now.

This game was on the wrong side of the nasty cac hype cycle.
we like to pretend those people don’t hold power but they do.
If they swapped out some of the LGBTQ characters and angle with some “sexy” female characters and some “strong” white men, the game would be doing just fine.
Maybe wouldn’t be smashing success, but the servers would still be up right now.


They were getting on Apex Legends for their lack of white male characters. And Overwatch was getting called Tumblrwatch. For pandering to the lbgt/sjw community on tumblr. I mean Overwatch’s most popular white male character is gay.
“House flies lived longer than Concord.”