The time to complain about this was when your game was banned not when another wasn’t.
Thank God for Stellar Blade. This is what happens when you have a strong personality, really an auteur, at the head of a studio. Confident, unrepentant in their vision and gamers love it. Amazing that these big companies still try and appease these silly little online mobs that want art by committee and faceless suits.
When I saw Stellar Blade was using its anti-censorship position as a marketing element I realised we’ve finally turned a corner. The mob will still have their indie game developers and their western corporations, but the rest of us will get to enjoy the auteur developers. And that’s good enough.
@chriss_m: I'd think the real satisfaction would come from accomplishing things in the game, rather than eventually getting used to an unintuitive and convoluted control scheme.
I waited to play the game before responding.
There’s nothing unintuitive or convoluted about its control scheme.It’s actually quite generic. It just has a learning curve, and mastering a learning curve is indeed satisfying. My original comment stands.
They’re still adding that anti-JK Rowling propaganda.
Worth mentioning then, since the article invites discussion about JK Rowling’s stance, that she has very clearly laid out her position on transgender issues, which can in no way be described as ‘anti-trans’. In fact, the tweet in which she describes her views in detail is one of the most liked tweets on Twitter *ever*.
Furthermore, Rowling believes in the immutability of sex. This is described as gender critical. It is a belief system which has been challenged in court and found not only to be lawful, but in fact protected by the Equality Act. Views which are hateful cannot be protected by the Equality Act. British, and therefore European law, finds that her views are therefore NOT anti-trans as this article erroneously claims.
Finally, Rowling has been particularly vocal about her concerns about puberty blockers being given to children. A view which has been vindicated by the Cass Report. An independent, objective 4 year clinical review of gender care for children, which did indeed find serious concerns about gender treatment and no evidence to support the prescribing of puberty blockers for children. This has led to the banning of this practice in England and Wales and in wider Europe.
‘ Combat and controls have a significant learning…’
Why is ‘You need to actually develop and learn this’ considered a bad thing? I think most gamers would agree that the joy of gaming is learning, developing and mastering. That’s why it’s called a game.
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