Originally Posted by
dope_danny
We live in an age of the professionally offended white person. A strange subset of a guilt ridden racial culture raised in a post 2000's climate of fear,directionlessness and hopelessness. They police all media, even media they would never pay money towards consuming and believe they are paragons for doing so when the only reason studios cave to them is because they will campaign for the ruination of companies and the dissolution of jobs to get their way.
Thankfully its starting to reach a point where studios are noticing that changing to suit the witch hunters is changing to suit people who were never going to buy your product and only pushes away those that would. To say nothing of all the bullshit "we are here to ruin your toys, mmm male tears so delicious" whackjobs that found jobs in the western media in recent years that are genuinely just doing it because of a chip on their shoulder and mental health issues going unaided that ruined so many games journalism sites in the eyes of the general public the long and short of it is studios are now noticing that a lot of these complaints are not seeing any connection to money spent on their products.
Shit go look at the FFXIV forums right now. They added a native american themed set of outfits in the next patch and one self proclaimed 'social justice warrior' claimed it was 'racially insulting' until they got 150+ pages of people including actual native americans saying they were pleased their culture got any showing in videogames as anything but bad guys in western games -not unlike something similar in overwatch a while back- and the OP flipped her shit and started screaming about harassment and about "clearly you dont understand you are all racist and NEED. TO STOP. TALKING." Its the age of entitlement where everyone thinks they are special and can moderate everyone else. Thankfully people are tiring of it just like they did when Thatchers government did it in the late 1980's to the point film critics had to go into trials to defend films from being thought crimes. Different generation same bunkum.
Bottom line is if you ever see someone try and cry for something to be altered and they are treating entire groups as one stereotype while doing so they are probably part of the modern "politically correct beliefs, tea party political behaviour" regressive left clique that thinks they are 'the good guys' but only in so far as they know better than everyone else and criticism of them is a personal attack from "the other" which is whatever buzzwords they can use in their agree mailing lists that month.
Different cultures make different products. its why they stand out, its why our species makes such wonderful things as we do. But in the age of the perma offended everything must be one innoffensive homogenous white noise. Heads down, mouths shut, head half shaved and died a neon colour and don the problem glasses. Everyone is special when nobody is blah blah blah.
TL-DR - studios feared their bad press and assumed they were the hot ticket in revenue. Now they are increasingly the butt of jokes as people are no longer scared of them and they were never profitable to begin with. They lose what short lived power they had day by day, just vote with your wallets to buy what you love. Lifes not worth spending it pissed off and offended over things never made for you.