{"id":7604,"date":"2017-03-30T14:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2017-03-30T22:07:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:07:48","slug":"why-politics-and-gaming-should-never-be-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2017\/03\/30\/why-politics-and-gaming-should-never-be-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Why politics and gaming should never be together"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I’m not going to lie; I don’t pay attention to trends (as they’re usually too messy to deal with) but there’s one that I feel, every gamer needs<\/u> to know. And this is the whole ‘Johntron VS Yuka-Lalee’ thing. There’s been a lot of videos on Youtube, and I didn’t know what was going on with this. However, this video<\/a> actually helped to put all the pieces together enough for me to understand what’s going on.
\nBasically, the video game company in question (Playtonic) was going to have Johntron, a Youtuber, to be a voice of one of the characters in the game. And then later, decide to reverse this decision. Their reason is because Johntron…had a different belief than they did. And then they try to sugarcoat it by saying they did this for the fans and Kickstarter backers.
\nWhat. the. heck. Yeah! I TOO would be teed off! I mean, they have a right to remove people if they see fit. Where they messed up was publicly announcing their reason. And there’s something else I found out prior to this. The way they “support” their fans and backers is to ban anyone who asks for a refund on the Steam forum! Fantastic support here, Playtonic!<\/p>\n

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\nAnd then there’s something that is even worse than this (but in ways proves that politics in gaming have NO business being together. Because this is about all of these accusations that some of the dev team of Mass Effect Andromeda<\/em> ‘pandered’ to the SJWs(Social Justice Workers) instead of all gamers. I wanted to give Bioware the benefit of a doubt, but the fact they aren’t coming out and either apologizing or defending their game, it doesn’t bode well for them.
\nThe ‘pandering’ was mainly focused on female characters– especially ones of color. This is to believed, to be the reason why white female characters (especially the female player character) have huge cartoonish eyes and big mouths to make them hideously ugly, to “encourage” players to play characters of color.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I really don’t know what to say..except I’m getting sick of this propaganda I’m seeing on Youtube. These videos who are being anti-SJW (even going as far as telling people to boycott the game because of pandering) are only making things worse for everyone. And all I want to do is hide in a hole, screaming out “MAKE IT STOP!!!”
\nI’m used to the simple life of being a game reviewer. Company makes the game, I review the game. I don’t base it off of my political\/religious beliefs..I base it off of the content that’s there. The only blame of a game, where characters are glitching through the floor or the story makes absolutely no sense.. is the company.
\nGuys, I stand on neutral<\/strong> ground of these “left wing” or whatever the feck they’re called..social groups. I don’t hate them, but I don’t like them either. All I care about, is the game. Simple.<\/p>\n

Come people, join the neutral bandwagon. Let’s not hate on SJWs. Instead, let’s put that hate into a movement. A movement, of closing the purchase page of this game (and encouraging others to do so). Yes, let’s boycott it. Let’s boycott this game, as a whole. Let’s boycott the company that made it.
\nAll the insults you anti or pro SJW people are doing, isn’t helping the situation; it only divides the gaming community even more. We must unite under one banner. And that banner is to speak with our wallets instead of our words. Let’s do a similar thing we did with WoD and Blizzard! Remember that? We won that fight, by not speaking a word.
\nJust stop helping to raise up the number of copies sold. Maybe then, EA or Bioware or whoever will see the game is indeed a failure and look into it.
\nIf you must have it, then… no, I refuse to even give that<\/em> suggestion because it’ll only make matters worse (Bioware could possibly slip in DRM as a “content patch”, to mess up everyone in order to stop piraters in their tracks). Yet if they do that, that’ll unfortunately prove even more they did indeed pander to the SJW’s.
\nSome say the lead animator hates white people (or something. Maybe it’s someone else).<\/p>\n

The point is (and I’ll say it again), blame the SJWs or whoever you want. But if you continue to buy this game, you would have accomplished nothing<\/strong><\/u>.
\nHeck, let’s just say no to any future Bioware games. They pull this stunt, let’s just say no. If this was because of hating white people or pure ‘money > customers’, both can be fought by just not buying their games.<\/p>\n

I personally am kind of tempted to pirate it, but my morals are against me.
\nI dunno. I just hope my speech helped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, I’m not going to lie; I don’t pay attention to trends (as they’re usually too messy to deal with) but there’s one that I feel, every gamer needs to know. And this is the whole ‘Johntron VS Yuka-Lalee’ thing. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7612,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions\/7612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}