The game has just been nominated for two Gayming Magazine Awards due to its (optional) gay romance.
“TRIGGER WARNING,” the post begins. “Among all the various awards and nominations we’ve received, we’ve also just been nominated for the @gaymingmag GAYMING AWARDS! I’m really proud of that, because I absolutely stand by the fact that the way we did it is exactly how something like this should be done. Non-coercively, naturally, and educationally (because we show how things really were in the Middle Ages without idealizing them)–and without shoving it down anyone’s throat or trying to re-educate them like so many titles that are rightfully called ‘woke’ these days. We made the gay community happy and gave them the CHOICE to be themselves, just like we did for others in other choices and quests, and anyone who isn’t interested probably didn’t even notice. Except, of course, for [a] very small and very loud minority.”
I can confirm. I played the gay romance in KCD2 and the penises never touched for the entirety of the playthrough. Thanks to this, I was finally able to play a gay character that felt authentic to real life and, more importantly, I didn’t turn gay myself.
To make sure of that, I replayed the game three more times, always choosing the gay option. Lo and behold, I’m still very, very straight. In fact, it worked like a vaccine: now I can watch gay porn without it having an effect on my sexuality (I’m super duper straight! I only watched gay porn to MAKE SURE that I was still straight).
Bravo Daniel.
I can confirm, too. I’m a straight man, and for some odd reason I always play as a woman and bang another woman. But not once have I become a lesbian.
Bro… You literally had to say nothing and you failed at that. And to use the word “woke” is stupid. The amount of flak they are gonna get for this just for saying that word will be immense. This would blow over by Tuesday if you said that entire thing but left out the work “woke”
Using the word “woke” disqualified him of any notion this was a rational thought. He wanted to accept the award to promote his game and make money, but slyly wink at those who are a part of his in-group.
included optional gay content
Claims to not be woke
Seriously tho, what in the actual fuck is this guy trying to say, other than trying to appeal to rightoids while doing the same thing the games he is bitching about do. They constantly cry about ThE wOkE aGeNdA when you can select pronouns that LITERALLY have 0 impact on gaming, but apparently including WoKe content in the actual game is ok if you’re on their side.
Completely not transparent or shameless, as is tradition.
It’s the exact same thing as right-wing weirdos associating the term “feminist” strictly with with the most extreme, fundamentalist, fringe elements of the movement, “feminazis” if you will, that went way over the equality hill and ended up in “all men are bad, m’kay” forest.
The fact that public media often reinforces that view does not help.
In short: the game is woke, because it showcases a gay romance with historical accuracy. Vavra thinks it’s not woke, because it doesn’t allow the player character to be a black lesbian with “them” pronouns.
They constantly cry about ThE wOkE aGeNdA when you can select pronouns that LITERALLY have 0 impact on gaming, but apparently including WoKe content in the actual game is ok if you’re on their side.
I don’t like that those ‘woke’ settings don’t have any impact in historic games. Because that ‘woke-washes’ history.
That was one of my gripes with Hogwarts Legacy. The wizarding world in Victorian times where certainly not egalitarian when it came to race or sexual identity. And if they where, it should be explained why they are so different from the muggle world at that time.
Sounds like he wants to have his cake and eat it too.
Well, that sours me enough to the game that its no longer on the wishlist.
The guy has always been a piece of shit so I’m glad more people are learning this.
How hard is it to just not say stuff? Is this prat trying to calm pushed outraged right wingers? I hadn’t heard any outrage. And if there is outrage, so fuckin what. Just shut up, idiot, and let the game speak for itself.
Dan Vavra is simply a king of dickheads, and cannot pass a single oportunity to show everyone.
Well, all interest I had in this game is suddenly gone after the stupid “woke” comment. I was waiting for a sale but now I’ll just remove it from the list.
The games are great, if only he could, like, not open his mouth…
i’ve re-read this several times. still unsure what this mf meant💀
Anyone that uses woke as a pejorative is a fucking fascist bigot. I will never support anything by this company or Vavra ever again.
Not very surprising. I remember one of the Warhorse head devs wearing a band shirt of a far right band while representing the studio and giving interviews. That caused quite a scandal in Germany‘s gaming community.
We didn’t go woke because we went woke optionally. Like isn’t that what every single other developer did?
I feel stupider just by reading this.
Fucking shithead
I’d love for this asswipe to just shut up forever, but maybe if he keeps piping up more people will understand how terrible he is.
