Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Is Yet Another Victim Of Leopards Eating Faces

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tessa Kaur

Published Jan 20, 2025

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, slated for release February 4, occupies a very weird place in the gaꦗming culture war right now, largely because of its director, Daniel Vávra.

Vávra has been a controversial figure since Gamergate first surfaced – he’s , spoken out against , and famously made himself . In the months leading up to KCD 2’s launch, he has l♛argely continued to align himself with the resurgence of Gamergaters, often referred to as Gamergate 2.0, which then led many figureheads of the movement to hold it up as the bigge🌠st anti-woke game of the year.

There’s some nuance to this, of course, that the people yelling over each other on Twitter won’t tell you. He denied that Kingdom Come: Deliverance represents his personal political views, “90 percent of the actual writing” was done by other writers with different perspectives. He’s insisted repeatedly that the lack of diversity the first game was criticised for was in the service oꦜf historical accuracy. He put out a (albeit in 2018) that said he believes Gamergate, at its heart, is about “the freedom for artists to create art, free of political influence”.

Even if he doesn’t agree with every Gamergate talking point – which may or may not❀ be the case, there’s only so much you can glean from tweets and old statements – the fact remains that he was fine ꦜwith the association and didn’t speak out against the movement. He, in essence, . Now, the leopards are eating his face.

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Why Is KCD 2 Controversial?

As we all know, Gamergaters don’t want to see diversity in games – it’s kind of their whole deal. An unsubstantiated rumour about KCD 2 over “immoral scenes” recently made the rounds on Twitter, with people claiming this was due to an “unskippable gay scene”. Separately, they were also angry about black characters in the game and “lectures” about feminism.✱

KCD 2’s Steam discussion board was then inundated with troll posts and hate speech, and Vávra 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:became a target of vitriol himself – he resp🔯onded to one such person calling them a , and controversy soon followed.

Publisher Deep Silver rolled out a new code of conduct on the Steam forums, barring a comprehensive list of behaviour including racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia, and various kinds of hate speech. This made the communit🔯y even angrier, because they felt that their ‘legitimate’ concern was being censored.

Vávra also put out that Gamergaters considered to be vague as it didn’t explicitly deny or confirm if there was an unskippable gay scene or not. “The game is exactly what I wanted it to be… Our goal was, and still is, to show life in medieval Bohemia as it easily could have happened and to tell an interesting story… it is purely up to the player whatꦏ decisions they make and… they are responsible for the consequences that correspond to the morals and social norms of the time.”

He also said in that ༺“its rather ridiculous to see those grifters making sh*t up out of one screenshot and a poorly🌠 translated tweet”.

He later put out to address the controversy. He clarified that there are no unskippable cutscenes, the game hasn’t been banned anywhere to their knowledge, the presence of racial diversity is historically justified, and that yes, 🦹the protagonist can have a “s🐭ame-sex adventure”, and since it’s an RPG, you can choose whether or not to take part.

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Gamergaters Don’t Really Care About Nuance

That last part is important – most gameꦕs aren’t forcing you to play a gay character. Apart from very rare exceptions like and , it is, on its face, an entirely true and fair thing to say: nobody is forcing you to be gay.

Unfortunately, Vávra seems to have misunderstood what Gamergate is actually about. While some prominent faces of the movement are saying that all of this isn’t really that big a deal, the replies are full of people saying they’ve refunded the game, that Vávra hid the inclusion of theꦅ same-sex romance because he knew it would be controversial, and that he should have just not added t𓃲he romance at all.

That’s because the movement isn’t about developers havin🔥g freedom to add what they want to according to their personal preferences or “forced diversity”, it’s about anti-progressivism. It’s not about players being able to play the way they want, but about not giving players the option to do anything that could be considered ‘woke’.

There’s no winning when you side with leopards, because the leopards don’t have your interests at heart. They don’t care about developers – they regularly talk about how they can tank studios that do things they don’t like. They don’t care about free speech, unless it’s so they can espouse hate speech with no consequences. They ඣcare ab🍌out eating faces.