Any game involving Africans has to be woke, according to them and the devs have been fighting a barrage of trolling and obvious racism since the game was put up on steam.

  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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    23 hours ago

    I think the devs are making a mistake by reacting interacting the trolls.

    They are people frothing at the mouth and sent on that steam page with a political agenda. It seems the devs think they will “change their minds” after they brought the topic of slavery for no reason…

    So I will add this to my wishlist check if I can report the posts that are straight up insults or racists and move on.

    The trolls in question can’t stand that this game might be successful and there is nothing they can do beside review bombing at release which should trigger Steam’s detection.

    Don’t feed the trolls and entertain them with a discussion…

    • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Maybe the devs are acutely aware of the Streisand Effect and using the trolls to boost marketing.

      There are numerous examples of boosts in sales when fascists try to villify something. I imagine Kimmel’s viewership has increased even factoring in the markets he’s pulled from.

      Nothing generates mass support like Nazis hating on something; nothing destroys faster than a Nazi embrace.