I am very bad at updating this, but I do want to keep doing it. It’s a combination of laziness and the thought that it’s all pointless stopping me. Not only that but most of what I could put here ends up in an IRC channel where it can be instantly digested by readers. I remarked on this during a discussion about Shadow Complex and the (in my OPINION) pointless boycott that some people are doing over it due to the OPINIONS of someone who was tangentially involved with the project.
Orson Scott Card is apparently a prolific Science Fiction author, I wouldn’t know about him since I’m in the UK, except recently he’s been all over games media because of his OPINIONS about gay people and related legislature. People are not buying Shadow Complex because of this. I’m not going to recall my entire train of thought since it has since completely left the station, however what it came down to was that this author is not in a position of power where his money will actually make a difference beyond what any other ordinary human being can do, and that to not buy it is an insult to the other people who worked on it. Also there was a point about in any game you play there will be someone whose opinions do not agree with yours.
Allowing politics to affect our game purchasing decisions as opposed to the content is a disturbing idea. I enjoyed Shadow Complex immensely, but that’s not to say that I would buy a game that had a motif of “All Gays must have no rights and die and other things.”
Because that would be offensive.