that was made by 4 dudes? that's insane! i genuinely don't believe that.
As far as I know, Larian never championed themselves as "le based" developers and did not argue with shitlibs on X, like Vavra. Their game is also a fantasy and it begins with character creation. You can play as a faggot elf to your hearts content, if that's your thing.
beyond that, with how pozzed D&D had become (remember the movie? or Critical Role?) it made sense to allow queer shit like that, and it paid off too, they sold way more copies than that game had any right to because Tabletop gaming, turnbased, and isometric games have become a fuckload more popular than they were 20 years ago.
meanwhile i don't think CRPG historically accurate skyrim-esque games are known for a fanbase of pro-gay, pro-nonwhite people.
Why even add the gay shit in though? If it's hard to do and 'optional' (there isn't an option to remove it) then why do it?
I can't wait for the nigger to lecture the player about how immigration is good, despite the world going to shit because of it.
the money is too good? everyone ITT has admitted to getting the game for $5 or less, meanwhile some random guy offers a million dollars to include some gay shit? what would you take?
just like the YouTube culture warrior sell-outs who fluffed Picard Season 3 because the show runner gave them interviews and early screenings.
this is a great point. so many people on the right are so desperate to have anything to enjoy they'll hold their nose on anything. Picard was just as shitty as Rogue One but the RLM were cumming in their pants over picard season3.
You see a similar thing with BG3, i know numerous people who were anti-gay a dozen years ago who were just so starved for any good AAA game that they just go "you know you don't have to play those parts right?" and just enjoy the game.
It reminds me a lot of Fallout,
there were no gays in the series until New Vegas and no one really talks about it either, or if they do its the classic "but its written well:" that grummz is using.
Nobody planned it, there wasn't any big catalyst for it dying,
you clearly weren't there. as Metokur said around the time of his goodbye video back then. the movement committed suicide when it suddenly decided that contacting advertisers was a bad move. Only him and his now wife were the biggest people understanding that doing that was the only way to force these companies to kneel and instead the alt-light cucked hard.
If you're paying attention to recent history Chris Rufo has been able to kill off SJW stuff by basically contacting Advertisers, Sponsors, or Alumni of whatever college was instituting that DEI bullshit and even if the dean of the college initially put up a defense, after a month they'd give up. So in a way we could have killed off this DEI bullshit a decade earlier if people were willing to fight. but they were not. I remember them swinging the banhammer on Kotakuinaction at that time too.