I know what you mean, I've explained myself, perhaps in this very same thread? That their rationale for why they go easier on Asia but expect western games to toe the line is that they think any western dev putting sexy women in a game is reverse virtue signaling and sending the message of "HONOR AND GLORY TO GAMERGATE!" whereas they assume Japan knows nothing about that.
However that's different than the past, back around 2015 they got just as buttpained over sexy women in Japanese games too, but have since strayed away from that, I think Nier Automata is a big reason why, that was a crossover hit and everyone loved the character of 2B, so they just let her robot buttcheeks slide.
But I do think they might stray away from it in western games too as it's only going to become more and more absurd to complain about a video game girl in a bikini while many women on Twitch are pretending to lick people's ears.
Make no mistake though, there won't be any apology, there won't be any "sorry, we were wrong to give gamers so much grief over this", they'll just quietly move on and get angry if anyone tries to bring up the past and point out the hypocrisy.
imo it's more like they tried and failed, and 6 years after the journalist holocaust aka gamergate people simply don't give a fuck anymore (and asia never did) while anime/manga/asian stuff is shitting over local entertainment pretty much everywhere. a big part of the whole thing is attention whoring (like companies talking about BLM for marketing), which doesn't work if people simply ignore it or outright tell you to STFU and they can't handwave it away as misogynistic incel chuds.
they're still trying of course because we're not in the clear yet and lot of companies are rotten to the core, but with corona, inflation and life in general getting more and more shit no one has time to get butthurt over skin-colored pixels; what's worse for their retarded crusade the more shit things get, the more people are looking for distraction and escapism, which western media can't provide anymore - even if they stop politicizing their games, all those diversity hires
will have an effect on the final product. turns out that danger hair wailing about social justice on twitter all day and gets on everybody's nerves about trans rights isn't a very productive or competent coder, who would've thought.
change and consequences like that were always inevitable, but for that you'd need to have a basic grasp about history, which most leftoids simply lack or willfully ignore. as for the companies, they'll either go under or change course, like it always happened, and most people don't care if they enjoy the product. the people tho made an effort to be very loud and very annoying while making sure to be as identifiable on the internet as possible to show everyone how on the right side of history they are, would be a shame if someone remembers all that once society inevitably shifts like it always does... (that's not a threat, but simple reality that if you blast your nonsense for the whole world to see someone in the world will see it, remember it and most likely bring it up at some point depending on his or her goals. now imagine that someone being an official for a government which doesn't align with your past political views).
That said some other retard will take her place as Social Justice Waifu for these morons.
doubt it, it was the perfect storm really. ofc there will always be another prominent figure being retarded, just like jack thompson was before her, but they won't have much influence anymore. video games are a very young medium, remember she tried the same grift with movies before (and after), and we all know how that went, imo those were part of it's growing pains. the more companies fail and people get sick of it, the more companies and people will tell those retards to fuck off.