No it doesn't. It's the very simple tactic that has allowed this nonsense to propagate in video games for a decade. Giving these people ammo is dumb.
And every time it's been done, it's been received with massive amounts of backlash. I'm not really understanding how offensive jokes somehow equate to others using justification to try and make these types of games to begin with.
I could understand if you were talking about alt-right-centric websites, forums, or even other boards on 4chan dedicated to these topics" places with some substantial amount of pull to them or a large userbase to sustain these opinions.
But again: if people are using
Kiwi Farms, with a userbase of 40,000 max, as their catalyst for action and are spreading this to others as a way to stick it to "them mean ol' captialist Nazi gamers" and people are changing games to go
strictly against that narrative for no other reason than to stick it to the other party, not only is that a fucking terrible idea that alienates their core audience, but that would mean that KF has a lot more pull than we thought and we've just been standing idly by while the people we've been arguing about have been constantly shooting themselves in the foot to get back at us, and the crowd they
think we're affiliated with. And somehow I don't think that's the case: I'm pretty sure Naughty Dog and Sony don't
actually care about us and are just in damage control mode, as evidenced by them licensing out some random unaffiliated anti-piracy company in the UK to do their dirty work
for them.
If they really
did care that much, this place would've been sued into oblivion and shut down a
long,
LONG time ago.
I'd rather have a great new game to play than have another shitshow to laugh at. The former is much more rare than the latter.
Then just play other games, there's 1000's of them out there.
...Alright, that's not really a fair solution to the situation, lemme play along then for a second:
Even if we're being lenient and say that we are "ruining video games" forever by acting like this, or that normies will reeee at us and justify bad writing because of it: there will always,
ALWAYS statistically, be a set of creators out there (be they left, right, or center; indie or AA/AAA) who will focus on creating fun game experiences over pushing gender politics and sticking it to other "toxic gamers". There's billions of people out there, there's no way it can't happen. And these games are everywhere. On Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, anywhere: contrary to what you've probably been force-fed, not all games from these services are shovel-ware virtue signaling studio-mandated garbage; some of them are, but you just need to know where to look, know what you want, and use the tools provided by these services to find games more to your liking.
Games like The Last of Us: Part 2, Mass Effect Andromeda, YIIK, and Battlefield V are pandering trash, and that's not gonna go away no matter what people on here or anywhere else on the Internet say or do; it's been like that ever since games could tell stories. You just need to learn to separate the garbage from the legitimate passion projects and works of art. And if you still want to be on this crusade to stop these games from happening by stopping people from saying the magical gamer word and slurs, here's a better idea:
just don't buy the game. Advise other people not to buy the game, inform people, because that's the main motivator behind
all of this; it's just an attempt to gain other niche audience to add to the laundry list of others, and once they've got them and nobody cares, they'll move on to whatever other new audience catches their attention (see now with China).
And if you still want to take down these writers for fucking up games you love and breaching this mentality into the mainstream consciousness: then share the games that you do love with others; kill them with kindness as I say. Word of mouth travels fast. For instance, let take Undertale: Undertale was originally just an indie game created by a former composer for Homestuck, another formely niche webcomic that nobody cared about until people started discussing it within other fandoms until it boiled over and people checked it out of curiousity. In Undertale's case, several large YouTubers and influencers started playing it, which in turn garnered more people: now Sans is a costume in one of the most normie IPs ever made, Super Smash Bros., simply by virtue of Undertale becoming a phenomena through extensive discussion and intrigue.
This wave is already passing. The Last of Us: Part 2 just expedited that process. If you wanna expedite it more, be the change that you wanna see in the industry, and hit 'em where it hurts.
That's how you send your message.