You have to look at why someone is saying stuff like what I described. Motive is paramount.
It's one thing to say it if putting in such material is in service to realism or perhaps gravitas to a story. It's quite another to do it to justify your whackoff material or to, in relevance to this topic, grift money from viewers.
and what is his motive? unless you're a telepath it's nothing more than an educated guess, with a heap of "let's make the traitor more guilty".
I can draw a picture of vavra fucking you in the ass, that doesn't mean I secretly want to be vavra and fuck in you in the ass, or you and get fucked in the ass by vavra, or care that much about assfucking to begin with.
the problem with "discerning motives" is assuming there's only ever one reason for everything and everyone is 100% unironic, which falls apart the moment you meet your first 4chan shitposter - and we're talking about a literal sellout liar here who pandered 10 years ago to sell his game and did so now. saying in this specific instance he must be absolutely honest is retarded, faking being #based to sell his game isn't automatic proof he isn't faking shit for sales now, you can't just pick and choose for guiltmaxxing.
he can put whatever he wants in his game, just don't try to sell as something that it isn't, which is the real issue here, virtual teenfucking or not. call me when he actually tries diddling kids or trades CSAM, until then this whole topic is nothing more than a reddit tier witch hunt and outrage session.
But they will see woke themes in games like pronouns and ugly woman and troons and say they don't like it. But I thought it was fiction, right? So why are they so upset if their logic is "it only fiction and not reality" right? They get mad at woke stuff all the time but when it is loli involved they are like "it is just drawings."
almost like attention grifters overreact for internet fame and money and it only works with one of those two.
10 years ago no one would've given a flying fuck about dustborn, veilguard and all the other pandering crap besides making fun of it, because as you said it's just a shitty videogame. looking at dustborn no one cared even today, veilguard is pretty much forgotten already and the only reason people even remember starfield is the hype from being a bethesda game. you probably don't even remember all the other woke flops, let alone the ones that completely flew under the rader because it wasn't worth getting "mad" about it.
unless there's money and e-fame going after lolicon or "whatever that's popular to hate right now" no one gives as shit.