Because it's always the same angle for these kind of scenarios, "Brexit is bad, end of the freedom, blablabla...". And they present you that as being subversive like, "fight the power", while it is not. I would be more interested in playing a game that would put us in an original perspective than the very safe anti-Brexit leftist politically correct ideology.
Who cares? One could argue the same thing if they made a game like "Enemy Of The State". My friend, they must talk about the government, senators, the president, NSA and many matters regarding policy making as its in the damn narrative of the game.
Put it this way, it would be like saying we can't make a game in the UK in general because one could argue " it's always the same angle for these kind of scenarios, "UK is bad, end of the freedom, blablabla..." or we can't make a game about America cause " it's always the same angle for these kind of scenarios, "America is bad, end of the freedom, blablabla..." or we can't make game about Japan cause " it's always the same angle for these kind of scenarios, "Japan is bad, end of the freedom, blablabla..."
Maybe don't play anything that references anything, but we can't just ignore reality cause you getting upset at something. The game is dealing with something regarding policy making, i have no clue why they would then ignore current events in a universe that is relevant to that exact thing.
I think they should be free to create what ever they want without limitation as I have no desire to have games made to make others not get emotionally upset, or to keep others feeling like they need to be in some sort of "safe space" cause they are upset about something.
Play something else then....
Why would they censor their game for you? It makes zero sense, what other medium have you ever seen do something like that? We'd never be able to even have a game like House Of Cards or West Wing or anything like that if someone is going to start getting emotional cause they feel they are um "offended" by something.
Play something else then... very simply choice. The developer has zero reason to remove all things that might offend people as what I've seen, anything seems to offend folks theses days.
Stilton Disco
"Which has nothing to do wtih Brexit" Dude relax, chill, its simply a narrative they are using for a FICTIONAL game. This game was deep in development while Brexit even happened, they added it as it could work to fit in the world to make it more believable referencing it.
"Instead they're parroting the same fear mongering " well yes, ITS A FICTIONAL GAME ABOUT A FAKE FUTURE THAT IS FEARFUL!
You folks take some of this stuff way, waaaaaay too seriously. You don't seem to even understand they are simply using a real life thing to reference in the title to make it more believable. That would be like trying to say in Fallout series with China inferred to be at war with America that leads to the fallout that "Instead they're parroting the same fear mongering " etc. Well....the damn title is about a fearful future.
You folks telling me no one can make anything cause it might offend you guys or something?
Kazza
Not really, I think the team simply uses it because it would be weird not to. The series existed BEFORE Brexit and even this game was being made before that even happened. Our security measures in the United States have increased and privacy has decreased post 9/11, It would be like trying to argue the developers only watch news from 1 side and that is how they made Watchdogs....instead of just understanding its a fictional title that is using a fake fearful future as a backdrop and using relevant current events to make that future more believable. To not talk about those policies or those current events all based on not making a few folks "offended" sounds like it legit trying to neuter developers.
By this logic, we should never have any game based on Earth, I mean who knows where they are getting their news from right? Who knows who they pray to right? Who knows who they voted for right? We don't want to upset or offend everyone so no one make anything that might be a reference of anything?
