However, the point I was trying to make is that people here can be so quick to judge something and will discard an entire game, which they know nothing about (and what they do is based on rumours and potentially false information), simply because they take offence at the first sign of any "pandering".
Well its not that far fetched that Dice is going to do this, its a likely possibility not some whacky conspiracy theory. They had some PC fiction in the last game, they got one upped by Call of Duty, and now there are credible leaks suggesting they want to take back the SJW developer trophy. If the leak was "BFWW2 to feature women characters" there aren't any red flags there, because there was a decent amount of women in the French resistance and Soviet army. But be honest, leaked concept art being 2/3 women...not looking good. Granted we haven't seen any pictures of female native American naval admirals yet, but even to suggest that women were the majority of the resistance is some pretty radical feminist stuff.
If this is accurate material, and there is a really good chance that it is, backlash may get Dice to change some stuff up. I'd much rather see the internet tear Dice a new asshole over credible rumors, than this whole radio silence routine because we "don't know." I don't want to end up with the Pride Platoon and the all female SAS squad in a WW2 game because nobody protested.
It really blows my mind how closed down to anything slightly new and threatening some people are
No this isn't about being closed minded to something "new." We aren't talking about bitcoin and VR porn, this is about telling outright lies. Promoting falsehoods is a "progressive" value, not a liberal one.
when in the end, it doesn't really matter.
It actually does matter because this isn't just about immersion in a videogame, its about brainwashing the ignorant to recreate history. This doesn't just apply to games, but that is included.