Posted July 28, 2018
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PoppyAppletree: Yes, this. Criticism is not censorship, and criticising things doesn't mean that the people who are criticising something don't also appreciate that thing in other ways. I have plenty of criticisms of Banjo-Kazooie (like the terrible decision to use flat 2D objects in a 3D game), but I also think it's a great game. There's absolutely no reason why I can't criticise other games for other reasons, and the idea that having such criticisms means I don't play game is ridiculous.
It's a little over simplification; criticism is not censorship per se...but depending on how said criticism is done it can definitely be a call for censorship or at least result in for self censorship. If you criticize that you don't like the game play, or don't like a character, don't like part of the story, that's one thing, but when your critics starts using more and more loaded words or sentence like "sexists", "extremely toxic", "racist", when you start accusing the devs of games including those "problematic things" of being responsible for perpetuating "rape culture", "systemic racism" or whatever etc... it is no longer just an innocent criticism but it become a push to have those things being removed or at least "shamed" until devs stops using them on their own.
IMHO It's more insidious than an outright call for censorship and can potentially be a lot more damaging in the long run.
Post edited July 28, 2018 by Gersen