That's not what this thread is about. It is about three mods with a political agenda based on certain world views. These mods were posted because of this political agenda. Then you just have a look at the group of people here who follow this political agenda. The most active and vocal anti-censorship people actually want to censor everything they don't like. I gave you a certain example. Remember the Gulf of Mexico? This is another instance of this.

Just look at the mod site posted above.

You can read there:

"FU**ING CHI*K BASTARDS!"

"It would be really based if someone makes a mod where Eve can get r*ped by the enemies or where they can rip her insides out"

"Who cares about n***ers"

"here's hoping that tranny suicide rate will reach 100% this year"

Or you can just download a Christchurch mod and shoot some muslims.

Of course, there is no political agenda involved. /s

So what is the end goal here? Genuinely interested.

It is a mix of fascination that people "defend" these crappy mods and boredom. I am currently waiting for a download. :D

The issue with this isn't individual mods on their own no matter how distasteful some of them may be. As a package group, they reflect attitudes that are associated with white supremecy and a desire to roll things back to times when certain groups of people were property by virtue of being born the wrong skin color or gender.

Posting these mods as a group serves a purpose of signalling that GOG is a place for straight white men only. If you are not a straight white man, you don't belong here.

But worry not. the male in my household is gave me his permission to post this.

All of these arguments being made to ban mods have had nothing to do with the mods themselves, they are all arguments against bad people.

I'm sorry but I'm not playing into appeal to emotion arguments that are yet to explain to me why these mods should be banned. Especially when nobody has also been capable of explaining to me why the opposite mods are non-issue as reverse applications of the same things (black Geralt, gay Panam, female Wukong). I don't think any of these mods should be censored, I'll say that for the hundredth time. Making straight characters gay, making white characters black, making black characters white, making male characters female. None of it should be censored, they're just mods, they're not an attack, they affect your playthrough of a game by 0%.
And with this comment. I'm going to roll my eyes and go on another hiatus.

What is the political reason to change the skin of Geralt? What is the political reason to change the sex of Wukong?

Several people here in this thread have now pointed out the political agenda of the mods in question and the political reasons to post these mods. The user in question has a long history to post political induced messages. You are constantly ignoring this. This is not about just some mods to change things for funsies.

I could also point out that this isn’t about banning the mods themselves, it’s about whether or not they should be linked on GOG’s forums. And those are two very different issues.

To be honest, I don’t have a problem with the mods existing. There are horrible people out there who make horrible content, it’s unfortunate, but not surprising. However, GOG has a code of conduct that outlines what kind of content is appropriate for its forums.

So sure, go ahead and keep the mods - let them exist in whatever corners of the internet they thrive in. That way, at least we know where the racist, homophobic, history-revisionist losers are gathering to protect their fragile little egos. But there’s nothing that says GOG has to host links to that content, or give it a platform on their site.

Sounds like a fun game!

I really don't think it's about defending the content of the mods themselves, only being against the notion of removing them, for whatever reason. At least that's what pretty much all of the retorts in this thread seems to indicate.

Many seem to be jumping to the conclusion that not agreeing with wanting to remove/ban/delete links to these mods automatically means supporting them and everything they do/stand for.

You could also question why they would want to keep that kind of content up in the first place. GOG is, after all, a store, a business, and what happens on their forums reflects directly on their brand and image. I do think this would be a different discussion if the post was buried somewhere in a game’s subforum. But it’s not, it’s the first post in the release thread. If a potential customer visits GOG to check out the game and see what the community is saying, this might be the first thing they see. That matters.

I am pretty sure GOG monitors key threads, especially for big releases like KCD 2. I guess we will know on Monday, where they stand. I personally don't care and I'd assume most don't, but it's up to GOG to decide and nobody else.

Also, the thread actually is duplicated in the game specific forum too:
https://www.gog.com/forum/kingdom_come_deliverance_ii/mods_for_a_more_authentic_nonrevisionist_and_less_jarring_experience

CK3 allows you to make 90% of people homosexual. Is that heterophobia?

Most games allow mods to make characters be whatever the user wants them to be.

It is not necessarily a hate crime.

Haha it's the kind of game where you invest in the game once you make sure it is the kind of game that fits your portfolio and then you wait for the game - sorry - your investment to mature.

The mods are made for that sort of people, by that sort of people, yes?

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Wrong.

Read this again:

As far as I know, the Geralt mod isn't "hatespeech the mod" and definitely not on its own. For all I care, if you take a black character in a game and go "this mod makes him white" I'd think this is in poor taste but not worth thinking too much about.

But there's a distinct difference between "this mod lets you turn Geralt black" and "this mod reskins 'unhistorical characters' and 'corrects' it to Kiev and oh btw we found some evidence of LE EVIL WOKE DEVELOPERS BEING HIRED". Sorry, at this point the mod is this meme. It's not really a fair comparison.

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If you show up to a news thread about a new game and immediately post "you can download this mod which conveniently removes these unhistorical character", you're just re-broadcasting what you believe in. By my books, you broke Rule 0, and according to foad01 you've also broken the GOG CoC.

^ That needed to be said. First Amendment notwithstanding.

Thank you.