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PraetorXyn posted...

The issue is that back in the day, games being political was at least somewhat subtle where you had to think about what was happening for a few seconds to realize it, and it was organic: the games were political because the people creating them wanted them to be. So you just got immersed in it and didnt notice much of the time until looking at it with a critical eye.

Now, lots of times the marketing is focused on the political elements, and consumers have a sense that a lot of it was caused because some greedy executive forced that decision in search of greater profit, which rubs people the wrong way. This affects the ability to get immersed in it as well, which makes it worse.

But yeah, political nowadays basically means diversity for the sake of it. Ive been playing Triangle Strategy which is entirely about politics and difficult choices, but I dont think it would be considered a political game colloquially.

People will just hide the fact that they don't want to see minorities under the "political" tag, it sounds less offensive that claiming they think minorities deserve less media representation