UP, at first you claimed that there was no trans phobia in the reviews. Then you made up a number of minimum trans phobic comments that you would require to believe that trans phobia and general opposition to LGBT issues are the main reason against the protest. When examples were provided you claimed the reviews were cherry picked and went on to cherry pick your own reviews. From the start it has been said that Steam, being the only site where only game owners can review, has the least anti-LGBT reviews by virtue of the fact that most of the complainers are not owners and merely wish to wage their war on SJWs or spew their hatred against a fictional trans person by complaining about the game. NOW that you can no longer claim that:
-The game isn't mainly getting negative reviews due to the transperson NPC
-That the aforementioned reviews aren't coming from people who don't even own the game
-That the character isn't just a "tool of a political agenda"
You have been reduced to picking the one site with the fewest protestors and cherry picking people who complain about legitimate issues BUT THIS DOES NOT MAKE THE PROTESTORS DISAPPEAR! No one has claimed that ALL the negative reviews are written by anti-SJW-crusaders or whatever trolls live in the deepest darkest places of the web, just that many of the people who complain about the addon mainly seem to hate the existence of a fictional transperson in the game.
No one has to prove that every player likes the game or that all the complainers simply hate whatshername.
Stop for a moment and read your own posts. Can't you see how dishonest you have been during this debate?
I never claimed that there was no transphobia, just that it was overblown. The reason I asked for evidence was an attempt at the Socratic method.
And my reviews weren't "cherry-picked," they were on the very first page of the Steam reviews. That is to say, they were the reviews people found the most helpful. Check
my link if you don't believe me. Most of the highly-rated negative reviews on Steam that I've read mentioned Mizhena only in passing, if at all.
As for why the response on Steam is different? Well, you're probably right about it being because you have to own a game to review it, but not for the reasons you think. Many of the first page reviews have a common theme: don't buy this game until it gets patched. As a result, people who might otherwise be interested in the game decide to wait. Meanwhile, people of a certain ideology are buying the expansion out of spite. How do I know this? Because Rami Ismail admitted it:
https://twitter.com/tha_rami/status/717459990374653957http://archive.is/KLOiAI never played the 1st Baldur's Gate before but I heard it pissing off the right people, so I guess it's likely good, so I'm buying it.
Hope he enjoys the non-functional multiplayer.
And if they're buying it out of spite, why not go one step further and leave a positive review out of spite? On GOG, I saw a number of obviously agenda-driven positive reviews. Some even admit to it:
Haven't played it yet, I just bought it to support diverse stories in gaming. I wouldn't have even paid attention to it if there wasn't some hate campaign against it.
Blaming the backlash mainly on transphobia is ridiculous. Look at the expansion's Metacritic user score compared to that of
Dragon Age: Inquisition, another game with a trans character. The latter got a 7.5. The former? 3.8. If it were primarily due to transphobia, you'd expect the scores to be much closer.