OH NO! The campaign for ethism in gaming journalism has failed because there are no white men in an ad for a game...
...Wait a minute. What does whites and/or men being in an ad have to do with ethics in gaming journalism?
In unrelated news, Kotaku In Action is melting as they argue over whether or not a gaming series that has been about fighting Nazis since 1981 is now bringing in daily politics into the game by having the player character fight Nazis.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/76m912/lovely_marketing_by_wolfenstein_2_1010/I wonder how the fuck anyone at Bethesda let Antifa's rallying cry get thrown in with their marketing lmao.
If they want to virtue signal and glorify modern McCarthyism-style witch hunting, then I'm fine just pirating the game instead of paying for it like I had planned to. I'll pop it right off my steam wishlist and "vote with my wallet".
Note, punching cyborg-Nazis is now a McCarthy style witch hunt.
"I'm a bit conflicted on this"
I'm not; these idiots have mishandled a marketing campaign so badly that some people in the year 2017 are going to side with the Nazis in a fucking Wolfenstein game. You know how hard it is to fuck up that bad?
...Yes, it is the fault of Bethesda marketing department that KiA sides with Nazis. This is no different from the "This is why Trump won" defense. Someone implies that a Nazi is a Nazi and in response people who had nothing to do with Nazis will suddenly convert into Nazism in support of real Nazis. They can't help it. Not their fault really. /s
The good thing about the Left’s insistence on “you are either with us or a Nazi” is that they’re pushing people into the welcoming arms of the Right.
Probably why they associated the "Alt-Right" with white nationalists: to deny centrists a banner to rally under that would declare their dissociation with the Left as well as the traditional Right.
I don't think it's gone as planned.
ALT-RIGHT ARE WHITE NATIONALISTS! YOU LYING PIECE OF SHIT! Alt-right was literally created by white supremacists to create a more PC and more marketable banner that would attract people to Neo-Nazism and white supremacy. And now that their image is "spoiled" they made up the "alt-lite" group and try to get that off the ground.
Getting tired of this, just one more:
I legitimately don't know how they screwed this up.
I was gonna get the game after having fun with the first one, but then the marketing guys doubled down on the whole contemporary politics thing.
I rather not give my money to a group that supports labeling people as Nazis and then condoning the assault of them.
OH NO! They labeled a Space-Nazi-Cyborg as a Nazi just because he has swastikas all over him and is part of a Space-Nazi-Cyborg army. How totally unfair!