As a gay dude, i find forcably inserted pro-homosexuality declarations to be patronizing but whatever, everyone from nike to cocacola is doing it these days, why not reaffirm your bullshit in my escapist fantasy world.
I clearly needed more pats on the head to validate my existence, especially in the place i go to get away from this gross shallow marketing crap.
If you read about it you'll find that this type of business strategy goes to selling more of your product to upper middle class heterosexual colledge aged students because gay isn't actually a market for anyone outside of the liquor or night life industries (Seriously that's a big one to read up on, it's interesting tbh)
When you study history, but as minors you do marketing and philosophy, you pick up on something... 0% of things a company does are for moral reasons, and a massive chunk of personal philosophy is sold and modified by marketing campaigns.
So yeah, they're not forward thinking, they're just marketing
nobody is celebrating except the crew who worked their asses off on this though
and let's be honest, that production was good, really good. The artwork was decent and comparatively to the depth of the old lore, the storytelling was significantly stronger
the issues I have are specifically with the ethics of modifying champions on such a level that it undoes a character from the story to such an extent that it pushes 1tricks and mains away from that character.
obviously riot made the character so they have the right, but I'm mostly concerned with their lack of an attempt to collab with the community on the lore with these things at the least, or give us a few choices to vote on the direction of a champ rework instead of just eliminating an old champ and giving us something and telling us tough we're stuck with it.
Examples of that are Urgot, Sion, and Yorick. Most people like the reworks but i'm sure that the community of mains would have appreciated it more if they were even given the illusion of having input or consideration into how their champion gets completely and irreversibly altered in a way that changes everything from builds to lanes and power spikes
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