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I guess the devs of the game didn't get all those messages from his books and noticed only fighting and sex and decided to create a game about fighting and sex in a sexist world :'(

This fits very much into our never-ending problem : Games for men developed by men. Gothic, my prime example.

Games are *never* developed as a female version of the "monomyth". It's always for men.

Current games are about growing in power, using violence a THE ultimate solution to solve problems … This is okay in an male-dominated warrior culture … which the U.S. , in which most developers are located, mostly is ("Peacemaker" as a name for a gun.).
Other countries are similar. Games are merely developed to let men behave manly. They don't even think about the money they could gain by developing more for women. It's like blank space in their heads that doesn't even have the thought that money could be earned by developing just a little bit more for women …

And then, there's this toxic, misogynic horde of trolls lurking around every corner, always more-than-ready to destroy anyone who is female in the gaming world (remember that female writer at Bioware ? People will still try to hide themselves behing a shield of lies like "… but it was justified that we drove them out of that firm !")

The more feminism is on the rise, the more equal men and women become, the more hatred there is on the male trolls' side.
 
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There were some random things bad in the first Witcher (like a starving elf offering her body after you give her food), but the third installment is worse overall.

...Why do you even feel compelled to defend CDPR? Why must I go soft on them? Whatever the excuse, that's how they feel and they totally mean it. They believe that's how the world really is.

I'll unsub from this thread, sorry if you wanted to reply, but I can get emotional over such topics and I want some peace right now instead :)

Yeah thats some straight up bad writing regarding the starving elf. I was speaking in a past tense on CD Projekt because I haven't played enough of their recent games. I always give a (then new) studio the benefit of the doubt because idiocy or ignorance can explain so much that people attribute to malice. That CDPR have a different perspective on the world is beyond doubt. Been nice chatting with you :)
 
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I can say one thing to clear everything up without having to go into details: I've seen pieces of Sapkowsky's Witcher novels cited on feminist sites in my country many times! Can you imagine what kind of novels they must be to get cited on feminist sites as examples of book characters speaking the truth about the world we live in? :)
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As if it could be a measure. Feminists also pushed as an iconic figure a porn actor who raped his partners, just because he paid lip service to the cause.
 
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I have to say I finished Game of Thrones and it is ONE OF THE BEST STORIES IN A GAME. Only beaten by Planescape: Torment.
 
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