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Blizzard is 100% fine with their games having a political message when they think it gives them free brownie points (announcing various characters as being explicitly gay), but are complete total cowards when it might cost them something.

Being gay isn’t political.

No, being gay itself is not a political decision, but making a big deal about how progressive you are as a company because your game has gay characters is very much a political statement.

I am completely unaware of blizzard tooting their own horn for being progressive about having a gay character.

Undoubtedly they’ve used gay and lesbian characters in marketing, but marketing towards gay and lesbian people is, again, not a political statement in and of itself.

What exactly are you trying to say? Blizzard has indeed used pride flag in marketing materials and that is a VERY political statement

Do not mistake a giant faceless corporation’s product marketing decisions for anything other than the soulless money grubbing than they are.

If Blizzard actually were so politically progressive, perhaps they might not be in this situation of backlash.