No-one Is Coming To Take Away Your Shitty Toys

“If a game critic calls you out over an ill-judged racist joke in your game (for example) and it goes viral and sparks a wave of public disappointment and lost sales, that’s not censorship! Even if a distribution platform like Steam removed you from their store, or a magazine refuses to write about it, that’s still not censorship! Your game is still intact, just as you made it – nobody has forcibly destroyed your master copies or thrown you in jail. What many angry defenders of the status quo describe as "censorship”, I would describe as “your audience reacting to the design choices you have made with your product”, just as they would if you manufactured a car with a giant spike protruding from the center of the steering wheel. Developers face a simple business decision over whether to adapt to this or not. And is it really so surprising that, as the average age of gamers continues to rise, there might be a growing segment of the market who react like grown-ups when presented with bigotry??“