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This LGBTQ+ Steam Sale is ridiculous

Katsura

Member
you don't get the luxury to decide your own sexual inclination,so even if it was promoting, it would be a really stupid idea since no one decides to be heterosexual/gay/trans/whatever...you don't control who or what you want to fuck.
The motivation is to score some cheap virtue points and free publicity. Do you honestly think all those companies showing the rainbow flag during pride month gives a shit about the cause? That's so incredibly naive
it sounds wrong because you are showing support for something that doesn't need it...heterosexuality is the norm and the overwhelming majority, heterosexual people don't face discriminations because of that, they don't get deny any particular right because of that, so what are you supporting them for exactly?
Who gets to decide who needs what? You? And why does something have to 'need' support in order to be celebrated? Why can't you show support for something even if if someone like you deem it 'not needed'?

Straight males are huge part of the reason why we have made the advances that brought us here. What's wrong with celebrating that?

By the way, your line of thinking is what has brought us to where we are now - where it's perfectly fine to be insanely discriminatory against straight white males. Also, i'd like to see credible stats proving the overwhelming majority of homosexuals face discrimination because it sure as fuck isn't the case in Denmark
and no, it's not a zero sum game..supporting sexual orientations that are not heterosexual doesn't automatically means you are denying something to the heterosexual part....of course there are some dicks that will use their position as a minority like a charte blanche to say whatever they want or try to get an advantage, but that fault falls on the individual, not on the cause...supporting the rights of minorities doesn't get wrong because a part of said minority is made of dicks.
One could argue discrimination comes down to individual idiots yet apparently we have to dedicate not just a month, but multiple yearly events to a very small group that enjoys a whole slew of special protections. Why is that?
for your last point, if someone is telling you you can talk about men rights (of course depending on the subject and how reasonable your complaint is), tell them to go eat a dick and you do you. It's not us vs them, we don't need to "win" over the other side, we just need to stop generalizing and forming teams and start talking again.
Yes, it is an us vs them at the moment. When it's ok to be proud of being black, gay, asian, hispanic but not straight or white or when most politicians and media keep regurgitating lies in order to justify special treatment of women at the expense of men then it's very much an us vs them. You're promoting a 'solution' to discrimination which involves discriminating except against a different group. It's literally the opposite of equality
 
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If anyone would like to announce they are bisexual for clout now's the time.

I'd still fuck Soldier 76 btw.

Happy LGBTQIA+ Steam sale everyone!

(The + stands for the New Game Plus)
 
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What’s this thread about? I don’t get the problem
 

Kanton

Member
Its borderline exploitative but as long as theres countries in Europe treating gays like shit i`m all for it. Its like a christmas themed campaign, i dislike religion as much as sucking dick but it still a nice tradition. The generalisations when it comes to white males are also getting problematic but we can fight for more causes at once right?
 

PrimeTime

Member
I find it ironic that the world doesn't want to segregate and discriminate specific groups so the solution is to continue to segregate and categorize people into specific groups . Wha?
 

Majukun

Member
The motivation is to score some cheap virtue points and free publicity. Do you honestly think all those companies showing the rainbow flag during pride month gives a shit about the cause? That's so incredibly naive
Who gets to decide who needs what? You? And why does something have to 'need' support in order to be celebrated? Why can't you show support for something even if if someone like you deem it 'not needed'?
it's not that i believe it's made in good heart..it's that i don't care.
a good thing is a good thing, no matter the reason behind it.
they want pr point? let them have it.


Straight males are huge part of the reason why we have made the advances that brought us here. What's wrong with celebrating that?

again, we are talking about support, not celebration

By the way, your line of thinking is what has brought us to where we are now - where it's perfectly fine to be insanely discriminatory against straight white males. Also, i'd like to see credible stats proving the overwhelming majority of homosexuals face discrimination because it sure as fuck isn't the case in Denmark

are you even reading my posts or you just started with an idea in mind and you are debating that? where did i ever say it's fine to be discriminatory against anyone?
about homosexual discrimination, gay marriage is a relatively novel concept that still doesn't exist in many countries and (probably?) some us states. That is a discrimination, just to say the first one that comes to mind.
We can discuss for horus about why they should or should not have that right, but it's still a textbook discrimination.

One could argue discrimination comes down to individual idiots yet apparently we have to dedicate not just a month, but multiple yearly events to a very small group that enjoys a whole slew of special protections. Why is that?
Yes, it is an us vs them at the moment. When it's ok to be proud of being black, gay, asian, hispanic but not straight or white or when most politicians and media keep regurgitating lies in order to justify special treatment of women at the expense of men then it's very much an us vs them. You're promoting a 'solution' to discrimination which involves discriminating except against a different group. It's literally the opposite of equality

aaand at this point i have no idea what are you talking about. You seem to have made a whole lotta of assumption and answered to those instad of what i wrote, so i'd say we have finished here.
 
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Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
it's not that i believe it's made in good heart..it's that i don't care.
a good thing is a good thing, no matter the reason behind it.
they want pr point? let them have it.




again, we are talking about support, not celebration



are you even reading my posts or you just started with an idea in mind and you are debating that? where did i ever say it's fine to be discriminatory against anyone?
about homosexual discrimination, gay marriage is a relatively novel concept that still doesn't exist in many countries and (probably?) some us states. That is a discrimination, just to say the first one that comes to mind.
We can discuss for horus about why they should or should not have that right, but it's still a textbook discrimination.



aaand at this point i have no idea what are you talking about. You seem to have made a whole lotta of assumption and answered to those instad of what i wrote, so i'd say we have finished here.


Gay Marriage has been legal in every state for a while now. When you try to do your fear mongering of how bad the LGBT community has it, at least get your facts right.
 
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Majukun

Member
Gay Marriage has been legal in every state for a while now. When you try to do your fear mongering of how bad the LGBT community has it, at least get your facts right.
i'm not american so you woill excuse my lack of deep knowledge about gay marriage in your country

also, crazy fact, the US are not the only country in the world, even though sometimes the internt would like to assume it's the case.
 

Dr. Claus

Vincit qui se vincit
i'm not american so you woill excuse my lack of deep knowledge about gay marriage in your country

also, crazy fact, the US are not the only country in the world, even though sometimes the internt would like to assume it's the case.

It took me two seconds to look it up. You don't have much of an excuse.

Also nice strawman. Literally no one suggested otherwise, outside of you.
 

JORMBO

Darkness no more
It’s just one icon off to the side for people interested. I don’t see the big deal since it’s easy to ignore if not interested.
 

Winter John

Member
I do not think I need to justify myself, but if I have to, I'll do it.
Just know that I absolutely don't care about the sexuality of people, regardless of their gender.

You obviously do care about other people's sexuality because a small banner about a sale targeting members of the gay community caused you to have a total meltdown. You know who has meltdowns everytime they see any mention of homosexuals? Closet queers.

Once again. Get help. You'll feel better.

 

Shai-Tan

Banned
lgbtq people and others who want to see lgbtq perspectives would be interested in those games? that something is widely accepted in society is compatible with it also being a niche interest that still needs to be fostered in products for the people interested in that particular niche.

particularism noun:

a political theory that each political group has a right to promote its own interests and especially independence without regard to the interests of larger groups


anyhow, considering there isn't much difference between promoting that and some random niche genre suggests there's some uncomfortable attitudes about lgbtq people that militates against the idea that they should get over it because it's firmly in the dominant culture
 

Coflash

Member
I'm not seeing it in the Steam client here in the UK (I've never bought a game direct from the website ever tbh)

Well... you have, if you've purchased a game via Steam in the last few years. It's the same thing. The client uses the site, that's why when you go to 'Store' you will see the same URL in the address bar of Steam.

Either way - it seems they were promoting it not long ago, but no trace can be found in any featured area anymore.
 
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Kadayi

Banned
Well... you have. It's the same thing. The client uses the site, that's why when you go to 'Store' you will see the same URL in the address bar of Steam.

Either way - it seems they were promoting it not long ago, but no trace can be found in any featured area anymore.

Holy cunt flaps do I need to post fucking screen captures to be believed? FFS....

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See, it's not showing here in the UK. It wasn't there yesterday either.
 

Coflash

Member
I don't know what's worse; your temper or your lack of comprehension.

Please highlight for me where I said I didn't believe you or even questioned what you saw.

I've never bought a game direct from the website ever tbh

Well... you have, if you've purchased a game via Steam in the last few years. It's the same thing. The client uses the site, that's why when you go to 'Store' you will see the same URL in the address bar of Steam.
 

KyoZz

Tag, you're it.
You obviously do care about other people's sexuality because a small banner about a sale targeting members of the gay community caused you to have a total meltdown. You know who has meltdowns everytime they see any mention of homosexuals? Closet queers.

Once again. Get help. You'll feel better.


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I really think you read what you want to read, if for you my post sound like a "total meltdown" you are a pretty sensitive person. Read again all my post here and tell me my point is: omagad I can't stand the LGBT community.

Still, I do think LGBT sale is ridiculous, same would go for straight people sale.
 

Kadayi

Banned
Please highlight for me where I said I didn't believe you or even questioned what you saw.

Your mistake is to presume the store page is universal for everyone. I just logged in. Same page as I'm seeing in the client : -

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JSoup

Banned
0_0 Jesus, again, calm the fuck down you lot.

I was more interested to find that a high percentage of LGBTQ+ games were visual novels.
 

DrJohnGalt

Banned
I noticed this too, and I agree in principal with the OP. On that note, I'll admit I do look at the politics of marketing a lot more than the average consumer. I'm sick and tired of the "woke culture" and pandering. I've always scratched my head about the LGBTQ or Strong Female and other similar Steam tags. Why would anyone make a decision to buy a game based on this? If you can't enjoy a game because the character(s) or theme(s) don't exactly align with your real-life self, you've got bigger issues than which video game to buy. I enjoy games with female characters, black characters, gay characters, and characters that I normally wouldn't associate with in real life due to politics or personality.

I'm waiting for a Straight White Male category. Would it make me buy the game? Of course not. That would be pretty closed-minded if that was the thing that sold me. But can we say the same about LGBTQ tag influencing an LGBTQ buyer? Nope. That's "homophobic".

I'd like to say seeing tags like this actually keeps me from wanting to support the games simply because they are pandering, not because I necessarily disagree with the theme or characters. But I'm not sure if it's the devs that set the tags/cats or if it's Steam that does it.

Haven't played most of the games in the sale, but I think Life is Strange is one of my favorite games in the past few years. And I wasn't "forced" to play as a lesbian at all. Not because I didn't want to, but because I couldn't stand Chloe's personality. How many of these games are marketed toward LGBTQ players and how many just feature characters or themes that might fit into these categories?
 

Kadayi

Banned
Yes... that often confused me on the site I ran for almost a decade, advising people how to use VPNs, accounts from various regions, gifting methods (and so on) to get cheaper games. Please, tell me more.

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*Files under Care>Subsection Give A Shit*

10 years and yet you apparently only just landed here at GAF..... :messenger_dizzy:

You must have blazed that old account something fierce during the exodus if you've not thrown Evilore a Mea Culpa to get the old one back. 🤔
 
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Mohonky

Member
It was national coming out day yesterday so it makes sense. Also some of those games are decent (Tacoma, Life is Strange, Analogue A Hate Story, Night in the Woods, Red Strings Club).

This one made me laugh though:

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This legit seems like the sort of thing a 13yr old would make.
 

Shmunter

Member
These sales are nothing to do with LGBTQ, its for a corporate to advertise their corporate responsibility. No different to charity donations or diversity hires. It’s business cashing in on good deeds.
 

Silvawuff

Member
EGS will find a way to make being LGBT exclusive soon, I wouldn't worry too much about this Steam sale.

BTW totally get Night in the Woods if you haven't yet; the writing is excellent.
 

ROMhack

Member
Kadayi Kadayi the sale did show for me here in the UK. Steam's algorithms probably realise you're an alpha male and don't need no queer.

Edit: Not there this morning. Was yesterday,
 
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McCheese

Member
Going to hold out a bit, some of these games are likely to be reduced even further on Furry Friday.

I also find some of the games they've bundled into this LGBTQ+ sale are, well, they've basically just gone "yup that one looks a bit gay" and thrown it in, but I hope (you would think) that they got the developers to sign up to being part of the sale, rather than just grouping up everything that looks like it came from DeviantArt circa 2007

Galaxy Girls is on there for example, which is 100% a straight male fantasy fulfilment game. Stuck on a spaceship with a harem of sexy anime girls. Am I progressive for watching lesbian porn now? awesome!

As for companies not giving a shit, I think that's mostly true (e.g. banks etc) but the videogame industry is (shock!) inclusive, and I imagine Valve, and other companies in the area, have a lot of staff who feel represented by this banner. So, I'm not overly critical of this as a PR exercise, other than the choice of games included.
 
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