As a gaymer, Paradox can not be homophobic, PI does not exist, its a company. And all companies exist to earn money. Which means Paradox despite its claims of diversity, will never disavow its core audience. Yes, that core audience. Those people who cried wolf during "deus vult" debacle.
Paradox acted in bad faith, period. Now their attempts at saving face is both hilarious and sad. Saying "we have lgbt coders" is like responding accusations of racism with "I have black friends too".
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First I'd like to adress WaffleIron issue. The fact that they allowed an EU4 exe before sets a hypocritical precedent. Moreso, despite claiming it breaks TOS, Paradox profits over breaks of TOS, which forbids any mention of hatred on mods. Which is fine, but considering many mods have such content but not got C&D makes you wonder.
Its because they make money. They bring users. They bring attention. Who cares if you can genocide everyone with Himmler? Who cares if "some political group" uses Oaradox games for propaganda? You don't care. Purge the gay modder who showed your disregard at best and ineptitude at worst.
Secondly, this has been an issue you kept your silence for 7 months, again bad faith. But removing concubines was something you did
intentionally. Either it was intentional, and if it wasn't, it means you do not know what you code. I'm going to assume the first option. Which means despite knowing the complaints, you took further steps to hardcode heterosexuality. Again, bad faith.
Now you claim to fix the issue in the next update, which will de-hardcode SSR, which means all the code you did is going to change. Again, what was the point of that code if you were going to de-hardcode it then? Let me tell you. You did not expect the backlash and now trying to save face. Thats it.
And on this thread, I really hate how thinly veiled homophobia is disguised under "immersion" on a game about incestous cannibal devil spawn witch dukes. It just shows that these people take an issue with gay people existing, rather than immersion.
I don't care if my existence, representation breaks your immersion. Sorry not sorry. Again, Paradox, in its all bad faith, does not actually care about diversity and inclusion to go through it. They only care about money. And like I can't say its good or bad, but stop pandering to gay people if you're not willing to commit to it.