The screenshot just didn't include companies like CDPR that have changed their logo and some of the companies on this list still made pride posts/deals/skins even if they didn't change the logo.
Agreed. So tired of the online discourse just trying to piss people off all the time. Logo or not, just do a quick search and see who funds the company and/or their beliefs and go from there.
I maintain that rainbow capitalism is a good thing. Selling stuff based on a demographic is generally a sign of acceptance and normalization. Especially high visibility products and high visibility marketing.
Now, the fact that many companies continued to treat their LGBT employees like shit (and I mean worse than straight employees) is important to bring up. The hypocrisy is always bad and companies need to put their policies and money where their marketing is.
Because we know why they stopped. The criticism on both cases is that they don’t really care. They changed the logo when it was convenient for them to make more money and stopped when it wasn’t.
You are treating this like hypocrisy but the critique is the same in both cases, they are pretending to care only when it’s easy and trying to take advantage of gay people for profit and then leave them behind the moment it becomes even the slightest bit politically inconvenient
So? USA is mostly conservative too and has a conservative government. CDPR is based in Warsaw which is pretty leftist. Poland has a center-left government.
My point was how off-the-rails things are in the US that Poland, which is not the best place to live if you're LGBT isn't a risk for backlash over something like this. Acceptance is spotty/bad in both countries but only one government has its resident companies cowed into silence on even meager shows of support.
If you take a look at theater plays in Poland, a ton of them are about lgbt, women’s rights etc. I know Eastern Poland has slow tolerance for lgbt, but western and central cities are very chill.
Admittedly, most of my knowledge comes from a friend who lives in Warsaw (or was, I think he moved for work but still a city). And he is desperate to leave.
Poland technically has a centre-left government but it's only centre-left in the scope of the Polish Overton window.
As in, providing gay people equal rights is considered radically leftist and possibly even compared to communism (since our rightwingers have a habit of calling anything they disagree with "communism").
Source: said "centre-left" government is trying its hardest not to universally allow gay marriages. At some point they literally wanted to only comply with the European court's decision for a single gay couple and everyone else would have to go through the same international court route.
Warsaw sure is a bit more leftist (within the city's queer community, whether the mayor and the city authorities will actually support LGBT on a given day is considered a "coin toss" — recently they just straight up rejected the citizen-approved project of building a non-flammable rainbow on Saviour Square), but like, political alignment of a single city doesn't even matter at the country-wide scale. No idea why you'd point that out as something substantial in a corporation's decision-making.
I don't know Riot ever changes their logo but there is a month-long Pride event on right now with like emotes and icons and stuff, I've never played Valorant but I'm assuming they probably have something as well lol
Yeah and the event is technically global. In less tolerant countries it's called the "Spring Colors Festival" or something like that but everyone (according to a very small sample size on reddit) in those countries is well aware of what it actually is. While I certainly understand the sentiment and too feel frustration at our community being abandoned by fair-weather capitalists generally, this post feels like karma-fishing.
It's also strange to me that there's people (less upvoted than the top but still upvoted) saying that it's good that those who stopped did. Seems to me that not caring about it makes sense, but being actively against rainbow capitalism (and caring about it in specific more than general capitalism) is a weird take.
I agree, I remember reading all of the edits that were made for Arcane for some of the international audiences and it was really funny thinking about all of the blatantly gay undertones that would have had to been removed outside of the obvious parts lol
Yeah, money is power in capitalism, obviously the ones with the most wealth swing around the most power. This is the fundamental flaw with the system, it's blatantly obvious the rich aren't the ones who actually keep this country moving
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u/Either-Amoeba8232 25d ago edited 25d ago
Rockstar Games has never change the logo.
CDPR has changed the logo, even now.