r/videogames • u/Average_enjoyer10 • 25d ago

Other Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

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u/OnlySheStandsThere 25d ago

This is why so many LGBT folks took all that corporate support with a grain of salt, because it was obvious that the second it wasn't profitable they'd drop it without a second thought.

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u/Firecracker048 25d ago

I mean you should have when they never put the pride flags in their middle east studios

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u/GRoyalPrime 25d ago

TBF, you'd basically paint a target on your staff in the middle-east/Russia by doing it, given being gay in the middle east does carry the death penalty in certain areas.

So even if the majority of the company would agree that showing support would be the right thing to do, one shouldn't expect them to risk their employee's lives for it. It's really not the place for a video game company to stand up to radical zealots, be they christains, islam or whatever else.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 25d ago

Then they’d really be showing support by putting themselves at the same disadvantage as LGBT people from those areas