Loool. The OT/review threads are gonna be something.
I am still hopeful that they will ban discussion of the game entirely but lets wait and see.
The dream scenario is that the game gets a 96 or 97 review rating on Metacritic but my suspicion is that a number of outlets will mark the game down over this "transphobia".
I honestly don't see it though. Nothing really hateful has come from CDPR and if anything I'd say they've actively pandered to the trans community only to see it blow up in their faces.
Like the in game poster everyone is mad about SHOULD be seen as a positive but because they portrayed a *gasp* hot chick with a dick its seen as degrading and sexualizing. What they really wanted is to see something like Jim Sterling in badly done make up and a dress.
We want to see trans people in video games!
Noooooooo! This one is too hot! Reeeeeee!
Fuckin eejits.
Oh and the "did you just assume my gender" thing? The hyper SJW, Tumblrite, members of the trans community brought this on themselves. If your going to stupidly overreact when you are "mis-gendered" then people will see you as a bit of a stuck up cunt and will rightly take the piss. It's not transphobic. It's poking fun at a society where assuming someone's gender is becoming a perilous thing to do.
They always want to have their cake and eat it too.
How many genders are there?
"Oh infinitely many."
OK, what do I need to do to be one gender or another?
"Nothing you can self identify as anything you like. It's all good, you do you, be brave and bold and be what you want to be."
OK. I identify as an attack helicopter.
"Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
If trans women are women then why are these folk constantly making sure you know that they are trans? Why not just identify as a woman and leave it at that. You and I must identify them as women but they openly identify themselves as trans.
They will get pissy if you use the wrong pronouns. If you rib them about assuming your gender though they will throw a hissy fit. It's OK to just assume that I am a dude but absolutely not OK for me to assume anything about them.
I don't think it's cool to just endlessly dunk on trans people. It's better to try to understand and be kind.
However, a lot of posters over there are aggressive and unpleasant and I don't see any reason to treat them kindly if they are constantly looking for an excuse to kick off and constantly trying to corner people with their contradictory bullshit.
Which is really what they are trying to do with CDPR. The people developing the game think "we'll let players do whatever they want with body types, it is cyberpunk after all, and let's mess with the traditional gender binary with some in game artwork etc". Then these wee fannies decide to throw a mega hissy fit because it's not 100% exactly what they want.
Then after all that they still consider the average gamer to be some kind of screeching man-baby.