To further clarify what I mean on the uniqueness of Cyberpunk outrage: Imagine if a user during the release of Persona 5 Royal implied that anyone who was giddy or supported Persona was homophobic/transophobic. Or demanded that all discussion on it was banned. And they repeatedly posted off-topic posts about it in other threads. As many right now are doing for Cyberpunk.
Those posters would've been banned for harassment of other users and trolling. But now it's different for Cyberpunk. Why?
Personna 5 had a subplot of a gay couple sexually harassing a underage boy and playing it off as a joke. And in another Atlus game, Catherine Full Body, the trans woman character opts to stay as a dude in the happy ending. Oh and the male protagonists reacts with horror/disgust when she shows him her genitals.
That sure as hell sounds worse than CDPR's one admittedly lame ass tweet, and one iffy in-game poster. Sure they could have done better on the voice-pronouns thing, but CDPR is at least giving an effort to improve on LGBT issues. Like I don't doubt they will release a patch to fix the pronoun issue. Atlus has done no such thing. Hell Japanese Atlus wouldn't even let American Atlus fix/remove the gay sex predator subplot.
Yet one could end up being banned on Era and the other gets a pass. Not to mention other problematic franchises like Fire Emblem with its pedo/loli dragon girl and Xenoblade with its hentai looking designs.
If going forward, any game with problematic elements is soooo bad, that it has to be banned and users shammed for being fans of it, then that must apply to all games with problematic elements.
Otherwise it appears like a lot of this outrage is only a shield to bash games/devs/companies certrain posters already dislike or had no interest in. It's nothing but self-gloating, users bragging about how woke they are (without making much of a personal sacrifice), and slapping down Era users who they feel don't share their same level of passion.
I do wonder if Cyberpounk/Harry Potter talk is banned, if some users will try to do this with other big franchises too?
A sick part of me wonders what would happen if Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, Street Fighter, or Persona became the next target. That would start a civil war at Era for sure.