The Origins of DEI as Seen Through the Lens of Gaming

Legendary Drops is a gamer, who talks about video games

Good games win, bad games fail.

While the embedded video does cover the current state of gaming in depth, there is a section, early on, that deals with the origins of DEI consulting, and how it has grown into a monsterous industry, that is destroying more than just video games and movie studios.

And game studios, like movie studios and other industries, are running up against the fact that in 2024, gamers don't have the budgets that they did for entertainment, 5 years ago. So they are being VERY discriminating for any games they buy. Preorders are down, because they won't risk that some DEI consultant as ruiened their favorit franchise. It's not like it hasn't happened over and over again the past few years. (See the sales figures for Star Wars Outlaws, or the current fiasco that is Assassin's Creed.)

So. What's the impact of DEI on gaming? It's performative inclusivity for Corporations and governments who have weaponized it to meet financial goals while ignoring the impact on the product or the audience. It's creating poorly executed games, surface level attempts at diversity that are nothing more than transparent greed, because we know that they don't care and we see it in broad daylight. It's dividing the people in The Gaming Community and it's being co-opted by Twitter engagement farmers and games media Fanning the Flames to keep the hatred going, keep them mad keep them fighting, because at the end of the day the only thing that matters is that they stay relevant, and it's the only way that they can make money it's about suppressing genuine criticism.

This is the Legendary Drops video The real impact of DEI in gaming

One thing that Legendary Drops covers at the end of the video, is "Why worry about video games?"

You have to worry about culture because politics is downstream from culture. And our political landscape is insane. The Democratic party is arguing that we need to have censorship to protect freedom. They want to lock up their political opponents, because how dare you disagree with me.

How did we get here? The answer is simple. The Right abandoned culture to the Left. "We're too serious to worry about trivial things like movies, TV, comic books and manga, or video games." OK. You didn't want to "worry" about culture. So I ask the conservatives, "What exactly were you trying to conserve?" It wasn't culture, and it wasn't education. You tuned both of those things over to the Left.