Strongly disagree, I give zero shits about gender identity or Ellies sexuality etc.. I'm also pretty sure there are no trans people in the game and this is something made up by the trolls. But... I have read the leaks (and they are the entire game and not out of context at all).
I will not be buying TLOU2 at least not on release. My issues with the game are nothing (absolutely nothing) to do with politics/gender or any of that bullshit. My brother sent me the leaks when I didn't want to read them and was like "Dude, read them and you'll get the outrage" so I did. While I won't tell anyone to read them or encourage it, a vast majority who read the leaks are pissed for non-political reasons and don't want to be tagged as homophobic, facist etc... None of that matters because the plot is rubbish. There is nothing foolish about it the entire game plot is out there and has been confirmed with cutscene footage from 2 sources.
I know myself and at least 4 friends for whom it was a day 1 purchase and love the og all have the same feelings towards it.
Yes there is sadly a minority of hillbillies who are using the game as an excuse to be homphobic/facist but they are sad feckers that will do it anyway. There are also many ND defenders who tar everyone with issues with the game and put them in the same bracket as the others. Its wrong, the story is just shite.
Also, yes anyone who intentionally spoils the game on people who don't want it spoiled are attention starved degenerates and are never justified this I agree on 100%.
I really don't care whether you're going to buy the game or not. Or whether anybody else (who are apparently so incensed by these leaks) are going to buy it or not. I'm going to wait until the game is released so I can play it in its entirety and judge it then. In the context that it was supposed to be judged. And maybe I will hate the story, too. We'll see. And as I already mentioned in another post, the beauty of games is that they are more than just story. The gameplay and the world look incredible in this one and I'm excited to play it. So the fact that you're going to take some stand and not buy the game is of zero concern to me.
Secondly, I said the vast majority of the outrage directed at them online is manufactured. And it is. The mass downvoting of any videos that contain footage of the game, the comments at the bottom of any article that write about the game, and the threats made against the studio and the people who work there are people jumping on the bandwagon and trolling. And a lot of that is for reasons that I've already highlighted. Now, there are some in that group who probably are pissed off with the direction the game has gone in, and they're voicing their displeasure by taking part in this behavior.
Quite frankly, I don't see how that makes it or them any better. You're just being a self-entitled prick because the bad people at the studio didn't take the story in the direction you wanted it to go. Guess what? Too fecking bad. It doesn't give you the right to spew your shite online and threaten those who worked on the game and spoil it for others. Anyone who defends that are fecking idiots. And just to be clear, I'm not accusing you of this (unless you did partake in this behavior, but I assume you didn't). You read the leaks and decided not to buy the game based on that. Awesome. That's your prerogative. Just like it's anyone else's prerogative to do the same. I think that's daft, but that's my opinion on it.
Again, this isn't about people liking or not liking the direction the story has gone in. I couldn't give a shit, really. This is about the behavior of the self-entitled trolls online. And that is not justifiable.