Fortunatelly we have free market.
It really tells you that buyers of games do not really care about stuff journalist talk about. It really has rather little affect on their purchasing decisions. And that is really what should matter when you are trying to sell something.
It's a case of the "go woke go broke" crowd taking themselves more important than they really are.
Who in his right mind would follow the 8 year development of just another generic Overwatch clone and remember anything the devs or some marketing dude said during that time?
Right nobody.
Gamers don't really care about any of that.
They lock onto Steam, see the store, which says: "Here is another generic Hero Shooter which looks like all the others, its completely unoriginal has no strong IP and no new gameplay. But it costs 40 bucks and is mostly Ok".
The gamer goes "jeah whatever, my library is long enough already" and plays something else.
>They lock onto Steam
and see hundreds of steam discussion and review criticising the thing you claim nobody cares about.
That's because it would contradict The Message(TM). The acrobatics journalists have engaged in to do anything and everything other than mention
* the unbelievably hideous character models (best comment I saw on this: "First of all, don’t make all the characters look like the devs themselves in the mirror") ...
* ... each with pronouns—*EVEN THE ROBOT*—listed prominently* on the stat page ...
are something to behold.
Best comment I saw on this:
Two comments that I think well sum up this all-time, universe-wide disaster:
>Game has more pronouns than players
Alternatively, from a YongYea commenter after the game's shutdown:
>Concord pronouns: Was/Were�