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“Never add DEI to your games,” one user advised Pilestedt.
“If it doesn’t add to the game experience, it detracts,” Pilestedt responded somewhat obtusely.
“And games should be a pure pursuit of amazing moments.”
“I don’t like labels,” he began.
“But mankind is united in its extreme xenophobia on Super Earth.
#Inclusion so, maybe that’s DEI?
I really don’t care.
Make good games, don’t make a contemporary political statement.”
Here’shis response in full:
“Well, that’s the theme of the game.
I meant outside of the theme.
Sorry for being unclear.
Also, it’s more Cold War/Bush-era politics that inspire HD2.”
As Pilestedt points out, the Super Earth regime is a xenophobic hive.
“Don’t be a facist,” he told players last year.
That’s the joke!
And it is, inextricably and undeniably, political commentary.
That’s a bit grayer and arguably depends on where you live.
I’ve heard more convincing arguments that the sun rises in the west.
