Well damn…
I really did like Battletech. One of my all time favorite games.
I have slowly watched the games that I love, drowned in a scummy tide of wokeness.
A while back I had stated my belief that the miniature wargaming scene would probably be the most resistant to wokeist infection, but now I worry that I was sorely mistaken.
One author does not a hobby make, but when you kick out a guy who's been writing source material and novels for over 35 years, it's kind of rattling.
I'd say wargaming is still quite resistant to wokeness because the actual player base for any of these companies is never going to be into it, and it's too expensive and time consuming to fake pretending to like (unlike say comics where people buy 10 issues a year for a grand total of $40 and spend 20 minutes to read them before going on Reddit and declaring themselves a huge comics fan).
It's just that corporations are spineless and unthinking, and people who worship at the feet of business have found themselves a false god. They're going to cave into pressure the same way TV networks and publishing companies used to cave into the "letter writers" in the 80s and 90s. And just like they eventually realized most angry letters about any one issue were coming from one guy and maybe three helpers from his church group typing up the same opinion a thousand times, they'll realize that social media groups discussing their games represents a tiny sliver of their customers and that giving into a crazy person who keeps emailing them doesn't cause crazy people to stop emailing them.
I will say that at least here Catalyst did an actual bad thing worth disapproving of. The amount of insanity over GW putting out a memo eventually began to seem kind of pathetic. A person with a job and a life who didn't check their website that particular weekend would never even know anything about 40K going irreparably woke, but there are Youtubers still trying to get people butthurt over it to this day.