Thank you for writing this. I wholeheartedly agree with you, I wish that regardless of what people are saying, they would say it in a civil and neutral manner. I think the difference with other communities is that we don't police our own. I'm not arguing in favour of political correctness but a bit more empathy and rationality could sure come in handy lately.
I also want to second your point about the game itself. In the grand scheme of things, even if my worst fears were right, that CDPR had accepted a check from microsoft to hold back the PC I would still gladly purchase it. My trust in CDPR would be broken as a company that has PC interests at heart, but that would be the extent of it. Because a game is more than the sum of its parts and the tone, atmosphere and storytelling of witcher games are second to none. These games have soul, and that's all I can ask of them past matters of principle.
However I also believe in treating developers as human beings in the hope that maybe, just maybe, they are reading this. This means being friendly, polite, appreciative of their huge dedication but also having the honesty to respectfully tell them when I'm afraid they might be losing themselves. I might be wrong, but I'd rather try to snip in my 2c rather than resigning myself
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