BAFTA winning studio, The Chinese Room (Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Dear Esther), has accused CD Projekt RED of making sexist games. It all started with a GameSpot tweet about the Polish studio’s upcoming shooter, Cyberpunk 2077, which came with the following image:
Cyberpunk 2077 is more ambitious than Witcher “on every single front.” https://t.co/1G6XFmrIEt pic.twitter.com/z23YF3yrAJ
— GameSpot (@gamespot) April 29, 2016
The Chinese Room responded to the tweet, calling The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt a sexist game and remarking that Cyberpunk 2077 looks set to go down the same route:
But just as sexist if that image is anything to go by… https://t.co/jlLW0lWP6z
— The Chinese Room (@ChineseRoom) April 29, 2016
The tweet sparked quite a debate, with majority of users lamenting The Chinese Room for making a bold statement based solely on an image that GameSpot used, and misunderstanding the premise of The Witcher 3.
CD Projekt RED did not respond.
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