Gamers Ditch Total War: Rome 2 After Female Generals Appear
27th September 2018
Understandable. There were no female Roman generals.
Gamers are boycotting a historical video game amid anger after it added more female characters to “please feminists”.
Total War: Rome 2, a strategy game based in 272 BC, recently introduced more female leaders from history including Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra and Teuta, queen of the Ardiaei tribe in Illyria.
The update, which has seen as many as 15 percent of all military generals that appear in the game now female, with the exception of Rome, Carthage and Greek states, has caused uproar among customers who claim they are re-writing the history of ancient nations including Rome, Athens, Carthage, Pontus, the Britannic Icenii tribe, the Germanic Suebi tribe, the Seleucids.
One customer was banned from the game’s official forum by a Total War employee after he left a negative review describing the change as “plain silly”. Ella McConnell, who is paid by the game makers to moderate the forum sparked fury after issuing the ban and responding to the offending post: “Total War games are historically authentic, not historically accurate – if having female units upsets you that much you can either [modify] them out or just not play”.
SJWs ruin everything they touch.