No, because people who are treated poorly by society require a boost
Consider why affirmative action is a thing
The gaming community at large is very volatile and is a cesspool of bigotry; providing support in spite of this helps ensure such developers not only feel more comfortable in the community, but also helps their games and game development progress get attention in a world that primarily focuses on AAA projects or projects by larger developers. Not that larger developers can't too exist in this realm; I adore Gust in particular for the heavy lesbian themes present in a decent chunk of their games, particularly Nights of Azure and Blue Reflection. But they aren't common, and even developers in that world need some attention.
I don't want to get dragged into this,
But my 2 cents is this:
The more online connected gaming became, the larger it grew. The more opinionated people become on what they play, how they act in games ect.
Your going to have people be shit bags, but thats what reporting and banning is for. For everyone else which outweighs the shit bags, they just want to play games, or make the thing they love without someone telling them they are a piece of shit for liking something. Or telling them they need to support something. Or not make the game in the way they are making it.
Thats not how a western world works. People are free to live their lives how they see fit and that includes all aspects. If someone grew up on making code/mods for games they love and want to make games. Then go do it, in business all they care about is the reults.
If you are an amazing coder it doesn't matter what your sexual preference is, the results matter. If you have to make everyone aware company wide of your sexual preference/orientation then its more about you then the we of the developers.
I never saw anyone in the 90's to the 2000's bring this stuff up not once. It's literally people who feel that they cant find their way in the world, so everyone needs to know that the reason they cant be in games, or entertainment or whatever is because they are oppressed or marginalized.
Why is it since social media, being gay in the workplace was not an issue. If it was an issue thats what HR is for, if the company is a shit company thats what reporters are for to expose and bring to light the injustice.
You don't try to force people to accept terms for you, you enforce certain basic human principles of how we treat "All People". And we've done that for the past 20+ years.
There are instances no doubt of sexism, transphobia, homophobia all over different industries. You don't make change by forcing people and companies to accept certain terms of else they get cancelled which is what has happened.
If there are individual accounts or multiple accounts at certain companies in these different inudstries then you call them out. You dont force change. Martin Luther King didn't force change, he knew that was not the answer and would only cause more conflict.
Which is what there is now mainly with minority's and LBGTQ+. Change happens naturally. Which comes from understanding, which that understanding happens over time of people just spending time with one another.
You cant force out hate, negativity, it needs to be removed naturally over time.
And in this case of games, just make games that connect on a broad level. Same goes for the tools people use to make those games. The broader the use the more its used for games the more developers connect with one another. The more they connect the more they talk, and the more they talk the more they understand and become allies/empathetic.
Using twitter, and social media to yell loud things and call people bigots because they dont think like you do doesn't work. And all it does is make you look like the bad guy in the eyes of people who could not give two shits about someone's sexual preference or orientation.
Like I was raised be kind, treat people how you want to be treated, if you don't have anything nice to say dont say anything.
