🔗 https://web.archive.org/web/20180708153619/http://www.dogwithdice.com/whitewolfaredead/ [2018 article]
"I started this article in the hopes of exposing the means by white the new #WhiteWolf company has consistently and with measurable intent strove to find a nice market for their game.
They have aimed for the same market today as they did in the early 90s when their games were first produced – disenfranchised young white men, people who believe themselves to be of an above-average level of intelligence, outsiders and people with strong views counter to contemporary culture. In the 90s, these were goths, punks and others, like I was at the time. Today, it’s the #alt-right, it’s #neo-nazis, #incels and MGTOWs.
Do I think that new White Wolf is run by nazis? No. Do I think that they are trying to court controversy in a juvenile and pubescent manner by marketing their game to nazis? Fucking yes. I think so because that is, very clearly and based on their own actions, what they are doing.
And the thing is, new White Wolf are losing the battle-lines that they have set up by doing this. A huge number of the fans that they had already when they went in to the market now hate them. People who love Vampire: the Masquerade are boycotting their products left and right. Talent who work in the gaming industry look at them as being toxic. Nobody wants to work with them. Their reputation is down the drain and they have issued public statements to justify their shitty actions multiple times over the course of only a few months and they haven’t even released their first product of their own yet."
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