For example, there is a game called Bioshock infinite that is a serious candidate to become game of the year. It outsold earlier games in the series,including the legendary Bioshock 1. However, it took on religion,race, and American war culture, three things which were considered no-nos. First the first time in many games, you actually felt what it was like to be a minority being chased down by a bunch of bigoted cops and others that wanted to lynch you, to see the malice that hides behind whitewashed religion and patriotism. People put pressure, and there was a coup within the company to force the game to tone things down, or they would walk out. Even with the stuff torn out, people still left the company, and when you play the game, you see the nice big gaping hole where the more "offensive" stuff would have been, and where it would have made the story strong. A lot of said people went to a company called Naughty Dog, which made the one game considered a rival to BSI: a game called The last of us.
From all I have read, it is a great game, which dives into morality as deeply as Bioshock did, except for two details: they stayed CLEAR away from hotbutton issues like race, patriotism and religion. They used the old "survival horror" trope, which means that hard issues can be blasted into so many zombie guts, and, in the case of other games in that genre, allows for thinly veiled racism to be ok (after all, they are dark skinned zombies that do not look like you.) The point is that the powers that be made damned sure nobody better discuss race or religion,and a large part of that was the social media monster. In Bioshock Infinite, here was a game that was kept under wraps for five years, and enough leaked to where pressure was put to DUMB IT DOWN.
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