Ahem, don’t you mean AAAA

Here, though there isn’t anything super concrete.

While there aren’t any great sources in here, it seems a little more complicated than “Valve hates them arbitrarily.”

There’s a Steam community dedicated to posting about which games are woke and why, so that like-minded individuals can avoid them. Somebody made this tool to scrape it and cross-reference it with your/anyone’s Steam library. Kinda hilarious in a depressing way.

Edit: suddenly I realize you were probably asking about the opening quote, not the woke reasoning quotes…

I dropped KCD 1 after ~30 hours for the same reason as you, but at least KCD has some justification - the whole point of the game is to be an ultra-realistic simulation of medieval life, a roleplaying game in the truest sense of the word.

Your character starts out not even knowing how to read, even though you, the player, obviously do to interact with the GUI. He’s the son of a blacksmith who never would have learned anything else, so he, the character, has to spend time learning basically everything, even if you, the player, already have it figured out.

You and I think that design is unfun. Clearly, though, there’s an audience for it, as KCD 2 sold something like a million copies on launch day and instantly recouped their development costs.

I thought that didn’t work?

Boring Company tunnels just doesn’t have the same alliterative ring to it

There was a ~1.5 year old reddit thread that talked about this