Blue Archive is a game that I have been meaning to play since the English servers were announced some months ago, and between doing college homework, writing articles and dealing with other stuff.
At any rate recently they were slated with doing a sponsored stream with Gigguk, Connor aka CDawgVA, Ironmouse and Zentreya. For those of you who don’t know Gigguk and Connor aka CDawgVA are both voice actors and are co-hosts of a podcast called the Trash Taste alongside Joey Bizinger who is known as the Anime Man. Connor is also good friends with Ironmouse and the two of them do a lot of collaborations together.
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As to why they all got booted from the collaboration it’s really simple. Well sort of simple.
Connor is one of those people that will look at lolis and think that anyone that likes lolis are pedophiles. Which is something that is looked normally in certain communities. I will say after playing Final Fantasy XIV and World of Warcraft for many years and that both share the same opinions on it, that most normal people would have a problem with lolicon.
That being said I don’t have an opinion on it. Usually when I play a game with a loli I normally don’t play them and will sacrifice them for other units. Unless they have a good use like Lynx or Clara in Honkai Star Rail. (Meaning that one is a good healer and the other a good damage dealer. Two things that I care about when playing Gacha games. Though the only loli that I have outright sacrificed was Helena Blavatsky because well…I hate the historical figure. A lot. And I mean a lot.)
That being said I don’t know what Gigguk’s take is on it, I don’t normally listen to the Trash Taste. As for Ironmouse there’s rumors going on from several people claiming that she’s trying to get in on the LA clique of streamers in terms of trying to get better known. (Who knows, I’m probably misinterpreting it.) So playing this game might offset what she’s trying to do.
And then there’s Zentreya who does actually play Blue Archive. It’s just in light of Connor, Gigguk and Ironmouse and the latest controversy surrounding her model, she just got stuck in the mix.
In either case I think this is one case of the community successfully gatekeeping a game and where the game devs actually listened to the community and decided to pull it. Which I think is a good move altogether.
Though I think that instead of nixing the partnership together I think they could have still went with Zentreya but instead could have gone with other people who are actively playing the game. I think that would have been a better option. But let’s see what happens in the future.
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