Put yourself in the shoes of the people these messages target. It's more than leaning left. You can lean left and still be a total douchenozzle. It's about basic human empathy. It's honestly not as hard to understand as you make it out to be.
Indeed. I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Both time and money are limited. There aren't enough dollars in my bank account, or hours in the day, to play all the games I want to play, watch all the TV series I want to watch, read all the books I want to read, or take part in all the activities I want to take part in. That being the case, since I have such an abundance of choice, the least I can do, when I find out a game is created by sexists/racists/bigots, and it no way hurts me to avoid it, to not go through with actually buying it so as to not only show that I don't personally stand for that, but also to avoid putting money into the wallets of sexists like that and letting their influence and voices grow any larger than they absolutely need to in the process. Regardless of how amazing the game looks, how cool the action or set-pieces or premise or what-have-you appears to be, this remains true.
Point being, this is a case where I know the game is apparently created by a... not-so-nice individual, to put it mildly. It in no way actually pains me to avoid it, no matter how good the game looks. Even without the game in my life, I still don't have enough hours in the day to play everything I want to play and a backlog a mile long. That being the case, why
wouldn't I take the simple step of avoiding buying stuff like this, if for no other reason than to say that I don't stand for stuff like that and refuse to support games that I know were created by individuals who hold such views? Yeah, before anyone says it, of course in doing so it's not like I'll stop sexism or anything. I know that. But that need not be the case and that's no reason
not to do what little each of us can do to make a difference, and when we are able to avoid buying stuff like this, choose to do so in order to avoid making the problem even worse at the very least, and letting such voices grow any louder any more influential than they absolutely have to be?
No matter how good this game looks, there are still way too many games (not to mention movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, music, etc) released everyday and not enough hours in our day or dollars in our bank accounts to possibly even begin to consume them all. That being the case, we all have to use something or another to decide which of those things we actually buy and which of them we use our time to actually play. So why not use something like this to influence that decision? Whether I buy it and play it or not, that deluge of choice remains. No skin off my back, no matter how amazing it looks, since there's a fuckton of other amazing stuff that I'll never get to no matter how hard I try.
So why not pass on something like this, if only to show my support to those hurt by the creator's words? In the end, it makes no difference to me personally, but it makes a fuckton of difference to people who are harassed and whose lives are still attempted to be made hell by GamerGaters and aligned groups everyday to not let the voices of those groups grow any louder or for them to be rewarded in any way. Doesn't that matter more than whether or not I play some game I'll in all likeliness forget about in 10 years (and even if I don't, is still unlikely to have any impact on my life either way)? I suppose everyone's priorities are different, but I personally just don't understand what's so hard about passing on a game like this, no matter how good it looks or whatever, when there's so much choice available these days even in terms of amazing looking games that that isn't saying too much by itself, but that's me.