Removing him from the game seems silly to me.
Do you remove James Woods from Casino because of the shitty things he's said and done?
I understand that it's much easier to replace a voice actor but I don't think it's necessary. He did a job he was paid for before all this stuff came out.
Wouldn't stop me from buying the game.
I think the main difference is games are way more community based and socially entrenched than film.
I mean, there are cinefiles, but there is a massive portion of social media and social culture built in and around games. Whether it's online play or subsequent let's play popularity, it does not take much for a game to become part of the zeitgeist.
In this case, JonTron as a new media star, has a huge rapport with his audience. His main medium of delivery isn't a tweet, but literally direct manifestos to his followers. He can indoctrinate and support a community of like-minded thinkers much easier than a person like James Woods trying to go through traditional media outlets.
Again, it doesn't take much for alt-right principles to grow and be normalized. They just need to go unchecked and continue forward through JonTron's viability as a popular personality.
that's the part i don't get in the reasoning,what's the price? what's the consequence?
If nazi,ISIS or whatever decide to buy en masse a game what exactly changes in society,culture, in the political spectrum or whatnot?
all i see is people that have certain beliefs and will continue to have them..whenever they rally behind the game or they don't, their numbers is not gonna rise or diminish because of it.
It's just another craft and a symbolic way to prove to the alt-right that their ideas and beliefs are acceptable to the main stream. It's not like registering a political party. There's no inbuilt way for society to keep the kind of viral overt racism of the alt-right through passive checks and balances, they merely need to survive on to continue growing mindshare. They grow by overt racism and rhetoric, but they are also allowed to grow further through passivism or apathy towards them.
Again, if you value fun nostalgia of a videogame---that's fine. Buying A Hat in Time isn't going to fast track Richard Spenser to the white house. It's just another signal of a larger problem wherein or society is complacent in allowing these fellas to score moral victories and support at will.