Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices are embraced by many organisations, and can take many forms.
Discrimination is, after all, pretty diverse.
The concept of DEI today doesn’t, however, just cover what happens at work.
For instance, a"cybernetic bondage" outfitinStellar Bladebeing patched to include a modest undershirt.
All of which betrays an elementary or perhaps, wilful misunderstanding of what DEI is supposed to achieve.
Central to the case for DEI training is that discrimination can be intangible unless it’s aimed at you.
These hawkish daydreams lend themselves easily, even inadvertently to active prejudice.
A DEI consultant might have helped them spot all that in advance.
Nobody is calling the Dark Souls series or Elden Ring a flop.
Perhaps baiting the DEI Detectors will work out for CI Games in the short term.
“Many corporate clients, of course, don’t really want to change,” she sums up.
“They just want to look as if they are changing.”
It isn’t hard to find parallels within the games industry.
Activision-Blizzard and Riot Games, for example, haverecentlyweatheredhundred-million-dollar lawsuits over the cultivation of discriminatory workplaces.
Both have bolstered their DEI investments in response.
