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Originally Posted by Optikill
Does anyone think that the use of real religions and/or history might push some potential buyers away?
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No.
Use of religion at all is gonna push some buyers away but real world doesn't matter because people will read their own faiths into a fictional one if they want to be offended or impressed and the anti-religious will view all faiths as allegorical for faiths they don't follow.
I remember people saying repeatedly that
Blue Rose's clearly fictional Jarzoni faith from a purely made up world was
clearly Islam. People were certain, really certain. So much so that the presence of an equal number of gamers who were sure it was Catholicism didn't seem to make them wonder if it might be their perception and not the game that made them feel so. Because it was clearly Islam (or Catholicism if you were on the other side).
So no need to worry if some people will get worked up over real world faiths, they'll get worked up over religions where you worship a giant turtle with a machine gun if they think the turtle is the Pope and the machine gun the clergy...or whatever.