[dathanb82]

Unless the purpose of the game is educational, I don't think it's incumbent on them to educate their players about anything. Just like I don't expect everyone who sells something at the Renaissance Faire to use medieval furnaces for their blacksmithing or to eschew lathes for turning wood bowls. It's not their responsibility.

[andrewflnr]

But the education will happen, whether you mean it to or not. Most people have nothing but what they see to base they're expectations on, so if they see your game, and don't specifically read about pig herding in the middle ages, your game comprises the total information in their head on the topic. Congratulations, you're an educator! Now take some responsibility.

Your point about authentic fabrication methods is entirely orthogonal. It's really hard to see why you brought that up.

[cgriswald]

Perhaps you didn't mean to, but I think you've made an even stronger claim than @DeathArrow was trying to make. Following your logic, you have an obligation to all the English-learners who may believe your English errors are the proper way to write in English.

[s1artibartfast]

That responsibility is optional and it's fine for people to decline. It is also fine for someone like the author of this blog to highlight the topic so that some people may make choices to accurately depict pigs.

It Is entirely unnecessary to bring morality into it.

[DeathArrow]

I wasn't saying video games should educate people, I was referring about not meeting demands of the people with absurd expectation about reality.