It’s an interesting, niche situation where making the story better would also make it more socially progressive (although this isn’t always the case, or life in general would be a lot simpler). Everyone deserves better – we can send a better message, and we can do it by writing a better story. It’s bad even for video game stories (which are generally pretty bad) – and it’s bad enough that it’s high time people outside this niche gaming community saw exactly what sort of narrative is being foisted on gamers. This isn’t a secret - among the millions of Starcraft fans, the storyline of Starcraft 2 is widely mocked and insulted. Nobody really likes it, although in the testosterone-filled world of hardcore PC gaming, most people haven’t taken too seriously just how sexist it is. It’s a terrible story with terrible things to say that is stupid and offensive.
The single-player campaign storyline for one of 2010’s best-selling PC games stands at the intersection between awful writing and awful social politics. 'Hell, it's about time' to call out the Starcraft 2 story for being awful and sexist.
