I think it's very sad that people are putting up loads of negative reviews on Steam now that the sound dev has been fired. I don't agree with SJW crap, but these days you need to be very careful about how you put yourself across on social media, and you should make sure that you keep your work and home life separate. He posted stuff that can be called into question and the company have separated themselves from him because, naturally, that's what you'd do in this situation. It's laughable how people are boycotting that decision by giving the game poor reviews, and Steam should be removing them as they have no reflection whatsoever on the game.
Actually I don't mind boycotting the game for firing someone in order to be/appear to be more PC.
They fired him due to hate-mongering by the SJW community, plain and simple. Now they're reaping the whirlwind, in the form of a backlash from the gamer community.
You need to realise that the SJW community don't have boundaries, they can and do say whatever they want. Storm universities and cafes, shouting people down, calling people racist all over the shop. They behave with impunity and are empowered by all the companies that react like this one did.
So yeah, I'm glad people are boycotting this product. Maybe it's a good game. But appeasing the psychopathic extreme SJW crowd is bad for gaming. Because they seek to shape gaming into a political tool to push their own agenda. Your lead character must be openly bisexual. There must be some trans character who the audience will sympathise with. All your female characters must be bad-asses, etc, etc. It's a cancer.
Firing their sound guy for - let's face it - pretty uncontroversial comments to my mind, reinforces that these guys are the "good" guys and legitimises their extreme actions. I for one won't be playing this after reading what happened.
e: And it worked as intended. Lead dev now saying he's "really sorry" they didn't make the protagonist a women from the start, and says this was a big mistake. He also now says he really wants his team to be 50/50 male/female, and how this is really important to him, and what he really care most about now is having coloured and trans people on the dev team.
So literally his game has been successfully turned into a political platform. If that's not enough cancer to boycott this entire studio I don't know what is. I want my game to be games, not political tools for extremists.