All I ever really wanted from BFV in terms of campaign stories, were those that gave us a glimpse of what real and actual female soldiers were doing during WWII. These involved the French and Russian sides for the most part, which was what I was expecting, not some dolled up ginger British woman with an advanced prosthetic arm, as well as wearing silly blue face paint. 

I couldn't care less if a game stars a man, women, alien, or a rainbow colored scorpion. Just make it good, make in interesting.

I can certainly see concerns with historical accuracy though, if that is in fact what the developers are going for. Obviously there were VERY few women fighting on the battlefield during WWII.. I mean, if you want to present the game in some sort of "alternative history" angle where there were a bunch of women fighting and dying alongside men, then cool, but that doesn't seem to be the case, unless I'm missing something?

You reach a point where this stuff comes across as pandering. Even my sister, who I'd probably describe as a more than moderate Feminist is beginning to see this stuff as condescending to her as a woman, and even said as much when the trailer for Ocean's 8 played. For HER to say that, showed me that this stuff is starting to reach a point of blatant pandering.

Found this comment:

I showed the reveal trailer to my Grandad. A man who fought in France.

He said... "Is that a female?" "Yes grandad"

"Is that face paint?" "Yes grandad"

"Does she have a prosthetic hand?" "Yes grandad"

He then took his glasses off as his eyes filled with tears and said... "I lost so many friends in Europe during that war. They weren't ’friends’ at all. They were my brothers. And I miss them everyday."

He wiped his tears away and finished by saying... "I'm sorry, I didn't see any women with claws wearing face paint....but I saw a lot of dead men. Is this what people think happened? Because it isn't."

I patted him on the head and simply told him...

"You're uneducated."

The liberal media is not trying to ruin my life.  Then again, I'm not actually a conservative, so... any other sweeping generalizations you want to make while you're at it?

EA already did. It's called "The Saboteur" and it's one of EA's most brilliant games they did in the past decade or so. Unfortunately it sold like shit.

Yup, this is the problem with using all the word in the book and throwing them around so loosely. Use them too much and their meaning becomes nothing.  

I have seen that when i had EA access.  I thought there was a male on the cover.  Almost everybody likes a female lead in a game like metriod because it's not about a woman it's about a great character.  That poor girl in battlefield is so full of  cringe.

For the case of Battlefield V people were pissed because of how they were presented and how EA attacked the fan base. Fucking every other game with female characters in war are perfectly fine because they just exist and its alright. EA and Dice were trying to pull some SJW feminist bullshit on our asses and people weren't having it.
Fuck, a female lead in AC Odyssey as an option and no one cares or is mad about it because Ubisoft was chill about it, not calling everyone misinformed and sexist pigs and telling us not to buy their game if we're mad.

Politics don't belong in games unless the games is specifically about politics, like most Cyberpunk games.

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They could have gone with an all Russian female squad invading Germany. As I said in my post could be a really good story. Or a story that focused on the French recistance both would have given a credible look on Ww2 from the perspective of a female. But instead they went with, well this and it was the wrong choice.