Sexy and Sexism are not the same thing?

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Kasz216 said:

Osc89 said:

Kasz216 said:

Osc89 said:

SlayerRondo said:

Osc89 said:

JoeTheBro said:

 

 

 

 

I really don't know, but they have to exist. I can't see why else they would keep adding it to games if there wasn't someone who wanted it.

Not nessisairly.

While captialism is extremely efficent at refining products to mass marketability.  Things that don't matter can persist, just because they don't matter and used to matter at some point.

 

A sexy character might not cause anyone to buy a game anymore, or at least not a large amount of people, but it wont turn anyone off from a game either.  Or at least not many, because even with the gigantic amount of female gamers around now a days they sort of grew up with this, in this culture, so while it annoys them and they roll their eyes, they still buy it because they want to play a videogame.

Good point. It is strange to think these redundant elements will stay in the games indefinately; however I would think in this particular case it may happen less frequently given the reaction to the MGS character. Something like that happened for Elizabeth in Bioshock Infinite I think.