Is lack of gender/racial diversity valid criticism?

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hershel_layton said:

Lawlight said:

Fine. There's plenty of diversity in movies and games based on the definition of diversity by Hollywood or game studios, which means no straight white male. Video games in particular are going out of their way to make sure that their games don't have a white male character.

Really? I think we have quite a decent amount of white males.

 

Uncharted, call of duty, mario, splatoon, final fantasy, kingdom Hearts, the last of us, God of war, etc all have white male characters.

 

Not complaining about how many white male characters we have, but we do have a healthy amount 

If by healthy amount you mean 90-95% of human characters in games are white, sure. 

Not that I even personally have that big of a problem with it, but seeing as how the buying base of games is pretty diverse, I think it wouldn't kill devs to reflect their own buying base, which sure as hell isn't 90-95% white males. Some games are doing it, it's fine.