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shikamaru317 on 09 September 2024
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curl-6 said:

Here is Juno, the latest hero in Overwatch, who launched within a few days of Concord:

Now here's Concord

Yikes, that is a truly abysmal comparison for Concord.

Blizzard knows what they are doing. They manage to add diversity to the game without going overboard. Soldier 76 is gay, Tracer and Pharah are lesbians, Lifeweaver is pan, Baptiste is bi, while Venture is a they/them trans. The vast majority of their characters are straight, but with a good representation of different races and nationalities and accents and body types, and the vast majority have appealing designs that led to alot of fanart (not to mention the largest NSFW art community of any video game series most likely, probably only Pokemon comes close to matching it in that regard). Those who want to find a character they personally can identify with probably can in Overwatch 2, while those who just want to see sexy/hot characters (which is probably most people) are very well represented by the character roster. 

Concord by comparison seems like what happens when you make a game with diversity as the highest priority on your list, above gunplay, above map design, above the need for the playerbase to find the designs appealing. Diversity probably shouldn't be an afterthought, but it also shouldn't be anywhere near the top of the list for a studio's development priorities.

To make matters worse, most of those who are behind this modern diversity push seem to not want true diversity, they seem to make most of their characters average or less than average in terms of how attractive they are, they seem to want more LGBT characters than you would see in a representative sample of the actual real world population, they seem to want to put minority races into settings they don't really seem to belong in (AC Shadows for instance is facing backlash for this because of their decision to make African character Yasuke one of the two main playable characters in a game set in Japan's feudal period). And it's not limited to games, the same thing is happening in movies and tv shows right now. 

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 10 September 2024