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JRPGfan on 21 September 2024
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Pemalite said:

Diversity for/against arguments are in my opinion... Ridiculous.
Not once in my almost 35~ years of gaming have I ever fired up a game and went: "Gee, I wish this game was more Diverse!" or "Gee! I wish this game was less diverse!".

I take the game at face value, it's either good or bad, but never because of diversity or lack-thereof, it's politicization of the left vs right and it's boring and irrelevant.

I play a game because of the story, I don't really care what gender, age, sex, sexuality, race or more that my protagonist is. If the character is good, the story is good, the gameplay is good... Then the game is good.

No one truly cares about woke vs non-woke.

The game flopped because it was terrible.

Thats just it, it wasn't terrible (this is twisting the truth, to fit your agenda, to a minor degree).
People that played it said it was "fine" or middle of the street type of deal.

The thing is, the competition has better looking models / sexier ones (to sell skins), and was free to play.... vs paid game.

"I have never fired up a game and went: "Gee, I wish this game was more diverse!" or "Gee! I wish this game was less diverse!"

Thats just it.... others have or do.

Thats why DEI is now a issue.
Theres people of colour that feel under represented in games (and have for along time). 
So their has been a push for getting more DEI in games, even at the cost of say haveing a white male character.

And now theres also white males (the vast majority who play games) that are like "wtf? theres not 1 white male character in this game?"
(and game devs going out of their way, to boast they purposefully ignored or didn't (by design) have any white males in the game)

You have consultent firms, like Sweet baby inc, that almost make it sound like "white hate".

This wouldn't be issue if excludeing white characters resulted in a equal or greater amount of others adapting it to compensate.
The issue is, the vast majority of people playing these shooter games are avg white males.
And there seems to be enough that are getting atleast slightly avoided by this take, and all the political agendas being pushed.
Im not saying its super impactful.... however I'd bet it does have some small effect overall.

Go super DEI, and basically scream "I hate white people", don't be surprised if less of them buy the games.