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IcaroRibeiro said:
JackHandy said:

I don't speak for them, I can only speak for myself, but from my understanding, those people aren't really concerned with the character or who is voicing her. They are concerned with the motive behind it. That there is a small leadership at the studio, sitting around, talking about agendas, ticking off lists in the hopes of currying the favor of a tiny-but-very-loud angry band of people that make up the majority of extremists on social media. Because let's face it. If that's true, if that's what's really going on, it can only mean two things: one, that they are inherently biased against certain races and sexes and two, that they are inherently liars and manipulators... and I think we can all agree that neither of those things are good for the planet earth.

Now, as to weather or not any of the above is true, well... only SuckPunch and a few others know. But yeah. I believe that's what bothers the people complaining about it, not what you're asserting.

Why every time the main character is either non white, LGBT or female this question arrives? Should we all speculate that if a main character is a straight white male is because the devs hate women, gay people and other races? 

As for why the main characters are members of minorities, for me the reason is pretty obvious. They want minorities to see themselves in videogames, which is a additional motivation for them to play said games. Since most of legacy games and famous IPs already feature male white leads, new IPs and new installments will often have more minorities as lead characters

The agenda here is "how convince more people to play my games" instead of "we hate white man"

The reason why people are so quick to jump to that conclusion is because of the times we've had to go through. You didn't see much of this before the woke era.

As for your assertion that they artificially shoe-in someone based on their identity... that's exactly the problem. Because you can't choose someone based on their sexual orientation, color of skin or political background without simultaneously rejecting someone else because of the same thing. It's inherently impossible.

The only fair way way out of this mess has always been to ensure all people have the same legal rights, and to give the best, most deserving person the position, regardless of their racial or sexual identity. In other words, merit-only.