Why do 99% of videogames pander to white (especially American) audiences?

[Pristine20]

Kasz216 said:

Pristine20 said:

Ajax said:
Cloud, Zidane, Tidus and Vaan are all blond. And Squall is a blue-eyed dude with brown hair. But somehow not only the Americans and Europeans want it this way, but also the Japanese seem to like to have white people in their games, cause Square could have easily put more Japanese looking characters in those games if it wanted. But FFVII had at least real Japanese characters like Yuffie, Tseng and Hojo.

Square has also stated that the want to appeal to more international(white) audiences. Perhaps thats one of the explanations of removing all Japanese characters from the cast even though the main character has always been white anyway. Does it have to be this way or is Square just paranoid of having an FF that doesn't sell?

 

Yeah.  Check the Final Fantasy's that were never even meant to come out in the USA.

Like FF7 actually.  Which Square didn't even want to publish outside of Japan.

It's nothing to do with that when it comes to Japan.

But if you follow the trend for FFVII, the Japanese characters have dissappeared as the name "Final Fantasy" gained more popularity. The last iteration, FF12, has a totally white human cast.  Reddas is the only dark-skinned person in the entire game! His existence is not even explained. Did his whole ancestry perish?

The other diversified creatures are the catwomen like Fran and the Lizardmen like Ba' Gamnan.