Maybe I don't understand, but to my knowledge, women were a part of WW2, weren't they? I know I have a great grandma who fought in the air during... the Battle of London/Britian, I believe.

Yes, there were combat women in WWII. It depended on the country, though: The US forbade them, but the Soviet Union had a lot of them. Of course, there still could have been unofficial combat women too, who did it despite being against the rules.

I don't understand why the zombie mode is used as an example. If Activision announced tomorrow that the story will focus on zombie's rather than Nazi's, would it be inconsistent for people to complain? Of course not, because it goes against their expectations. Creative freedom is important, but when dealing with historical settings (and without explicitly saying "yes, this is purely fantasy") you have to work within the expectations of your audience, and justify the changes you make. As it stands, the response to including woman in settings where they were an extreme minority is "because we want diversity". For some people that's a reasonable justification, for other's it's not. 

I personally couldn't care less what they do with anything, hell put some dragons in and i'll probably be more entertained, but feeling differently about a individual variable isn't unreasonable as long as the context is different.

Honestly, I don't see the issue since it's only in mutliplayer anyway. Most of the CoD will wanna play their generic bald muscle guy over a woman anyway. So this really won't affect much. Plus, its a video game. If this game was anything like real war it'd be a lot more tedious and boring.

My main question is why women being included crosses the line, while regenerative health and respawning do not. Those two are much less realistic than women being in the game.

Why the hell not, I'm good with this.

Prob from the same Anti-SJW brigade who still have the 7yr old mentality that girls have cooties. 

On top of that there'd be a lot of waiting if it were real war, hours, days! You can't run and gun like they do in multiplayer. Does stuff like that happen in war? Yeah, sometimes. But it's not nearly as common as one might imagine

The generalizations in this thread, that anyone who has a different perspective is "anti-SJW" is every bit as bad as the generalizations that anyone who wants this is a "feminazi".

Does looking at things from different perspectives only go one way?

Even the argument that "it doesn't matter because it's just a game" goes both ways. If it's just a game then why does it matter what gender of soldier you play in multi-player?

I think it is innacurate. There were no female battalions on WW2. I do think there were female doctors, nurses and intelligence oficials. But no infantry. Please someone correct me if wrong.

Edit: VGPlyglot told me there were russian women in the frontlines.

Only thing i don't like about it is, it's a response to BF1 not having any. And not actual content that is their for a reason.

Other then that i'm indifferent.