@stray One aspect to keep in mind with protagonists (women or otherwise) is what a default is and how the audience feels about it. Broken teen fantasy like Dead or Alive Basketball or Japanese eroge games is an extreme, as are characters from Concord or Dustborn and studios on both sides are very open about it. However the…
So basically you want to put a gag order on people. Mainly the people who dare to tell Gamers when they're full of shit. To be honest, I would probably be breaking the rules if I said the full extent of how I feel. So I'll settle for this.....Anyone who wants to call inclusion "controversial" and suggest it should be…
The challenge is that even if we as devs/artists see the games we've worked on as art, or its content to be artistic at the end we have no ownership of it and for the end user, this is a product they are purchasing. Its why I added, what the audience feels about it. You can assess what the audience wants through an…
Oh right, my mistake. It wasn't blacklisting you were calling for, it was for them to be publicly named and held accountable to the aforementioned pissbabies when something in the game doesn't agree with them. I'm sorry, but that's stupid, for many reasons. One. One person is smart; people are idiots. That many people? A…
Gonna pre-face this rant by saying this just represents my opinion as an individual, as a person, homo sapiens. @NikhilR EDIT: im not gonna comment on the culture war stuff as i agree and disagree with tons of points and thats a whole other thing. Im going to just mention stuff me as a dev and as a consumer think about…
Here's something we don't usually see. A dev from Concord recently made a post on reddit appealing that Marathon not face the same fate as Concord given the comparisons being made online in gamer communities. Its worth a read…
It's been over 10 years since the majority of Reddits traffic was exposed to be coming in and out of Eglin AF base, Florida. It's more than probable to be a lot more dispersed currently. There's a paper you can find from Eglin AFB by the title of "Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity".…
I wouldn't say that that gamers are pissbabies, its very apparent from that reddit thread that many do have genuine concerns and want to see some resolution. Also they are the intended audience so this approach to promotion where they feel attacked isn't conducive to the games reception being a positive one. And I've…
No, that's exactly the thing you shouldn't keep in mind, because for this you'd have to assume that there is some default "normal" state and everything else is just a modification of that default. That's not true in real life, and it doesn't seem healthy to hold that thought in public minds through art. If you just…
On the other hand, the opposite term for this is "brutal honesty", which for too many is just an excuse to be a nonconstructive jerk. It doesn't help that so many points central to these discussions constructed around highly subjective or misguided "truths". ...Like, why we keep acting as if there is a "default" type of…