And here we have a summary of gender equality in the world today - why try to fix the broken system when it's always been male centric to begin with? Ahh these ladies are too busy being barefoot and pregnant to game anyway, lulz
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A lot of dudes play games with female protags, and when the option is available, as female avatars.
Chicken and egg?
Perhaps those percentages (assuming they're correct) would evolve if more titles within those genres transcended being testosterone-fueled dude fests?
Maybe the reason why it's 80% male is due to the fact that these action games have been almost exclusively pandering to males for decades. Maybe if Ubisoft wants a broader demographic of players, they could at least try to acknowledge people outside of their core demographic.
Does this mean salted chocolate chip cookies are the next weight loss/superhuman food fad? Sorry, I'm not going to be adding organic butter from the rarest of ruminants foraging only on select pastures in Kyrgyzstan to my freaking coffee. Coffee works just fine as it is. I drink good coffee. I'll save the butter for…
THE PERFECTLY INSUFFERABLE CARDINALS FAN RESPONSE, nailed it.
And there's a go ahead grand slam for him.
.........and now a grand slam..
Oh look, a Cardinals fan.
Brewers fans are kinda the best. A few years ago the brew crew was in town to play the White Sox. Every time Ryan Braun came up the home fans would boo and yell out "cheater!" and the like. Some Brewers fans near us would counter with things like "Don't listen to them, Ryan. You're a very handsome gentleman!"
Oh god, the artistic integrity argument. Aren't we past this? This isn't art; it's a product sold by the millions at wal-mart.
I'm not speaking for anyone beyond myself here when I say that I am really getting tired of this victim narrative the Social Justice Warriors/feminists insist on proclaiming every time a hair crosses their arse.
you are just the worst type of person.
So to answer your top question, the reason for that is those who are not represented want to be represented! Since you already put yourself in the minority when it comes to being a non-white non-male, would you hate playing as someone that is also non-white non-male that you might look like or relate to? Of course…
ah, logical fallacies. aren't they great? they make it seem like you have a valid point but really you don't.
the whole 'there are other things these people should be worrying about!' thing is just to derail the conversation.
More mature than anyone who actually uses SJW as a real term. Sure, the PC movement can be annoying as hell, but people who claims that everyone who actually cares about gaming as a culture and an art form and want to think about how more people can enjoy gaming are wild and crazy Social Justice Warriors are just…
And I'm gay. You know what I never get to do? Play as a gay protagonist. In fact, some of my favorite protagonists have been women. I fucking LOVE Rydia from FF4. I don't need it, either. I don't need to have a publisher wave around their easter egg gay, either.
That's inaccurate on multiple levels though. You may think it's a valid reason, but a lot of people don't, especially when the series is making routine yearly installments with a ridiculous amount of money being poured into them, meanwhile using old male animation assets.
Add Will Ferrell as a competing southern ex-NFL coach and I'd watch an entire movie of that.