I have to be honest, there's something a little incongruous with the idea of demons banging in the missionary position.

No.

The problem isn't that you should only play your gender, the issue is that with four/five games out now in the series, why not include a female cast lead?

Except that they said there won't BE a competitive multiplayer

Name all those other issues. Because, you know... Not representing half of its audience seems like a big issue to me.

Subnet,

You can play whatever game you want with whatever character. That doesn't change the fact that we gamers (both male and female) would like to see more strong female lead characters. They're 51% of the population, after all.

I honestly think most players of AC are female. Most men I've spoken to about the game don't like it. Maybe it is just the people I socialize with. But I know more women who like Assassins Creed and by singling them out they are annoying a huge audience. Women tend to be a less vocal group of gamers because we are…

Honestly there have been worst shots from men against women in this argument. That was a light joke compared to them. There shouldn't even be an argument on this matter. The under represented should be represented. It isn't that hard.

Well guess what, you win. Ubisoft is not being forced to do anything. Girls are powerless and they won't have any effect on your robot game. The world works just the way you want it to. Congrats!

You are stillll missinnnggg the pointtttt. I'm not wasting my time writing it again because I'm pretty sure you just don't want to get it.

If women don't mention anything about female characters then there will never be strong female characters. It isn't a gender issue, it's a representation issue. Similar to the lack of playable POC protagonists in mainstream gaming.

Ah, yes, a single all-female example invalidates her point entirely! I mean, it's not like most video games only have male playable characters, or anything.

Yes. A cast of all women *helps* to address female under-representation in games, making things more equal. A cast of all men contributes to the problem of female under-representation and makes things less equal. They would only be equally objectionable if men and women were already coming from an equal place, which…

The problem is that there are so few female playable characters in games, other than games where you can customize your character. If men and women got equal time, nobody would care about all male or all female casts. Only 2 of the games announced on Monday have default female playable characters. 2. Games focused…

The problem is that Ubisoft has more than enough money and resources to throw at the "problem" of getting female avatars into games. The excuse from AAA developers is lazily at best and willfully ignorant at worst.

Your fedora is showing

Yes, because like 999 out of 1,000* video games have all-male or heavily male-dominated casts of characters, like 10 male characters and 1 or 2 female characters. Calm yourself manchild, I promise we women will be benevolent overlords.

The problem is the overrepresentation of playable males in media. This is why games where you can only play as women are not seen as problematic, since the vast majority of games only let you play as men. (usually white, usually likes shooting people.)