Yeah, because if you're not a programmer or artist, making a video game is SO EASY. All you need is a kickstarter!

EXACTLY. All stories of games are immutable and timeless, they have always existed as they are expressed, and you simply cannot change them in any way. Especially if that requires you to do the unthinkable and provide *gulp* playable female characters.

"Will we be moving to books, art, movies,"

"Since the release date was nearing, they couldn't afford the time to figure out which class should be male, and which should be female."

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Thanks for your concern! I'll let my soul know that some dudebro on the internet is worried about it!

The way your opinion reads is as if there is no such thing as more than one problem, and only a single problem has ever existed in the world.

The argument is not, and has never been "women can't be sexy" it is "that is literally the only portrayal that women get."

Yeah, critics are the worst man. It's just terrible when people express their points of view and wish that things were better.

Exactly! I think this is a point that so many people can't seem to get through their heads. She is not saying that the creators of these games are misogynists, she's saying that there is a lot of internalized social norms that creep into everything we do and create and that in turn reinforces those norms. All she's…

1) You have no way of knowing if she has or hasn't, so really a bad argument to make.

Lots of people who are not assholes do.

"THE WAY I HAVE MISREPRESENTED HER OPINIONS AND ARGUMENTS IS BAD, THEREFORE HER ARGUMENTS AND OPINIONS ARE ALSO BAD."

I was going to reply, but I realize you've got some kind of axe to grind and literally no understanding of game or software development and so it would be pointless. You keep being mad, I'll be over here enjoying the game I only paid $15 to support.

Your argument is bad. We'll start at the end, where you complain that they didn't update anyone on the increase in time to create the game. From their SECOND update (nearly a full month before the end of the campaign)

If a similarly-prominent male player wasn't playing in live tournaments people would start up a witch-hunt to prove that he's actually a woman? Or, that he is secretly a lizard-person?

She certainly could have, and when you write your blog post on it, feel free to keep your personal feelings out of it if that's what you'd prefer!

And if she showed up and had a few bad games or wasn't really into it because she was nervous about the kind of dipshit "PROVE YOU ARE WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE" mentality surrounding her then suddenly everyone would feel validated that she was a fraud.

No. It wouldn't have.