You are correct. Much as people whine about them, the NRA was like #239 on Open Secrets as a political donor. They spend a lot more on lobbying and “outside spending” (which I interpret as ad buying), but they’re not buying anybody outright.

Oooor maybe they just wanted Link to be male? Because that’s how they wrote the story and characters?

and it is a fun idea, but when you get upset because companies dont take your ideas, and you get angry, it ceases being a fun idea. I would like to play as a zora link again, it would be a fun idea, when the next zelda comes out, when link is a hylian, like he always is, i am not going to be as angry as the commenters…

Oh, well that’s easy. It is because most social scientists would disagree with that statement, and point out that representation in everything from media to government is a strong way to develop a sense of belonging, and self worth.

“I think we can handle one out of tens of Links being a woman without getting all grumpy about it, can’t we?”

This is the correct take. Gender-Swapping is just creative laziness. We want strong, ORIGINAL, lead females. Lead females with ORIGINAL stories.

And nintendo thought it would be a fun idea. So they made Linkle. But that’s not good enough apparently, because people are still taking every opportunity to badger Anouma for an answer as to why Link isn’t a girl yet.

Diversity for the sake of diversity is going to be the death of all industries.

Honestly, yeah look I’m going to have to side with Nintendo with this one. I get that people want more female leads in Nintendo games. Honestly though, I think gender-swapping existing characters is a huge cop-out, and it isn’t really fair to the art in question.

Lady-Thor is a good example of this. Despite spending…

i think people are focusing on the hypothetical, but he never stated they thought of making link female,and changed their mind because of it, that was just a hypothetical he had in his mind, he specifically never had thought of making link female, which for a long standing series is not really unusual. they didnt make…

How is that what is being said at all?

My god people. Stop finding reasons to get mad. Go play a video game and enjoy it. Stop forcing creators to adhere to your ridiculous agendas. If you want things your way go create something yourself. Leave the developers to develop “their” vision. There is not a single person who is begging and demanding a male Tomb…

Or, I don’t know, maybe have an original idea and stop fucking with established franchises and characters. Just because you CAN do it does not mean you SHOULD do it.

Yeah. I mean idc really whether or not Nintendo finally gives into the “what if Zelda was a grill” jokes and flips Link’s gender around, but it would be cool to have a Legend of Zelda game with Zelda as the playable character. Or even just *a* playable character... doesn’t mean Link has to be damsel’ed.

I guess that’s always my confusion with this stuff: why do people push so hard for a character’s gender to get swapped instead of making a new awesome character? I mean Link is probably a lesser example since it’s a reincarnation every time, but it’s clear they’re basically supposed to be an extremely similar…

The reasoning explained here is going to get a lot of flack, something I can understand, but I’m all on board for having Link left as a male character. I know it’s not the most popular decision, but I cannot get behind the idea of a female Link. Much like I can’t get behind the ideas of male versions of Lara Croft, or…

Ehh, I’m what the KiA/Gamergate echo chamber would call an SJW, and I don’t think this really needed explanation and it definitely doesn’t need reform. Just don’t make Zelda so passive when she adopts her Zelda persona. There’s a reason why people loved Tetra and hated it when she became Zelda.

2016 in Game Development: We thought about adding women but then we thought ‘What about the mens?’

I’m fully up for having female main-protagonists, but I see no reason for an existing and established character to have his gender changed just because #equality.