People who like authenticity would care.
Think about your argument for one moment. If you follow it to its logical conclusion, then it supports dragons and spaceships being in the game. Artistic liberty has its limits.
I think that view can only go so far. It's fine to have preferences (most gamers are male and like playing male characters), but when people want to take a dive into the implausible, it become a bit ridiculous.
Few people will want to see ahistorical female soldiers running around MP games. In multiplayer games, character choice affects other people too.
Australia banned Hotline Miami 2, so I'm not surprised. They're a bit fascist with their ratings.
@Deadpooled
Indeed, you don't need a degree. Really, it just requires basic rationality, but this is a rationality which seems to be declining these days among people who follow certain ideologies.
No they do not. Let me just say, as someone with a degree which was half statistics (economics), that the data you have seen is highly misleading, and completely meaningless from a business perspective.
You cannot compare someone who once played Candy Crush to someone who has a gaming PC/console and buys new games at full price.
It would be like saying that 50% of car drivers are women, therefore luxury sports cars should be aimed at women (where in reali...
They should do this so when they see that 80% of players STILL choose male characters (like in the other Mass Effect games), they will have no more excuses left.
Maybe then they'll get it into their thick heads what the people who buy their games, and put food on their tables actually want.
Censorship is a disease.
Jesus, this article reeks of SJW bigotry. "And if there are actual sexist people who would genuinely have a problem with a female lead in Andromeda, they can always choose a male lead at the start of the game" says someone who likely rails on every male lead, simply for being male.
These people genuinely need to read up on formal logic and critical thinking, because they are as blind to their ideological bias as Medieval Catholic monks.
Oh, and ...
Too butch IMO.
Better? Yes. But it's an Ubisoft game, so it will still suck.
While that may have been more appropriate from the start, you can't change something like this at this point in the series.
Unless you're Hideo Kojima...but that didn't work out too well...
Ouya.
@ MeteorPanda
That wasn't sarcasm. They will pick up the "first one in the Steam sale"; DH1, not 2.
I don't think it's the existence of homosexual characters, but rather the fact they're making it a marketing point.
The thing is that if we buy it now, we're basically rewarding them for pandering to SJWs, by telling them that our custom is unconditional.
So yeah, many of us have to skip it, and explain as best we can *why*, so in future they might actually treat those of us who aren't SJWs like human beings with valuable preferences.
I may grab it on sale a few years down the line.
It's not the existence of LGBT characters that's the problem, but the implementation of them in a way which panders to SJWs.
If the devs say nothing and surprise us, that would have been better. Also, if they do something *else* which indicates that the game is not propaganda (like include some revealing outfits for female characters), then this alleviates fears too, as the devs prove that they value the non-SJW customers too.
Fat people are less visually appealing than non-fat people (ceteris paribus). People don't like looking at visually unappealing characters in games (because unlike real life, games are fantasies).
Not that there's anything wrong with people in real life who are fat. It's their decision to make and we shouldn't make their lives hard. Appearance isn't everything anyway. But the media doesn't affect beauty standards that much - if you look at various cu...
I have nothing against LGBT people, but I hate pandering to SJWs, so I think I'm going to give this game a miss.
Wait, this is news how?