• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    18 天前

    It seemed that you thought adding this level of realism wasn’t worth the additional effort, but when I pointed out that there are people who appreciate it, you called it low effort.

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      18 天前

      Low effort is still effort? I didn’t think it was worth the effort, low as it might be

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        18 天前

        Clearly it was worth the effort with how many copies were sold.

        Aside from that, personally, I think it’s always worth the effort to be inclusive when we can.

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          18 天前

          How can you tell what sort of effect this had to the sales? It was a popular franchise already from what I can remember, so you’d expect a lot of copies sold. But how this sort of detail affected it, would be really interesting to know. If they did/do it in later games it probably didn’t at least hurt them

          Aside from that, personally, I think it’s always worth the effort to be inclusive when we can.

          Corporation don’t really have proper values like that imo

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            18 天前

            It didn’t affect it enough to slump sales and impact their profits significantly. They still made a shit ton from the game.

            I get that corporations don’t care about anything but money, but the people who work on these projects obviously care. And I think it should be upheld and celebrated so that corporations are more inclined to be inclusive this way.

            Women make up a large portion of the gaming community despite what gamergate style gamers claim.

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              18 天前

              It didn’t affect it enough to slump sales and impact their profits significantly

              I just wonder if the overall effect was positive (for income) since that way they’ll keep doing it. Otherwise they’ll axe it

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                18 天前

                Movie studios keep making movies that flop.

                The new God of War is forging ahead despite the incel’s tears about the protagonist being a woman.

                I think this kind of representation will be around for a while. Again, women make up a very large portion of gamers now.