• Saapas@piefed.zip
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    1 month ago

    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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      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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        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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          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.