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People of all race and skin complexion has played Asian games with Asian characters/NPC/world for decades. Now all of a sudden, its problematic or an issue. Or.. they seem to think this would generate more sales.
Since they are doing darker skin complexion swapping for npcs and characters, i assume this change is geared towards darker skin complexion people. If Amazon is doing this for better appeal.. then that says a lot about darker skinned people. It implies darker skinned people are racists and only buy games that have dark skin color in it.
I prefer white male protagonists now. Because I was informed, implicitly, that it is correct for me to have such preferences.
you might as well.
its hilarious though, might as well make NBA diverse or black panther to make it more diverse for audiences outside the west/usa. lol. we have the CGI, we can race swapp every character in black panther, have one of every race in it.
There isn't a game released these days catering to darkies that has sold more or better in the current era than the games put out during the 7th gen. This really has nothing to do with sales.
I hate to use stereotypes, but if they want to sell to American black people, they need to sell a sportsball game.
they see the same thing with girls. they wanted girls to play, thus they cater more to girls at the expense of boys. now.. of course they are attempting to do it with other demographics.
its puzzling with the lgbt pandering.. since they are so small of a fraction.
It's about normalizing the behaviour. If you see it everywhere (and any American consuming any kind of media will see it) they will think it's normal. Most people think the alphabet people account for more than 20% of the population, others are convinced they make up 50% of the population, because they see them everywhere.
It's all to make it easier for when they eventually make the final push to legalize pedophilia.