I like video games because they give me choices that I don’t have in real life. When I want to feel like a princess, I choose Peach in Mario Kart. If I want to fight like Bruce Lee, I can choose Marshall Law in Tekken.

And no straight male wants to play pretend as a cocksucker.

However, backlash could deter these companies from supporting marginalized groups and discourage gay players from participating.

Then make your own gaming company faggot.

The first-person shooter game Overwatch, which is widely popular and has generated more than $1 billion in revenue so far for its owner, Blizzard, has turned out to be an ideal laboratory for me and my colleagues to investigate these questions.

Overwatch was popular, in 2016. It also notoriously fleeced customers by forcing them to by cosmetic “loot boxes” and gamble for skins. Also, at 1 billion it is one of Blizzards least successful franchises…

In May 2019, an Overwatch writer updated the background story for one male character, Soldier: 76. He wrote that Soldier: 76 had been in a romantic relationship with another man and identified as gay. It was a bit of information that is far from unusual in the real world, but in online gaming, it was somewhat revolutionary.

Pandering once sales and repeat players tanked, shocking…

Interestingly, instead of choosing Soldier: 76, several players chose the only other LGBTQ character in the game: a lesbian called Tracer. Though Soldier: 76 had previously been assumed by most to

Yeah because Zarya, the pink haired Russian powerlifter was totally straight…

Additionally, many players mentioned that the gaming community makes an important distinction between the only two LGBTQ characters in the game. Whereas Soldier: 76 is a man, Tracer is a woman. Some players reported in the survey that they felt other players see lesbians as appealing and interesting, but that the same players voice disgust toward gay men.

BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF PLAYERS ARE STRAIGHT MEN

This fag is supposedly a professor but can’t figure out why straight men don’t want to larp as a buttpirate? Yet we need more diverse representation because why?