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“Abusive and disrespectful” is making everything gay. Then again, you have to be a moron to play any game with a forced female MC as it’s guaranteed to be woke Wahman.
I heard about this. Why can’t they just let you have different options? Also it annoys me that they keep catering to small portions of the population and they are upset when people notice. I know there are female gamers but the push for women in gaming is beyond annoying
I think it's because companies see roughly half of the population not being interested in gaming not a s reality, but as some vast untapped market sure to lead to fabulous riches.
In reality, girls aren't interest in gaming for the same reason they're largely disinterested in Transformers, GI Joe, etc.- it's an activity that appeals to boys. Spamming the market with lady soldier GI Joe's won't make girls buy them, it just results in a bunch of unsold G Joe's on the shelves.
So, when the logical and predictable failure of trying to turn video gaming into a girl's activity materializes, these companies can't just accept the fact that they made a mistake and go back to catering to their actual audience they have to blame us for it instead.
Happened with comic books and a lot of IPs like Star Wars. I don’t get why they don’t follow the model that Manga does. Manga specifically makes content for certain audiences
Alot of manga is straight up autistic passion projects that can only really happen in an environment where getting published is comparatively 'easy' to happen.
Keep in mind, damn near every manga gets it's start in these huge, phone-book-sized, cheap-as-fuck compilations. Entrance cost is stupidly low, and the Japanese publishers have access to all the metrics, so if something isn't doing well, it gets the boot. It's a type of 'fail fast, fail often' environment with a large amount of churn that also produces a fair bit of gold.
There's nothing really like in America. American comic book 'people' nowadays are straight up activists operating in a nepotistic environment and are immune to most market forces.
“Abusive and disrespectful” is making everything gay. Then again, you have to be a moron to play any game with a forced female MC as it’s guaranteed to be woke Wahman.
I heard about this. Why can’t they just let you have different options? Also it annoys me that they keep catering to small portions of the population and they are upset when people notice. I know there are female gamers but the push for women in gaming is beyond annoying
I think it's because companies see roughly half of the population not being interested in gaming not a s reality, but as some vast untapped market sure to lead to fabulous riches.
In reality, girls aren't interest in gaming for the same reason they're largely disinterested in Transformers, GI Joe, etc.- it's an activity that appeals to boys. Spamming the market with lady soldier GI Joe's won't make girls buy them, it just results in a bunch of unsold G Joe's on the shelves.
So, when the logical and predictable failure of trying to turn video gaming into a girl's activity materializes, these companies can't just accept the fact that they made a mistake and go back to catering to their actual audience they have to blame us for it instead.
Happened with comic books and a lot of IPs like Star Wars. I don’t get why they don’t follow the model that Manga does. Manga specifically makes content for certain audiences
Alot of manga is straight up autistic passion projects that can only really happen in an environment where getting published is comparatively 'easy' to happen.
Keep in mind, damn near every manga gets it's start in these huge, phone-book-sized, cheap-as-fuck compilations. Entrance cost is stupidly low, and the Japanese publishers have access to all the metrics, so if something isn't doing well, it gets the boot. It's a type of 'fail fast, fail often' environment with a large amount of churn that also produces a fair bit of gold.
There's nothing really like in America. American comic book 'people' nowadays are straight up activists operating in a nepotistic environment and are immune to most market forces.