Messofanego
Banned
So, white horny males are still the only audience there ever should be for videogames, unlike any other medium, is what I'm taking from your beliefs? I just want that on the record for which demographics should videogame makers target to, according to you.I fundamentally disagree with the idea that games need to aspire to anything other than entertainment (yes, even inclusion) unless creators choose to make their games do that. That is where my disagreement lies.
btw minority audiences are not demanding or boycotting games because there isn't enough inclusivity in videogame character representations. They're not going up to the creators about this. No one goes to Naughty Dog developers on a gaming panel and demand that Joel or Ellie should be a non-white race. They're just giving their take. A little diversity doesn't hurt. Makes it more interesting just visually and thematically, is most likely what they're saying. It's most likely creators hear about these kind of things on the internet, and go "why not?" and now you have a different kind of protagonist or story.
For example, I asked the developer of an indie game at a gaming convention (EGX) for how come the the main character is a female thief in Marvelous Miss Take. He said she was meant to be a male character but after being inspired by his kid daughter who wanted to play as a girl in a game, he decided to go down that route and because a female thief is well-trodden ground so the final game's protagonist resembles something like a Carmen Sandiego. Is his little daughter now some "SJW"?