(05-06-2014, 10:59 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote:I would never joke about anything as serious as this.(05-06-2014, 09:26 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote: Â because lets be honest with ourselves; 90% of the female models you see in a game are played by guys.
You're joking, right?
@Zyrusticae, my whole example about people being offended by a non-standard female body type was not anything to be taken literal, it was a relevant example of two different sides of an argument based on the conversation at hand. You could easily replace it by saying that there were one group of people who were offended by the lack of green colored people, so the developed add them, and then there would be a group of people who are offended by the addition of green colored people. In either case they're both a minority compared to the enormous amount of people in group 3, the don'tgivafucks. Most players are perfectly content with just taking what they are given when it comes to character creation, only a vocal few will cause a stink over it.
Most developers will cater to group c because group a will huff and puff but eventually join group c anyways for the most part, which means group b will never come into being. The people in group a who don't join group c will probably never play passed the first free month anyways so there's no real loss there either.
As for the ratio of female to male gamers in MMOs, you also have to consider how many female players also play male avatars. My FC is actually a pretty even split between male and female players, but amusingly enough most of the females playe male avatars and as my previous post would suggest, most of the males play female avatars. Regarding your article however, I can't honestly take anything seriously that uses EQII as its case study and assumes that is the standard to be set for the entire gaming community. It states they looked at more than 2,400 people playing EQII, I don't even think there are more than 2,400 people who still play that game. All joking aside, your article doesn't really have much ground to stand on.
tl;dr: people who make a fuss over this type of thing are sadly a single grain of sand on a big beach filled with no fucks given. From a business stand point, would you spend more time, money, and resources to cater to that single grain of sand when the rest of the beach is satisfied with what you already have? Nope, don't think so.
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