» Tue May 17, 2011 12:41 pm They have stated that they will work hard to have female characters in a sequel. So not buying this game only hurts the odds there will be a sequel and therefore hurts the odds that a game with strong female and male customization is ever made.
And they stated that women would be in, way back in early production.
as stated way back in production? you can't take anything stated way back in production as binding. I'm sure there were a lot of ideas and other things that they said they'd do but got scraqed for various reasons.
It is honorable to stand by convictions but I really don't see how "not buying a video game based off the lack of female characters" is an honorable decision.
It is honorable to stand by convictions but I really don't see how "not buying a video game based off the lack of female characters" is an honorable decision.
Exactly, so how can you take something said during the production of one game as "binding" in reference to a game that isn't even in production yet?
Because they're doing it as a way of standing by their convictions. It's not always going to make sense to people that want the game more than they want a female character to play.
Because they're doing it as a way of standing by their convictions. It's not always going to make sense to people that want the game more than they want a female character to play.
#1 You can't really support the argument that they will add women in the next game based on what they have said since they said they planned to have women in this game and that didn't happen.
#2 Everyone always says "if you don't like it don't buy it" as a response to people when they speak up in an attempt to get things changed. These female gamers are speaking up and have chosen not to buy it in protest. Money talks so to speak, and maybe developers will recognize that the best way to get that demographic is by adding the one feature they want at the moment.
Sorry but I don't really understand what you're saying in the first two paragraphs, if you could please elaborate.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have women as a possible character in this game. And since you can have, what 10?, different characters leveling up at the same time I guarantee that I would have a couple of women as characters that I would be playing as simultaneously with my others. But to have gamers, GAMErs, basing the decision of buying a GAME only on the fact that female characters aren't included when it doesn't change the game-play even a little boggles my mind. I have never, NEVER bought a game on the premise of, who my character is, but on, game-play fun, replay ability and if my friends bought it (not important for this argument). I know there are woman gamers and I understand it must svck to be such a minority, but if you were GAMErs I don't know how much the fact that only males are characters would matter.
Also, this is a side note. People keep pointing out the fact there are obviously women on the arc so they should be there to fight. If I lived on the Ark I would not let any women fight. Think of it like this. If there was a village with 10 people, 9 men and 1 woman how many babies could be born in a year? 1. If a village with 10 people had 9 woman and 1 man how many woman could be born in a year? 9. Women are more important to the survival of a species than men are so they should not be fighting if there is a chance that there are only 50,000 people in the world.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have women as a possible character in this game. And since you can have, what 10?, different characters leveling up at the same time I guarantee that I would have a couple of women as characters that I would be playing as simultaneously with my others. But to have gamers, GAMErs, basing the decision of buying a GAME only on the fact that female characters aren't included when it doesn't change the game-play even a little boggles my mind. I have never, NEVER bought a game on the premise of, who my character is, but on, game-play fun, replay ability and if my friends bought it (not important for this argument). I know there are woman gamers and I understand it must svck to be such a minority, but if you were GAMErs I don't know how much the fact that only males are characters would matter.
Also, this is a side note. People keep pointing out the fact there are obviously women on the arc so they should be there to fight. If I lived on the Ark I would not let any women fight. Think of it like this. If there was a village with 10 people, 9 men and 1 woman how many babies could be born in a year? 1. If a village with 10 people had 9 woman and 1 man how many woman could be born in a year? 9. Women are more important to the survival of a species than men are so they should not be fighting if there is a chance that there are only 50,000 people in the world.
To your knowledge. Humans are programmed to make certain attachments from birth. Boys have toy soldiers, girls have dolls, it's sort of the way of the world. You may never have noticed that you happen to choose certain things because those things have always been there, but to those that don't have those things to choose it's much easier to notice.
Gamers obsess over all kinds of minute details, this is hardly minute so why is it surprising that gamers would obsess over it?
And that isn't exactly how the idea of repopulization works. The ideal situation is to get a good mix of males and females from different families in order to keep the genetic code from blending. Less birth defects and other health issues that way.
The society divides up into groupings to help increase survival rates; hunters, gatherers, mothers, etc. Any woman over what would be considered acceptable birthing age would be fighting.
