Do designs like these keep gaming from growing a larger audience?
>>733715179Yes, now that they stopped making designs like these gaming has gone to shit
>>733715179THEY APPEAL TO THE MALE FANTASY!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!! MAKE IT STOP!
>>733716076I'll never understand how the entire games industry was convinced that catering to straight men was bad.
>>733716140It all starts with this...
>>733716140You think catering to anyone who isn't you is bad.
girls post their ass and tits on social media for and feminists say it's empowering, but fictional characters doing the same thing is bad.
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>>733716248How the fuck is that working out, dipshit?When you abandon your primary audience for people who don't spend money, then you have what is happening now.LayoffsClosuresNo innovationSo, yeah, maybe game studios should focus on their core audience. Not people who don't buy games.
>>733716249The funniest part is that female cosplayers ONLY dress as the sexy characters.2B is arguably the most popular character.Then you have the likes of Tifa, Cammy, Samus, Chun Li, etc.
>>733715179Ive never actually seen any woman that plays games complain about this irl. Only jealous cunts that have never even touched a controller care.
>>733716450odd that no one wants to dress up as the characters feminists advocate
>>733716140Probably because you think it's an economic issue or something strictly limited to video games.
>>733715179You either please an audience or you don't please any audience at all.
>>733716573I've maybe seen a handful of Aloy cosplays. A few Ellies. Never any Abbys, though.
>>733716943all those characters you named i only see if i search for them. they're not popular enough that i see them randomly in threads or scrolling through social media. very odd that franchises that sell millions don't have fans that dress up as the characters.
>>733717191Indeed.
>>733715179That's bullshit since Lara Croft was super popular, especially thanks to the Angelina Jolie films.
>>733715179>WHY?hey look I can actually name each of those characters
>>733716249That's because they see it this wayWomen objectifying themselves = okayMen objectifying women = not okayIf a man seeks pleasure from looking at pretty women, it's an issue. If a man depicts a pretty woman that doesn't conform to a feminists standards, it's an issue. It's funny that these same women will always play the "who cares, it isn't hurting anyone" card when you bring up gay/trans rights, but then somehow a guy minding his own business looking at naked women IS a problem and is somehow hurting someone.
>>733716140Games are being made for polyamorous solo hijabi amputees for the same reason they were made for motion controls some 15 years back, the current target market isn't expanding so they need to attract an entirely new audience. Back then it was casuals, who abandoned gaming as quickly as they embraced it.The better question is why it's taking so long for companies to realize the audience they've tried so hard to reach simply doesn't exist. Maybe they just don't have any better ideas?
>>733720365Why we ever listened to them is beyond me.
>>733715179the only "audience" not tapped are country's with little to no internet like india and africa.
>>733716140Anon, there is literally a system in place that tracks how much woke a company is, if a company cater to straight man too much(which is considered not woke) they can't take a loan in a bank anymore and they will pay higher interest rates
>>733722060You can thank boomers for adopting the "happy wife, happy life" line of thinking. Boomer men wanted to pat themselves on the back and feel like good people, so they let women into the workforce which ruined the workforce and made it more competitive at the low end. You also had to cater to the standards of women now, which will always be at odds with men's standards. You also have a higher risk of infidelity now. Reversing this process is going to take centuries. It's not happening in our lifetime.
>>733715179now make a picture with female characters from the last few years.
Is 90% of gaming just FOMO culture? Seriously think about it. Why should I, the gamer, give a fuck about sales figures or "growing an audience"? Games sold just fine in the 2000s but for some reason I am supposed to believe that Gun & Sword Man 5 is going to die if twitter roasties don't buy it.
>>733722546So its a funding issue spurred by greed. Why are they taking out loans instead of the traditional method of just earning revenue from goods and services to have a warchest. Why does the budget need to be $15m if they dont have that much money and the product wont make returns because theyve been "forced" to make it shit. The explanation doesnt validate the method. Its still the same trite "Suits are retarded" as it always was
I just don't understand how we've gotten to a point where men simply having preferences in women is somehow controversial. Yes, there are beauty standards for both men and women, and they're dictated by one thing: biology.Trying to reprogram what men find attractive is not going to work, especially when no one is trying to reprogram what women find attractive.
