If gamefreak made the protagonist of Beast of Reincarnation look like this with 200 unlockable outfits like stellar blade you would all be praising it. Why don't devs just do this? Do you think it would sell worse on aggregate? It's gamefreak so they obviously have experience making hot girls.
Sure, but what's the point in counterfactual hypothesising and speculation when we know the reality?Beast of Reincarnation's MC is not a hebe in a skimpy outfit, and your only customisation option is a Deluxe Edition hat. It's lazy as fuck.
>>744654171I'm more wondering from a business perspective why more devs don't follow the stellar blade model.
>>744654282Because the board of directors in most game publisher companies still push DEI with the promise of reinforcing the retirement funds of the CEO, CFO and company directors.Shareholders and investment funds overwhelmingly back DEI policies. Eschewing them is leaving money on the table if the game doesn't turn out to be a major success.
>>744655168Isn't Gamefreak privately owned?
>>744655495Even privately owned companies are often beholden to the private equity funds that acquire them. Haveli Investments (which owns Fictions Inc.) aggressively push DEI and ESG hiring practices now because private equity investors and trading partners increasingly value these metrics when scouting out the PE industry. It used to be that the PE sector ignored such practices because they were risk-averse, but as long as there's someone else bankrolling this shit, even those in senior roles don't question it.It's only going to get worse when all that accumulated generational baby boomer wealth, in the excess of £22 trillion, gets transferred to millennials over the next few decades
Here's a much better question.Why are you offering these great ideas to unworthy developers when you could get that ball rolling yourself?
>>744656983>It's only going to get worse when all that accumulated generational baby boomer wealth, in the excess of £22 trillion, gets transferred to millennials over the next few decadesWhy would it get worse instead of better?
>>744654005>Why don't devs just do this?It doesn't work. I would buy the deluxe version of every game that does. Edens Zero is an example of a game that did that and failed. I enjoyed it immensely.
>>744657164Because millennials care more about DEI, ESG and BRIDGE policies (which they *will* pressure their employer about) than the likes of talent pipelines, and can very easily push it with their demographic weight and upwards movement into senior progressional roles. Older demographic cohorts like Gen X and Baby Boomers still sort of resist major structural overhauls, but millennials will pursue "social equity" goals/quotas without a care in the world.
>>744658224Nah. These things are dying off. Millennials were bamboozled, not jealously guarding their riches by keeping everyone else infighting.
>>744658224Based on what?
>>744658545Based on nothing. That's the point. Younger demographic cohorts enter these professional roles with a social media-condiitoned slacktivist mindset; they don't care about merit or pragmatism, only optics.
