Miranda is awesome. Can't wait to get home and play ME2. And I'm not gonna lie either: it was Miranda who initially got me interested in playing Mass Effect 2, and it was FOX News' smear campaign against Mass Effect that made me try the original in the first place. I'm glad I did because the story was epic and thought provoking as well. Anyways though, Bioware should ignore all the prudes complaining about Miranda, nudity, sex, etc being present in their games. Creating controversy surrounding Bioware's games and thus making their games the center of debate and attention does not hurt Bioware, it HELPS THEM. It spreads the word about their games to people all over and provides Bioware with lots of free advertising. Bioware should ignore the prudes and continue doing what has made them increasingly popular in recent years - giving gamers more of what they want (as they have done with Miranda).
And seriously ... what's the deal with these people suggesting Bioware was wrong or bad to include more attractive shots of Miranda in the game? OF COURSE they did. They're a company, and they're there to make good products and please gamers so they can make money, and the vast majority of gamers are male. What, you expect them to have a precisely equal amount of attractive characters in the game, despite the fact that men account for the overwhelming majority of gamers that Bioware is trying to cater to in the first place? Get real. That's just unreasonable. It is just plain silly to say that Bioware should cater to the 2% of gamers that are female at an equal rate as they would to the 98% of gamers that are male. (Yes, I'm just making up figures, but that's beside the point: the VAST MAJORITY of gamers are men). It makes sense for Bioware to give them what they want in their games, and it's just plain silly to expect them not to. It is also ridiculous to expect them to spend an equal amount of time catering to 2% of gamers as they do to 98% of gamers.
I'm not against the idea of having plenty of romance options in the game for women, and I'm not against the idea of having more attractive male characters if this pleases their female customers. I'm merely saying people are somehow disappointed in Bioware for putting this amount of content in the game aimed at appealing to men just seriously need to get some perspective. So long as most gamers are men, and that's who Bioware is trying to please, it makes total sense for them to cater to them first, formost, most frequently, and primarily. When women account for half of the gaming population, then maybe you would be justified in complaining about the fact that there are more views of Miranda's behind than there are of male characters in the game.
If you're upset at there being lots of content in games directed at men and little content in games serving women, maybe you should try to get more women interested in gaming instead of attacking reasonable and good developers like Bioware who are just making the entirely reasonable and good decision of trying to cater to and please the group of people that forms the vast majority of their sales: men.
Modifié par chessplayer209, 10 avril 2010 - 04:39 .
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