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[musicalfrog7]

A friend of mine linked a video from game trailers today about him talking about ME3 at comic con. I haven't been keeping up with Bioware actively since the original Dragon Age came out but every now and then slivers of information come my way.

In the video I found there to be a questionable sounding quote:

"We find that about one fifth of the players play female characters. You know, we've put a lot of effort over the course of this series to do a really good job of both the male and female experience as Commander Shepherd. And it's something we could've cut a long time ago because it's actually very expensive for us to develop."


As an avid female gamer, I am surprisingly hurt by this. The video does not show what the context is but when it is haphazardly thrown into a video like that, what am I to think? It sounds like such a strong disregard to the female fandom. I've thought for a long while, that Bioware cared more about the female fanbase than any other developer out there. Is that not true? Is it not true anymore?

One fifth? That cannot be. I was never polled nor asked what shepherd I play. Where does this poll data come from? The website? Video game registration? An educated guess? I feel like that statistic is unfairly wrong and inaccurate to judge on whether or not it's worthwhile to have a female playable character.

I love it when video game companies make video games that invite girls and women to play them by being approachable to our gender and/or adding a heroine that we can identify with. If the quote is about feeling under appreciated for your (Bioware's work) on the female heroines, I most certainly do love it and appreciate it. It's part of the reason why I love Bioware games so much!



The link in question can be found here:

[Brenon Holmes]

I'm not entirely sure where we get that specific information, since it wouldn't be from any of the in-game data... but I would guess it's most likely from polling. :happy:

Modifié par Brenon Holmes, 01 août 2011 - 08:38 .