DinoSteve wrote...
katiebour wrote...
DinoSteve wrote...
Wouldn't sell. Google Kevin Levine box art for reasons why.
I'd like to see no one on the box art, well maybe some of the party NPCs.
Dragon Age is an established franchise. It has a following that is panting at the door to pre-order as we speak. They're still going to buy DA3 even if there's a fem!Protag on the box.
Also, did you watch the vids I linked? The first one actually addresses Kevin Levine and Bioshock Infinite's box art.
Lastly, this is a problem. I am a woman and this upsets me. Everytime I go to Origin to boot up Mass Effect I see Sheploo. Fem!Shep is nowhere to be seen. Sheploo is all over the Mass Effect universe artbook- fem!Shep is in the back cover.
Stop relegating our female avatars (not companions, not romances, but our playable heroines- our AVATARS) to the back cover. If you're gonna put m!protag on the box, put f!protag there too.
As for whether or not it will sell, well, that remains to be seen. The first vid I linked talks about the chicken-and-egg problem of games with female avatars being given half the marketing funding that games with male avatars do.
Try it and see. At least put them both on the box if you're going to put either.
You are already a fan of Bioware games they are not trying to sell them to you nor are they trying to sell them to those who will preorder them, and it is a fact that a male protagonist on the cover art will attract more people to buy a the game than a female one would.
I'm not saying it is good thing or a bad thing all I'm saying is its good business, which has been proven time and time again, otherwise it wouldn't still be happening.
and its freaking box art don't be so freaking sensitive.
"and its freaking box art don't be so freaking sensitive."
No, dear, what it is is erasure of a female avatar. Because obviously a woman can't save the world- it's going to take a man. That's what the cover art with a male!protag tells us. That's the attitude it reinforces. And Bioware is in a position to help change that.
And your comment is something that women talking about gender issues in video games hear all the time. "You're just sensitive/emotional." "It's not really a problem." "Stop complaining." "Shut up and sit down."
And I'm telling you, as a woman gamer, that it is a problem. It's a problem for all minorities- when was the last time you saw a dude-bro of color as the protag on video game box art? It reinforces the idea that only white guys can save the world. Throw a female LI on the front in some skin-tight clothing positioned behind heroic dudebro and suddenly the message is that only straight white guys can save the world.
And it's a problem that I'm hoping that my favorite video game company will see, acknowledge, and choose to act on. Because they've already demonstrated that they're willing to push boundaries to promote inclusiveness, and it would thrill me down to the very bottom of my gamer heart to see fem!protag on the box, heroic savior of the universe, even if it's right next to her buddy male!protag, also savior of the universe.
Modifié par katiebour, 03 juin 2013 - 08:01 .
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