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[RZIBARA]

yeah, how about no. 

 

If they do, no buy for me

[von uber]

yeah, how about no.

If they do, no buy for me

Why?

[Farangbaa]

Why?

 

[Ryriena]

yeah, how about no.

If they do, no buy for me

Your sexiest and you put the real Peter Parker too shame since he's not sexiest

[Farangbaa]

Oh for God's sake Ryriena, that's barely even English.

[Ryriena]

Oh for God's sake Ryriena, that's barely even English.

Be quite you! How's this then? He's a sexist wannabe and puts the real Petter Parker to shame as he's not a sexist ass.

[Farangbaa]

Sexist. 

 

Now you're saying he's the sexiest... which cannot be what you meant to say.

[Ryriena]

Sexist.

Now you're saying he's the sexiest... which cannot be what you meant to say.

The damn auto correct is saying that not me.

[RZIBARA]

Your sexiest and you put the real Peter Parker too shame since he's not sexiest

 

Thanks, I always knew I was the sexiest guy in New York

[von uber]

Oh I'm genuinely curious. I am under the impression he is not old enough to buy the game in any case; but if that is how he genuinely feels then an explanation might be interesting.
I say might because I suspect it will not be, but benefit of the doubt and all that.

[RZIBARA]

And I dont want to see them cater to the feminist crowd. It's dumb. They already have the option to play as a female. Good enough. That's all they need.

 

Starting the advertising with fem character for the sake of it is stupid. Just like poorly done same sex romances

[Mrs_Stick]

So asking them to advertise to women as well as men is catering to feminist?

[Jorji Costava]

And I dont want to see them cater to the feminist crowd. It's dumb. They already have the option to play as a female. Good enough. That's all they need.

 

Starting the advertising with fem character for the sake of it is stupid. Just like poorly done same sex romances

 

Clearly, games should only be willing to tolerate poorly done heterosexual romances.

 

But in all seriousness, I really don't know what's going on with the whole "catering to feminists" angle. Can you not be happy with your product unless the groups of people that you don't like are also unhappy with it? How does that work?

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Clearly, games should only be willing to tolerate poorly done heterosexual romances.

 

But in all seriousness, I really don't know what's going on with the whole "catering to feminists" angle. Can you not be happy with your product unless the groups of people that you don't like are also unhappy with it? How does that work?

 

I think what he means to say is that he thinks the Social Justice Warriors need to buck up and shut it for a game and worry more about the story itself than some advertised feature.

[Jorji Costava]

Pretty sure that's not what he was saying, since he stated outright that he wouldn't buy the game if Bioware implemented the OP's suggestion (see post at the top of the page).

[Mrs_Stick]

Correct me if I am wrong. When the majority of advertising is being done the game already has the story and game play mapped out. How is just mentioning in articles or through tweets as op also suggested going to take away from that?

[CronoDragoon]

The problem is is that there was never an equivalent process for manshep - it would never have even crossed there minds to hold a beauty contest for the male as he is not defined by his looks.
You say femshep is a blank slate - she isn't as she has already been created based on her beauty and judged accordingly.
Manshep is just accepted as he is.

 

There wasn't an equivalent process for manshep because manshep already had a default model, while femshep did not. They decided to make it an interactive process with fans.

[TheOneTrueBioticGod]

From a marketing standpoint, advertising specifically to a female hero is pointless. 

No, Bioware is not driving people away by not doing that. At least, not a noticeable amount. 82% of Shepards played in ME3 were male. That indicates a huge majority of Mass Effect players are male. 

I'm not saying don't do it, but from a business standpoint, it's a bad decision. No matter what people say, males are still, by a very large majority, the ones who plays games like these. (Those polls that say otherwise count games like candy smash, or whatever that one is.)

[von uber]

Or 82% of people (whenever the statistics were done) played a male because that is what was marketed.

[Farangbaa]

Or 82% of people (whenever the statistics were done) played a male because that is what was marketed.

 

Yeah.. no. About 82% of the players played a male because they are one.

 

Do you honestly believe it was because of marketing? I MEAN SERIOUSLY?!

 

Had they marketed ME with a Tyra Banks-like Shepard or a Ziyi Zhang one, I still would've played a manshep.

 

Let me word that differently: If you give me to option to play a male, I will. If you put in female characters that can only be romanced by a female (Samantha Traynor) I will make exactly one FemShep. This has nothing to do with marketing, and everything to do with what I have in my pants.

[TheOneTrueBioticGod]

Or 82% of people (whenever the statistics were done) played a male because that is what was marketed.

A year after the game came out, and these are the numbers done by Bioware. 

It doesn't really work like that. 

[shepskisaac]

that is part of what im saying. All people care about these days in mass effect is : "hurr durr, give us more female options, more romances, I want to play as every alien species, more same sex romances for the sake of same sex romances, i dont care if they have to a break a pre-established character or just half ass a new stereotypical one, huurr durr"

 

If they do, no buy for me

But I though this wasn't the only thing YOU cared about?

[Jukaga]

Just so it's said, the reboot Lara Croft is the loveliest, most realistic female game character ever. She's fantastic! A believable progression from scared student to Valkyrie of Fury! And she's pretty easy on the eyes as well.

[AlanC9]

I just thought of a great idea. How about both male and female PCs.................................in the same trailer?

Would they be going through the same scenes? Or would they appear doing different things?

[jtav]

I would wager that most players are male, but probably closer to 65% than 80%. The story does skew toward a lot of stereotypical male fantasies with the space babe asari and general action hero-ness. I'm a straight female. What I really want is for my female characters not to be overly sexualized, to keep sexual harassment to a mininum, and not to go through more crap than the guys do.