Look, you're right and you're making a really valid point but,
I don't think anyone is going to tell me the cast of Team Fortress 2 are hot
you are wrong about this and you do need to apologise.
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i think you missed the point of the post. people don't play games just because the characters are hot. people also don't write fanfics just because the characters are hot. (though i'm sure at least one person out there thinks the TF2 Soldier is sexy. the world is a big place.)
Even if they were right and that games need to sexualize women to sell copies, that's really an indictment of gaming and gamers.
What they're really saying is "I need to be able to jack it to the characters on screen to have fun."
I don't think anyone is going to tell me the cast of Team Fortress 2 are hot.
You're grossly underestimating the internet there, but also maybe it would be worth leaning into the gooner angle and start describing all popular videogame characters as sexy. Sure you can say attractive characters make popular games, but you also have to admit you whack it to pacman.
It's called waka-wacking it
it is not worth debating with goopy gamer brain
Yeah, Concord's failure wasn't character design, it was shitty marketing and charging $40 for a game in a genre overflowing with free-to-plays.
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IMO If the marketing is bending over backwards to show off the models they use for their women then the game is going to be slop regardless of how the woman looks.
- if the women are hypersexualized, you'll get some gooner purchases but they won't play the slop for long. This has been a tried and true business practice that predates videogames.
- If the women are normal looking but still being spotlighted then the company is trying to market to women as well but has no idea what women actually want in their games.
I don't think I've ever had a serious discussion about how a game didn't do well because of how sexually appealing the characters in it are? Not like you're describing. What sort of weird sludge people are you hanging out with?
I play final fantasy for the hot boys