I want to play as a white man in this game. I want to feel represented.
It’s incredibly obvious that Battlefield 6 has diversity quotas implemented. Almost every operator is a woman, a minority, or a woman minority. This extends to the campaign as well. Male operators are locked behind challenges for most classes and there are only a couple of white men to choose from, one of which is the Albion engineer which they won’t even let you unlock at all for some baffling reason.
And before anyone starts crying “racism” or “sexism” or whatever, just stop. This is about accurate representation. I don’t want be forced to play as a woman in a multiplayer game. I’m a white man and I want to be represented in this game. Ironically it seems that representation for some cannot exist without the marginalization of others. And in this case, the marginalized are the majority. Most of the people who play Battlefield are men. Many of whom are white. According to BF6, we barely exist in modern warfare. Despite the fact that the glory days of Battlefield 3 and 4 had a bunch of men (again, mostly white) running around killing each other and everyone felt right at home.
Most of us don’t want to hear women screaming on a battlefield. It’s not realistic and breaks immersion. It’s also somewhat disturbing. Gunning down women isn’t exactly my idea of a fun time. But if you’re going to offer women in modern combat, I get it. It’s 2025. But it should at least be optional. The default operators are half women and you have to grind to change it. It’s forced by default. And on the NATO faction, there isn’t even a male to play as for the support class at all. You’re forced to play as a woman if you run support. I don’t think this was an oversight, it seems to have been done on purpose.
BF6 should have gone the BFV route and let us make our own operators. But since they aren’t doing that, there needs to be more options for characters. You want to make all these different race/gender options for operators? Ok fine. Again, I get it. But they need to be OPTIONAL. You want to play as a black woman for every class? Fine. Asian man? Ok. White man? Yes. This only seems to cut one way and it’s very obvious. It’s extremely alienating. I say this as someone who has been playing Battlefield since about 2010.
I am requesting for more character options for Battlefield 6 so that we can represent ourselves in the game as we want to. I’m all about player choice. Right now Battlefield 6 is extremely lacking in that department and I don’t care very much for it. I like the game. I have fun playing it. I just want to be more immersed in it when I play. I’m not getting that right now.
