"Siladria;c-17274926" wrote:
Why do so many people see inclusivity as an agenda? Doesn't everyone have the right to see themselves represented in the media they consume? Why does this bother you guys so much? Like, to me that's not what makes the game's developers 'out of touch'.
Because it's always used as one or all of the following:
1 - An excuse not to do something IE allowing male sims to wear female sims clothing, was it inclusive?, or simply to stop people complaining that male sims don't have enough clothing.
2 - An ideological shield for a shoddy product, take the latest Batwoman series for example, anyone protesting against it is automatically assumed to be doing so because of the lesbian status of the lead and not because the series stinks, same with other things that didn't go over so well, The Last Jedi (haters must have been misogynists), Captain Marvel (same again), ETC... I guarantee if Black Panther had been really badly written and a lousy film, causing it to fail, it would've been blamed on racists and not writers.
3 - Shoehorned in, decimating established lore and/or story, or otherwise just being a tokenist addition, TLJ, Star Trek Discovery, Marvel, DC, ETC all do this. If I am playing an online first person shooter, my character has no needed story or campaign, no worthwhile background nor identity other than their physical appearance, dress and voice... Do I really need to know who they'd sleep with or what they was born as?