Sudden drive to make Video Games P.C.?

[Greyblades]

Good to see the rationalisations have remained irrelevant to the real world.

Ironside mentioned anorexia. I'm pretty sure this problem was around way before video games became really popular (or had bikini-mail, for that matter). If you want to point the finger at someone for this, I'd guess it's the fashion industry, but I haven't seen people put as much effort into bashing that as into getting extra clothing on a chick on some videogame box that doesn't sell more than some hundred thousand copies (at best, and mostly male consumers anyway). Faces photoshopped to perfection on various commercials you see on tv or strewn on posters through the cities hit a much larger audience than some half-naked chick in a videogame, but again, I don't see people bashing that in any consistent way.

They dont bash the fasion industry as much as gaming because thier tactics can't work on the fasion industry.

The gaming press allows does not have much self or outside regulation that the mainstream press has and thus the worst of collusion and coercion methods are frequently allowed to be used. When combined with a lot of game developers that are either a)naiive enough to actually consider thier complaints solvable or b)not not large enough to weather losing their sympathisers as a consumer base, the industry proved to be relativly easy to push a political agenda upon. In the mainstream press the bully tactics used in the name of social justice are impossible due to regulation and without the ability to decieve or bully thier ability to affect something as established as the fasion industry is limited.

Bottom line: the fasion industry is too large to be undermined by a mere political subculture without the lever of bully tactics and too experienced with censorship to cave into pressure, so like every other petty interest group social justice is either ignored or outright mocked by the fasion industry.

Gaming was pushed because it was seen as an easy target to convert. They were only partially right and when their corrpution and bullying became apparant it triggered a consumer revolt.

I hate it when publishers do that. Lara Croft has been a series out for ages, and it has been a very popular one at that. Rejecting titles due to female lead is an utterly retarded excuse.

Do we have proof the publishers did that beyond the creator's word? I'm afraid that these days I find it hard to automatically believe every accusation of sexism I hear from the mouths of mediocre game makers.