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BIGTOM_basic posted...

1 Gaming is actually very big so you have a very big audience that is probably quite diverse as more people and places have access to the money, leisure time and technology to participate. So with more people comes more discussion.

In addition to that, gaming as a medium has absolutely exploded. It's gone from being pretty niche to being thoroughly mainstream within 30 years. It started out as a fairly machocentric sausage-fest of an industry, which was fine when there were like five people in it (by their nature, niche industries are inevitably going to have some degree of disproportionate representation), but those demographics haven't been able to change quickly enough to keep up with how fast the industry has grown, so, you've got an industry that's appealing to the masses while also neglecting large chunks of those masses. it's understandable that people would want to push back against that, in an effort to make sure that mass appeal is actually mass appeal, and not just disproportionately represented niche appeal on a larger scale.

Lightning Bolt posted...

Which annoys me, because they're sometimes by people who don't even play games, and frequently by people who have never made a game in their life.
So it comes off as "hey what you're doing looks fun, but it'd be better if it were about meeeee" when nongamers demand we represent them.

I mean, that's not actually that unreasonable. You could very easily say the same thing about people who wanted books that starred women back in the days when reading was largely a man's hobby. It's a problem when it becomes "stop catering to people who already enjoy this stuff and make it all completely different so I'll like it," because that is taking away from the existing market, but it's pretty reasonable for people to want more games to be produced that appeal to them so they can join in on the fun that gamers seem to be having.
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